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Under My Skin is the second studio album by Canadian rocker singer Avril Lavigne, released on May 25, 2004 in the North America by Arista Records. In its first week of release, it reached number one on the Billboard 200, Australian ARIA Albums Chart and UK Albums Chart. According to Metacritic.com, Under My Skin received an average rating of sixty-three, reflecting a mixed reception from critics. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in July 2004, double Platinum in November 2004, and triple Platinum in January 2006. Lavigne embarked on the Bonez Tour and released the DVD Live at Budokan: Bonez Tour. The album has sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Under My Skin ranked forty-eighth on Gracenote's Ellite 100 Chart.

Track listing

1. "Take Me Away" (Lavigne, Taubenfeld) 2:57
2. "Together" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:14
3. "Don't Tell Me" (Lavigne, Taubenfeld) 3:21
4. "He Wasn't" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:00
5. "How Does It Feel" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:44
6. "My Happy Ending" (Lavigne, Walker) 4:02
7. "Nobody's Home" (Lavigne, Moody) 3:32
8. "Forgotten" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:17
9. "Who Knows" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:30
10. "Fall to Pieces" (Lavigne, Maida) 3:28
11. "Freak Out" (Lavigne, Taubenfeld, Brann) 3:13
12. "Slipped Away" (Lavigne, Kreviazuk) 3:34

Japan Edition

13. "I Always Get What I Want" (Avril Lavigne, Clif Magness) 2:31
14. "Nobody's Home (live acoustic)

UK Edition

13. "I Always Get What I Want" (Avril Lavigne, Clif Magness) 2:31

Special Edition

13. "Nobody's Home" (live)
14. "Take Me Away" (live)
15. "He Wasn't" (live)
16. "Tomorrow" (live) (Avril Lavigne,Curtis Frasca,Sabelle Breer)

DVD:

1. Under My Skin Diary
2. Bonez Tour Diary
3. "Don't Tell Me" (music video)
4. "My Happy Ending" (music video)
5. "Nobody's Home" (music video)
6. "He Wasn't" (music video)

DualDisc Edition

DVD Side:

1. Entire Album in enhanced stereo
2. Behind the Scenes
3. "Don't Tell Me" (music video)
4. "My Happy Ending" (music video)
5. "Nobody's Home" (music video)

B-Sides and outtakes

Official B-Sides

• "I Always Get What I Want" (Avril Lavigne, Clif Magness) 2:31 (B-side of "Nobody's Home")
• "Take It" (Avril Lavigne, Clif Magness) 2:50 (B-side of "My Happy Ending")

Leftover Tracks

• "Daydream" (Avril Lavigne, Chantal Kreviazuk) 1:23 (Incomplete)
• "Everything Back But You"(Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker)

was written and recorded for Under My Skin but it didn't fit and it was perfect for The Best Damn Thing.

Personnel

• Avril Lavigne - Vocals all tracks. Additional guitar on track 12. Strings production on track 5.
• Clif Magness - producer, electric & acoustic guitars, electronic keyboards, piano and bass guitar on I Always Get What I Want
• Josh Freese - drums on tracks 1,8 and I Always Get What I Want
• Don Gilmore - producer on tracks 1,2 and 8
• Michael Ward - guitars on tracks 1 and 2
• Jon O'Brien - electronic keyboards on tracks 1 and 2
• Static - electronic keyboards on track 2
• Chantal Kreviazuk - piano on tracks 2,8 and 12
• Brooks Wackerman - drums on track 2
• Butch Walker - producer, acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, background vocals, percussion, piano on tracks 3,6 and 11
• Evan Taubenfeld - acoustic & lead guitars, drums and backings vocals on tracks 3 and 11
• Kenny Cresswell - drums on track 3
• Mike Elizondo - bass guitar on track 4
• Raine Maida - producer, guitars and electronic keyboards on tracks 4,5,9,10 and 12
• Phil X - lead & rhythm guitars on tracks 4,5,9 and 10
• Bill Lefler - drums on tracks 4,5,9 and 12
• Brian Garcia - percussion on tracks 4,5,9 and 12
• Jason Lader - bass guitar on tracks 5,9,10 and 12
• Kenny Aronoff - drums and percussion on tracks 6 and 10
• Sam Formicola - violin on track 12
• Mark Robertson - violin on track 12
• Alma Fernandez - viola on track 12
• Victor Lawrence - cello on track 12
• Nick Lashley - guitars on track 12

The making of the album

Lavigne wrote much of the album with Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk. She also co-wrote one track, "Nobody's Home", with Ben Moody, formerly of Evanescence, and the rest with her guitarist Evan Taubenfeld. Lavigne used three producers for Under My Skin: Butch Walker from Marvelous 3, Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, and Don Gilmore, who has produced Good Charlotte and Linkin Park.

Much of the album was recorded in Maida's Malibu studios, as Maida is Kreviazuk's husband, and the rest was recorded nearby. On her website, Lavigne states that she had learned a lot since her first record, Let Go: "I was involved in every aspect of making this record. I'm very hands-on. I knew how I wanted the drums, the guitar tones, and the structures to be. I understand the whole process so much better this time because I've been through it. I'm really picky with my sound."

Track 11, "Freak Out", though not released as a single, was used by BBC Scotland as the theme tune to their sports television programme, Sportscene. It was also used as an image song in the early trailers of Ice Princess.

The track "Slipped Away" is about the death of Lavigne's grandfather. It has been used during the introduction of the 2003 ABC Family film, "Searching for David's Heart".

Singles

• "Don't Tell Me" was the first single released from Under My Skin. It deals with a girl rejecting a boy's attempts to pressure her into sex when she is not ready. The song shot Lavigne back to the charts, reaching the top ten in several countries around the world, and number twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was certified gold in late October 2004.
• "My Happy Ending" was the second single from the album. It was released to radio in June 2004 and to retail stores on August 2, 2004. The song returned Under My Skin to number one again in Canada for several weeks, and to the top five in the U.S., Germany, the UK, Australia, and other European countries. The song peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was certified gold by the RIAA in mid-November 2004 and then platinum in late January 2005.
• "Nobody's Home" was the third single released from the album. It went top 40 in most countries, and received a significant amount of airplay, but failed to reach the top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number forty-one.
• "He Wasn't" was the fourth single from the album. It peaked at number twenty-three in the UK. The single was not promoted in the United States; however, her 2005 tour included images from the music video.
• "Fall to Pieces" was the radio-only fifth single and the fourth single in the United States.
• "Take Me Away" was a radio-only single first in Canada and later in Australia.

Chart performance

Under My Skin was released on May 25, 2004 in the United States and went to number one there and sold over 381,000 copies in its first week. It also made its debut at #1 in Japan, selling 286,894 copies. Under My Skin also went to number one in Canada selling over 63,000 copies, UK, Australia, Spain, Mexico and Taiwan. It also topped the U.S. Billboard Internet Albums. It spent almost 5 months in the New Zealand Album Charts, eventually going Gold, but only peaking at number 7. On April 15, 2007, the album re-entered the UK Albums Chart at #60.

Charts

Certifications

Bonez Tour

The Bonez Tour was a world concert tour by Avril Lavigne to promote her album, Under My Skin. She played the piano in the songs "Slipped Away", "Together", and "Forgotten", and she played the drums in a cover of "Song 2" by Blur. The Live performance at the Budokan Stadion was covered on the DVD Live at Budokan: Bonez Tour, which was only made available in Japan.On September 25 Avril played for the very first time at the Pacaembu Gym in Brazil, where she sold over 42,000 tickets, this becoming her biggest concert in her carrier.

Opening acts

1. Bowling for Soup
2. Simple Plan
3. Butch Walker
4. Nailpin
5. Rooster
6. Gavin DeGraw
7. Tweak
8. The Glitterati

Setlist

1. "He Wasn't"
2. "My Happy Ending"
3. "Take Me Away"
4. "Freak Out"
5. "Unwanted"
6. "Anything But Ordinary"
7. "Who Knows"
8. "I'm With You"
9. "Losing Grip"
10. "Together"
11. "Forgotten"
12. "Tomorrow"
13. "Nobody's Home"
14. "Fall to Pieces"
15. "Don't Tell Me"
16. "Sk8er Boi"
17. "Complicated"
18. "Slipped Away"

Mall Tour

Lavigne went on a "Live and by Surprise" twenty-one-city mall-tour in the U.S. and Canada, starting on March 4, 2004 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to promote Under My Skin. Each performance consisted of a short live acoustic set of songs from the new album. She was accompanied by her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld. The venue in each city was not announced until forty-eight hours before the show. The tour was very popular and was successful in promoting the album. The set at Indianapolis on March 25, 2004 at Glendale mall included "He Wasn't", "My Happy Ending", "Don't Tell Me", "Take Me Away", "Nobody's Home", "Sk8er Boi", and "Complicated". Selections of this tour were released on the Avril Lavigne Live Acoustic EP, which was released in U.S. Target stores.

References

1. N2U Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin [ECD] reviews in Modern Rock - Buzzillions.com
2. melodic.net: Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
3. allmusic ((( Under My Skin > Overview )))
4. melodic.net: Avril Lavigne - Let go
5. www.metacritic.com
6. www.billboard.com triple Platinum
7. August 2004 - Platinum Europe Awards
8. Bandaids' Interview with Avril Lavigne
9. www.billboard.com Don't Tell Me goes gold
10. www.billboard.com My Happy Ending goes gold
11. www.billboard.com My Happy Ending goes platinum
12. Oricon Charts (107)
13. Australia Albums Top 50
14. Austria Albums Top 75
15. Germany Albums Top 50
16. Ireland Albums Top 75
17. UK Albums Top 75
18. U.S. Billboard Albums Top 100
19. World Albums Top 40
20. Italy Albums Top 50
21. Swiss Albums Top 100
22. Portugal Albums Top 30
23. France Albums Top 150
24. Belgium Albums Top 50
25. NZ Albums Top 40
26. Norway Albums Top 40
27. Dutch Albums Top 100
28. Finland Albums Top 40
29. Sweden Albums Top 60
30. Denmark Albums Top 40
31. アンダー・マイ・スキン アヴリル・ラヴィーン - final chart appearance on 13/11/2007
32. CRIA Platinum and Gold Certifications - May 2006
33. Avril in Brazil
34. http://www.alavigne.com.br/WWW/hotsites/05BONEZTOUR_BRASIL/noticias.htm

Worldwide Sales: http://img4.shareavenue.com/image.php?file=8f5d82badedff7097f844b745c83596f56cfc48c

External links

• Avril Lavigne's official website
• Metacritic's Avril Lavigne Home page
• Avril's second studio album re-enters the UK Albums Chart

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• Avril Lavigne albums
• Post-grunge albums