The band performed "Apologize" live on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance on August 2, 2007, and with Timbaland on an episode of One Life to Live in October 2007. The song held the #1 position for five months before the record was broken by "Bleeding Love", a song co-written and produced by Tedder. The week of November 10, 2007, "Apologize" was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of Top 40 radio in North America, racking up an astounding 10,331 spins in one week. Official Top 40 Week on November 11, 2007. The single, as featured on Shock Value, has gone 3x Platinum (marking three million copies sold in the U.S) and 5 million copies worldwide. The song was also prominently featured as a remix on Timbaland's 2007 release of Shock Value.
Contents OneRepublic's song "Apologize", written by Ryan Tedder, was released in its original version on the band's debut album Dreaming Out Loud.
Their third single, "Say (All I Need)", has been released in the UK and in the U.S. The band's second single, "Stop and Stare," has also crossed the 2 million mark in terms of worldwide single sales. with the bands total album sales coming to over 1.5 million worldwide so far. As of June 14, 2008, Dreaming Out Loud had sold 761,298 copies in the U.S. Their debut album was released in the United States on November 20, 2007, with international release dates staggered throughout early 2008. A remix of "Apologize" was featured on Timbaland's Shock Value and the band's debut album, Dreaming Out Loud, produced by Greg Wells. The song, according to SoundScan Data, is one of only two songs that have reached 3 million legal downloads in history. After a few years of moderate success, they have since drawn mainstream attention with the release of their single "Apologize," which has sold in excess of 7 million singles worldwide. The band also stated, “due to the current circumstances requiring us to distance ourselves from each other and you, the release has been postponed.” On July 1, 2021, the band announced via their Instagram account that the official release date for Human would be August 27, 2021.OneRepublic is an American, self-proclaimed "genreless", band formed in Colorado Springs in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins. Tedder stated that the May 8 release date was delayed because of it being a “weird time”, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tedder also said the band had “two years worth of songs just scattered on hard drives” and were trying to find and finish “the best ones” to make “a coherent album out of the last two years”.
Tedder later revealed that the album had been delayed until the second quarter of 2020 because it was “physically impossible to finish an album in the timeframe that we thought we needed it”, and he believed the album would not be successful if released between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Tedder stated that he wanted to put out an album with eight or nine songs and then continue releasing new music in 2020. The album was announced by frontman Ryan Tedder in September 2019, with a planned release in “late November” of that year.