Leave This Town, Daughtry's album, gets into The Billboard 200 at #1. It has made the band's vocalist/leader, Chris Daughtry, the first American Idol contestant to land back-to-back #1 albums. Daughtry rang the bell for two weeks in early 2007. Kelly Clarkson is the only other American Idol alum to put two #1 albums, and hers weren't consecutive. She topped The Billboard 200 chart with her first and fourth albums. This obviously makes Chris Daughtry the first Idol alum who didn't win the competition to land two #1 albums.
Leave This Town is Daughtry's first album to debut in the top spot. Daughtry bowed at #2 in November 2006. It first hit #1 in its ninth week. Daughtry has sold 4,494,000 copies. Of the thousands of albums that have been released in the nearly three years since Daughtry, only one other (Josh Groban's Noel) has reached the 4 million mark in sales.
