On November 17, 2006 Soundtrack '96-'06 was released, a collection of hits through her first ten years as a recording artist. The album also contained four new songs; three in Italian and one in English. The album peaked at number 1, was certified diamond and became the third most selling album of 2006 in Italy with more than of 700,000 copies.

A revised edition entitled Caterpillar was released in September 2007, aimed at the International market. Several of the songs had been remixed, rearranged and partly rerecorded and it featured an entirely new cover version of The Rolling Stones Wild Horses.

The box set Soundtrack Live '96-'06 was released on November 23 2007, containing a CD and DVD from a Milan concert during the Soundtrack Live Tour 2007.

In the wake of Elisa's increased popularity due to her song Dancing appearing on So You Think You Can Dance, yet another compilation album appropriately named Dancing was released in the US on July 15 2008. Being the singer's first album to be available in the US, it is recognised as her American debut.

[edit] Heart and second acoustic albumElisa announced in September 2009 that she would release a new album, Heart, on November 13. The first single was Ti Vorrei Sollevare with Giuliano Sangiorgi from Italian rock band Negramaro. The album also contains a collaboration with Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons in the song "Forgiveness". On November 30, 2010 Elisa released Ivy, an album in the same vein as Lotus, featuring 3 new tracks, acoustic versions of her past songs and covers such as Smashing Pumpkins' "1979". The album sold over 60.000 copies in Italy and was further supported by a tour.