Daughtry (album)

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Daughtry
Daughtry studio album

Publication
(s)

2006

Label (s) RCA Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Pop rock , post grunge

Title (number)

12

running time

approx. 44 minutes

occupation Vocals , electric guitar : Chris Daughtry

Drums : Josh Steeley
Electric Guitar : Jeremy Brady
Electric Bass : Josh "JP" Paul

production

Howard Benson

Studio (s)

McLeansville , North Carolina

chronology
- Daughtry Leave This Town
2009

Daughtry is the debut album by the US post-grunge band Daughtry . It was released on November 21, 2006 and reached number 1 on the Billboard 200 in its ninth week of sales .

Track list

  1. It's Not Over - 3:35
  2. Used To - 3:32
  3. Home - 4:15
  4. Over You - 3:27
  5. Crashed - 3:31
  6. Feels Like Tonight - 4:01
  7. What I Want (feat. Slash ) - 2:48
  8. Breakdown - 4:01
  9. Gone - 3:21
  10. There and Back Again - 3:15
  11. All These Lives - 3:24
  12. What About Now - 4:10

Front man Chris Daughtry wrote the lyrics with the following other well-known music greats:

Slash : What I Want
Brent Smith : There and Back Again
Mitch Allan : All These Lives
Lukasz Gottwald , Max Martin : Feels Like Tonight
Howard Benson : Used To
Ben Moody , David Hodges , Josh Hartzler : What About Now

useful information

Daughtry hit # 1 on the Billboard 200 by week nine . The album is the fastest selling debut rock album in Nielsen Soundscan's history. For Daughtry , well-known music greats such as Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down , Rob Thomas from Matchbox twenty and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback were promoted and Slash from Guns n 'Roses and Brent Smith from Shinedown as well as Max Martin and Dr. Luke committed to songwriting.

criticism

The reviews for the debut were average. Matthias Millhoff from cdstarts.de criticized an average and predictable rock debut . USA Today's Ken Barnes found the album too ordinary and suggested that the band be renamed Fuel Nickel Staind Back .

Media usage

Many of the songs on the album were also played on various television shows and the like. It's not over was used during winter sports broadcasts on ARD in early 2007, and There and Back Again was the theme song for WWE Backlash 2007. The trailer for Charlie Wilson's War Feels Like Tonight also ran .

Chart success

album

The album was particularly successful in the USA , where it reached number 1 on February 3, 2007. The album stayed in the top 100 for 116 weeks and even 136 weeks in the top 200, making it the most successful debut rock album in history until Taylor Swift cracked the mark with her debut album. In its 130th week, the album made the jump of the year on the Billboard 200 , climbing from number 174 to number 69.

year space
United States 1
Canada 8th
Great Britain 13
New Zealand 16
Finland 3
Australia 38
Sweden 17th
France 11
Ireland 1
Netherlands 91
Switzerland 12
Germany 40

Singles

year single placement
United States CDN DE AT CH OUT NL NZ EGG SE GB
2006 "It's Not Over" 4th 1 38 65 77 22nd 22nd 8th - - -
2007 "Home" 5 5 - - - - 18th 23 - 52 -
"What I Want" - 89 - - - - - - - - -
"Over You" 18th 16 57 31 - - - 26th - - -
2008 "Feels Like Tonight" 24 30th 67 - - - - - - - -
"What About Now" 18th 17th 3 - - - - - 30th - 11

Other successes

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003536661
  3. ^ Daughtry on Swedish charts
  4. ↑ http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2009/09/kelly-clarksons-already-gone-tops-the-idol-sales-list/1