Following its release, the album reached number 36 on the US Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and entered the lower half of the Billboard 200. AllMusic declaring Dance for Me "the best, most innovative remix albums of recent vintage."[1]
AllMusic editor John Bush rated the album three out of five stars and called it "the best, most innovative remix albums of recent vintage."[1]Billboard wrote about Dance for Me: "Unbeknownst to many of Ms. Blige's ardent R&B/hip-hop fans, the singer is also hugely popular in house music clubs around the world—where incredibly savvy, uptempo rer her smash singles have taken or all their own. Dance for Me brings together many such moments, focusing on tracks from the artist's Mary, No More Drama, and Share My World albums [...] Now, do what the title demands."[2] Nikolas Markantonatos, writing for The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, found that "Blige and her A-list remixers pump up the bass and tempo and sprinkle enough wizardry into the mix to create one of the best remix albums to come out in a while [...] A lot of Blige’s songs were already great dance numbers, so it was hard to improve on many of them, but Blige, along with her remixers, did one fine job of doing just that on Dance for Me."[3]
