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.
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