The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto explained

The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
Type:video
Artist:Avril Lavigne
Cover:Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Tour – Live in Toronto DVD cover.png
Released:September 5, 2008
Recorded:April 7, 2008
Venue:Air Canada Centre
Length:1:14:00
Label:RCA
Director:Wayne Isham
Producer:Dana Marshall
Chronology:Avril Lavigne video
Prev Year:2005

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.

Background

See 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$12.3 million ($ million in dollars) in total, from 110 shows and eventually played in front of nearly 170,000 people throughout North America, Europe, and Asia averaging at $861,599 ($ million in dollars) 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.[2]

Notes

Personnel

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

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
ARIA Top 50 Music DVD Chart[3] 32
Austria Music DVD Top 10[4] 5
Belgium DVD Chart (Flanders)[5] 5
Belgium DVD Chart (Wallonia)[6] 3
Czech Republic Music DVD Chart[7] 3
Dutch Music DVD Chart[8] 9
Estonia DVD Chart[9] 9
Italy FIMI DVD Chart[10] 3
Japan DVD Chart1
Mexico DVD Chart1
Spain PROMUSICAE DVD Chart[11] 11
Swedish Music DVD Chart[12] 7
UK DVD Chart4
US Billboard Top Music Videos[13] 7

Release history

Region! scope="col"
DateLabel
BrazilSeptember 5, 2008Sony BMG[14]
Germany[15]
CanadaSeptember 9, 2008[16]
United States[17]
JapanSeptember 10, 2008BMG Japan[18]
RussiaSeptember 15, 2008Sony BMG[19]
United Kingdom[20]
ItalySeptember 19, 2008[21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Best Damn Tour DVD Info. letsmusic.org. 2008-06-14. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080617121922/http://www.letsmusic.org/site/2008/05/25/the-best-damn-tour-dvd-info/. 2008-06-17.
  2. Avril Lavigne. 2008 . The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto . DVD, VHS . Toronto, Canada. RCA Records . 88697-33105-9.
  3. http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_music.asp?chart=1V40DVD ARIA Australian Top 40 Music DVDs
  4. Web site: Austria Music DVD Top 10 19.09.2008 . 2009-05-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093820/http://charts.orf.at/oe3/dvd/2008/woche37/main . 2011-07-06 . dead .
  5. http://www.ultratop.be/en/weekchart.asp?cat=d&year=2008&date=20080920&lang=nl ULTRATOP 10 MUSIC DVD (Flanders)
  6. http://www.ultratop.be/en/weekchart.asp?cat=d&year=2008&date=20080920&lang=fr ULTRATOP 10 MUSIC DVD (Wallonia)
  7. http://www.ifpicr.cz/hitparada/index.php?a=tyden&hitparada=13&tyden=1903&sec=22cca007d420d2d861b4d39b2a686380 Czech Republic Music DVD Chart
  8. http://dutchcharts.nl/weekchart.asp?cat=d&year=2008&date=20080913 Dutch Music DVD Chart 13.09.2008
  9. http://www.pedro.ee/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=652&Itemid=18 Estonia DVD Chart
  10. http://www.fimi.it/classifiche_result_dvd.php?anno=2008&mese=09&id=196 FIMI DVD Chart
  11. http://www.promusicae.org Spanish DVD Chart
  12. http://www.sverigetopplistan.se Swedish Music DVD Chart 19 september 2008
  13. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=388&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+Music+Video&ci=3100020&cdi=9944444&cid=09%2F27%2F2008 US Billboard Top Music Video
  14. Web site: Brazilian release. Saraiva.com.br. Portuguese. 2008-12-15. 2012-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120216091828/http://www.livrariasaraiva.com.br/produto/produto.dll/detalhe?pro_id=2597907&ID=C90930D37D8090215150A0621&PAC_ID=23736. dead.
  15. Web site: Avril Lavigne:The Best Damn Tour (Live in Toronto). amazon.de. German. 2008-06-14.
  16. Web site: Best Damn Tour .
  17. Web site: Avril Lavigne: The Best Damn Tour - Live in Toronto . Amazon . 9 September 2008 .
  18. Web site: Avril Lavigne: DVD "The Best Damn Thing Tour - Live in Toronto". cdjapan.co.jp. 2008-09-10.
  19. Web site: Sony BMG Russia. sonybmg.ru. Russian. 2008-09-15. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090919044335/http://www.sonybmg.ru/releases/47/. 2009-09-19.
  20. Web site: Columbia Records UK. columbia.co.uk. 2008-12-13. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120214232431/http://www.columbia.co.uk/releases/795/. 2012-02-14.
  21. Web site: Avril Lavigne: DVD "The Best Damn Thing Tour - Live in Toronto" nei negozi!. teamworld.it. Italian. 2008-12-13. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080921102740/http://www.teamworld.it/news/770/avril-lavigne-dvd-the-best-damn-thing-tour---live-in-toronto-nei-negozi.aspx. 2008-09-21.

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