the song entered the uk singles chart at number three, behind blu cantrell's "breathe" and lemar's "dance (with u)". it spent a second week in the top ten, slipping to number eight. the song spent a total of nine weeks in the top 75 overall, a far cry from the fourteen weeks "no good advice" or the twenty-one weeks that "sound of the underground" spent in the chart. "life got cold" also debuted at number three on the irish singles chart, but managed to rise to number two the following week. it spent two further weeks in the top ten, then two weeks in the top twenty. the single barely missed the top ten of the netherlands top 40, instead peaking at number eleven. it has since become the group's 16th best selling single domestically.