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Daughtry's 10 Best Anthems

The Former American Idol Finalist Has Notched an Undeniable List of Pop-Rock Fist-Pumpers.

You can't deny these Daughtry essentials.

We still don't quite understand how Chris Daughtry didn't win the fifth season of American Idol. Sure, we have great affection for Katherine McPhee, and she's blossomed into quite an excellent entertainer and actress, but Daughtry's voice is a force of nature. From such covers of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" and Creed's "What If," his consistency in style, presentation and execution was rarely achieved at such a level (Adam Lambert says hi, though) on some dinky primetime singing competition.

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