Their fourth single and follow up to "Say (All I Need)" is "Mercy" and was released in the autumn of 2008. They returned to Fox's So You Think You Can Dance on Jwith a live performance of their third single "Say (All I Need)" On May 21, 2008, the band appeared on the American Idol (season 7) finale performing a duet of "Apologize" with finalist David Archuleta. They also performed "Stop and Stare" on the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance on April 7, 2008. They performed "Stop and Stare" and "Mercy" live on the Smallville episode, "Hero," which aired March 13, 2008. It was also played at the end of four television shows- Cold Case episode "Sabotage," Smallville's "Hero," Hollyoaks and Gossip Girl episode "Hi, Society." The follow-up single to "Apologize" is "Stop and Stare". 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. 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. I don't wanna go to war, cause you are mine and no more lie and now I'm commited and I don't mean crimes and I won't hurt'chu.OneRepublic is an American, self-proclaimed "genreless", band formed in Colorado Springs in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins. I made a decision to leave the door behind and I'm ready to move forward. So please if you down to teach, baby girl I'm here to listen cause the games over, shorty I'm thinkin'a quitin. Somethin inside me made me close that door.Īnd that's the past, don't let it affect our future, cause I'm ready to learn more and you can be my tutor. I was in da deep, I cheated, had alotta secrets, and I know why they call me the creep, cause I was always creepin, but now I've changed ain't the man no more. I played alotta games and it was just to tale to quit. I Apologize for everything that I been did. And I was not a good man, but ever since I met you I've changed. And you know what? Maybe I had a reason to tell you dat, cause you know I did have a past. There's alotta people right now, tellin you alotta things about me.