"My Immortal" is a song by American rock band Evanescence from their debut studio album, Fallen (2003).

The single, dubbed the "band version", is the re-recording Lee and Moody made for Fallen, featuring guitar, drums and bass after the bridge and a string arrangement by David Campbell.

[17] Michael Clark of the Houston Chronicle viewed it as "goth-meets-pop",[18] and MTV described it as a "delicate, heartfelt ballad".

[26] She added: "It's really hard for me to listen to the album version because we did it two years ago — it was just me and guitarist Ben, and I've grown so much as a performer since then ...

And the sound quality is bad because we had to break into the studio to record it late at night when no one was around because we couldn't afford a real session.

[23] When "My Immortal" became a single, Lee and Moody chose the recording they had made for Fallen that the label originally rejected.

[1] This recording is dubbed the "band version", featuring guitar, drums and bass after the bridge and during the final chorus of the song, as well as Campbell's orchestration.

Kirk Miller of Rolling Stone said that the song "lets Lee wail about her personal demons over simple piano and some symphonic dressings".

[35] Blair R. Fischer of Chicago Tribune said that Lee sounds "simply heavenly on the aberrant, elegant strings-soaked ballad".

[37] Writing for The Guardian, Tom Reynolds deemed "My Immortal" a "whimpering post-breakup tune" and "overwrought", listing it as one of his top 25 "miserable" tracks.

[48] "My Immortal" was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 17, 2009, for selling more than 500,000 copies in the United States.

[58] The single was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 70,000 copies in that country.

[65] The music video directed by David Mould was filmed in black-and-white in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, on October 10, 2003.

[66] Lee admitted that the video's visuals were conspicuous in retrospect but the similarities between that and Moody's departure was coincidental.

[68][67] According to Jon Wiederhorn from MTV News, the shots of the video are "evocative and artistic, resembling a cross between a foreign film and a Chanel advertisement.

"[1] Joe D'Angelo of MTV News said that Lee's disconnection in the video shows a "distressed and emotionally wrought heroine.

"[69] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone praised the video saying that Lee looked like a "teen-misery titan" and that she "tiptoed through a marble castle of pain".

Evanescence performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman in March 2004,[72] and at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards in December 2004.

[79] Lucy Walsh, a contestant of the 2008 show Rock the Cradle, covered the song in the fifth episode "Judge's Picks".

[81] In the show's eleventh season, the song accompanied a performance by the top seven women, choreographed by Mandy Moore.