Reception
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| Allmusic | |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| The Boston Globe | (mixed) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (C) |
| New York Times | (favorable) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Stylus | A− |
| Village Voice | (favorable) |
| Washington Post | (favorable) |
The first single off the album is "Let It Go", an upbeat club track that features Missy Elliott and Lil' Kim. The video premiered on BET's Access Granted on July 11, 2007. The second single is the Darkchild-produced "Shoulda Let You Go". The album was promoted with the second season of her reality show "Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is", set to premiere on October 30, 2007. Just Like You debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 281,419 copies in its first week, more than quadruple the first week of her last album. "Give Me More" came in at No.1 on The Editor's List inside Cove Magazine October 2007 Issue for the top 5 Soul/R&B recordings for the month of September 2007. As of January 17, 2009 Just Like You has sold approximately 1.7 million copies in the U.S. The singer's title track was the theme from Cole's BET reality series has been noted.
On November 27, 2008 the album was released in Australia, entitled Just Like You (International Deluxe Version). This release is a hybrid of Just Like You and The Way It Is and also features Keyshia's collaborations with P. Diddy & Sean Paul. It contains 16 songs and has a different cover to the original version of the album. On May 9, 2008 the international album had been released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well.
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