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AVRIL LAVIGNE WRAPS SOLD OUT GREATEST HITS TOUR

September 20, 2024
Avril Lavigne @ Darien Lake PAC, Corfu, NY 8-20-24

(September 20, 2024) – Eight-time GRAMMY®-nominated diamond-certified superstar Avril Lavigne played the final show of her legendary, sold-out North American Greatest Hits Tour to an electric crowd in Calgary, CA on Wednesday night. Presented by Live Nation, the tour saw nearly half a million fans in attendance over the course of 29 sold-out shows highlighting Avril’s undeniable legacy as a pop icon with her innate musical star power on full display for audiences across the United States and Canada.

Of the tour, Avril shared: “My Greatest Hits tour has been an absolute dream come true and every night was magical. I’m forever grateful for each and every person who rocked out with us this summer and can’t wait to share what’s next.”

Celebrating her record smashing catalog and first ever Greatest Hits album (Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits, Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment), Avril unveiled a vibrant, high energy, four-part production on the headline tour. Accompanied by pyrotechnics, costume changes, and archival footage from every stage of her career, Avril took the audience on a journey through time while performing career-spanning fan favorites such as “Complicated,” “Girlfriend,” “Sk8er Boi,” and more.

All Time Low and Simple Plan joined Avril on select dates throughout the tour as special guests and direct support, with Royal & the Serpent and Girlfriends joining select dates as opening acts.

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About Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne has made history, smashed records, and consistently blazed a trail of her own as an uncompromising force in music and culture. Beyond selling 50 million albums worldwide with 12.5 million units sold in the U.S. alone, she has notched eight GRAMMY® Award nominations, has won 10 JUNO Awards, was appointed to the Order of Canada (2024), and is a Canada Walk of Fame (2023) and Hollywood Walk of Fame (2022) recipient. In June, Avril released her first-ever Greatest Hits album featuring 20 career-spanning fan-favorites from her record-smashing catalog. In support, Avril kicked off her North American headline Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits tour in May and has been performing her biggest songs to-date such as “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi,” “Girlfriend,” and “Here’s To Never Growing Up,” as well as performing show-stopping sets oversees including her critically acclaimed Glastonbury debut. Avril’s impressive catalog includes the diamond-certified (Canada) and septuple platinum (U.S.) album Let Go [2002], quintuple-platinum (Canada) and triple-platinum (U.S.) Under My Skin [2004], double-platinum The Best Damn Thing  [2007], gold-selling Goodbye Lullaby [2011], gold-selling Avril Lavigne [2013], and Head Above Water [2019], and Love Sux [2022] that debuted in the top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart and amassed over 12 million streams in its first week alone. As such, she remains of “one of the Soundscan-era’s top-selling artists releasing albums in the U.S.” and “the third best-selling Canadian female artist of all-time.”  She earned a spot in the Top 10 of Billboard’s “Best of the 2000s” chart and holds a Guinness World Record as “the youngest female solo artist to top the UK chart,” while “Girlfriend” emerged as “first music video to reach 100 million views on YouTube.” For tour dates and all other information, please visit www.avrillavigne.com.

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