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Hello and welcome to Music Map, I am Zhong Qiu and standing in for Damin.
This week we've been covering some neo-pop punk bands, and I think we'll carry on doing that.
So, today's featured artist is Avril Lavigne, and what you've just heard was her hit single "Girlfriend".
Avril was born in Belleville, Canada, where she first showed off her talents belting out tunes as part of her local church choir. When she was 14, she won a competition to sing backup on stage for fellow Canadian and country-pop star Shania Twain. She was then spotted by folk singer Steve Medd and asked to sing backup vocals for his studio albums. And thus Avril's profile in the professional music industry began to rise.
2000年的時(shí)候,艾薇兒和一家叫做Arista Records的唱片公司簽了歌手合約,但她在公司接到的已經(jīng)為她寫好的歌曲都難以讓她滿意,于是她執(zhí)意自己創(chuàng)作她第一張專輯里的歌曲.在2002年的時(shí)候她的第一張專輯"LET GO" 發(fā)行了,眾多的以我們現(xiàn)在聽到的"complicated"為首的單曲在專輯上市后便風(fēng)靡了全球的流行音樂市場(chǎng).那張大賣的專輯同時(shí)也讓年僅17歲的艾薇兒成為了歷史上最年輕的達(dá)到英國(guó)流行音樂排行版第一的歌手.
After that, Avril released her second and third albums in 2004 and 2007, receiving positive reviews from mainstream media, but her debut album "let go" is still considered her most legendary work. It had sold over 400 thousand copies within its first week of release in the US and sold nearly 12 million copies world wide. The album made her the youngest but also the best selling female artist in 2002.
