"No Surprise" is a song recorded by American rock band Daughtry for their second studio album, Leave This Town (2009). It was released May 6, 2009 as the album's lead single, and the band debuted the song on American Idol that night.Chris Daughtry wrote the song with Chad Kroeger, Joey Moi, Eric Dill, and Rune Westberg, while Howard Benson handled the production.

An alternative rock power ballad with influences of pop rock, hard rock, and post-grunge, "No Surprise" utilizes layered vocals and distorted guitars to create a radio-friendly rock sound that has been compared to Kroeger's band Nickelback. Its lyrics depict a bittersweet breakup between lovers that has been a long time coming.

The song was a commercial success in the United States, reaching a peak position of 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming the group's fourth number one hit on the magazine's Adult Pop Songs airplay chart. It also charted well internationally, peaking at number 13 on the Canadian Hot 100 and being certified Gold by Music Canada, in addition to attaining top 40 positions in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden.

"No Surprise" is a midtempo alternative rock and pop rock ballad with a duration of four minutes and twenty-nine seconds (4:29) on the album track, or four minutes and nine seconds (4:09) on the single edit. According to the digital sheet music published by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., the song was originally composed in the key of E♭ major and set in common time (4
4) to a "moderate" tempo of 96 BPM. Daughtry's vocals are double-tracked on the majority of the track and span exactly two octaves, from E♭₃ to E♭₅. Distorted guitars dominate the song's instrumentation, while the production employs a Wall of Sound approach.

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