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Avril Fights Off Joe, Trent, Akon And Some Monkeys To Hold Top ...

 05-02-2007

Despite taking a 58-percent drop in sales during its second week in stores, Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing remains the nation's top-selling LP, scanning more than 121,600 copies to hold onto the peak position on Billboard's albums chart. Sultry R&B crooner Joe debuts at a distant #2, having sold 98,000 copies of his latest outing, Ain't Nothin' Like Me.

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AVRIL LAVIGNE The Best Damn Thing

 05-02-2007

Much maligned pop-punk princess Avril Lavigne has worked through her tomboy image, shed the gothic look and added plenty of feminine pink to her third album, The Best Damn Thing. Since her last album the shy Canadian may have wedded Sum 41 frontman, Deryck Whibley, but with The Best Damn Thing Lavigne has never sounded more like a teenager. The immediate ‘punk’ tunes have taken the mantle and there is little space for the mid-tempo pop tunes and heartfelt ballads that have been the shining moments in her back catalogue. Girlfriend with its handclaps a-plenty, is full of Toni Basil type cheerleader chanting making it the ideal anthem for angst ridden relationship naive youth, but in addition it has ultimate appeal for any demographic, as it is one hell of a fine throwaway pop single. Take the trophy out of the cabinet – we undoubtedly have found single of the year already. There are hummable choruses throughout with I Can Do Better, Runaway and Everything Back But You being some of the stronger tunes. They are also strong indicators that ‘girl power’ is alive and well decades after the Spice Girls’ demise. Keep Holding On and When You’re Gone are - more available

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Chantal Kreviazuk, "Ghost Stories"

 05-01-2007

There is a familial air of maturity that permeates Ghost Stories, with a love song about her hubby ("Mad About You") and oldest son Rowan calling out "mommy" which can be heard at the onset of "Waiting for the Sun". Children are obviously on the mind as even the beginning piano of "Asylum" sounds like a nursery rhyme. It may have been four years since her last studio album, but Chantal has been plenty busy in that time with such diverse activities as marrying Maida and starting a family, co-writing songs for other artists (most significantly six songs with Avril Lavigne for her album Under My Skin) and performing on episodes of Canadian Idol. "All I Can Do" Music Video Windows Media - HIGH Windows Media - LOW Quite frankly, my only aural knowledge of Kreviazuk was a cover of the Randy Newman ballad "Feels Like Home" on the Songs From Dawson's Creek compilation. After that it only seemed like I would notice her distinctive name on other motion picture soundtracks -- her take on John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Armageddon: The Album and a couple of songs ("These Days" and "I Want You To Know") for - more available

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