Céline Dion – My Love Essential Collection (2xLP)

Celine Dion's My Love: Essential Collection brings together the songs that defined her rise from early-1990s crossover success to full international superstar status. Originally issued in 2008, this set was designed as a two-disc overview of roughly two decades of major hits, and in 2024 it finally became available on vinyl for the first time. That makes this 2xLP edition a useful way into a catalogue built on huge adult-contemporary singles, film themes, and the kind of power ballads Dion made unmistakably her own.

The selection leans hard into the songs most listeners will know her for, from the Titanic anthem "My Heart Will Go On" to "Because You Loved Me" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." Just as importantly, it shows how broad her mainstream run was: "Beauty and the Beast" links her to one of Disney's defining soundtrack moments, while duets with Barbra Streisand and the Bee Gees underline how central Dion became to big-budget pop in the 1990s and 2000s. The chronology also helps the album work as more than a souvenir, tracing the shift from her earlier romantic ballads to later, more polished radio pop.

As a compilation, this isn't about deep cuts so much as scale and staying power. The appeal is hearing just how many era-defining singles Dion stacked up across those years, with one new song, "There Comes a Time," closing the set. If you want the clearest single-stop introduction to her English-language hitmaking, this collection does the job neatly.

Features

• 2xLP, 180g, Standard Edition
• First time on vinyl
• Stereo

Reviews

• My Love fits the bill well as it has all her big adult contemporary hits - AllMusic.com