Chris Daughtry

Apparently the stats I mentioned earlier about High School Musical 2 taking over Daughtry for the #1 seller of 2007 were either incorrect or premature, because according to Billboard, Daughtry is the most popular album of the year! That is such exciting news!! 2007 has definitely been a great year for Daughtry.

According to Billboard, Daughtry’s self-titled debut album sold 3.2 million copies in 2007.
After Daughtry, the other best selling albums were: Akon’s “Konvicted” which sold 2.7 million; Fergie’s “The Dutchess” with 2.4 million sold; the “Hannah Montana” soundtrack sold 2.5 million; and Carrie Underwood’s “Some Hearts” sold 2.3 million albums.

That’s two American Idol alumni in the top 5, which is pretty impressive. I don’t know what the deal is with High School Musical 2. Maybe the world has righted itself and no longer considers that music so it doesn’t count… but then again the soundtrack to “Hannah Montana” is still on the list so who knows. I’m not trying to be a music snob or anything, it just doesn’t seem right, that’s all.

Click HERE for the full article.

Now Daughtry had better win that Grammy award for Best Rock album!! They definitely deserve it, and this proves it further… kinda.

And speaking of American Idol, the new season will be starting very soon. I’m not as excited about as I have been in past years but I’m still going to watch it… whether I want to or not. I always get sucked in. I’ve been watching it for so long now, I can’t give up on it now… besides I keep thinking maybe it will get better, like it used to be in the good old days. *sigh*

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This is such exciting news! 4 Grammy nominations? That is so awesome! Congratulations to Daughtry!

Here are the categories they are nominated in:

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
“Home” Daughtry

up against:
“(You Want To) Make A Memory” Bon Jovi
“Makes Me Wonder” Maroon 5
“Hey There Delilah” Plain White T’s
“Window In The Skies” U2

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
“It’s Not Over” Daughtry

up against:
“Working Class Hero” Green Day
“If Everyone Cared” Nickelback
“Instant Karma” U2
“Icky Thump” The White Stripes

Best Rock Song:
“It’s Not Over” Chris Daughtry, Gregg Wattenberg, Mark Wilkerson & Brett Young, songwriters (Daughtry)

up against:
“Come On” Lucinda Williams, songwriter (Lucinda Williams)
“Icky Thump” Jack White, songwriter (The White Stripes)
“The Pretender” Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel & Chris Shiflett, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
“Radio Nowhere” Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

Best Rock Album:
Daughtry- Daughtry

up against:
Revival- John Fogerty
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace- Foo Fighters
Magic- Bruce Springsteen
Sky Blue Sky- Wilco

I’m so proud of them! I obviously hope they win them all, but at the very least I think they have to win Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song. I think the other 2 categories have a little tougher competition (U2, Bon Jovi, Nickelback, etc.), but we’ll keep our fingers crossed. If they at least win one that would be amazing to be able to say they’re Grammy awards winners! They definitely deserve it!

You can go HERE for the full list of nominees.

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards will be on February 10, 2008 at 8pm EST on CBS.
Don’t forget! You don’t wanna miss this.

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There is a new video blog all the way from Switzerland from Josh Paul! Click HERE to watch it and see his goofiness. LOL Happy Halloween!

Also, Click here to see Daughtry’s performance at the 2007 TMF Awards in Amsterdam.
Although I’ve clearly never heard of the TMF (The Music Factory) Awards, and I’m assuming you haven’t either, apparently they are the biggest popular music awards in Belgium and the Netherlands. So…Go Daughtry. It’s all part of world domination.

Speaking of awards, don’t forget to vote for Daughtry for the American Music Awards! Voting ends November 2, 2007 at 3am ET!
Click HERE for the details, in case you’ve forgotten.

In other news, Daughtry will be a guest on VH1’s Top 20 Video Countdown on December 8, 2007! Their video “Over You” has been #1 on the countdown for the past few weeks, so GO VOTE and keep them at #1 through December!

Haven’t seen the video or just want to see it again…and again. Here you go:

I love the close ups when he stares into the camera…it’s very hypnotizing…

Also, today is the last day to bid on the signed T-shirt Chris designed to benefit the ONE campaign. The bid is already up to $786!!! Craziness. The celebrity T-shirt with the next highest bid is Gwyneth Paltrow’s which is going for $255. Who knew that Chris was so popular that he would put Gwyneth and Ben Affleck to shame. But, lest we forget, this is all for charity so none of that matters right? Hehe
Again, in case you need the details, click HERE

Well, there’s a lot going on in the world of Daughtry. I’ll do my best to keep you up to date and remind you of all the important upcoming appearances.

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In apparent response to rising student complaints about the mediocre quality of the annual homecoming concert entertainment, this year the University of Alabama has booked none other than Daughtry to play at this year’s event.

This will be the first homecoming concert since Alan Jackson’s appearance in 1998 where students will have to pay to attend. But you can be sure, scant few are complaining. And why would they. Tickets for them are but a token $10 (for everyone else: $30). This will also be the first UA homecoming concert since then to be held indoors, at the Coleman Coliseum.

Alabama is a big state for American Idol alumn, having brought to the public’s awareness:

• Ruben Studdard, winner, American Idol: Season 2
• Bo Bice, runner-up, American Idol: Season 4
• Taylor Hicks, winner, American Idol: Season 5

But though Taylor Hicks may have won the Season 5 crown, Chris Daughtry has won the worldwide rock star status and acclaim the others have only dreamed of, with a debut album that is still the number one best-selling album of the year, one year AFTER it was released!

The 2007 UA Homecoming Concert featuring Daughtry will be held on October 5.

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Just announced on LiveDaily.com, Chris and co. will be taping an episode of PBS TV’s Soundstage series on November 14 in Chicago. Rumor has it this will be Daughtry’s last live appearance on this 2007 tour circuit. The airdate for this episode has not yet been announced, but as soon as it is, you can find it here.

No tickets will be available for sale,a HOWEVER, fans can win free passes to the show. Return here to the Chris Daughtry Fan Blog (www.chrisdaughtry-fan.info) to find out how.

In addition to this eagerly anticipated event on a show that has previously and featured the likes of Michael McDonald, Peter Cetera and Amy Grant, Macy Gray, Dashboard Confessional, Rob Thomas (of Matchbox 20), and Jewel you can also look forward to seeing Chris appear on:

• “Early Show” and “Late Show with David Letterman,” both on CBS, and both on September 12;
• and “Live with Regis and Kelly” on ABC, on September 13.

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Ever far-reaching Daughtry now crosses over into the wide world of sports. How so?

Starting today, September 1, 2007, and continuing through the end of November, all Saturday ACC and SEC football Games of the Week will be kicked off with Daughtry’s hit song “Crashed”.

What a fantastic choice of tune for an event that promises fans load of bone-crushing action! I, for one, will never hear this song quite the same way again. Nor will I ever watch a football game quite the same way either. This is a superior merging of talents if ever I saw one.

Do we foresee a Super Bowl halftime show performance in Daughtry’s near future? I’ll bet we do.

In the meantime, take a look a look at one fan’s vision of the combo…

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This just in, direct from Sony Music (and - ahem - yet to be posted on the official Daughtry site):

Chris Daughtry and band have just confirmed that they’ve added 2 stops in Australia to their acclaimed international tour.

• Monday, September 24 at the Hi-Fi Bar in Melbourne;
• and Tuesday, September 25 at the Gaelic Club in Sydney;

Opening band (to be profiled in a future posting): Small Mercies

You can purchase tickets now at

• ModernMusic.com.au
• TheHiFi.com.au
• and MoshTix.com.au

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In an effort to continually improve this blog and what it has to offer you, the reader, and in light of the favorable reaction I received for the first eBay Sunday feature, I’ve decided to introduce a couple of other regular features into the mix here at the Chris Daughtry fan blog.

Hopefully you will find each of them as interesting and fun to read as they are for me to put together. Love ‘em or hate em, though, you know I’m always eager to hear your comments on anything and everything you see in these pages.

So let’s get started.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a You Tube segment highlighting movie previews people have re-edited using Daughtry songs in the backgroud. Inspired by that posting, this Tuesday (tomorrow) will be the first in a weekly series called You Tube Tuesdays in which I’ll feature a selection of commonly-themed, Daughtry-related and -inspired You Tube videos. In tomorrow’s edition I will highlight Japanese Anime all set, of course, to Daughtry’s music.

The second new regular feature starting here will be Trivia Fridays, delivering, as you might expect, Daughtry-related trivia questions (and answers too).

I hope you are as excited about both of these new entries into the Chris Daughtry Fan Blog mix as I am, and I hope you start to look forward to them each week as I know I will.

Now, to be clear, this is all not to say that these will be the only new postings here each Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday (though that may sometimes be the case) but just one of the items you can count on seeing here on each of those days.

In closing, I would also like to offer you a sneak peek at some of the upcuming articles you can expect to see here over the next few weeks:

• Chris Daughtry’s Musical Influences
• Spotlight on Chris Daughtry’s Home Life
• Profiles on Each of the Other Daughtry Band Members
• Profiles On Each Of The Bands That Have Opened OR Will Be Opening For Daughtry in Concert (12 Stones, Reliant K, etc.)

That’s all for now for this preview of just some of the upcoming excitement here at the Chris Daughtry fan blog at 451 press. I hope I have suitably piqued your interest. And I hope to see you back here often.

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The Colorado State Fair begins tomorrow, August 24, and amongst the attractions slated to drive an estimated 450,000 people to the Colorado State Fairgrounds is none other than our Daughtry.

The carnival portion of the fair offers the eager and impatient a sneak peek of the festivities today. Then tomorrow the event goes into full swing for almost 2 solid weeks of food, games, rides, a truck and tractor pull, a demolition derby, professional bull riders, a rodeo and musical entertainment from the likes of Los Lonely Boys, the Doobie Brothers, Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton, Weird Al Yankovic, and the All-American Rejects, ending on Labor Day.

But the real fun takes place the night of August 29 (that’s a Wednesday), when Daughtry takes to the stage. Already over 1,100 tickets to Daughtry’s show that night have been sold. Get yours HERE before they sell out.

And as always, if you go see the show, please comment below and let us all know how it went.

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No, you haven’t clicked over to the wrong blog. This is the Chris Daughtry fan blog and that is Bon Jovi pictured above. What gives? I’ll tell ya.

Bon Jovi will be the premiere act at the brand new Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, performing 10 shows there from October 25 to November 10. Joining them onstage are a number of incredible acts, each scheduled to open for Jon and Co. on a different night (or pair of nights, really), one such act being, of course, our own Daughtry.

Chris Daughtry and band will open for Bon Jovi at the new Pru on November 4 and 7. If you remember, Chris Daughtry sang Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive when he was a contestant on American Idol: Season 5.

Other acts on the docket, and the nights they’ll be there, are:

• My Chemical Romance, Oct 25 and 26
• Big & Rich, Oct 28 and 30
• Gretchen Wilson, Nov 1 and 3
• All-American Rejects, Nov 9 and 10

So I have an interesting question to ask; which act, besides Daughtry of course, would you be most excited to see? Comment below and we’ll all get to find out which of the other acts scheduled to christen the Newark Prudential Center Daughtry fans like best.

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This just in!

DaughtryOfficial.com has announced that on Friday, August 31 AOL Music will be broadcasting over the internet tomorrow night’s Daughtry’s concert at the Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is a killer opportunity for those of us who missed out on seeing Daughtry when they breezed through our area or couldn’t get a hold of tickets to an upcoming show near them. I know I’ll be there watching every moment from start to finish. This kind of thing could actually make me like AOL. Who woulda thunk it?

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Chris Daughtry has posted another video blog update at his site. Check it out!

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Americans have been enjoying Chris Daughtry’s self-titled debut album for months now (nearly 9 to be nearly exact). But our overseas neighbors in the UK have been anxiously awaiting the time that they can find the bestselling album of the year (even though it came out last year) on the racks at their local CD stores.

Well, wait no longer European friends!

This Monday, August 20, Daughtry, gets its UK release. Time to break more records, guys.

There’s even rumor circulating the web (via the official Daughtry site, that is, which makes it more than a rumor in my eyes at least) that the band will be making an appearance over U.K.-way in October. Stay tuned for updates.

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The streets of Mobile, Alabama are expecting to see 200,000 people dancing and cavorting to many great acts scheduled for the 13th annual BayFest Music Festival, not the least of which is our fave - Daughtry.

Chris and the gang will take to the stage Saturday night, October 6 at 10:30, headlining on the Pepsi Stage.

In the past, BayFest has featured the likes of B.B King, Collective Soul, Hootie & the Blowfish, Gretchen Wilson, Grand Funk Railroad, Alan Jackson, The O’Jays, Keith Urban, Patty LaBelle, Uncle Kracker, Stone Temple Pilots, Widespread Panic and The Beach Boys, to name a few.

The other artists on this year’s lineup are:

• Alice in Chains
• Boyz II Men
• Brian McKnight
• Dennis Nelson, f/ saxaphonist Kelly O’Neal
• Highly Kind
• Johnny Barbato and the Lucky Doggs
• LeAnn Rimes
• Ludacris
• StereoHype
• Top of the Orange
• Velvet Revolver
• Willie Clayton

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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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