By Chris Taylor. Q: Were you always clear that music was going to be your path? I was just a kid who played with action figures and read comic books in my room. Then in 11th grade I met a guy called Robert Nesbit in my algebra class, who played acoustic guitar.

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Daughtry is an American rock band formed and fronted by namesake Chris Daughtry, who was a finalist on the fifth season of American Idol. Their self-titled debut album was released in November and reached number one on the Billboard The album went on to sell more than six million copies in the United States, and has been certified sextuple platinum by the RIAA. Daughtry was also named the best selling album of by Billboard, becoming the fastest-selling debut rock album in Nielsen SoundScan history. The band's second album, Leave This Town, was released in July and debuted at number one on the Billboard chart, becoming Daughtry's second number one album in the United States. To date, Leave This Town has sold over 1. The album's lead single, "No Surprise", became the band's fifth top 20 hit on the Hot
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Their self-titled debut album was released in November and reached number one on the Billboard The album went on to sell more than six million copies in the United States, and has been certified sextuple platinum by the RIAA. Daughtry was also named the best selling album of by Billboard , becoming the fastest-selling debut rock album in Nielsen SoundScan history.
Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. So it was a lot of firsts, and after doing things a certain way for so long everything felt slightly fresh and different and slightly out of the comfort zone. There was that whole having to trust the process thing, and that wasn't always easy to do. You have to step back and realize you chose to do this for a reason, and you have to trust that.