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For the album, see The Best Damn Thing.
"The Best Damn Thing"
Song

"The Best Damn Thing" is the 4th single by Canadian singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne off her third album, The Best Damn Thing. It has been confirmed by "insidesonybmg.de" that it would be released on June 13 in Germany[1], but the official release date for the rest of the world still remains unknown. It has been released to Australian radio during the year of 2008, and has been added to radio countdown The Hot Hits.

Track listing

The Best Damn Thing/Basic[2]
  1. The Best Damn Thing 3:09
  2. Sk8er Boi (MSN Control Room)


The Best Damn Thing/Premium[3]
  1. The Best Damn Thing 3:09
  2. Girlfriend (MSN Control Room) 4:06
  3. Innocence (MSN Control Room) 3:51
  4. Hot (MSN Control Room) 3:49
  5. Losing Grip (MSN Control Room) 4:10

Music video

File:TBDTvideo.jpg
Lavigne performing in a room with her band in the music video.

On a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Avril Lavigne revealed that the concept for the music video would be "Like a film of comedy, it has some funny scenes and a cute story about me wanting my 'Prince Charming'".

The video was directed by Wayne Isham and was filmed on February 28, 2008. The official video premiered on TRL Italy on April 4, 2008.

The video shows Lavigne as a cheerleader with back up dancers, in a light blue dress wearing a short pink wig, and in a black and pink room performing with her band. She played the drums towards the end of the video while wearing a T-shirt which displayed her clothing line logo "Abbey Dawn". Along with her brother Matthew, her former band members Evan Taubenfeld and Devin Bronson also made an appearance in the video. The Video is now also released on Sony BMG's myplay/musicbox wich contains all videos released by BMG artists[4], but you can find a better quality at Australian Sony BMG Musicbox[5]. The video also premiered on Imeem on April 9, 2008, in which Lavigne herself introduced the video[6] and on Yahoo! Music/ Video[7].

Chart performance

So far in Canada, 2 stations have added the track and it is in the Top 90 in airplay. Though it had no physical release to date, it charted at number 7 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart and at number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100 Chart, though it has since descended on the chart considerably. The music video also peaked at 5 on the Australian iTunes Chart.

Charts

Chart (2007 & 2008) Peak
position
Argentinian Singles Chart[8] 39
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[9] 91
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[10] 7
Canadian Hot 100 [11] 76
Chilean Singles Chart[12] 69
Poland Singles Chart [13] 53
Singapore Chart Attack 15
Philippines Hot 100[14] 87
Lithuanian Airplay Chart[15] 52

References

  1. ^ The Best Damn Thing/Basic Single - Amazon Germany
  2. ^ The Best Damn Thing/Basic Single - Amazon Germany
  3. ^ The Best Damn Thing/Premium Single - Amazon Germany
  4. ^ Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing (Official video at MyPlay)
  5. ^ Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing (Sony BMG Australia Musicbox)
  6. ^ Avril lavigne's profile on Imeem
  7. ^ Avril Lavigne - TBDT on Y! Video (Network: Music)
  8. ^ Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Top 40 Argentina
  9. ^ Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Billboard Pop 100
  10. ^ Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Billboard Bubbling Under
  11. ^ "The Best Damn Thing" Canadian Hot 100
  12. ^ Chilean Singles Chart
  13. ^ "The Best Damn Thing" Poland National Top 50 - Bubbling Under
  14. ^ "The Best Damn Thing" Philippines Hot 100
  15. ^ "The Best Damn Thing" Lithuanian Charts Company
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