The newly compiled collection spotlights 20 essential hits
Ahead of her upcoming headline tour, Avril Lavigne announces her first-ever Greatest Hits album set for a June 21st release via Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment. The project will be available on 12-inch vinyl, CD, and digital formats. The album will be available in 12-inch black vinyl and a Target-exclusive 12-inch vinyl neon green pressing. The album packaging includes new photos and a personal note to fans from the punk rocker.
An essential compilation from all phases of Avril’s pioneering career as one of the 21st century’s breakout pop icons, Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits features 20 career-spanning fan-favorites from her record-smashing catalog including the RIAA three-time platinum-certified “Complicated” and two-time platinum-certified “Sk8er Boi” from her chart-topping 2002 debut album Let Go through her seventh studio album Love Sux with songs such as “Bite Me,” “Bois Lie” featuring Machine Gun Kelly and “I’m A Mess” with Yungblud.
Avril Lavigne will bring her Greatest Hits on the road for a series of unforgettable concerts in 2024. The Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits Tour kicks off on Wednesday, May 22nd in Vancouver, British Columbia at Rogers Arena, with stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Toronto, Charlotte, Nashville, Chicago, and more before wrapping up on Wednesday, September 18th in Calgary. All Time Low and Simple Plan will join 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.
Lavigne will make her debut performance at the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards on May 16th with New Male Artist of the Year nominee Nate Smith. The ACM Awards will be free to stream live on Prime Video at 8 pm EDT.
Four of Avril’s studio albums – Under My Skin, Best Damn Thing, Goodbye Lullaby, and Avril Lavigne – will be released for the first time in 12-inch vinyl editions expanded to include bonus recordings formerly available as digital-only tracks. Amazon will offer an exclusive metallic silver pressing of Under My Skin, an exclusive 2 LP surge green pressing of Goodbye Lullaby with nine bonus tracks and an exclusive opaque baby blue pressing of Avril Lavigne with three bonus tracks. Lavigne’s D2C store will offer their exclusives including a 2 LP 12-inch neon pink vinyl pressing of The Best Damn Thing with five bonus tracks.
Released in January 2023 in expanded digital and 2 LP 12-inch vinyl formats as Let Go (20th Anniversary Edition), Avril’s 2002 studio debut is being re-struck in a new 12-inch vinyl pressing for the Avril Lavigne catalog reissue celebration. Amazon will offer an exclusive 2 LP 12-inch translucent red vinyl pressing of Let Go (20th Anniversary Edition)
1. Sk8er Boi
2. Girlfriend
3. What the Hell
4. Complicated
5. Don’t Tell Me
6. I’m A Mess with Yungblud
7. He Wasn’t
8. Losing Grip
9. My Happy Ending
10. Bite Me
11. Nobody’s Home
12. I’m With You
13. When You’re Gone
14. Bois Lie featuring Machine Gun Kelly
15. Smile
16. Love It When You Hate Me featuring Blackbear
17. Rock n Roll
18. Here’s To Never Growing Up
19. Keep Holding On
20. Head Above Water
