<P> Evanescence performed the song at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards on December 8, 2004 . The band was joined by an eight - piece string section during the performance and a stage backdrop of knotted, decaying trees were placed on stage in order to showcase the "powerful vocals" by Amy Lee as stated by a writer of Billboard . The band additionally performed the song at Late Show with David Letterman in March 2004 . </P> <P> The band performed "My Immortal" during various stops of their first Fallen Tour (2003). "My Immortal" was the closing song of the concerts, and Lee performed it after asking the fans "Just promise not to fall asleep ." A live version of the song from the performance at Le Zénith, Paris is featured on their first live album, Anywhere but Home (2004). Johnny Loftus of AllMusic praised the live version saying that Lee takes a "softer approach" while performing "My Immortal" and added that it "becomes a singalong moment for 5,000 souls". "My Immortal" was also part of the set list during the band's second tour, called The Open Door Tour (2007) in support of their second studio album The Open Door (2006). Evanescence also played the song live at their secret New York City gig which took place on November 4, 2009 and during the 2011 Rock in Rio festival on October 2, 2011 . The song was later added on the set list of their third worldwide tour in support of their third self - titled studio album, the Evanescence Tour (2011 - 12). The band also performed the song as part of the set list of their tour taking place in the US and Europe in 2016 and 2017 . </P> <P> "My Immortal" was featured on the soundtrack Daredevil: The Album from the movie Daredevil (2003) along with "Bring Me to Life". The song has been used during several television episodes . It featured during the Smallville season three episode "Memoria". Lucy Walsh, a contestant of the show Rock the Cradle, covered the song during the fifth episode, "Judge's Picks". Dancer Hampton Williams performed to this song during his audition for the season 9 premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, broadcast on May 24, 2012, where he received a standing ovation, and in season 11 the song accompanied a performance by the top seven women, choreographed by Mandy Moore and broadcast on July 30, 2014, that earned similar reviews . </P> <P> An arrangement of the song inspired by Gregorian chant was covered by the group Gregorian on their 2004 album The Dark Side . In 2013, violinist Lindsey Stirling recorded an instrumental version of "My Immortal" for the Target edition of her first self - titled studio album . In July 2013 it was uploaded to her personal channel on YouTube along with an accompanying performance video and it was released to the iTunes Store on October 1, 2013 . The following year, Andrea Begley covered "My Immortal" for her debut studio album The Message . Robert Copsey of Digital Spy wrote that the cover "range (s) from the excruciating to the offensively inoffensive". Teenage classical vocalist Jackie Evancho covered "My Immortal" in 2014 on her fifth full - length album, Awakening, as a bonus track for Japanese fans . </P>

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