Daughtry -《Leave This Town》Deluxe Edition [MP3]

Daughtry achieved global success with its self-titled debut, the biggest selling artist release of the past two years. The band's Grammy-nominated, quadruple-platinum debut garnered multiple American Music Awards, World Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards. Daughtry spent most of the last two years on the road, performing to sold-out arenas, but is now back with the follow-up to the its massive debut. Leave This Town will be available on July 14, 2009, and was produced by Howard Benson.

Chris Daughtry announced on his Twitter that there would be 14 songs on the record, but 5 bonus tracks in different stores. Daughtry co-wrote the songs on the album with Richard Marx, Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic, Trevor McNevan from Thousand Foot Krutch, Jason Wade from Lifehouse, Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace, and Eric Dill from The Click Five. On May 29, 2009, Daughtry released the album art cover. The songs written with Marx and Tedder respectively didn't make the album. Despite the fact that 14 tracks were announced, only 12 made the final cut. Three songs from the CD, "No Surprise", "Every Time You Turn Around" and "You Don't Belong", will be used to promote racing on ESPN. "You Don't Belong" debuted at number 95.

Chris announced on the name of the album on Twitter. The title is from a lyric in "September".

Initial critical response to Leave This Town was mixed. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 58, based on nine reviews.

Note that bonus tracks available as bonus downloads, also available separately.