“Apologize” is a song written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder for the band’s 2007 debut album Dreaming Out Loud. According to the band’s MySpace site, the song “explores the personal pain of multiple relationships gone awry and the necessity of moving on”. The song was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of Top 40 radio in North America, with 10,331 plays in one week, until its record was broken by Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,” which was also written by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder.

The song charted strongly around the world, reaching number one in sixteen countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Egypt, Turkey, and the Netherlands, as well as staying at number one for eight consecutive weeks on Billboard’s Pop 100. The song reached the US and UK top three and spent thirteen weeks at number one in Canada.

“Apologize” is number fifty on the definitive list of Billboard’s Hot 100 All-Time Songs from the chart’s first fifty years, August 1958 through July 2008; achieving this status after it spent twenty-five consecutive weeks in the top ten, the longest stay there for any song since “Smooth,” by Santana featuring Rob Thomas, spent thirty weeks there in 1999. With sales of over 4.3 million digital downloads in the US alone, “Apologize” is now the most legally downloaded song in US digital history. “Apologize” has sold in excess of ten million singles worldwide.

Remix version

A remix version of the song is featured on Timbaland’s album Shock Value. This version contains a slightly different beat, using a sampled drum machine, and a sampled backing vocal. The remix version received significant radio play contributing to the song’s overall success.

The ballad remix of “Apologize”… “incorporates an unobtrusive Timbaland beat and some distant vocal accents”.

Music Video

An of the video, also directed by Robert Hales and associated with the remix, Timbaland is shown remixing the song while the camera circles OneRepublic as they perform.

A European version of the video features clips of the film Keinohrhasen, starring Til Schweiger.

In April 2008, “Apologize,” the video of the remix version was the fourth most often viewed video on YouTube, with more than fifty-two million views, but the video has since been removed by the user and is now gone from the most viewed (all time) list. Also, at the moment, the first music video is the seventh most watched on Youtube with 69,809,762 views or with only 49,906 views (0.04% of total views) ahead of the eight most watched video in Youtube, No One . Together, both music videos have had more than 119 million views.n official video associated with the remix was filmed on September 19, 2007 and released in early October. The video made its broadcast debut on VH1′s Top 20 Countdown on October 27, 2007. The video, directed by Robert Hales, was shot in a recording studio and shows Ryan Tedder and the other band members performing the song. The video also includes scenes from a New Year’s Eve countdown party.

Chart performance

“Apologize” became a worldwide success, making it OneRepublic’s breakout hit and first number one hit. In the United States “Apologize” peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 (only behind Alicia Keys number one hit single ” No One” and Flo Rida ft. T-Pain’s hit ” Low”) for four non-consecutive weeks spending eleven weeks at number three and twenty-five weeks inside the top ten and peaking at number three for ten weeks on the Hot 100 Airplay, and became the third single from Shock Value to have topped the Billboard Pop 100. It has also become the album’s first number one single on the Billboard Adult Top 40. It is also the second consecutive single from Shock Value to reach number one on US Mainstream Top 40 radio.

In the United Kingdom, “Apologize” climbed to number thirty-two based on digital downloads alone, and peaked at number three. The song spent 28 consecutive weeks in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart and 13 weeks in the Top 10. The song ended 2007 as the years sixteenth biggest selling single in the UK.

In Australia the single debuted at number ten on the ARIA Singles Chart, and peaked at number one for eight consecutive weeks, and has been certified 2x Platinum by ARIA. It is now the number one most downloaded single of all time in Australia and New Zealand. The song has reached number one on both the Canadian Hot 100 and New Zealand RIANZ Chart. It is the first number one from Shock Value in New Zealand’s RIANZ Chart and has been certified platinum and ran for seven weeks consecutively. Fourth consecutive number one in the Canadian Hot 100, where it spent an impressive thirteen consecutive weeks atop the chart.

On Billboard’s official European Hot 100 chart the song debuted at number sixteen, making it the highest debut chart position of any new act in the history of the chart. In the second week on the European Hot 100 it had entered the top ten.

The song was number four on VH1e’s Top Ten Biggest Hits of 2007.

The song bounced back into the iTunes Top 100 songs charts on May 22, 2008, after the band performed it on the finale of American Idol (season 7) with David Archuleta. Archuleta also performed the song during his set at the American Idols LIVE! Tour.

It did well on TRL and was retired at number four on January 24, 2008, after thirty-five days on the countdown.

Tracks listing

CD single

1. “Apologize (Remix)” (Radio edit)
2. “Apologize (Remix)” (Album version)
3. “Give It to Me” (Laugh at ‘Em Remix)
4. “Give It to Me” (Laugh at ‘Em Remix)

European CD single

1. “Apologize (Remix)” (Radio edit)
2. “Apologize” (Album version)
3. “The Way I Are” (OneRepublic remix)
4. “Apologize (Remix)” (Video)

UK CD single

1. “Apologize (Remix)” (Album version)
2. “Give It to Me” (Laugh at ‘Em Remix) (Radio edit)

Australian CD single

1. “Apologize” (Timbaland presents OneRepublic) – 3:06
2. “Apologize” (OneRepublic Version) – 3:27

Other Information

• Artist: OneRepublic
• Album: Dreaming Out Loud
• Released: 2006 (original release)
• November: 2007 (digital re-release)
• Recorded: 2006
• Genres: Pop rock, piano rock
• Length: 3:28
• Labels: Mosley, Interscope
• Writer: Ryan Tedder
• Producers: Greg Wells, Ryan Tedder

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