To date, Leave This Town has sold over 1.3 million copies in the United States and has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

Daughtry's fourth studio album, Baptized, was released in November 2013, and debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 90,000 units.

To date, Daughtry has sold over 9 million albums and over 25.6 million digital tracks in the U.S.[2] Chris Daughtry, who finished in fourth place on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006, stated that he would form a new band after turning down Fuel's offer to make him their lead singer.

Chris Daughtry is a singer-songwriter himself and has collaborated with several other songwriters, such as Live's Ed Kowalczyk, Seether's Shaun Morgan, Goo Goo Dolls's John Rzeznik, Fuel's Carl Bell, 3 Doors Down's Brad Arnold, Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas, SR-71's Mitch Allan,[4] Shinedown's Brent Smith, Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier, and the former The Click Five singer Eric Dill, Theory of a Deadman's Tyler Connolly, Lifehouse's Jason Wade and Nickelback's Chad Kroeger.

Two of the band members hail from North Carolina – Barnes, whom Chris had known for some time, and Brady, who was introduced to him a month before the audition.

The band's self-titled debut album was produced by Howard Benson and was released by RCA Records on November 21, 2006.

[4] Other notable songwriters Dr. Luke and Max Martin contributed to the album, and session drummer Josh Freese played on all tracks.

The album's third single, "What I Want", was released to rock radio on April 23, 2007, featuring musician Slash on lead guitars.

The single has peaked at number 6 on the rock charts and is featured as a playable song on Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS.

The song was also performed on the Pre-Race show on ABC for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Chevy Rock and Roll 400.

[citation needed] In addition, the group has appeared on the famous compilation album series Now That's What I Call Music!

Along with the original CD, this expanded CD/DVD package features four bonus tracks, including acoustic versions of "What About Now," "It's Not Over", and "Home", plus a cover of Foreigner's "Feels Like the First Time".

The DVD contains all five of Daughtry's music videos, two rarely seen live clips, and exclusive behind-the-scenes tour footage.

He worked with Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic,[8] Trevor McNevan from Thousand Foot Krutch, Jason Wade from Lifehouse, Richard Marx, Scott Stevens from The Exies, Adam Gontier, former vocalist for Three Days Grace and Eric Dill, former vocalist for The Click Five.

Daughtry appeared on American Idol on May 6, 2009 (which is the Result Show of season 8's 'Rock Week') performing "No Surprise".

Daughtry performed on-stage at the American Music Awards on November 22, 2009, and sang their hit single "Life After You".

[19] They were recording an acoustic version of "Rescue Me" for DC Comics' "We Can Be Heroes" initiative in the Horn of Africa.

"[21] During Daughtry's two days of writing for the album,[22] they worked with Matt Thiessen,[23] wrote with Blair Daly,[24] and Espionage.

[25] On March 27, 2013, Daughtry tweeted that they had been working with Martin Johnson of Boys Like Girls[26] and Rock Mafia.

[27] Over the course of several days in May, he revealed other artists with whom he was collaborating, including Scott Stevens,[28] Ali Tamposi,[29] The Monsters and the Strangerz,[30] Martin Johnson, and Sam Hollander.

"[42] On May 21, 2016, while performing at the O2 Academy in Birmingham, Chris said: "I regret to inform you that other than the two songs that's on the greatest hits we don't have anything new to play yet.

Take that how you want, but it is a rock record so ..." As of May 31, the band was in the tracking process of their next album at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, according to Chris' Instagram.

[43][44] On June 25, they performed a new song, "Backbone", during the Feed the Machine tour with Nickelback at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan.

[55] On January 5, 2023, the band released a cover of Journey's 1983 hit "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", featuring guest vocals from Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale.

In a January 2024 interview with Tommy Behnke of The Daily Herald, Chris Daughtry said that he grew tired of producing softer-sounding music at the recommendation of RCA Records that he did not always feel passionate about making.

On May 27, 2007, the band performed during the Indianapolis 500 Pre-Race show on ABC, and headlined the 2007 Summerfest at the Marcus amphitheater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a crowd of more than 15,000 on July 6.

Chris Daughtry joined Bon Jovi onstage many nights to perform their song, "Blaze of Glory".

On Thanksgiving 2009, Daughtry performed the halftime show for the Dallas Cowboys vs. Oakland Raiders football game to kick off the Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign.

Daughtry's second leg of the Leave This Town Tour started on March 18, 2010, in Baltimore and continued through June.

Daughtry and 3 Doors Down co-headlined a nineteen date tour in the United States from November 17 to December 15, 2012.