[TOUR] Greatest Hits Tour 2024 / 2025

You're right, Maybe this tour Part Two is doing all 2025, from May to October/November. She'll add other legs so it will take her occupied for all the year.

Hopefully she'll release new music 2nd half of 2026. Let's see what she has in mind

She still has to bring this GH tour to Europe... She mainly played festivals.

I am happy that she seems to enjoy going on tour (more than some of her attendees lol). Staying up late, drinking with friends, singing some songs, probably visiting some friends here and there, maybe her new man is going with her. That's her thing.

I do think this means no new album in 2025. Or maybe a collab album with Simple Plan....?

A bit disappointed she skipped the Upper Midwest, not even a Chicago show, since I missed the 2024 leg. It seems like the dates are centered around the Eastern half of the United States and Canada, besides the festival in Las Vegas

She's probably doing the same thing she did with bite me and release the lead single at the end of the year and album in 2026. Not a fan of this schedule but oh well...

I share the opinion that it is sad that everything points to us being without an album in 2025. Plus, she has been touring for three years in a row, another US and Canada tour is probably too much without new music. I saw her in 2023 and this year and I won't be attending another concert next year if there is nothing new. I'm not sure if general public want to see her so many times...

Maybe she's releasing a deluxe version of the GH album (with something new on it?) even though 1 year later, that's very much her to do it

I’m not really sure why anyone is surprised she’s tapping into the “legacy” artist brand. 7 albums may not be a lot but she is 40 and been at this since she was a teen. Her battle with Lyme didn’t help, it maybe even caused permanent health effects we don’t know about. The music industry has greatly changed from 10-20 years ago. Music has a much shorter shelf life than it ever has thanks to social media and short attention spans, with too many artists competing for such a small amount of attention/airtime. Music sales are down except for vinyls and unless your name is Taylor Swift. The pandemic put a massive pause on the live music industry.

The fact Avril has even managed to roll with all these changes as well as she has and is still here is pretty impressive when you think about it. I think she genuinely enjoys being in the studio (maybe a little too much, to her own detriment) and enjoys creating new songs. She will always be doing that, no doubt. But I think fans need to accept the old days are gone and her album releases will look different than how they used to be. She doesn’t necessarily need to put out a new album every 2 years. The tours don’t necessarily need to support the new album. She IS a legacy artist and she’s likely making a ton more money doing it too. For all we know she could decide to launch a Vegas residency next. At least with the tours there are still opportunities for fans to see her in their area, whereas I can’t see a lot of fans traveling specifically to Vegas.

But yes, as she gets older, it’s to be expected her career is going to look different, likely less albums, less new songs on tour, etc. We all have fond memories of her from our childhoods and the fun of seeing a new, fresh era, but I think we have to let go of that image of her and accept she’s getting older, doesn’t have the same label support she once did, and the industry as a whole is way different. Even Taylor is slowing down with her album releases, she doesn’t do as much promo for them anymore because she doesn’t need to. She puts out a few videos and calls it a day. The money is in touring.