Avril Lavigne to bring 'The Greatest Hits' Tour to Darien Lake

Simple Plan to support

Eight-time Grammy-nominated Diamond-certified icon Avril Lavigne will bring her 2024 headline tour, “Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits” to the Darien Lake Amphitheater on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will see Avril perform her biggest songs to-date, including the RIAA three-times-Platinum-certified “Complicated,” the two-times-Platinum-certified “Sk8er Boi,” the two-times-Platinum-certified “Girlfriend,” the Platinum-certified “Here’s To Never Growing Up,” and many more from her record-smashing catalog.

Special guest Simple Plan will join Avril as direct support, with Girlfriends joining as the opening act.

Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com. The tour also is offering a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but may include premium tickets, invitation to the SK8ER BOI Hospitality Lounge, specially designed merch bundle, and more. For more information, visit vipnation.com.

Beyond selling 50 million albums worldwide with 12.5 million units sold in the U.S alone, Avril’s live performance prowess has been widely praised throughout her storied, two-decade career

Ahead of her headline tour, Avril Lavigne announced her first-ever “Greatest Hits” album, which released June 21 via Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment. “Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits” is available on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digital formats. The album also is available in 12-inch black vinyl and a Target-exclusive 12-inch vinyl neon green pressing. The album packaging includes new photos and a personal note to fans from Avril.

An essential compilation from all phases of Avril's pioneering career as one of the 21st century's breakout pop icons, “Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits” features 20 career-spanning fan-favorites from her record-smashing catalog, from her chart-topping 2002 debut album, “Let Go” (Arista) through her seventh studio album, “Love Sux (Elektra/DTA).”

Four of Avril's studio albums – “Under My Skin” (Arista/RCA – 2004), “Best Damn Thing” (RCA – 2007), “Goodbye Lullaby” (RCA – 2011) and “Avril Lavigne” (Epic – 2013) – are releasing for the first time in 12-inch vinyl editions expanded to include bonus recordings formerly available as digital-only tracks. Amazon is offering an exclusive metallic silver pressing of “Under My Skin,” an exclusive 2-LP surge green pressing of “Goodbye Lullaby” (with nine bonus tracks) and an exclusive opaque baby blue pressing of “Avril Lavigne” (with three bonus tracks). Avril's D2C store is offering its own exclusives, including a 2-LP 12-inch neon pink vinyl pressing of “The Best Damn Thing” (with five bonus tracks).

Released in January 2023 in expanded digital and 2-LP 12-inch vinyl formats as “Let Go (20th Anniversary Edition),” Avril's 2002 studio debut is being restruck in a new, 12-inch vinyl pressing for the Avril Lavigne catalog reissue celebration. Amazon will offer an exclusive 2-LP 12-inch translucent red vinyl pressing of “Let Go (20th Anniversary Edition).”

“Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits” image courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment

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More about Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne has made history, smashed records, and consistently blazed a trail of her own as an uncompromising force in music and culture. Beyond selling 50 million albums worldwide with 12.5 million units sold in the U.S. alone, she has notched eight Grammy Award nominations in categories such as Best New Artist and Song of the Year twice for “Complicated” and “I’m with You.” In addition, the 2023 Canada’s Walk of Fame and 2022 Hollywood Walk of Fame recipient has won 10 JUNO Awards, including Artist of the Year and multiple JUNO Fans’ Choice awards. Her catalog comprises the Diamond-certified (Canada) and septuple-Platinum (U.S.) “Let Go” (2002), quintuple-Platinum (Canada) and triple-Platinum (U.S.) “Under My Skin” (2004), double-Platinum “The Best Damn Thing” (2007), Gold-selling “Goodbye Lullaby” (2011), “Avril Lavigne” (2013), and “Head Above Water” (2019), highlighted by definitive smashes such as “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi,” “Girlfriend,” “Here’s To Never Growing Up” and “Head Above Water.” As such, she remains of one of the Soundscan-era’s top selling artists releasing albums in the U.S.,' and the third-best-selling Canadian female artist of all-time.

She earned a spot in the Top 10 of Billboard’s “Best of the 2000s'' chart and holds a Guinness World Record as the youngest female solo artist to top the U.K. chart, while “Girlfriend” emerged as first music video to reach 100 million views on YouTube. She has also earned multiple No. 1s around the globe, and her social media following notably exceeds 93.6 million fans worldwide.

In February 2022, Avril made her debut for DTA Records with the release of her seventh studio album, “Love Sux,” which debuted in the top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart, amassed over 12 million streams in its first week, and included hits “Bite Me,” “Love It When You Hate Me” feat. blackbear” and “I’m A Mess” (with YUNGBLUD).

For tour dates and all other information, visit www.avrillavigne.com.