Essential or essentials may refer to:

Biology

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

Groups and organizations

EQ Media Group EQ Media Group, formerly Essential Media Group (EMG), is a global television production company with production and development hubs in Los Angeles, California; Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Vancouver, Canada. History EMG was f ...

, formerly Essential Media Group, a global television production company * Essential Media Communications, an Australian PR and polling company *

Essential Products Essential Products (marketed as Essential) was an American technology company and manufacturer founded on November 9, 2015, by Andy Rubin and based in Palo Alto. The company developed, manufactured, and sold Essential Phone and accessories for ...

, a smart device company led by Andy Rubin *

Essential Records (London) Essential Records is a subsidiary of London Records and is an offshoot of Pete Tong's Essential Selection programme on Radio 1. The later originated US label, run by London-Sire Records from 2000 to 2001, released dance music compilations from ...

, a subsidiary of London Records *

Essential Records (Christian) Essential Records is a contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of the major label Sony Music Nashville. History It was established in 1992 and acquired by Brentwood Music in 1993. The label's first big ...

, a Christian subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment *

The Essentials (band) The Essentials was a Canadian a cappella group founded in London, Ontario, Canada in 1993, that were based out of Toronto from 2000 onward. Band co-founders Joon Nah and Joe Oliva attended London Central Secondary School where they co-founded ...

, a Canadian a cappella group formed in 1993 *

Essentials (PlayStation) Essentials is the Sony PlayStation budget range in the PAL region, which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as Australia and South Asia. It was launched in January 1997 as the Platinum range but was later renamed for PlayStat ...

, 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) ''Essential'' is the first compilation released by Kate Ryan. The album was released by the labels EMI and Capitol A capitol, named after the Capitoline Hill in Rome, is usually a legislative building where a legislature meets and makes laws fo ...

, 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 Karen Souza (born January 10, 1984) is an Argentinian jazz and bossa nova singer, songwriter, and producer. Career Souza began her career by providing vocals for producers of electronic music. Under pseudonyms she sang ver ...

, 2011 *''Essential'', a compilation album by Amanda Lear, 2001 *''Essential'', a compilation album by The Human League, 2011 *''Essentials'', an album by

Travis Tritt James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In the 20 ...

*''Essentials'', an album by

Triumvirat Triumvirat was a West German progressive rock band from Cologne in then-West Germany. They became, during the 1970s, a key figure in Eurock, the progressive rock of continental Europe whose German variant is called krautrock. The name Triumvirat ...

* ''Essential'' series, a collection of compilation albums published by Sony's

Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music. Formed in 1990 after Sony's acquisition of CBS Records, Legacy originally handled the archives of Sony Music-owned labels Columbia Records and Epic Records. In 20 ...

label

Other uses

Essentialism Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Plato's idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In ''Categories'', Aristotle sim ...

, 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

Biology

Groups and organizations

Albums

Other uses

See also