Ross toured Europe and the UK in support of the album,[2] performed the title track during her closing act of the Queen's Jubilee concert on June 4 and embarked on the second leg of her Thank You Tour in the United States in late August 2022.
Thank You received mixed reviews from critics. According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Thank You received "mixed or average reviews" based on a weighted average score of 60 out of 100 from 11 critic scores.[10]
Andy Kellman of AllMusic said, "Conviction is always evident in her soothing voice, even when it's modulated to a jarring extent or sounds somewhat garbled."[11] Chuck Arnold of Entertainment Weekly said, "Thank You is a powerful showcase for how good Ross is even after a two-decade absence."[12]Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said, "[Let's Do It] feels like proof that Diana Ross could still make a great album if she wanted to, if she was steered more carefully, or partnered more sympathetically. But she hasn't been, and this is the result: Thank You, but no thank you."[13] Ross Horton of The Line of Best Fit said, "Diana Ross simply has no right to produce music this engaging, this vital, at this point in her life - and this devil may care attitude has enabled her to produce one of the most definitive bodies of work in her entire career."[14]Mojo said, "On the plus side, Ross is in good voice, but as comeback albums go, this is an underwhelming affair."[20] Alex Jeffery of MusicOMH said, "Nobody is trying to do anything too contemporary here, and the slight remove these musicians bring to creating contemporary Ross music means we often get a pastiche of her earlier material. It's effective, but the danger is that it veers tantalisingly close to sounding like an ironic tribute. And so, the album perhaps fares best in its simplest, and most sincerely constructed moments."[15] Gary Ryan of NME said, "Ultimately, it feels as if everybody involved in 'Thank You' has reverentially tried to make the platonic ideal of a Diana Ross album, but instead fallen into the late-career artist deadzone of a pleasant record that neither particularly updates nor diminishes her legacy."[16] Ben Cardew of Pitchfork said, "On Thank You, Diana Ross' musical star shines strong after six decades of inspiration, offering signs of renaissance even as she teases tender farewells."[17] Steve Horowitz of PopMatters said, "She mostly sounds tired, and her voice seems wrapped in gauze. The record is grandiosely overproduced, so Ross often competes with walls of instrumentation and always loses."[18] David Browne of Rolling Stone said, "The songs feel familiar, as if they've even assembled from parts of previous hits. ... All that said, there's still an inordinate deal of pleasure to be taken in music that wants to sweep you up and revel in sonic bliss, whether you've emerged from a still-lingering pandemic or not."[19]Uncut said, "As with her best material, it's an album to lip-synch for your life to."[21]
Commercial performance
Thank You performed moderately on the charts. In the United Kingdom, it debuted at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming her first top-10 album in 26 years.[22] In the United States, it entered Billboard Top R&B Albums Chart at No. 25.[23]
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