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Avril Lavigne
Solo artist Belleville Canada
Avril Lavigne is an artist from Belleville. Avril Lavigne has 13 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Complicated”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #25. The station that charted Avril Lavigne most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Avril Lavigne, born in 1984 and hailing from Belleville, Canada, was just 16 when she signed a two-album deal with Arista, and her debut, Let Go, arrived in 2002 like a skateboard through a shop window. "Complicated" was the eye-rolling, hooky breakthrough, "Sk8er Boi" played up the skate-punk kid-next-door persona for all it was worth, and "Losing Grip" showed she could snarl over loud guitars too. The press crowned her pop-punk royalty, and no Canadian act has sold more copies of a single album this century than Let Go. It also earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.
She plays guitar, piano and drums, and she brought the same no-nonsense attitude to Under My Skin in 2004, a darker, heavier record where "Don't Tell Me" and "Take Me Away" trade the smirk for something more bruised. It gave her a first number-one album in America and sold 10 million copies worldwide.
The Best Damn Thing in 2007 was a bratty sugar rush, and its single "Girlfriend" gave her a first Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper. Goodbye Lullaby, a self-titled album and Head Above Water followed before Love Sux in 2022 brought her straight back to her pop-punk roots. Along the way she's picked up 10 Juno Awards and eight Grammy nominations, and in 2024 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Avril Lavigne on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complicated | 4 | #25 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Sk8er Boi | 5 | #6 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Take Me Away | 1 | #32 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | Don't Tell Me | 1 | #51 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | Losing Grip | 1 | #76 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | Bite Me | 1 | #81 | – | 2021 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 684 | Complicated | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2025 | 857 | Sk8er Boi | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2022 | 123 | Complicated | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2022 | 628 | Sk8er Boi | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2021 | 81 | Bite Me | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2021 |
| 2004 | 51 | Don't Tell Me | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 32 | Take Me Away | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004 |
| 2003 | 50 | Sk8er Boi | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) |
| 2002 | 25 | Complicated | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 76 | Losing Grip | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 6 | Sk8er Boi | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 24 | Sk8er Boi | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 54 | Complicated | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 |
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