My Love: Essential Collection is the third English-language greatest hits album by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion.

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.

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).

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.

[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.

[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).

[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.

[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.

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.

[31] 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] 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.

[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.

[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.