Leave This Town

Leave This Town
Studio album by Daughtry
Released July 14, 2009 (2009-07-14)
Recorded September 2008- March 2009 in Los Angeles, California
Genre Alternative rock,[1] pop rock,[1] post-grunge,[1][2] hard rock[1]
Length 45:26
Label RCA, 19
Producer Howard Benson
Daughtry chronology
Daughtry
(2006)		 Leave This Town
(2009)		 Break the Spell
(2011)
Singles from Leave This Town
  1. "No Surprise"
    Released: May 5, 2009
  2. "Life After You"
    Released: October 26, 2009[3]
  3. "September"
    Released: June 8, 2010

Leave This Town is the second album of the American rock band Daughtry and was released on July 14, 2009.[4] It is the first album that they recorded as a band, as their self-titled debut album was recorded before the band was formed and only featured lead singer Chris Daughtry as an official member.

Contents

Background

Chris Daughtry announced on his Twitter that there would be 14 songs on the record, but 5 bonus tracks in different stores.[5] Nearly 70 songs were written for Leave This Town, before the selection was narrowed down to 19.[6] Daughtry co-wrote the songs on the album with Richard Marx, Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic, Jason Wade from Lifehouse, Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace, Eric Dill from The Click Five, and Mitch Allan from SR-71 and Tommy Henriksen. On May 29, 2009, Daughtry released the album art cover.[7] The songs written with Marx, Tedder, Gontier and Wade didn't make the album.

Three songs from the CD, "No Surprise," "Every Time You Turn Around," and "You Don't Belong", will be used to promote racing on ESPN.[8] "You Don't Belong" debuted at number 95.

The title of the album comes from lyrics from the track "September".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [9]
Entertainment Weekly (B)[10]
IGN (8/10)[11]
Los Angeles Times (Positive)[12]
The New York Times (Positive)[13]
People [14]
Rolling Stone [15]
Slant [16]
Sputnikmusic [17]

Critical reception

Initial critical response to Leave This Town was mixed. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 59, based on 10 reviews.[18]

Commercial performance

It sold 269,000 copies in its first week in the U.S., peaking at number one. It peaked at number two in Canada, six places ahead of its predecessor. The album has sold 1,307,000 copies as of November 21, 2011.[19]

In media

"Ghost of Me" is featured on a CSI: Miami commercial.[20]

"No Surprise" was performed live by the band on the top 4 results show of the eighth season of American Idol on May 5, 2009.

"Tennessee Line" was performed live with Vince Gill during the 2009 CMA awards on November 11, 2009.[21] It was also used as a music backdrop to the trailer for the TV series "Young Justice".

"Learn My Lesson" has been featured in a commercial of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in Animax-Asia.

"Every Time You Turn Around" was featured in the video game MLB 2K10

"Supernatural" is featured in the preview of the 2010 MLB Division Series, both NL & AL on TBS.

Singles

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "You Don't Belong"   Chris Daughtry 4:00
2. "No Surprise"   Daughtry, Chad Kroeger, Eric Dill, Rune Westburg, Joey Moi 4:29
3. "Everytime You Turn Around"   Daughtry, Andy Waldeck 3:39
4. "Life After You"   Daughtry, Kroeger, Joey Moi, Brett James 3:26
5. "What I Meant to Say"   Daughtry, Brian Howes 3:09
6. "Open Up Your Eyes"   Daughtry, Ben Moody, David Hodges 4:19
7. "September"   Daughtry, Josh Steely 4:00
8. "Ghost of Me"   Daughtry, Howes 3:38
9. "Learn My Lesson"   Daughtry, Mitch Allan, Chris Tompkins 3:50
10. "Supernatural"   Daughtry, Josh Paul, Hodges 3:38
11. "Tennessee Line" (feat. Vince Gill) Daughtry, Brian Craddock 4:37
12. "Call Your Name"   Daughtry, Joey Barnes 4:01
Total length:
 45:26
Unused tracks[24]
  1. "From Where You're Standing" (performed live)
  2. "Standing Still" (performed live)
  3. "When You Come Around" (performed live)
  4. "You're In My Hands" (performed live)
  5. "Back to Me" (performed live)

He also does a Cover of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" Acoustic

Personnel

Band members

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[25] 21
Canadian Albums Chart[26] 2
New Zealand Albums Chart[27] 8
Swedish Albums Chart[28] 31
UK Albums Chart[29] 53
US Billboard 200[30] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2010) Position
US Billboard 200 59[31]

References

  1. ^ a b c d http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1600173
  2. ^ http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/daughtry/leave_this_town/index.html
  3. ^ http://fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16691
  4. ^ http://www.daughtryofficial.com/news/leave-this-town
  5. ^ http://twitter.com/CHRIS_Daughtry/status/1925474268
  6. ^ Armstrong, Josh (August 19, 2009). "Daughtry to Leave This Town". KnowTheArtist.com. http://knowtheartist.com/music/daughtry-to-leave-this-town/. Retrieved March 30, 2011. 
  7. ^ http://daughtryofficial.com/news/leave-town-cover-art-unveiled
  8. ^ www.daughtryofficial.com
  9. ^ Allmusic review
  10. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  11. ^ IGN review
  12. ^ Los Angeles Times review
  13. ^ The New York Times review
  14. ^ People review
  15. ^ Rolling Stone review
  16. ^ Slant review
  17. ^ Sputnikmusic review
  18. ^ "Tim Hecker:An Leave This Town (2009): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/daughtry/leavethistown. Retrieved September 17, 2009. 
  19. ^ http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2011/11/daughtrys-129000-sales-spells-a-top-ten-debut/1
  20. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMX4iZjy_IM
  21. ^ Gardner, Elysa (November 13, 2009). "It's Taylor Swift's night at CMAs, with four awards". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-11-11-cma-news_N.htm#uslPageReturn. Retrieved May 7, 2010. 
  22. ^ http://www.daughtryofficial.com
  23. ^ a b c Idol Chatter 01-19-2011
  24. ^ http://www.target.com/dp/B002935GGY/sr=1-7/qid=1245788450/ref=sr_1_7/176-2621466-0212743?ie=UTF8&search-alias=tgt-index&frombrowse=0&index=target&rh=k%3Adaughtry&page=1
  25. ^ http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1G50
  26. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/charts/canadian-albums
  27. ^ charts.org.nz
  28. ^ "Discography Daughtry". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Daughtry. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
  29. ^ "Chart Stats - Daughtry". Chart Stats. The Official Charts Company. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=11366. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
  30. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/daughtry-returns-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-1003996062.story
  31. ^ "Best of 2010 - Billboard Top 200". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-year-end/top-billboard-200?year=2010. Retrieved 2010-12-31. 
Preceded by
BLACKsummers'night by Maxwell		 Billboard 200 number-one album
August 1, 2009		 Succeeded by
Here We Go Again by Demi Lovato
Daughtry
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
Other songs
  • "You Don't Belong"
  • "One Last Chance"
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