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. 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 and an excerpt of the song was posted on 23 October 2008. My Love: Essential Collection features a live version of the song, which premiered on 17 September 2008 and the live music video was released seven days later. " My Love", originally from Taking Chances, was confirmed as the first single in an official press release on 22 September 2008. 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, with the track listing posted on 11 September 2008. On 27 August 2008, Dion's official website announced that a new greatest hits album would be released in October 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. The Taking Chances World Tour played to sold-out stadiums and arenas throughout 2008. Dion performed her biggest hits along with songs from her new album, Taking Chances. On 14 February 2008, she embarked on her first worldwide concert tour in over nine years. 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. 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.ĭion took the stage for her final performance of A New Day. In July 2011, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was re-issued with the same track listings as part of Sony's The Essential line. In France, a remix of " I'm Alive" was released as a promotional single instead. 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).
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 triple-Platinum in the UK, double-Platinum in Canada and Ireland, Platinum in Belgium and Gold in Mexico, Finland, New Zealand and Hungary. It topped the albums charts in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, as well as the compilation album chart in France.
My Love: Essential Collection received a positive response. The album wasn't released in Japan because Sony Music Entertainment decided to issue different compilation there, Complete Best. Both editions include one new track, "There Comes a Time". 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. 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". In the album's liner notes, she dedicated this collection of songs, recorded between 19, to her fans who supported her throughout the years. Before releasing My Love: Essential Collection, Dion had already sold over 200 million albums worldwide. It was released by Columbia Records on 24 October 2008 as the follow up to her previous English-language compilation, All the Way. My Love: Essential Collection is a greatest hits album by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion. Singles from My Love: Essential Collection
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