HOME - DAUGHTRY
Among the million or so “American Idol” finalists to score on various charts, season five’s Chris Daughtry is the only one to be embraced by so many formats with first single “It’s Not Over,” including rock, for the first time. The band’s follow-up, “Home,” fires up another anthemic rock power ballad, with a lyric dedicated to U.S. troops overseas, a la, “I’m going home to a place I belong/Where your love has always been enough for me.” Considering his sure-shot, flame-throwing vocal, name-brand cachet and mass appeal via a No. 1 album — not to mention the song’s use as the exit theme each week on “A.I.” — “Home” is undeniably where America’s heart is. Billboard
