Olivia debuted at number 55 on the Billboard 200 chart for the week of June 2, 2001. The next week, it fell to number 103 and continued falling until it dropped off the chart for the week of July 14. The album debuted at number 22 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for the week of June 2 before falling from the top 25 the following week. Despite reports "You Got the Damn Thing" would be the second single, "Are U Capable" was released instead. It was promoted through a Marcus Raboy-directed music video. Billboard's Rashaun Hall felt it "may be the song that sets her career ablaze". A remix of "You Got the Damn Thing" was released separately and treated as the album's third and final single. In 2014, Olivia said she wanted "It's On Again" to be a single, and described it as one of her favorite songs from the album; she said it "makes me feel like I'm on a deserted island, just me and my boo with cherry blossoms blowing in the wind". Critical reception The album received a mixed response from critics. A Honey reviewer praised Olivia as a "real voice" in hip hop soul, and a CMJ contributor commended the album as "unique and ground-breaking". A Q magazine reviewer wrote that Olivia was "well-versed in the not always noble art of the R&B ballad" and the music had "a list of saucy demands that would make Lil' Kim blush". In a The Source review, a contributor found Olivia to be the "most memorable when she's in woman-scorned mode" and likened her to "a thugged-out Aaliyah and pissed-off Mýa". In his review of the album, Henderson praised Olivia as having an "impressive combination of beauty and bravado", writing that she "makes recording a debut album seem easy". Ehrlich praised Olivia's vocals, describing them as "soulful, throaty purrs and staccato rhymes". Azpiri praised the album, saying "her softer tracks show some versatility", but felt Olivia's best work came "when she is venting her spleen rather than revealing her soul". Entertainment Weeklys Mark Bautz praised the album's production and mix of R&B and hip hop but criticized it as "lack[ing] the overall energy and excitement of its best songs". He dismissed some songs as "veer[ing] from Deborah Cox-lite to R-rated Lil' Kim". Righi wrote that Olivia and Aaliyah were examples of how "the right attitude, hip-hop