 It is easily up to standard and will knock out pop fans, rock fans, R&B and Beatles fans …"

In a more recent assessment, "Q" found the album title to hold a "hint of cynicism" in depicting the Beatles as a "product" to be sold.AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that "the weariness of "Beatles for Sale" comes as something of a shock" after "the joyous "A Hard Day's Night"".He also cited it as "the group's most uneven album" yet added that its best moments find them "moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career".