"anthem after anthem for those jilted by a lover". Rated R&Bs Keithan Samuels deemed the album a "masterpiece" and considered it one of the best R&B albums released during the year. Dave DiMartino, for Rolling Stone, positively insisted that the album "will likely knock [someone's] socks off". In a favorable review for SoulTracks, Melody Charles described the album as "a collection of songs that are an equal mix of her present contentment and past turbulence and turmoil", and considered it among Cole's best work. Starrene Rhett Rocque of Jet suggested that the album "shows off her growth as an artist and a person as well as a fresh openness about herself". Bae Soo-min from The Korea Herald viewed Woman to Woman as a resurgence of the singer's signature sound of sentimental ballads and felt that she shows "how an R&B diva must sound like" on the record. Accolades ThisisRnB listed the album at number five on their list of best R&B albums released in 2012, with an editor noting that Cole "listened to what her fans were saying and she brought the heat". In his list for The Awl, Seth Colter Walls named Woman to Woman the 47th best album of 2012. Woman to Woman was placed as an honorable mention on Soul Bounces list of 2012's best albums, while AllMusic named it the year's third best record. Rated R&B ranked the album as one of the best albums of the 2010s decade, with reviewer Antwane Folk affirming that Cole "regained her early career glory" on it, as well as identifying the record as "a strong return for a promising R&B legend with more fire in her belly". Commercial performance Woman to Woman debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with 96,000 copies sold in its first week, becoming Cole's fifth consecutive top 10 album in the United States. Additionally, Woman to Woman debuted at number six on the US Tastemaker Albums chart. The album spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart, and had sold a total of 246,300 copies in the US by January 2013. In the United Kingdom, Woman to Woman debuted at number 27 on the UK R&B Albums chart and number 87 on the UK Digital Albums chart, marking Cole's first entry on any UK chart since Just like You debuted on