Essential

Essential or essentials may refer to:

Biology

• Essential amino acid, one that the organism cannot produce by itself

Groups and organizations

• EQ Media Group, formerly Essential Media Group, a global television production company
• Essential Media Communications, an Australian PR and polling company
• Essential Products, a smart device company led by Andy Rubin
• Essential Records (London), a subsidiary of London Records
• Essential Records (Christian), a Christian subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment
• The Essentials (band), a Canadian a cappella group formed in 1993
• Essentials (PlayStation), a budget package of PlayStation games

Albums

• Essential (Divinyls album), a compilation album, 1991
• Essential (Pet Shop Boys album), 1998
• Essential (Ramones album), 2007
• Essential (CeCe Peniston album), 2000
• Essential (Jethro Tull album)
• Essential (Kate Ryan album), 2008
• Essential (Praga Khan album), 2005
• Essentials (Nate Dogg album), a compilation album, 2002
• Essentials (Failure album), 2006
• Essentials, a studio album by Argentine jazz singer Karen Souza, 2011
• Essential, a compilation album by Amanda Lear, 2001
• Essential, a compilation album by The Human League, 2011
• Essentials, an album by Travis Tritt
• Essentials, an album by Triumvirat
• Essential series, a collection of compilation albums published by Sony's Legacy Recordings label

Other uses

• Essentialism, the philosophical view that an entity must have certain characteristics in order to belong to a certain defined group
• Essentials (magazine), a monthly British women's lifestyle magazine

See also

• The Essential (disambiguation)
• The Essentials (disambiguation)
• Essence