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Taste of Country's Billy Dukes called it ".an album to turn to with frequency." Chesney has an uncanny knack for finding top-shelf material which sounds autobiographical and mixing it with his own to craft a uniquely distinguishable musical statement." Matt Bjorke of Roughstock alluded to how " Welcome To The Fishbowl should easily join Kenny Chesney's past albums as #1-selling country records and there's no doubt that it's also amongst the best in his career, a career that is as strong now as it was promising 20 years ago". American Songwriter music critic Eric Allen noted that " Fishbowl displays a serious yearning to stretch and dig a little deeper into life’s foibles, as if Chesney is trying to figure them out himself, but in a good way." Furthermore, Allen evoked how " Welcome to the Fishbowl still manages to sound highly personal and introspective. The album received four-out-of-five stars from American Songwriter, Roughstock and Taste of Country. (The too-sleek production and ponderous, stretched-out tempos don't help.)" In addition, Smith wrote that " Fishbowl reveals less about the star's true interior life than ever." The tonal shift is fine - the problem is that these weepies often come off less like authentic autobiography than downbeat Nashville role-playing. More albums like this though, and Chesney himself just might become a caricature of himself." Grady Smith at Entertainment Weekly graded the album to be a B– effort, and added that "Chesney's albums have always been considerably more wistful than his radio persona, but Welcome to the Fishbowl's tunes, while well wrought, can be downright dour. What it is though is occasionally pleasing, horribly derivative and way too self-indulgent." Robson went on to state that " Welcome to the Fishbowl is anything but first-rate. At AbsolutePunk, Gregory Robson gave the album an 80%, and wrote that "Kenny Chesney's fifteenth studio album is nowhere near his best and nowhere near his worst. The album has garnered positive reviews from AbsolutePunk, American Songwriter, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Roughstock, Taste of Country, and the USA Today. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 64, based on 7 reviews. Upon its release, Welcome to the Fishbowl received generally positive reviews from most music critics.