Chris Daughtry

ROLE MODEL Bono

BAD INFLUENCE Scott Stapp

PROFESSIONAL PLAYBOOK We've seen Chris' million-dollar smile during interviews and in footage with his adoring wife and kids, so how come he never seems to flash it during performances? As Bono and his U2 bandmates have proven for decades now, you can be earnest as heck without sacrificing a sense of fun — it's rock & roll, after all. Likewise, the Irish superstar never lets his hard-rockin' sensibility devolve into tuneless howling — an erreur fatale that resulted in Chris' worst performance of the season: a cover of ''What If,'' by Scott Stapp's old band, Creed. Not only that, but Stapp's unsavory off-stage antics (a sex tape with Kid Rock, an arrest for public drunkenness) don't exactly measure up against Bono's global humanitarian efforts. Just sayin'.

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