Avril won an award for best hair on a musician at the AG Hair Cosmetics’ 8th annual Best Canadian Celebrity Hair Awards.

More than 600 Canadian hairstylists cast votes online for Canadian celebrities that they felt had the best hair styles.

Congratulations to Avril for another great award! It’s always great to see her unique style recognized.

According to Billboard magazine, Avril has sold the 5th most albums (over 30 million) in the world since 2000. Only Eminem, Britney Spears, Madonna, and Norah Jones have outsold her this decade! Congrats to Avril for this honor, and us fans will try to keep her at the top of the charts.

As many of you know, Avril has been battling a case of laryngitis during her tour, and she finally decided today that the remaining 6 dates on her tour will have to be postponed, after canceling her shows in San Diego and Phoenix earlier this week. The following dates have been postponed:

04/30/08 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
05/02/08 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
05/03/08 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
05/04/08 Universal City, CA Gibson Amph. At Univ. CityWalk
05/06/08 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
05/07/08 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose
05/09/08 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena
05/10/08 Everett, WA Comcast Arena / Everett Events Center

Avril had the following to say about the announcement: “My sincerest apologies to all of my fans. My intention was to complete the rest of the tour but tonight at sound check in Anaheim I realized this wasn’t possible. Even though I have been resting my voice for days, when I tried to sing nothing came out.”

Ticket holders can get refunds starting on May 5. There is a chance that the shows will be rescheduled for August.

Avril posted the following update on her condition on her website. Hopefully she will be feeling better soon!

Hey Guys,

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Avril has posted a link to her new video “The Best Damn Thing” here! Take a look and comment on it below.

Avril made the following announcement on her home page today:

“Avril Lavigne and good friends, The Jonas Brothers will be sharing the stage this summer for “The Burning Up Tour” hitting major venues across the US and Canada. As a follow up to “The Best Damn Tour,” Avril will be co-headlining 7 special shows with The Jonas Brothers and play 2 additional dates independently. Additional information or inquire regarding Avril’s touring can be directed to concerthelp@avrillavigne.com.”

We thought you would be interested the the announcement made recently on Avril’s home page:BOP & Tiger Beat are teaming up to give you a chance to win FREE concert tickets and MEET AND GREET PASSES for one of 17 Avril Lavigne U.S. shows on The Best Damn Tour. All you have to do is click here and enter. The contest is open to the follow show dates:

3/29 - HSBC Arena: Buffalo, NY
3/30 - Izod Center: New Jersey

There hasn’t been many Avril updates recently because she is touring, but she had some more tour dates announced for Japan. She will be heading there this fall, as “The Best Damn Tour” continues to roll on.

September 10: Shizuoka, Japan - Hamamarsu Arina

September 11: Niigata, Japan - Toki Messe

September 16: Tokyo, Japan - Tokyo Dome

September 17: Nagoya, Japan - Nippon Gaishi Hall

September 18: Nagoya, Japan - Nippon Gaishi Hall

September 20: Osaka, Japan - Intex Osaka

September 21: Osaka, Japan - Intex Osaka

September 22: Fukuoka Japan - Marine Messe Fukuoka

September 24: Hiroshima, Japan - Hiroshima Sunplaza

Singer Avril Lavigne has launched a scathing attack on the paparazzi for making Britney Spears’ life a misery, branding them “[bleep] stalkers.”

The singer herself has been the victim of the paparazzi’s relentless pursuits, which have resulted in traffic violations and car accidents.

Lavigne feels deep sympathy for Spears, who is plagued by the intrusive photographers on a much bigger and more damaging scale than her.

She tells Maxim magazine, “No one else has it as hard as Britney. I feel bad for her. How does she even think with all those flashbulbs? When I’m being followed, everything’s thrown off. They run red lights. They cause accidents. She can’t even walk to her car. [Bleep] stalkers.”

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Canadian punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne is going the route of fellow singers Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson in launching her own fragrance and line of clothing. In a conference call with news media yesterday, the Napanee-raised singer confirmed rumours that she’s trademarked her name so she can apply it to threads and a perfume.

“The clothing line I’ve wanted to do for about three years, and a lot of times what people do is . . . a licensing deal and I didn’t want to do that,” said Lavigne, 23, whose fashion style in recent years has evolved from skater tomboy with office ties and chains to flirty and edgy with combat boots and miniskirts.

“I wanted to own a company and really be able to be a designer, be creative, and I finally have found someone to partner up with.”

No word on who the partner is, but Lavigne says her business venture will happen sometime after her tour, The Best Damn Thing, which kicks off March 5 in Victoria, B.C., and moves through 41 stops in North America before hitting Europe.

The tour, Lavigne’s third, will be “very upbeat,” with dancers, more production and more pink than she’s ever had on stage before.

“I have a pink sparkle drum kit, a pink piano being made, flags,” said Lavigne, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley. “Over time I’ve sort of just learned how I need to be on stage, I’m more confident and it’s just more dynamic, brighter, more colourful.”

Still, she said while this tour is heavy on production, it’s not comparable to the tours of other pop stars “because my songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song like them and I’m not wearing a microphone on my head, it’s a totally different thing,” she said. “I’m playing guitar, I’m playing the drums, I’m playing the piano.”

Lavigne will interrupt the tour briefly to travel to Calgary for the April 6 Juno Awards, where she’s up for five trophies, including album of the year for The Best Damn Thing, her third disc.

“I’m very excited to go and I’m very thankful that I’ve been nominated for five Junos since I didn’t get any Grammy nominations,” she said laughing over the line.

“It’s nice to feel the support from Canada, so I’m so happy I get to make it and that we left time open on my tour so that I could attend. I always love going back home.”

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