Avril Lavigne is considering adding Kelly Clarkson's 'Breakaway' to her greatest hits list

Avril Lavigne's upcoming Greatest Hits tour will feature the biggest hits of her career – from 'Girlfriend' and 'Sk8er Boi' to 'What the Hell' and 'Complicated'. But the singer is also considering turning the catalog-spanning series into a celebration of hits she didn't even release herself. During a recent appearance on She called her dadLavigne revealed plans to perform Kelly Clarkson's “Breakaway” on the tour.

“The lyric was, 'I grew up in a small town, and when the snow would fall, I'd look out my window,'” Lavigne said of the song, which she originally wrote for her debut album, Let Go. in 2001. When it didn't make the final tracklist, it reached out to Clarkson, who changed the weather in the verse to “rain” since it didn't snow as much in Texas as Lavigne did in Canada.

“I just wasn't feeling it and I'm so glad it worked out for her,” she said of the record split. “He killed it. It was a huge success for her. It's like growing up, being from a small town and taking a chance, going to the big city and chasing your dream.”

In 2022, Lavigne released the official version of “Breakaway” while celebrating the 20th anniversary of Let Go. Around the same time, the singer appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where the host told her: “Here's the thing I couldn't understand. I thought why didn't he do that? I was that it's a killer song. But I was like, why not? But I like your album, so I was listening to it and I thought you were kind of right.” Lavigne and Clarkson agreed that “Breakaway” would be an outlier among the other songs recorded.

In 2020, Clarkson appeared “I am with you,” another song from Let fallduring his Kellyoke segment The Kelly Clarkson Show.

“I've worked really hard to get to this point where now every song on my list is a hit song, a single or [has] it was a really big milestone and part of my career,” Lavigne said She called her dad. “Putting together a strong set list is, for me, the biggest thing about the show. But I think every tour has gotten easier. I've come out of my shell more as a performer.”