My Happy Ending

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"My Happy Ending"
Single by Avril Lavigne
from the album Under My Skin
Released	2004
Format	CD single
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	4:02
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker
Producer(s)	Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Chart positions
#2 (Argentina, United World Chart) #5 (UK) #6 (Australia) #9 (U.S.) #11 (Canada)
Avril Lavigne singles chronology
"Don't Tell Me" (2004)	"My Happy Ending" (2004)	"Nobody's Home" (2005)

"My Happy Ending" is a pop-rock song written and produced by Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker for Lavigne's second album Under My Skin (2004). It was released as the album's second single in 2004 (see 2004 in music) and became Lavigne's third most successful single in the United States and Australia, reaching the top ten in both countries. In those countries it peaked higher than "Don't Tell Me", the album's first single, and in the United Kingdom it reached the top five. The RIAA certified "My Happy Ending" platinum in January 2005, making it Lavigne's second platinum single after "Complicated" (2002).

Contents 1 Song information 2 Singles and formats 3 Charts 4 References

[edit] Song information

Its protagonist describes a relationship in which she was "held up so high, on such a breakable thread", stating "so much for [the] happy ending" she had in mind.

Its video features Lavigne in a cinema auditorium watching the times when she and her boyfriend were together. The song contains the word shit, which sparked a small controversy that she was punk, but still pretty wholsome. It was also critisized about a part in the video where she is in bed with "the guy", as she puts it, and it's early in the morning: making viewers think something had happened all night. Also with the fact that as soon as it went to that part of the video, the first few seconds are Avril rolling from ontop of the guy. This has lead viewers to lash out at her actions, saying that Don't Tell Me is a song meaning nothing to her anymore^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Singles and formats

• UK CD single 1

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "Take It" (previously unrelased)

• UK CD single 2

1. "My Happy Ending"
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "My Happy Ending" (music video)

• UK CD promo

1. "My Happy Ending" (album Version) [excplicit]
2. "My Happy Ending" (radio edit) [clean]

• Germany, Italy & Taiwan CD single

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "Take It" (previously unrelased)
5. "My Happy Ending" (music video)

• Australia CD single

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "Take It" (previously unrelased)

[edit] Charts

Chart (2004)[1][2][3]	Peak position
American Top 40	2
United World Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	9
Argentina Top 40 Singles	2 [1]
Los 40 Principales Spain	9
Australia ARIA Top 50 Singles	6
Austria Top 75 Singles	8
Belgium Top 50 Singles	30
Canadian Top 50 Singles	11
Dutch Top 40 Singles	10
France Top 100 Singles	2
Germany Top 100 Singles	17
Hispanic America Top 40 Airplay	9
Ireland Top 50 Singles	7
Italy Top 40 Singles	1
Japan Top 200 Singles	1
Mexico Top 100 Airplay	1
Norway Top 20 Singles	6
Portugal Top 20 Singles	3
Sweden Top 60 Singles	11
Switzerland Top 100 Singles	13
UK Official Top 75 Singles	5
U.S. ARC Chart (Radio) Top 40	1

[edit] References

v • d • e Avril Lavigne
Discography
Studio albums: Let Go. (2002) · Under My Skin (2004) · The Best Damn Thing (2007)
Singles: "Complicated" • "Sk8er Boi" • "I'm with You" • "Losing Grip" • "Don't Tell Me" • "My Happy Ending" • "Nobody's Home" • "He Wasn't" • "Fall to Pieces" • "Keep Holding On" • "Girlfriend" • "When You're Gone"
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Awards and nominations • Discography