Achievements
- Lavigne is one of the biggest selling musician worldwide this decade (2002–2010) with global album sales of over 35 million as of 2010.
- Avril Lavigne has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards only in two years with her debut album, Let Go.
- Lavigne is ranked as the eleven best-selling female recording artist of the decade in the United States with 11 million sold albums certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
- Lavigne holds the Guinness World Record title for the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the UK and second artist in US history to have three No. 1 singles from a debut album on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40.
- Her debut album, Let Go, is one of the few albums that got diamond certification in Canada.
- The songs "Complicated" and "Girlfriend" were ranked as one of the Billboard Hot 100 singles of the decade.
- Her single "Girlfriend" was the best selling song of 2007 worldwide with over 7 million copies.
- In 2008 the music video for "Girlfriend" became the most watched video of all time and first video ever to reach 100,000,000 views in YouTube.
- Lavigne won the most MTV Latin Music Awards ever (Los Premios MTV) as international act with 5, she is one of the biggest Canadians at the Juno Awards with 22 nominations winning 7 and the sixth female artist with the most MTV awards worldwide with 16 wins as of 2011.
- Lavigne is the biggest western artist in Asia specially Japan in which her first three albums went to sold over 1 million copies and in 2008 with The Best Damn Tour she was the first western artist to do a full tour in China.
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