Chris Daughtry

In case you all missed then when it actually aired, the day after Chris Daughtry was eliminated from American Idol he appeared on Live with Regis & Kelly performing Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive, and boy does he look great!

You wouldn’t know he’d just had the biggest shock and disappointment of his career at the time. And his rendition of the song is worthy of its own spot on the singles charts. There’s no better evidence than this “morning after” performance that Chris Daughtry is and always was a true shining star from the start.

Enjoy the vid.

Chris Daughtry, Regis, Live with Regis and Kelly, Bon Jovi, Wanted Dead or Alive, American Idol

Tomorrow: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Chris Daughtry and band will be performing live at the Midland County Fair as part of the 102.5 WIOG radio Lizard Fair 2007.

The show starts at 8 pm and tickets are still available from:

• Midland County Fairgrounds Box Office
• ‘StarTickets Plus’ located in participating Meijer Stores
• (800) 585-3737 Or (989) 835-7901 to Charge By Phone

If you go, please comment below and let me and the rest of us all know how it went.

Other Daughtry shows scheduled this week:

• Friday, August 17, 2007 at the Erie Country Fair in Hamburg, NY
• Saturday, August 18, 2007 at the Blink Festival at Clay’s Park Amphitheater in North Lawrence, OH
• Sunday, August 19, 2007 at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas, TX

More to follow on each of those upcoming events.

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Well, we can sure get the beginnings of an answer to that question just by looking at a couple of cues he’s already given us.

For one, Daughtry has given us all some deep insight into their taste in (other people’s) music by coming up with an iTunes Celebrity Playlist. On this list are 15 songs that Daughtry loves listening to and that you and I, if we don’t own already, should go out or get online and buy. (Don’t steal music, Chris doesn’t like it.)

And incidentally, before I get to the list, iTunes published this on December 26, 2006. I’m not trying to pass this off as new news. But I want this blog to be Total Daughtry, and it wouldn’t be without this in here somewhere.

So here it is:

1. Lakini’s Juice by Live
2. The Day I Tried to Live by Soundgarden
3. Them Bones by Alice In Chains
4. Soldier’s Daughter by Tonic
5. In Memory by Shinedown
6. Save a Prayer by Duran Duran
7. Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
8. Jóga by Björk
9. With or Without You by U2
10. Nature Boy by Nat “King” Cole
11. Give It Away by Red Hot Chili Peppers
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
13. Helicopter by Bloc Party
14. There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight by Hank Williams
15. Forever My Friend by Ray LaMontagne

I like to imagine how Daughtry would sound covering some of these tracks, which brings us to the second taste our favorite American Idol has treated us to of his taste in music - and that’s the songs they’ve been covering in their current tour.

The first is Nutshell by Alice in Chains (there they are again!) and the other is Hey Man, Nice Shot by Filter(which they actually only play a snippet of in concert, but still…)

Of course, to hear how Daughtry would sound playing these, all you’ve got to do is get tickets the next show nearest you.

Anyway - what covers would you like to hear Daughtry record and/or perform? Comment below - I’d love to know.

Daughtry, itunes, celebrity playlist, American Idol, Live, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Tonic, Shinedown, Duran Duran, Imogen Heap, Bjork, U2, Nat King Cole, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bloc Party, Hank Williams, Ray LaMontagne, Filter

eBay LOVES Chris Daughtry!

I’m starting a new feature here at ChrisDaughtry-fan.info and, as you might have guessed, it’ll come out every Sunday and be called eBay Day. On eBay Day, I will scour eBay for the most interesting, valuable, rare, and bizarre Daughtry-related memorabilia and other what-nots for sale.

So, for starters is this cute logo which I at first thought was a bumper sticker (and I think I preferred it that way):

the ‘Got Daughtry’ t-shirt

On the rarer side, this:

Personal Collection of 50+ Daughtry Magazine Clippings

And while we’re on the subject of collections, here’s another nice one (though it’s suspect how “personal” this collection really is):
Collection of Chris Daughtry Buttons

In the realm of just-plain-bizarre:

a Chris Daughtry Checkbook Cover (so you can think of him every time you buy something or pay a bill).

And to close this first edition of eBay Sunday here at ChrisDaughtry-fan.info, are these two matching items:


the Chris Daughtry Purses - so now you can tote that sweet face with you everywhere you go.

I swear, there are so many other great and weird Daughtry items for sale on eBay that I could just go on and on, but I’ve got to stop somewhere. Hopefully some of the more unique items that I’ve left out of this post will still be on sale next week when I can share even more with you. Until then, stay tuned, fellow Daughtry fan. There’s always more to come…

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If you went and saw Transformers or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, you may have noticed that the Toa Mahri mini-movie ad based on the Bionicle toys by Lego, has as its background music Daughtry’s own Crashed.

The funniest part about that, perhaps, is that according to an interview with Chris Daughtry reported in SJ-R.com yesterday in an article entitled “Home Is On The Road” by Nick Rogers, Chris and the band were unaware the song had even been licensed for those purposes until they saw it on the big screen themselves.

Well, enough prefacing. If you haven’t seen the Toa Mahri mini-movie in question, here it is:

Pretty wild, huh? I always knew Legos were cool, but who knew they had come so far?

But the fun doesn’t stop there. I decided to do a You Tube search for movie previews with Daughtry songs in them and found more than you’d imagine. For starters, check out this Spiderman 3 preview:

Now before you click this next link, be advised - you’re not seeing double. Here’s the same basic Spiderman 3 preview, only set to “There and Back Again”.

And wait, it’s not over, because
here it is again, this time with “It’s Not Over”.

Whew, that’s a lot of Spidey. But it’s not over indeed, because here - to close this Hollywood-esque post - are two You Tube videos promoting movies long gone to DVD set to - you guessed it - It’s Not Over (starts about 4 minutes in):

The Gladiator

and

The Punisher

Which one is your favorite? What movie previews would you like to see re-edited with which Daughtry songs in the background? Comment below and we’ll all get to know. (Maybe we’ll even be able to convince some You Tuber to make some by request.)

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Now 25, the 25th volume of Now That’s What I Call Music - a various artists compilation of the best in new music - slides this week from number 1 to number 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.

This is the 3rd week on the chart for the 20-song album, which closes with Daughtry’s Home, a single off his Triple Platinum debut album
Daughtry which, incidentally, is at #25 this week, its 37th week on the chart where it peaked at #1.

Now 25 also features fellow American Idol alumn:

• 

  Elliot Yamin with “Wait for You”

• 
  Carrie Underwood with “Before He Cheats”, and
• the original American Idol,
  
  Kelly Clarkson with “Never Again”

Now 25 also features tracks by modernday superstars: Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani w/Akon, Pink, Fergie, Beyonce/Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo, T-Pain w/Yung Joc, Lloyd - Get It Shawty, Huey, Mims, Bone Thugs N-Harmony w/Akon, Bow Wow, Boys Like Girls, and Keith Urban.

What do I think about the album? I think I wish I’d known about it before I bought most of these songs individually off of iTunes. It’s a great collection of tracks, and if you don’t already have them, this is a great way to get ‘em all in one shot.

To purchase Now 25 at Amazon.com, just click here.

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It’s not too late to place your vote for Daughtry in the 2007 Teen Choice Awards

sponsored by Verizon Wireless.

Daughtry received two nominations:

• Choice Music: Breakout Group, and
• Choice Music: Rock Track for “It’s Not Over”

To give them your vote in both categories, simply CLICK HERE

The event will be broadcast Live on FOX TV on August 26, 2007 in a two-hour event starting at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT. The show will be hosted by Hilary Duff and Nick Cannon.

Incidentally, Daughtry’s competition in the category of Breakout Group are:

• Gym Class Heroes
• Hinder
• Shop Boyz
• The Fray

and their competition in the category of Rock Track are:

• “Better Than Me”/Hinder
• “Makes Me Wonder”/Maroon 5
• “Thanks for the Memories”/Fall Out Boy
• “What I’ve Done”/Linkin Park

Don’t forget to vote:

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This just in! The nominees for the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards were just announced and Daughtry is among them. Daughtry’s Home - the farewell song that saw off the American Idol: Season 6 contestants as they were voted off in turn each week - was one of 10 videos nominated for Monster Single of the Year, a brand new category in the MTV Video Music Awards this year ’round.

Daughtry’s competitors for the award (otherwise known as “Fellow Contestants”)

• Fall Out Boy, Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
• Avril Lavigne, Girlfriend
• Lil Mama, Lip Gloss
• Mims, This Is Why I’m Hot
• Plain White T’s., Hey There Delilah
• Rihanna featuring Jay-Z, Umbrella
• Shop Boyz, Party Like A Rock Star
• T-Pain featuring Yung Joc, Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)
• Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson, D.O.E., & Sebastian, The Way I Are

The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on September 9 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Get tickets to the event here: Will Daughtry be there? I’ll let you know as soon as I find out.

Monster Single of the Year is one of four new categories debuting at this year’s awards, the others being: Male/Female Artist of the Year, Most Earth-Shattering Collaboration, and the Quadruple Threat Award.

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