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The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto is a live music DVD from Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was shot at the sold-out Air Canada Centre concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 7, 2008[1] during the Best Damn Tour. It was released on September 9, 2008 in North America and on September 5, 2008 in Europe. In the USA there were clean and explicit versions of the DVD.

The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
Video by
Avril Lavigne
ReleasedSeptember 5, 2008
RecordedApril 7, 2008
VenueAir Canada Centre
(Toronto, Canada)
Genre
  • Pop punk
  • alternative rock
Length1:14:00
LabelRCA
DirectorWayne Isham
ProducerDana Marshall
Avril Lavigne video chronology
Bonez Tour 2005: Live at Budokan
(2005)		 The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
(2008)

Background


Main article: The Best Damn World Tour

The Best Damn World Tour was the third concert tour by Avril Lavigne. It supported her third studio album The Best Damn Thing, and visited North America, Europe, and Asia. It was also her first concert in three years, following the Bonez Tour in 2005. The tour was announced on November 6, 2007 at the West Hollywood nightclub Whisky a Go Go. Lavigne intended for the tour to be "showy," commenting that the "theme is like a party!" The tour included backup dancers, outfit changes, and a moving stage, with Lavigne hiring three choreographers—Lindsey Blaufarb, Craig Hollaman and Jamie King—in order to achieve her intended theme and vision. The tour garnered mixed reviews from contemporary critics.

After the tour was over, industry reports presented that it earned US$12.3 million ($15.48 million in 2021 dollars)[2] in total, from 110 shows and eventually played in front of nearly 170,000 people throughout North America, Europe, and Asia averaging at $861,599 ($1.09 million in 2021 dollars)[2] per show. Despite the cancellation of the tour's final North American dates, The Best Damn Tour became Lavigne's highest-grossing concert tour.


Synopsis


The concert starts off with an anonymous source spraying "Avril" on the screen in black graffiti, and then is colored in with bright pink. When its fully colored, pink lights shine, stars flash on the screen and her back up dancers run on with pink flags displaying the logo of her third album. A short instrumental of "Girlfriend" plays, as the flags are waved across the stage. Lavigne comes up on an elevator to perform "Girlfriend". Lavigne briefly talks to the audience and introduces the next track "I Can Do Better". Throughout the concert, Lavigne plays acoustic and electric guitar, drums and piano. A selection of tracks include "Sk8er Boi", "My Happy Ending", "When You're Gone" and the remix of "Girlfriend" featuring Lil' Mama.


Track listing


Taken from the back casing of The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto US DVD release.[3]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Girlfriend"
1:29
2."I Can Do Better"
  • Lavigne
  • Gottwald
3:56
3."Complicated"
4:31
4."My Happy Ending"
4:20
5."I'm with You"
  • Lavigne
  • Christy
  • Spock
  • Edwards
5:20
6."I Always Get What I Want"
  • Lavigne
  • Clif Magness
4:02
7."Best Damn Dance Break" 3:35
8."When You're Gone"
  • Lavigne
  • Walker
1:26
9."Innocence"
3:53
10."Don't Tell Me"
  • Lavigne
  • Taubenfeld
2:29
11."Hot"
  • Lavigne
  • Taubenfeld
2:08
12."Losing Grip"
  • Lavigne
  • Magness
3:20
13."Bad Reputation" (Video Montage)
2:14
14."Everything Back but You"
  • Lavigne
  • Walker
2:44
15."Runaway" (Avril on Drums)
4:03
16."Hey Mickey" (Avril on Drums)
  • Mike Chapman
  • Nicky Chinn
3:03
17."The Best Damn Thing"
  • Lavigne
  • Walker
5:02
18."I Don't Have to Try"
  • Lavigne
  • Gottwald
3:19
19."He Wasn't"
5:39
20."Girlfriend (Remix)" (Encore)
2:16
21."Sk8er Boi" (Encore)
  • Lavigne
  • Christy
  • Spock
  • Edwards
5:39
Total length:74:00

Notes


Personnel


Credits adapted from The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto DVD liner notes.[3]


Charts


Chart (2008) Peak
position
ARIA Top 50 Music DVD Chart[4] 32
Austria Music DVD Top 10[5] 5
Belgium DVD Chart (Flanders)[6] 5
Belgium DVD Chart (Wallonia)[7] 3
Czech Republic Music DVD Chart[8] 3
Dutch Music DVD Chart[9] 9
Estonia DVD Chart[10] 9
Italy FIMI DVD Chart[11] 3
Japan DVD Chart 1
Mexico DVD Chart 1
Spain PROMUSICAE DVD Chart[12] 11
Swedish Music DVD Chart[13] 7
UK DVD Chart 4
US Billboard Top Music Videos[14] 7

Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[15] Gold 5,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


Release history


Region Date Label
Germany,[16] Brazil[17] September 5, 2008 Sony BMG
US, Canada September 9, 2008 Sony BMG
Japan[18] September 10, 2008 BMG Japan
UK,[19] Russia[20] September 15, 2008 Sony BMG
Italy[21] September 19, 2008 Sony BMG
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia September 25, 2008 Sony BMG

References


  1. "The Best Damn Tour DVD Info". letsmusic.org. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  2. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  3. Avril Lavigne (2008). The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto (DVD, VHS). Toronto, Canada: RCA Records. 88697-33105-9.
  4. ARIA Australian Top 40 Music DVDs Archived 2011-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Austria Music DVD Top 10 19.09.2008". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
  6. ULTRATOP 10 MUSIC DVD (Flanders)
  7. ULTRATOP 10 MUSIC DVD (Wallonia)
  8. Czech Republic Music DVD Chart
  9. Dutch Music DVD Chart 13.09.2008
  10. Estonia DVD Chart[permanent dead link]
  11. FIMI DVD Chart Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Spanish DVD Chart
  13. Swedish Music DVD Chart 19 september 2008/
  14. US Billboard Top Music Video
  15. "Canadian video certifications – Avril Lavigne – Best Damn Tour (Live in Toronto)". Music Canada.
  16. "Avril Lavigne:The Best Damn Tour (Live in Toronto)" (in German). amazon.de. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  17. "Brazilian release" (in Portuguese). Saraiva.com.br. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  18. "Avril Lavigne: DVD "The Best Damn Thing Tour - Live in Toronto"". cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
  19. "Columbia Records UK". columbia.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  20. "Sony BMG Russia" (in Russian). sonybmg.ru. Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  21. "Avril Lavigne: DVD "The Best Damn Thing Tour - Live in Toronto" nei negozi!" (in Italian). teamworld.it. Archived from the original on 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2008-12-13.

На других языках

- [en] The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto

[es] The Best Damn Tour - Live in Toronto

The Best Damn Tour es un DVD en vivo de la gira de Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Tour, grabado en Toronto, Canadá, el 7 de abril de 2008. Fue publicado el 9 de septiembre de 2008 en América del Norte. En los EE. UU. se lanzaron tanto una versión explícita como una editada para que no contuviera lenguaje inadecuado, tal y como informó la web "amazon.com".

[ru] The Best Damn Tour – Live in Toronto

The Best Damn Tour — Live in Toronto — концерт канадской певицы Аврил Лавин в Торонто 7 апреля 2008 года в рамках тура The Best Damn Tour, записанный на DVD[1], издан в 2008 году.


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