It was written by Eg White and produced by Stephen Lipson for Young's second studio album, Friday's Child (2003).

[1] Young performed it on the penultimate episode to accompany a video montage recapping the season on 25 May 2010.

Stylus Magazine, who were mostly mixed to negative for Young's previous number ones, rated "Leave Right Now" with 9/10, saying "Better.

By this time Will was comfortable as a popstar, prepared to add a little WTF to his videos (here he has a fight with the viewer in an art gallery), and had his style down pat: jacket and jeans rocked to a level not seen since Lovejoy and Tinker were bossing things in the late 80s.

[5] The song has sold 50,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard, with 32,000 of those occurring the week he performed on American Idol.