My Love: Essential Collection

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 wasn't released in Japan because Sony Music Entertainment decided to issue a different compilation there, Complete Best.

My Love: Essential Collection
Greatest hits album by
Celine Dion
Released24 October 2008 (2008-10-24)
Recorded1990–2008
GenrePop
Length158:11
LabelColumbia
Producer
Celine Dion chronology
Complete Best
(2008)		 My Love: Essential Collection
(2008)		 Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert
(2010)
Singles from My Love: Essential Collection
  1. "My Love"
    Released: 23 September 2008

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. The first single from the album, "My Love", was a semi-autobiographic song written for Dion by Linda Perry, originally available on Taking Chances (2007). In France, a 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 3.0, was also released in the United States in August 2011 with a bonus third CD with seven more tracks.

Background

Dion took the stage for her final performance of A New Day... on 15 December 2007. The Las Vegas show that had been viewed by nearly three million spectators at 717 performances since its premier in March 2003 had come to an end.[1] On 14 February 2008, she embarked on her first worldwide concert tour in over nine years. Dion performed her biggest hits along with songs from her new album, Taking Chances. The Taking Chances World Tour played to sold-out stadiums and arenas throughout 2008. By its completion, at the end of February 2009, it had crossed five continents, twenty-three countries, and ninety-three cities, en route to playing for an audience of over three million people.[2] On 27 August 2008, Dion's official website announced that a new greatest hits album would be released in October 2008.[3] On 5 September 2008, it was revealed that the album will be available in two formats: a one-disc edition called My Love: Essential Collection as well as a two-disc edition called My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection,[4] with the track listing posted on 11 September 2008.[5] "My Love", originally from Taking Chances, was confirmed as the first single in an official press release on 22 September 2008.[6] My Love: Essential Collection features a live version of the song, which premiered on 17 September 2008[7] and the live music video was released seven days later.[8] The lyrics to the only new track on the album, "There Comes a Time" were posted on 7 October 2008 on Dion's official website[9] and an excerpt of the song was posted on 23 October 2008.[10]

The artwork for My Love: Essential Collection features a close-up shot of Dion, wearing a white blouse with a black camera hanging from her neck.[11] The cover's background is blurred white and purple imagery, with the singer's name and the album title written in white letters.[11] The photography was done by Denise Truscello, and shot in a studio in Los Angeles in 2007.[11] Dion was very grateful working with Truscello, and described their professional experience positively: "Out of all the people I've worked with, she's the absolute best. I've worked with her for six years, and she's always kind to everybody. Super, super kind".[11]

Content

My Love: Essential Collection features seventeen songs on the US version and eighteen songs on the European version of the album. The US version includes the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles: "The Power of Love", "Because You Loved Me", "My Heart Will Go On" and "I'm Your Angel", and the European version contains the UK number one single, "Think Twice".[12]

The two-disc edition, entitled My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was released simultaneously. It is a twenty-seven song set on the US version and thirty-six song set on the European version. My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection released in the United States contains three rare songs not released on a Dion record: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (from Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King), "Dance with My Father" (from So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross), and "I Knew I Loved You" (from We All Love Ennio Morricone).[2] The European version also includes singles successful in Europe.[13]

In July 2011, the album was re-issued as part of The Essential series,[14] featuring either the US or European track listing (depending on the country of release). A limited edition, titled The Essential 3.0, was released exclusively in the United States on 29 August 2011. It was expanded with a bonus third CD with seven tracks, including alternate versions of "Think Twice" and "Only One Road".[15]

Promotion

The performance of "My Love" was aired for the very first time on television on 31 August 2008, during the 43rd annual MDA Labor Day Telethon.[16] On 28 October 2008, an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show was dedicated to Dion, as well as several inspirational journeys of parents and their young children, who suffered from many diseases.[17] Dion was featured throughout the special titled, Miracle Children with Celine Dion due to the personal struggles and difficulties she was facing at the time with childbirth.[17] Towards the end of the special, she performed a live rendition of "My Love".[17] The following day, Dion was forced to reschedule her concert of 30 October in Minneapolis, as well many others in November 2008, citing illness as the cause for the postponements.[18] On 1 December 2008, she performed "My Love" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[19] On 13 December 2008, her official website posted a behind-the-scenes clip of Dion in the recording sessions for the song, "There Comes a Time".[20] The Taking Chances World Tour ended on 26 February and on 1 March 2009, Dion gave her last public performance on Star Académie in Canada,[21] singing a medley of her popular French and English-language songs alongside the contestants.[21] Following the performance, Dion began her temporary retirement from the music industry, in order to focus time on her family and conceiving another child. Aside from the several televised appearances, "My Love" was performed throughout Dion's Taking Chances World Tour, beginning with her concert in Seoul on 18 March 2008. "My Love" was included later on the Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert, released on DVD and CD in April 2010.[22]

Singles

My Love: Essential Collection was released while Dion was on her Taking Chances World Tour. During her concert in Stockholm, Sweden on 7 June 2008, Dion recorded a live version of "My Love",[23] which was confirmed to be the first single from the compilation. The song premiered on the radio on 22 September 2008 and a digital single was released the next day,[6] accompanied by a live music video. Chuck Taylor, senior editor of Billboard, said that "My Love" was an inspired choice from the album and complimented Linda Perry's composition and Dion's delivery of the song, calling it highly emotive ballad about ache and uncertainty.[24] After "My Love" debuted on the US Adult Contemporary chart, Dion became the artist with the most adult contemporary hits in the 2000s, with "My Love" being her sixteenth entry of the decade.[25] The song peaked at number fifteen.[26] The next single, "I'm Alive" was remixed by Laurent Wolf and released in October 2008 to radio to promote the album in France, instead of "My Love".[27] In January 2009, new remixes of "I'm Alive" by Maurice Joshua were sent to the US clubs.[28] They reached number thirty-five on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.[29] "I'm Alive" was originally released as a single from A New Day Has Come in 2002 and peaked at number seven in France[30] and number six on the US Adult Contemporary chart.[31]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[32]
Daily Express[33]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor of AllMusic, called My Love: Essential Collection an overcompensation for how All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999), concentrated on newer recordings at the expense of hits.[32] According to him, My Love: Essential Collection "fits the bill well" for those listeners who are looking for an overview of Celine Dion's two decades as an international superstar, as it has all her big adult contemporary hits.[32] Erlewine also noted that although Dion has had more hits in the ten years since All the Way... A Decade of Song, apart from her cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night", almost none of her new-millennium hits are as memorable as her singles from the '90s.[32]

Commercial reception

My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200, becoming Dion's eleventh top ten album on the chart, with first week sales of 57,000 copies.[34][35] On the Canadian Albums Chart, My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number two, with sales of 17,700 copies,[36] and the following week, the album dropped to number three, selling another 11,000 copies.[37] By its third week on the chart, My Love: Essential Collection sank another three spots to number six,[38] and by January 2009, was certified double-Platinum by CRIA, denoting shipments of 160,000 copies.[39]

In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number five, selling 42,411 copies and was certified four-times Platinum for sales of over 1,200,000 units.[40] In Ireland, it peaked at number one[41] and was certified double-Platinum in 2008.[42] My Love: Essential Collection proved to be very popular in these two countries, as it re-entered the charts many times over the years, spending 300 weeks on the chart in Ireland.[43]

It debuted at number one in France[44] and the Netherlands,[45] occupying the top for two weeks in both countries. My Love: Essential Collection also topped the chart in Belgium Flanders and peaked inside the top ten in many European countries, reaching number six on the European Top 100 Albums.[45][46] The album also peaked inside top ten in New Zealand and Mexico,[45] and was also certified Platinum in Belgium,[47] Gold in Mexico,[48] Finland,[49] New Zealand[50] and Hungary.[51] Worldwide, it became the forty-second best selling album of 2008, according to the IFPI.[52] In addition, Sony Music released The Essential in 2011, with the same track listing, which was certified Silver by the BPI in the UK as a standalone album.[40]

Track listing
My Love: Essential Collection – North American edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Where Does My Heart Beat Now"
Christopher Neil4:33
2."Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson)
Walter Afanasieff4:04
3."If You Asked Me To"Diane WarrenGuy Roche3:55
4."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
David Foster4:49
5."My Love" (live version)Linda PerryPerry5:04
6."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
7."The Power of the Dream"
  • Foster
  • Babyface[a]
4:30
8."It's All Coming Back to Me Now"Jim Steinman
7:37
9."All by Myself"
Foster5:08
10."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
11."I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly)KellyKelly5:31
12."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
13."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
4:23
14."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
15."I Drove All Night"
4:00
16."Taking Chances"
John Shanks4:07
17."There Comes a Time"
Emanuel Kiriakou4:03
Total length:78:33
My Love: Essential Collection – European edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Horner
  • Jennings
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
2."Think Twice"
4:48
3."It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit)Steinman
5:20
4."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
  • Nova
  • Moccio
  • Wake
  • Afanasieff
  • Nova
  • R. Jones[b]
  • Burkholder[b]
  • Dold[b]
4:23
5."My Love" (live version)PerryPerry5:04
6."Taking Chances"
  • DioGuardi
  • Stewart
Shanks4:07
7."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
8."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
  • Mende
  • DeRouge
  • Rush
  • Applegate
Foster4:49
9."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
10."Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
  • Thompson
  • Afanasieff
  • Foster
  • Foster
  • Afanasieff
4:51
11."Falling into You"
  • Nowels
  • Steinberg
4:18
12."I Drove All Night"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
  • Åström
  • Luprano
4:00
13."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
14."All by Myself" (edited single version)
  • Carmen
  • Rachmaninoff
Foster4:00
15."Alone"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
Ben Moody3:23
16."Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees)
Afanasieff4:12
17."Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson)
  • Menken
  • Ashman
Afanasieff4:04
18."There Comes a Time"
  • Elofsson
  • Rodrigues
Kiriakou4:03
Total length:78:11
My Love: Essential Collection – French edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
  • Mende
  • DeRouge
  • Rush
  • Applegate
Foster4:49
2."Falling into You"
  • Steinberg
  • Nowels
  • D'Ubaldo
  • Nowels
  • Steinberg
4:18
3."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
4."It's All Coming Back to Me Now"Steinman
7:37
5."My Love" (live version)PerryPerry5:04
6."All by Myself"
  • Carmen
  • Rachmaninoff
Foster5:08
7."Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
  • Thompson
  • Afanasieff
  • Foster
  • Foster
  • Afanasieff
4:51
8."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Horner
  • Jennings
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
9."Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees)
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
  • M. Gibb
Afanasieff4:12
10."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
11."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
  • Nova
  • Moccio
  • Wake
  • Afanasieff
  • Nova
  • R. Jones[b]
  • Burkholder[b]
  • Dold[b]
4:23
12."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
13."Ten Days"
Palmas3:37
14."I Drove All Night"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
  • Åström
  • Luprano
4:00
15."Taking Chances"
  • DioGuardi
  • Stewart
Shanks4:07
16."There Comes a Time"
  • Elofsson
  • Rodrigues
Kiriakou4:03
17."One Heart"
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
3:24
Total length:76:22
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – North American edition (disc one)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Where Does My Heart Beat Now"
  • Johnson
  • Rhodes
Neil4:33
2."Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson)
  • Menken
  • Ashman
Afanasieff4:04
3."If You Asked Me To"WarrenRoche3:55
4."Love Can Move Mountains" (edit)WarrenWake4:01
5."My Love" (live version)PerryPerry5:04
6."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
  • Mende
  • DeRouge
  • Rush
  • Applegate
Foster4:49
7."(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
Foster3:40
8."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
9."The Power of the Dream"
  • Foster
  • Babyface
  • Thompson
  • Foster
  • Babyface[a]
4:30
10."It's All Coming Back to Me Now"Steinman
7:37
11."All by Myself"
  • Carmen
  • Rachmaninoff
Foster5:08
12."Pour que tu m'aimes encore"Jean-Jacques Goldman
4:14
13."Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
  • Thompson
  • Afanasieff
  • Foster
  • Foster
  • Afanasieff
4:51
Total length:61:01
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – North American edition (disc two)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Horner
  • Jennings
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
2."To Love You More" (radio edit)
Foster4:42
3."River Deep, Mountain High"
  • Steinman
  • Rinkoff[a]
4:10
4."I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly)KellyKelly5:31
5."The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
4:29
6."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
7."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
  • Nova
  • Moccio
  • Wake
  • Afanasieff
  • Nova
  • R. Jones[b]
  • Burkholder[b]
  • Dold[b]
4:23
8."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
9."I Drove All Night"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
  • Åström
  • Luprano
4:00
10."Taking Chances"
  • DioGuardi
  • Stewart
Shanks4:07
11."There Comes a Time"
  • Elofsson
  • Rodrigues
Kiriakou4:03
12."Dance with My Father"
4:38
13."I Knew I Loved You"
4:31
14."My Love" (radio version) (hidden track)PerryPerry4:09
Total length:60:57
The Essential 3.0 – North American edition (disc three)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Alone"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
Moody3:23
2."Us"Billy Pace
5:46
3."The Reason"
5:01
4."Think Twice" (alternate version)
  • Hill
  • Sinfield
4:28
5."When I Fall in Love" (duet with Clive Griffin)
Foster4:21
6."I Surrender"
Simon Franglen4:49
7."Only One Road" (alternate version)Peter ZizzoWake4:49
Total length:32:37
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – European edition (disc one)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Horner
  • Jennings
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
2."Think Twice"
  • Hill
  • Sinfield
4:48
3."It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit)Steinman
5:20
4."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
  • Nova
  • Moccio
  • Wake
  • Afanasieff
  • Nova
  • R. Jones[b]
  • Burkholder[b]
  • Dold[b]
4:23
5."My Love" (live version)PerryPerry5:04
6."Taking Chances"
  • DioGuardi
  • Stewart
Shanks4:07
7."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
8."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
  • Mende
  • DeRouge
  • Rush
  • Applegate
Foster4:49
9."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
10."Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
  • Thompson
  • Afanasieff
  • Foster
  • Foster
  • Afanasieff
4:51
11."Falling into You"
  • Steinberg
  • Nowels
  • D'Ubaldo
  • Nowels
  • Steinberg
4:18
12."I Drove All Night"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
  • Åström
  • Luprano
4:00
13."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
14."All by Myself" (edited single version)
  • Carmen
  • Rachmaninoff
Foster4:00
15."Alone"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
Moody3:23
16."Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees)
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
  • M. Gibb
Afanasieff4:12
17."Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson)
  • Menken
  • Ashman
Afanasieff4:04
18."There Comes a Time"
  • Elofsson
  • Rodrigues
Kiriakou4:03
Total length:78:11
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – European edition (disc two)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."River Deep, Mountain High"
  • Greenwich
  • Barry
  • Spector
  • Steinman
  • Rinkoff[a]
4:10
2."One Heart"
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
3:24
3."I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly)KellyKelly5:31
4."Only One Road"ZizzoWake4:49
5."Pour que tu m'aimes encore"Goldman
  • Goldman
  • Benzi
4:14
6."You and I"
  • Nova
  • Jacques Duval
  • Nova
  • Åström
4:05
7."To Love You More" (radio edit)
  • Foster
  • Miles
Foster4:42
8."Eyes on Me"
Lundin3:53
9."Have You Ever Been in Love"
  • Bagge
  • Åström
4:08
10."The Reason"
  • King
  • Hudson
  • Wells
  • George Martin
  • Giles Martin[d]
5:01
11."Seduces Me"
  • Rick Hahn
  • Hill
  • John Jones
3:46
12."The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"Ewan MacCollFoster4:09
13."Dance with My Father"
  • Vandross
  • Marx
  • Jam
  • Lewis
  • Wright[a]
4:38
14."Misled"
  • Zizzo
  • Jimmy Bralower
Wake3:30
15."Love Can Move Mountains" (edit)WarrenWake4:01
16."Call the Man"
  • Hill
  • Sinfield
6:08
17."Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)"Robert John "Mutt" LangeLange5:19
18."The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
4:29
Total length:79:57
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – European edition (iTunes bonus tracks)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."My Heart Will Go On" (Tony Moran's anthem vocal mix)
  • Horner
  • Jennings
9:43
2."That's the Way It Is" (The Metro club remix)
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
5:29
3."I Drove All Night" (Hex Hector extended vocal import mix)
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
7:55
4."I Want You to Need Me" (Thunderpuss radio mix)Warren
4.33
5."Misled" (MK's history remix)
  • Zizzo
  • Bralower
6:41
Total length:34:21
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – French edition (disc one)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Where Does My Heart Beat Now"
  • Johnson
  • Rhodes
Neil4:33
2."Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson)
  • Menken
  • Ashman
Afanasieff4:04
3."If You Asked Me To"WarrenRoche3:55
4."Love Can Move Mountains" (edit)WarrenWake4:01
5."My Love" (live version)PerryPerry5:04
6."The Power of Love" (radio edit)
  • Mende
  • DeRouge
  • Rush
  • Applegate
Foster4:49
7."Pour que tu m'aimes encore"Goldman
  • Goldman
  • Benzi
4:14
8."(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
  • Goffin
  • King
  • Wexler
Foster3:40
9."Because You Loved Me"WarrenFoster4:35
10."Falling into You"
  • Steinberg
  • Nowels
  • D'Ubaldo
  • Nowels
  • Steinberg
4:18
11."The Power of the Dream"
  • Foster
  • Babyface
  • Thompson
  • Foster
  • Babyface[a]
4:30
12."It's All Coming Back to Me Now"Steinman
7:37
13."All by Myself"
  • Carmen
  • Rachmaninoff
Foster5:08
14."River Deep, Mountain High"
  • Greenwich
  • Barry
  • Spector
  • Steinman
  • Rinkoff[a]
4:10
15."Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
  • Thompson
  • Afanasieff
  • Foster
  • Foster
  • Afanasieff
4:51
Total length:69:29
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection – French edition (disc two)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."My Heart Will Go On"
  • Horner
  • Jennings
  • Afanasieff
  • Horner[a]
4:41
2."To Love You More" (radio edit)
  • Foster
  • Miles
Foster4:42
3."Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees)
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
  • M. Gibb
Afanasieff4:12
4."I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly)KellyKelly5:31
5."The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
4:29
6."That's the Way It Is"
  • Martin
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
  • Martin
  • Lundin
4:03
7."A New Day Has Come" (radio remix)
  • Nova
  • Moccio
  • Wake
  • Afanasieff
  • Nova
  • R. Jones[b]
  • Burkholder[b]
  • Dold[b]
4:23
8."I'm Alive"
  • Lundin
  • Carlsson
3:30
9."Ten Days"
  • Nova
  • Forestier
  • Palmas
Palmas3:37
10."I Drove All Night"
  • Steinberg
  • Kelly
  • Åström
  • Luprano
4:00
11."One Heart"
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
  • Shanks
  • DioGuardi
3:24
12."Taking Chances"
  • DioGuardi
  • Stewart
Shanks4:07
13."There Comes a Time"
  • Elofsson
  • Rodrigues
Kiriakou4:03
14."Dance with My Father"
  • Vandross
  • Marx
  • Jam
  • Lewis
  • Wright[a]
4:38
15."I Knew I Loved You"
  • Morricone
  • A. Bergman
  • M. Bergman
  • Caiola
  • Q. Jones
4:31
Total length:63:51

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies a co-producer
  • ^[b] signifies an additional producer
  • ^[c] signifies Italian translation
  • ^[d] signifies an assistant producer
  • ^[e] signifies additional production and remix

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic.[53][54]

Charts

Certifications and sales
Certifications and sales for My Love: Essential Collection
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[112] Platinum 70,000‡
Belgium (BEA)[113] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[114] 4× Platinum 320,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[115] Gold 16,027[115]
Germany (BVMI)[116] Gold 100,000‡
Hungary (MAHASZ)[117] Gold 3,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[118] 2× Platinum 30,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[119] Gold 40,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[120] Platinum 60,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[121] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[40] 4× Platinum 1,200,000‡
United States — 543,667[122]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

The Essential

In July 2011, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was re-issued with the same track listing as part of Sony Music's The Essential line. It charted or was certified separately from the original release.

Charts

Certifications
Certifications and sales for The Essential
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[112] Gold 35,000‡
Poland (ZPAV)[133] Gold 10,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[134] Silver 60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history
Release history for My Love: Essential Collection
Region Date Label Format Catalog
Europe[135] 24 October 2008 Columbia CD
  • 88697400492
  • 88697401142 (French edition)
2CD
  • 88697400502
  • 88697401152 (French edition)
Australia[136] 27 October 2008 88697374522
North America[6] 28 October 2008 CD 88697411432
2CD 88697374522
Australia[136] 11 July 2011 Legacy Recordings
The Essential		 88697936772
Europe[14] 15 July 2011
North America[15][137] 29 August 2011 3CD 886979487321
13 September 2011 2CD 886979487222

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