The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto

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The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
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ReleasedSeptember 5, 2008
RecordedApril 7, 2008
Venue Air Canada Centre
(Toronto, Canada)
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Length1:14:00
Label RCA
Director Wayne Isham
Producer Dana Marshall
Avril Lavigne video chronology
Bonez Tour 2005: Live at Budokan
(2005)
The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
(2008)

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.

Contents

Background

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 ($17.41 million in 2023 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 ($1.23 million in 2023 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."Intro"1:29
2."Girlfriend"
  • Lavigne
  • Gottwald
3:56
3."I Can Do Better"
4:31
4."Complicated"
4:20
5."My Happy Ending"
  • Lavigne
  • Christy
  • Spock
  • Edwards
5:20
6."I'm with You"
4:02
7."I Always Get What I Want" 3:35
8."Best Damn Dance Break"
  • Lavigne
  • Walker
1:26
9."When You're Gone"3:53
10."Innocence"
  • Lavigne
  • Taubenfeld
2:29
11."Don't Tell Me"
  • Lavigne
  • Taubenfeld
2:08
12."Hot"
  • Lavigne
  • Magness
3:20
13."Losing Grip"
  • Lavigne
  • Walker
2:14
14."Bad Reputation" (Video Montage)2:44
15."Everything Back but You"
4:03
16."Avril on Drums" (Runaway/Hey Mickey)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 Chart1
Mexico DVD Chart1
Spain PROMUSICAE DVD Chart [12] 11
Swedish Music DVD Chart [13] 7
UK DVD Chart4
US Billboard Top Music Videos [14] 7

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [15] Gold5,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history for The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto
RegionDateLabelRef.
BrazilSeptember 5, 2008 Sony BMG [16]
Germany [17]
CanadaSeptember 9, 2008 [18]
United States [19]
JapanSeptember 10, 2008 BMG Japan [20]
RussiaSeptember 15, 2008Sony BMG [21]
United Kingdom [22]
ItalySeptember 19, 2008 [23]

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