Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)

Let Go
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 4, 2002 (2002-06-04)
RecordedMay 2001 – March 2002
Studio
  • Big Baby Recording (New York, NY)
  • Blue Iron Gate Studio (Santa Monica, CA)
  • Boulevard Recording Studios (New Milford, NJ)
  • Decoy Studios (Valley Village, CA)
  • Jsm Studios (New York, NY)
  • Real Music Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Signet Sound Delux Studios (Hollywood, CA)
  • Top Floor Studios (New York, NY)
Genre
Length48:37
LabelArista
Producer
Avril Lavigne chronology
B-Sides
(2001)
Let Go
(2002)
Avril Lavigne: My World
(2003)
Alternative cover
20th anniversary edition cover
Singles from Let Go
  1. "Complicated"
    Released: 11 March 2002
  2. "Sk8er Boi"
    Released: 9 September 2002
  3. "I'm with You"
    Released: 18 November 2002
  4. "Losing Grip"
    Released: 24 March 2003
  5. "Mobile"
    Released: 8 May 2003
  6. "Nobody's Fool"
    Released: 18 January 2005[1]

Let Go is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released on 4 June 2002, by Arista Records. Critics have described Let Go as an alternative rock[2] album with a pop-punk and post-grunge-oriented sound.[3] The album is considered to have transformed the pop-punk music scene, integrating the genre to the mainstream and contributing to the rise of female-fronted pop-punk music acts.[4] The album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, making it Lavigne's highest-selling album to date and the best selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist.[5][6] A Rolling Stone readers' poll named Let Go the fourth best album of the 2000s.[7]

The album was credited as the biggest pop debut of 2002. According to Billboard, the album was the 21st-best-selling album of the decade. It was certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States, and it received a diamond certification from Music Canada. The album reached multi-platinum in many countries around the world, including the UK, in which she became the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the region.

On 18 March 2013, Let Go was re-released as a double disc-set paired with her second studio album, Under My Skin, which is released under RCA Records.[8] The album was further promoted by the Try to Shut Me Up Tour between December 2002 and June 2003.

  1. ^ "RR-2005-01-14.pdf" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1589. 14 January 2005. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Lavigne, Avril - Let Go". Kilroy Records. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  3. ^ *"Backstreet Boys & Avril Lavigne". Boston Theater. Let Go was the alt. rock, grungy soundtrack...
  4. ^ "6 Canadian albums that changed pop punk forever". 5 December 2016. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
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  8. ^ "Let Go/Under My Skin". AllMusic.

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