British Single of the Year at the 1996 Brit Awards. "Back for Good" would later reach number seven on the United States Billboard Hot 100, spending a total of thirty weeks on the chart, sixty six weeks on the US Adult Contemporary chart and 30 weeks on the Top 40 US Airplay chart. Critical reception Steve Baltin from Cash Box stated that here, the British pop quartet "has a massive hit on its hands with this very straight-ahead blue-eyed soul ballad." He described it as a "nice, soothing track", adding that "Back for Good" "won’t revolutionize music, but it shows a young band very good at what it does." Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel felt that the song "which features a fine melody line and background vocals that decorate the song with perfect finesse, is a great pop confection, not a source of shame." He also named it by far the "best song" of the album. In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote that it's "one of the most breathtakingly brilliant pop singles that had been heard in a long long time." He added that it's "arguably the band's masterpiece and whilst they may have further smash hits after this it is unlikely they will ever measure up to the scale of this one." "If it touches people, it's a good song," remarked Noel Gallagher in an interview with Mojo. "You know, people go on about Take That – but 'Back for Good' said something to me. And if it touches me…"' Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "With a romantic "film ballad" like this, Take That trespasses Wet Wet Wet's territory, which opens the possibility to crossover to an older audience–the female 25+ demo?–for the first time." A reviewer from Music Week gave the song five out of five and named it Single of the Week, writing, "Take That play it safe opting for a nice-not naughty MOR pop number which will pick up sales outside their usual fanbase. With more than a month of radio support behind it, an instant, and long lasting, number one seems certain." The magazine later added, "Expect to hear this beautifully-arranged, classic pop ballad on the radio and jukeboxes for many years to come." Gerald Martinez from New Sunday Times felt it's "indeed a beautifully produced love ballad." In 2015, Idolator called the song a "pop masterpiece". In 2018, the