Daughtry (album)

Commercial performance[edit]

Competing with a flurry of releases during its opening week (Jay-Z, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, and others), Daughtry proved to be commercially viable. The album debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, behind Jay-Z's Kingdom Come. It sold approximately 304,000 copies in its first week.^[16]


The album reached number one on the Billboard 200,^[17] with 65,000 copies sold in its ninth week on the chart,^[18] for the issue dated February 3, 2007, becoming the first album from an Idol alumnus to top the Billboard 200 since Ruben Studdard's Soulful in December 2003. The following week, the album fell to number three on the chart, but its sales increased to 80,000.^[19] The record remained at number three and sold nearly 80,000 copies in each of the subsequent three weeks.^[20][21] After this, sales increased to 102,000 copies, but the album dropped to number 9 on the Billboard 200;^[22] in the following week, the album climbed to number 2 on the Billboard 200 and sold 84,000 copies.^[23] In the next week, its fifteenth on the chart, it climbed back to the number-one spot. It was then certified Double Platinum on March 7, 2007.^[24] The album was released in the UK on August 20 and debuted at number thirteen.


For the chart week of June 30, 2007, the album was certified 3× Platinum.^[25] It stayed in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for 27 of the first 28 weeks of its release.


The deluxe version of the album was released on the chart week of September 9, 2008, and brought a 95% leap to the previous week.^[26]


Daughtry is the only debut album in the history of SoundScan to have stayed in the top 200 for 575 weeks.^[27] The record had sold 5,040,000 units in the US as of December 2015^[28] and has been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA in 2019.^[29] It spent a total of 148 weeks in the Top 40.^[30]