Daughtry

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Daughtry's Bio: American Idol season 5 fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry stated that he would form a new band after turning down Fuel's offer to make him their lead singer. Chris Daughtry is a singer-songwriter himself and has collaborated with several other songwriters, such as Live's Ed Kowalczyk, Fuel's Carl Bell, 3 Doors Down's Brad Arnold, Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas, SR-71's Mitch Allan, Shinedown's Brent Smith, Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier, former The Click Five singer Eric Dill, Lifehouse's Jason Wade and Nickelback's Chad Kroeger.

Chris Daughtry and members of his label held auditions for the band Daughtry and chose 4 members for the band. The decision was made to name the band "Daughtry" in order to keep name recognition. In an interview, Chris Daughtry said, "We could have come out with a really obscure name, but coming from a TV show and having name recognition, it was easier just to go with my last name."

The band's self-titled debut album was produced by Howard Benson and was released by 19 Entertainment and RCA Records. Chris Daughtry himself played a part in the production of the album, particularly in songwriting where he wrote and co-wrote all but two songs on the album — "Feels Like Tonight" and "What About Now". Additionally, he solely wrote "Home," "Breakdown" and "Gone".

Daughtry was an instant success and spawned several hits for the group, starting with its first single "It's Not Over" after being delayed from a planned September release and reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hitting the top 3 in several other charts.

After the success of "It's Not Over," the second single from the album, "Home" was released and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, after debuting at #83, weeks ahead of its official release to radio. The song was also the official "kick off" song on sixth season of American Idol, played after a contestant was voted off the show, also the case during season 5 of Australian Idol. The Brazilian version of Idol, called Ídolos Brazil, used this song as well in its second season.

Due to the success of the singles, Daughtry was certified 4x Platinum on April 24, 2008. In addition, the group has appeared on the famous compilation album series Now That's What I Call Music! five times. The band was also nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2008, for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

On March 9, 2009, Chris Daughtry announced on his website that he and the band had finished the album's recording. The sophomore record was released on July 14, 2009 with 14 songs making the cut from the 19 recorded songs.

Chris Daughtry said that the record is a very big rock album. He has also stated that the band had written and recorded over 30 new songs. He worked with Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic, Trevor McNevan from Thousand Foot Krutch, Jason Wade from Lifehouse, Richard Marx, Scott Stevens from The Exies, Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace and Eric Dill, former vocalist for The Click Five.

The album's first single, "No Surprise", was released on May 5, 2009 through their website. It officially went for radio play on May 26. The new album was released on July 14, 2009, and its title is Leave This Town. "Life After You" was the follow-up single to "No Surprise" .

Leave This Town debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling 269,000 copies in its first week.The record was also No. 1 on the Digital Albums Chart and the Rock Chart.

On March 16, 2010, the band released a B-side of the single from the album, Leave This Town with 5 songs that were with the pre-order only, or never came out with the album.

"September" was the third single off of Leave This Town and it peaked at #2 on HAC radio charts, #18 on Pop radio charts and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band has also released an extended play titled Leave This Town: The B-Sides, which contains the bonus tracks from Leave This Town.

On December 31, 2010, Chris Daughtry tweeted that the band will be working on a new album soon.On March 7, 2011, he also tweeted that the album sounds nothing like the previous two, and will feature a song titled "Spaceship". There will also be another song named "Breaking My Fall" which is written solely by Chris himself. … Read more