charted on the Oricon international singles chart, reaching a peak of three on May 19, 1988, staying on the chart for ten weeks. Legacy Jon O'Brien from Billboard commented that Madonna became "the first major pop artist" to release a hits collection with its extended 12" versions. You Can Dance is one of the first sets of remixes to be conceived as a full-length album. Shortly after its release, Madonna was called "the most important dance artist" by a number of media outlets, and described by the pan-European magazine Music & Media as "the world's most successful artist in bridging the dance and pop audiences". Matthew Rettenmund author of Encyclopedia Madonnica (1995), praised her first retrospective record because, rather than releasing a greatest-hits album, her first compilation was a "groundbreaking remix album". The entire concept of copying, repeating, pasting and playing was still in its "infancy" when Madonna released this project. Writing for Reader's Digest, Jon O'Brien stated "Madge was the first genuine superstar to realise the power of the DJ". Biographer David James commented that "Madonna broke fresh ground". Daryl Easlea, in Madonna: Blonde ambition (2012) wrote that what was particularly successful about You Can Dance, was the way the tracks were mixed into a continuous segue, further asserting that "it was very much a forerunner of today's club mixes" and that this had been happening in clubs for years, "but Madonna once again popularized a breaking wave by capturing it on vinyl". J. Randy Taraborrelli credits Madonna for being part of jump-started the trend of releasing remix albums. According to O'Brien, Madonna "inspired generations of pop artists to rework their bops for club dance floors". Steffanee Wang from Nylon has noted its influence on Club Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa. Shortly after the release of You Can Dance, major acts of the day were following suit with their own, including Bobby Brown's Dance!...Ya Know It!, New Kids on the Block's No More Games/The Remix Album, Jody Watley's You Wanna Dance with Me? and Paula Abdul's Shut Up and Dance: Mixes contributing to the perception that dance remix albums weren't viewed as "rarities". Kelefa Sanneh in Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (2021) describes how she "released a type of record that many of her fans had probably never previously encountered". Despite this, according to biographer Michelle Morgan, the album was well-received by fans. The