Chris Daughtry Follows up with Rocking Success
Chris Daughtry Follows up with Rocking Success by Roxanne McDonald
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Like his predecessor, Bo Bice, Daughtry makes American Idol rock with pride. |
Bo Bice was the first to change the setting, the scenery, the premise of American Idol—choosing Southern, Hard, and other Rock genres that were popular but a far cry of a c-note from Pop.
Constantine Margoulis did the same, for as long as he was an Idol contender.
And while Daughtry didn’t get the bragging rights to breaking Rock into the number one show in America or for changing up the stand-in-front-of-the-audience and sing format—by leaping onto the platform between the judges table and the audience…the equally dignified and similarly talented singer has made a name for himself in the music industry, regardless of not winning the bouquet of roses and the crown.
Just as Clay Aiken, Bo, Jennifer Hudson, and others did and just as they would tell the weeping eliminated contestants now, taking talent to the charts worked and works if you work it (and if you have it).
That obsfucating sentence meant to read: you do not have to win American Idol to become a true star. If you have talent and work your ass to the bone, you can take the gift of having been selected as a top 12 singer and make it your gold album, your platinum album, your Academy Award.
Chris Daughtry’s success thus far (in just a little under a year) includes being named Hot Shot Debut of the week in June of 2006, with his single, “It’s Not Over,” hitting Billboard’s 100 chart at #4; a comedy duet with Jimmy Fallon at the 2006 MTV Awards, good-humored cameos (on Jay Leno, for example); a feature spot performing Stone Temple Pilots’ “Plush”; a recording contract with 19 Entertainment and RCA; and his debut album, Daughtry, seeing sales of 1.4 million+ copies and reaching the #1 spot on the charts in early 2007.
And while it is of course thanks to his start on American Idol, it is also due to his choosing to rock instead of roll.
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