When You're Gone (Avril Lavigne Song)
| When you're gone | |
|---|---|
| Avril Lavigne | |
| publication | June 19, 2007 |
| length | 4:00 |
| Genre (s) | Soft rock , pop rock |
| Author (s) | Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker , Jesse Welch |
| Producer (s) | Butch Walker |
| Label | RCA |
| album | The Best Damn Thing |
When You're Gone is a song by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne , which was released in June 2007 as the second single from her third album The Best Damn Thing , which was released in April .
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At the time, Avril Lavigne was married to Sum-41 singer Deryck Whibley . In this song she expresses how she feels when she is apart from him. (This was often the case when both touring separately.)
Lavigne wrote brief comments for AOL Music on her new songs Girlfriend , I Can Do Better , Everything Back but You and When You're Gone . Her comment on this song is as follows:
"The song is a ballad about leaving someone you love behind and about the little things that you miss about them."
reception
The song reached number 24 on the American Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 in the UK.
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
 Australia (ARIA)
|
 platinum
|
70,000 |
 Brazil (PMB)
|
platinum
|
100,000 |
 Japan (RIAJ)
|
 gold
|
100,000 |
 Canada (MC)
|
gold
|
40,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
|
platinum
|
1,290,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
|
 silver
|
247,000 |
| All in all |
1 × silver 2 × gold 3 × platinum |
1,847,000 |
Main article: Avril Lavigne / Music Sales Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b When You're Gone by Avril Lavigne . Song facts. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gary Trust: Ask Billboard: Avril Lavigne's Best-Selling Songs & Albums. billboard.com, accessed July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Justin Myers: Avril Lavigne's Official Top 10 biggest songs of all time. officialcharts.com, February 13, 2019, accessed on February 17, 2019 .
