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Released | June 4, 2002 | |||
Recorded | May 2001 – March 2002 | |||
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Length | 48:37 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
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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.
Let Go was the alt. rock, grungy soundtrack...
Some of the songs are hard, with grungy metal undertones
...a proclivity for punk and big, slightly grungy guitars.
Sure, the guitars are loud and a bit grungy
Lavigne's grungy angst rock
Her music was grungy and real
Her grungy sound...
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