Artist · chart history
Daughtry
Band United States Formed 2006 American rock band fronted by Chris Daughtry
Daughtry formed in 2006 in the United States. Daughtry has 21 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “It's Not Over”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Daughtry most often is 98KUPD (Phoenix, AZ), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Daughtry is the band Chris Daughtry built after he finished as a finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, and it wasted no time proving that a TV contestant could front a real rock band. The group, formed in 2006 with Josh Steely on guitar, Josh Paul on bass and Joey Barnes on drums, signed with 19 Recordings and RCA and put out its self-titled debut that November.
The record is full-throttle post-grunge with pop polish: crunchy, chugging guitars, big, open-throated choruses, and Chris Daughtry's gravelly roar selling every line. "It's Not Over" is the template, surging and desperate-sounding, and "What I Want" and "Home" showed the harder and softer sides of the same formula. No debut rock album had ever sold faster in the SoundScan era, and earned them the American Music Award for New Artist of the Year.
The albums kept coming: Leave This Town in 2009 with "No Surprise", then Break the Spell, Baptized, Cage to Rattle and Dearly Beloved, with the lineup shifting around its frontman along the way.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Daughtry on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's Not Over | 3 | #24 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Pieces | 2 | #3 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | The Dam | 2 | #22 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | What I Want | 3 | #63 | – | 2007 | |
| 5 | No Surprise | 1 | #20 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Feels Like Tonight | 1 | #21 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Artificial | 1 | #26 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Heavy Is the Crown | 1 | #26 | – | 2021 | |
| 9 | September | 1 | #36 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | Crawling Back to You | 1 | #48 | – | 2011 | |
| 11 | Life After You | 1 | #49 | – | 2010 | |
| 12 | The Bottom | 1 | #49 | – | 2025 | |
| 13 | Changes Are Coming | 1 | #81 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | World on Fire | 1 | #91 | – | 2020 | |
| 15 | Crashed | 1 | #96 | – | 2008 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Daughtry as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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