'When You're Gone' also became the first and nearly only English performed song so far that could reach the Number 1 of the Argentinian Top 40 Chart in 2007, as before the song topped the charts in November, no song could make it. On the 9th of November, "When You're Gone" also reached number one on the Argentinian Top 40 Chart after 15 weeks, making it one of Avril Lavigne's longest enduring hits that could achieve a #1 spot. The single has also done well on the charts in Canada. "When You're Gone" debuted at number thirty-two on UK Singles Chart, and peaked at number three. Billboard Hot 100 and number seventy-seven on the Billboard Pop 100, in the Billboard issue dated May 5, 2007. Avril later performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman on September 6.īefore its release as a single in the United States, "When You're Gone" reached number ninety on the U.S. The video reached #1 on MuchMusic in Canada on August 24. On August 22, it reached the #1 spot for the first time.
The video was premiered on MuchMusic in Canada on Jduring the 5 pm broadcast of MuchOnDemand. Portions of the video were filmed at California State University, Northridge's Botanic Garden. Lavigne said that the video is very personal. The video portrays three relationships in different age groups but in the same situation. It features a young pregnant woman whose husband is away fighting in the war, an elderly man whose wife has recently died, and a teenage couple who are forbidden by the girl's mother to be together. Lavigne reportedly came up with the concept for the video. The video was directed by Marc Klasfeld, who is most well-known from his works of director for Sum 41's music videos. Composer Rob Mathes orchestrated the song with a genuine string section, although the brief opening note before the piano came in, was on a synthesizer.
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"If I was older, a professional writer coming up with all that, that would be lame."īillboard magazine describes the song as "a power ballad with a piano and synth introduction". "It's not cheesy, because I wrote it", she said. According to her, she did not intend the song to be a love song, but she was writing a slow song and the process brought out "all that emotional stuff" in her. The song may have been inspired by Lavigne's husband, Deryck Whibley, although in an interview in Northern Ireland with The Belfast Telegraph she did not confirm this. Avril Lavigne has said the song "is about being with someone you love, and you have to say goodbye, and all the little things you miss about them".