Apologize (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Apologize


Caption = iTunes cover
Artist = OneRepublic
Album = Dreaming Out Loud
Released = 2006 (original release)
November 2007 (digital re-release)
track_no = 04
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop rock, piano rock
Length = 3:28
Writer = Ryan Tedder
Label = Mosley, Interscope
Producer = Greg Wells, Ryan Tedder
Last single =
This single = "Apologize"
(2006/2007)
Next single = "Stop and Stare"
(2007)

"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 Timbaland remix of "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic, 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. [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-12-2007/0004703510&EDATE= Timbaland/OneRepublic Shatter Top 40 Radio Airplay Record ] ] The song has 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. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-50.shtml] 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. [http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20080904/LATH03704092008-1.html] "Apologize" has sold in excess of seven million singles worldwide.

Music video

The original music video for the song, which was not officially released, features sepia-toned, grainy footage of Tedder playing the piano and singing.

Remix version

Infobox Single
Name = Apologize (Timbaland Remix)


Artist = Timbaland presents OneRepublic
Album = Shock Value and Dreaming Out Loud
Released = September 17, 2007
(see release history)
track_no = 16/13
Recorded = 2006–2007
Genre = Piano pop, R&B
Length = 3:04
Writer = Ryan Tedder
Label = Interscope
Mixer - [Joe Zook]
Producer = Greg Wells, Ryan Tedder, Timbaland
Certification = 5x Platinum(RIAA)
2x Platinum(ARIA, IFPI SWE)
Gold (IFPI Belgium)
Chronology = Timbaland singles
Last single = "Ayo Technology"
(2007)
This single = "Apologize (Remix)"
(2007)
Next single = "Scream"
(2008)
Misc =

A remix version of the song was 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.

Music video

countdown party. [http://www.discogs.com/release/1220405] In a third version 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. [ [http://www.evertube.com/videos/watch/KHfyDxy8i5o/timbaland-apologize-official-music-video.html Video] ]

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 67,559,754 views. Together, both music videos have had more than 119 million views. Fact|date=May 2008

Chart performance

The Timbaland remix of "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic 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 over eleven weeks at number three and twenty-five weeks inside the top ten and 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" managed to climb to number thirty-two based on digital downloads alone, and peaked at number three. The song ended 2007 as the years sixteenth biggest selling single in the UK. [BBC Music. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles2007.shtml "Top 40 Singles of the Year 2007 "] . Retrieved 2007-12-30]

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. [ [http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1U50 Top 50 Singles Chart - Australian Record Industry Association ] ] [ [http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Timbaland+presents+OneRepublic&titel=Apologize&cat=s australian-charts.com - Timbaland presents OneRepublic - Apologize ] ] 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.

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

#"Apologize (Remix)" (Radio edit)
#"Apologize (Remix)" (Album version)
#"Give It to Me" (Laugh at 'Em Remix) (Radio edit)
#"Give It to Me" (Laugh at 'Em Remix)

European CD single

#"Apologize (Remix)" (Radio edit)
#"Apologize" (Album version)
#"The Way I Are" (OneRepublic remix)
#"Apologize (Remix)" (Video)

UK CD single

#"Apologize (Remix)" (Album version)
#"Give It to Me" (Laugh at 'Em Remix) (Radio edit)

Australian CD single

#"Apologize" (Timbaland presents OneRepublic) - 3:06
#"Apologize" (OneRepublic Version) - 3:27

Release history

ales

"Apologize" has sold in excess of 10,000,000 singles worldwide.

Charts

Precession and succession

s-ttl|title = Canadian Hot 100 number-one single
years = November 3 2007 - January 26 2008s-ttl|title = Turkish Singles Chart number-one single
years = October 25 2007 s-ttl|title = "Billboard" Pop 100 number-one single (first run)
years = November 3 2007 - November 24 2007s-ttl|title = Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
years = November 26 2007 - January 13 2008s-ttl|title = New Zealand RIANZ number-one single
years = October 29 2007 - December 17 2007s-ttl|title = "Billboard" Pop 100 number-one single (second run)
years = December 8 2007 - December 29 2007s-ttl|title = Dutch Top 40 number-one single
years = December 29 2007 - January 25 2008s-ttl|title = Polish National Top 50 number-one single (first run)
years = November 26 2007 - January 10 2008s-ttl|title = Polish National Top 50 number-one single (second run)
years = February 3 2008s-ttl|title = Italian FIMI Singles Chart number-one single first run
years = February 14 - February 21 2008s-ttl|title = Italian FIMI Singles Chart number-one single second run
years = February 28 2008 - March 5 2008s-ttl|title = Slovak Airplay Chart number-one single
years = November 8 2007 - February 21 2008s-ttl|title = Bulgarian National Top 40 number-one single
years = December 9 2007 - January 26 2008s-ttl|title = UK Download Chart number one download
years = January 9 2008 - January 16s-ttl|title = Los 40 Principales Spain
years = May 17 2008 Sucession box
before = "1973" by James Blunt
title = United World Chart number-one single (first run)
years = November 10 2007 - November 24 2007
after = No One by Alicia KeysSucession box
before = "No One by Alicia Keys
title = United World Chart number-one single (second run)
years = December 15 2007 - February 23 2008
after = "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna

References

External links

*youtube|O_3XRx8EnuI|Official music video for "Apologize"
*youtube|RY2MRaVRokM|Official music video for "Apologize" International version
*youtube|uisl4Yc1kjI|Official music video for "Apologize" "KeinOhrHasen" version
*youtube|REsezs6cQRc|Unofficial original music video for "Apologize"
*youtube|ePyRrb2-fzs|Unofficial music video by Aaron Platt for "Apologize"