Leave This Town

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Leave This Town
Daughtry studio album

Publication
(s)

2009

Label (s) RCA Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Rock , hard rock , post-grunge

Title (number)

12

running time

about 45 minutes

occupation Vocals , electric guitar : Chris Daughtry

Drums : Josh Steeley
Electric Guitar : Bryan Craddock
Electric Bass : Josh "JP" Paul

production

Howard Benson

Studio (s)

McLeansville , North Carolina

chronology
Daughtry
(2006)
Leave This Town -

Leave This Town is the second studio album by US post-grunge band Daughtry . It was released on July 14, 2009 and is the follow-up to Daughtry 's debut album . One after the other, the singles No Surprise , Life After You and September were released from this album .

Track list

  1. You Don't Belong - 4:00
  2. No Surprise - 4:29
  3. Every Time You Turn Around - 3:39
  4. Life After You - 3:26
  5. What I Meant to Say - 3:09
  6. Open Up Your Eyes - 4:19
  7. September - 4:00
  8. Ghost of Me - 3:38
  9. Learn My Lesson - 3:50
  10. Supernatural - 3:38
  11. Tennessee Line - 4:37
  12. Call Your Name - 4:01 am

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

Chad Kroeger : No Surprise , Life After You
Ben Moody : Open Up Your Eyes
Josh Paul: Supernatural
Brian Craddock: Tennessee Line

useful information

Leave This Town is the follow-up to the successful debut album Daughtry . As with its predecessor, some well-known musicians worked as songwriters, including for the second time Chad Kroeger from Nickelback . In addition, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic , Jason Wade from Lifehouse , Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace and Richard Marx worked on this album. With the release of the album, the band wrote American Idol history : Daughtry was the first band on the show to have two consecutive albums placed at number 1 on the Billboard 200 . To support Leave This Town , they joined Nickelback as the opening act on their Dark Horse tour through Europe.

criticism

Overall, the reviews were average. Yan Vogel wrote on laut.de that the album promised solid hard rock with first-raising choruses and a power production in the tradition of successful commercial rockers such as Nickelback , Creed and 3 Doors Down . Audio Video Foto Bild rated the album as acceptable and also complained that the album sounded similar to Nickelback and 3 Doors Down.

Chart success

album

country position
United States 1
Great Britain 53
Germany 12
Austria 18th
Switzerland 18th

Singles

year single space
US
DE
AT
2009 No surprise 15th 62 45
Life After You 36 - -
2010 September - - -

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.laut.de/Daughtry/Leave-This-Town-%28Album%29
  2. Computer image : Musikkritik - Daughtry "Leave This Town" ( Memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/daughtry-returns-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-1003996062.story ( Memento from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Leave This Town in the Official UK Charts (English)
  5. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/daughtry/chart-history/764246%7Ctitle=Daughtry