writing that "the music plays a diminished role and Aguilera's voice is allowed to soar and shine moreso than on any of the other tracks." Despite writing that Aguilera "does deliver on the glorious mid-section," Chuck Taylor of Billboard felt that the track "is about as clichéd as ballad gets," sounding "more like a leftover from the stack rather than the kind of glorious anthem Warren is capable of," calling it a remake of Whitney Houston's "Count On Me". Nikki Tranter of PopMatters called it "a nice little song ruined by that horrid pop beat threatening to destroy cheesy love songs for all time," writing that "the beat alone drags Christina's Etta James potential back down to Mariah Carey quality." Beth Johnson of Entertainment Weekly called it a "maudlin ballad best suited to thirtysomething divas," calling it "a near-identical rip-off of Diane Warren's own Celine Dion smash, 'Because You Loved Me'." Julene Snyder of Sonic.net considered "I Turn to You" a "tear-jerker designed to incite concertgoers to link arms and sing along, even while some of us cringe at the over-the-top vocal histrionics." AOL Radio ranked the song at number 8 on her "Top 10 Hits". Chart performance "I Turn to You" debuted at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the Hot Shot Debut of the week ending April 15, 2000. It also debuted on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, at number 47, with an audience of 28.5 million, also becoming the highest-debuting song on the airplay chart. In its second week, the song jumped to number 39, while in its third week the song climbed to number 30. The song entered the top-twenty on the week of May 20, 2000 (at number 19), and peaked on the week ending July 1, 2000, with a huge climb from number 17 to number 3, becoming its peak position and Aguilera's third top-ten single, making it Aguilera's only Christina Aguilera single to fail to reach number one. The single peaked at number one on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart on July 15, 2000. It peaked at number 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart, becoming her highest charting single at the time. In Canada, the song peaked inside the top-ten, at number 10. "I Turn to You" reached the top 20 in New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. In New Zealand, "I Turn to You" peaked at number