Avril’s third album The Best Damn thing has the single Girlfriend. The song made its debut at number 5, the highest debut by any of her songs in the hot 100 chart and topped the chart after 14 weeks. Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne is a cart topper till now in United Kingdom and New Zealand. The song is currently in number 1 in these two countries. So far the song has been topping the charts for the 12th week and even went on be at the top of the charts in Australia as well. Avril Lavigne has been voted by a Canadian Business magazine as the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood. Her parents are of French origin, but she does not speak the language very well. Her debut album titled Lets Go was released in the year 2002, Under My Skin was her next released in 2004 and The Best Damn Thing was released in 2007.

Avril was born in Ontario, Canada, her family was catholic and she had a catholic upbringing. Avril’s musical talent was spotted very early and by the age of eight she was singing along with the mother in the church choir. In the year 1998 she won a major singing competition and got the opportunity to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on a tour concert. She appeared with Twain in the concert and sang “What Made you Say That.” The video and lyrics of Girlfriend describe Avril’s crush on a man who is currently with his girlfriend. The song prominently features the typical pop influences that are seen in her earlier songs. Seven additional versions of the songs have been made where the chorus has been sung in different languages.

Some of the languages in which the chorus has been sung are Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, French, German, Mandarin and Spanish. Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne is the theme songs of a Japanese talk show Cartoon Cat-Tun which episodes resumed May 2007. This music was played on Canadian and Malaysian music radio station and later on was played on Z100 in New York city.However, Girlfriend was premiered on Ottawa radio station and also released in the itunes store afterwards. It was also made available for download after it was released in the itunes. This single was highly popular and was so sales figure was amazing. After the release, this single was debuted on number five and gradually went up to number three. Though her previous peak on the chart was “Complicated” in 2002 which reached at number two on the U.S Billboard hot 100.

Since the debut of single Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne, the song has never fallen out of top 10 lists. This song also got huge response in Australia ARIS singles chart beating others and gained to get itself placed at number three.Afterwards, it gained to be at number one and consecutively remained for seven weeks. Girlfriend was certified gold by ARIA and then platinum after seven weeks of sales. Well, official remix was uploaded on the internet in May 2007.World tv premier of the music video was announced to be on TRL and Muchondemand.The video was filmed in California which contained two versions of Lavigne.

Avril Lavigne is not just any other singer in the music word, but she is someone who has done very well in her career. The huge number of fan and the large number of her record albums sold is a testimony to this. Avril Ramona Lavigne Whibley is popularly known to fans as Avril Lavigne or simply Avril. She belonged to a family of devout Christians and very early, when she was just a kid of two her musical talents were spotted by her mother. Back in those days, Avril used to sing with her mother in the church choir and it was here that her mother spotted her wonderful singing talents. Avril took part in many singing competitions and she won one, where she got a chance to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain. This was one of the beigest breaks in her singing career. She sang the song What Made you Say That appearing on stage along with Shania and this was just the beginning.

Avril was discovered professionally by her first manager Cliff Fabri while she was singing at a Chapter s Bookstore in Ontario. Avril’s first album was Let Go, released in the United States in the year 2002. This album witnessed phenomenal success and went on to be at the top of the charts in several places like Canada, Australia and United Kingdom. This is a record and Avril went on to become the youngest female soloist at the age of 18 years to have a number one album in the United Kingdom at that time. This album went on achieve many more records subsequently, it reached the multi platinum status and after that was certified as having reached the status of triple platinum after two weeks.

The album sold more than 1 million copies worldwide and turned out to be the best selling album of a female artist who debuted in 2002. A single from the album complicated want on to reach the top of the charts in Australia. In America Avril’s single reached the top of the Hot 100 Billboard countdown besides being one of the best selling singles in Canada that year. Under My Skin was Avril’s next album which was released in the year 2004. The album debuted at the top in Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and many other places. The album sold more then 300,000 copies in the first week itself in the United States. Most of the lyrics of the album were written by Lavigne in collaboration with Chantal Kreviazuk, a Canadian songwriter.

Avril has won many awards in her short singing career till date. Some of the major awards won by her are MTV Awards, Juno Awards, World Music Award and Grammy Awards. Avril has also worked in movies like Over the Hedge and The Flock. Right now Avril is married to Deryck Whibley, a Canadian singer. Avril Lavigne’s musical journey ahs been very successful though it is pretty early to say how she her future albums will do and if she can carry over her success or not. With the amount of talent that she has, it appears she is here to stay for a long time and entertain her fans.

Avril Lavigne (full name Avril Ramona Lavigne-Whibley) was born on 27th September, 1984 in Canada. Her credentials include a Grammy nomination. She has sols over 26 million albums worldwide. Avril Lavigne has ranked as the number 7 most powerful Canadian in Hollywood has to her fame of selling over 26 million albums worldwide. Avril Lavigne was ranked 7th most powerful Canadian in Hollywood by Canadian Business Magazine.

Avril Lavigne was born in Canada in the town of Belleville in Ontario. Her father John is French born and her mother Judy is French-Canadian. Both her parents being Catholic, Avril Lavigne enjoyed a Catholic upbringing. Her music carrier got an early start when at the tender age of two she accompanied her mother in the church choir. At the age of five, her family moved to Nappanee, Ontario.

In 1998, Avril Lavigne took part in her first singing competition/concert tour along with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain. While performing at a bookstore in Kingston, Ontario, she was spotted by her first manager. Folk singer Steve Medd spotted her while performing at the Lennox Community Theatre. He invited her to sing his song titled “Touch the Sky” along with him on stage. Avril Lavigne continued to collaborate with him on his next two albums. She signed her first record deal at the age of sixteen with Arista Records.

In June, 2002, Avril Lavige released her album titled “Let Go” in te United States. The CD became number 2 on the U.S. charts and number one in Canada, Australia and the U.K. She became the youngest solo singer to have a number one album in the U.K. In 2004, she released under my skin. The CD became number one in a number of coutries such as United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Thailand, Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan. Almost five hundred thousand copies were sold in the United States the first week alone.

In 2007, Avril Lavige released her third album titled “The Damn Thing.” This CD enjoyed a similar degree of success becoming number on the U.S. charts. The first single “Girlfriend” hit the Billboard 100 in the number one position. This track was also recorded in a number of languages besides English.

Avril Lavigne’s motion picture carrier got its start with the animated feature “Over the Hedge.” She also had a role in Richard Gere’s film titled “The Flock” where she plays the girlfriend of the prime suspect.

Every music artist has their own reasons for getting into music. It seems lately that more and more people are getting into music just for the hopes of getting signed to a big record label and having more money than they know what to do with. I am not one to say that musicians don’t deserve compensation for their time but I think that shows like American Idol and Cribs have skewed peoples vision of what music is really about, music is an art, and when people pursue it as such that is when truly great music is made.
Part of the reason Avril Lavignes music is so great is the fact that she isn’t in it just for the money. In a recent interview she was asked if her goal was getting a record deal when she got into music she answered that she has been singing and performing since she was two. All through life she enjoyed performing because she loved the music, and because she loved the music then the record deals came. Even before her first album came out at the young age of 17 she said that she knew this was something that she has wanted to do for awhile.
Other than her pure love of the music Avril Lavigne had several other sources for inspiration for her music. When asked in an interview if she kept a journal to get inspiration for her songs she answered with a resounding “no.” She said that she will actually write songs on the spot, she will sit down with her guitar if there is a situation that she feels strongly about, or a guy that she’s been thinking about or if she is pissed off at a guy, it will come out in song form.
When Avril Lavinge was asked about people that inspired and influenced her music style she said that she really created her style on her own and that she didn’t really listen to other people’s music until after gradeschool. She says that she got a lot of her inspiration and experience from singing in the church choir. If that think that is a strange inspiration for her music keep in mind that she also liked to listen to faith hill and the Dixie chicks. Now though, she has begun supporting her own genre by listening to more punk and rock. Listening to music and picking up her dads guitar and putting her lines to music as she slowly taught herself to play the guitar was how her music came to where it is today, that was the birth of Avril Lavigne Lyrics.

So what happens when you cross a young Canadian 17 year old with a t-shirt, dickies and a guitar? The answer to that question is pure magic! In the few years since a young Avril Lavigne released the album “Let Go” it has become quite apparent that she is not the one hit wonder than many people might have thought. With the release of her first sing “Complicated” at such a young age and during the MTV Total Request Live “Bubble” Avril found herself getting stereotyped and categorized into a group with the likes of Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlson. With the later release of “Sk8er Boi” Avril was able to separate herself from the pack of TRL’s other female artist and found herself being compared to more established female artist and fellow Canadian Alanis Morissette.

As some people reviewed her albums they even said that they preferred her music and abilities over that of Alanis. Nobody knows if it was the way that this talented singer/songwriter and guitar player poured her heart and soul into the album “Let Go” or if it was the fact that it was full of the type of teen angst that everyone can relate to but either way nobody could question the fact that Avril had gone from a no name to a household name in a very short amount of time.

When questioned about the success of her album “Let Go” Avril said that a lot of hard work by many, many people helped this record come about. Throughout the duration of a year she worked with several different songwriters and producers and wrote tons of songs. During that time she was able to do a lot of finding herself musically, and trying as hard as possible to find people that she could connect with while finding just the right sound that she wanted to go with. She said that despite the struggle in the beginning she was really, really pleased with how the record turned out in the end, judging by the millions of copies of her album “Let Go” that have sold worldwide since its release in June of 2002 she is obviously not the only one who was pleased with the end result of all her hard work.

The release of Let Go was so successful in fact that she took the world by storm with her world tour titled “Try to shut me up” which was a huge success. For those of you who may have missed her amazing world tour I would definitely recommend taking a look at her My World DVD which was released in the fall of 2003 which features live versions of Avril Lavignes hits including Complicated, Sk8er Boi as well as cover tunes like Green Day’s Basket Case.

She has definitely come a long way since her days of singing about not fitting in, her crushes and her heart being broken and there seems to be no end in site.