| My Love: Essential Collection | ||||
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| Released | 24 October 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 158:11 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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My Love: Essential Collection is the third English-language greatest hits album by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion. It was released by Columbia Records on 24 October 2008 as the follow-up to her previous English-language compilation, All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999). In the album's liner notes, she dedicated this collection of songs, recorded between 1990 and 2008, to her fans who supported her throughout the years. My Love: Essential Collection was released as a single disc, consisting of Dion's most successful singles, including: "My Heart Will Go On", "Because You Loved Me", "The Power of Love" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now". The two-disc edition, entitled My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection, has been further expanded to include more hits and rare songs that have not previously appeared on her albums. Both editions include one new track, "There Comes a Time". The album was not released in Japan, where Sony Music Entertainment instead released Complete Best.
My Love: Essential Collection received a positive response. It topped the albums charts in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, as well as the compilation album chart in France. My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number two in Canada, number five in the United Kingdom and number eight in the United States, and was certified four-times Platinum in the UK, double-Platinum in Canada and Ireland, Platinum in Belgium and Gold in Mexico, Finland, New Zealand and Hungary. In most territories, the album's first single was a live recording of "My Love", a semi-autobiographical song written for Dion by Linda Perry, originally released on Taking Chances (2007). In France, a new remix of "I'm Alive" was released as a promotional single instead. In July 2011, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was re-issued with the same track listings as part of Sony's The Essential line. A limited-edition, titled The Essential Celine Dion 3.0, was also released in the United States in August 2011 with a bonus third CD with seven more tracks. On 5 April 2024, the album was released for the first time on vinyl.