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| Released | June 4, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | May 2001 – March 2002 | |||
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| Length | 48:37 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
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Let Go is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released on 4 June 2002, by Arista Records. Critics have described Let Go as an alternative rock[2] album with a pop-punk and post-grunge-oriented sound.[3] The album is considered to have transformed the pop-punk music scene, integrating the genre to the mainstream and contributing to the rise of female-fronted pop-punk music acts.[4] The album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, making it Lavigne's highest-selling album to date and the best selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist.[5][6] A Rolling Stone readers' poll named Let Go the fourth best album of the 2000s.[7]
The album was credited as the biggest pop debut of 2002. According to Billboard, the album was the 21st-best-selling album of the decade. It was certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States, and it received a diamond certification from Music Canada. The album reached multi-platinum in many countries around the world, including the UK, in which she became the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the region.
On 18 March 2013, Let Go was re-released as a double disc-set paired with her second studio album, Under My Skin, which is released under RCA Records.[8] The album was further promoted by the Try to Shut Me Up Tour between December 2002 and June 2003.
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Let Go was the alt. rock, grungy soundtrack...
- Werde, Bill (12 June 2002). "Avril Lavigne: Simple Truths of A 'Complicated' Girl". The Washington Post. Modern Rock. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
Some of the songs are hard, with grungy metal undertones
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...a proclivity for punk and big, slightly grungy guitars.
- Considine, J.D. (28 December 2002). "Avril and the selling of punk lite". The Globe and Mail.
Sure, the guitars are loud and a bit grungy
- Alexovich, Ariel (8 September 2009). "The Buddy System". Chicago Tribune.
Lavigne's grungy angst rock
- "Album Review: Avril Lavigne's self-titled album combines old and new". Grand Central Magazine. 18 November 2013.
Her music was grungy and real
- Maitri, Dyota (11 March 2014). "Avril Lavigne Returns to Jakarta for Another Concert". Jakarta Globe. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014.
Her grungy sound...
- Werde, Bill (12 June 2002). "Avril Lavigne: Simple Truths of A 'Complicated' Girl". The Washington Post. Modern Rock. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
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