It also became the album's first number-one single on the Billboard Adult Top 40. It also topped the Billboard Pop 100 and became the third single from Shock Value to have topped the chart. It spent 11 weeks at number three and 25 weeks inside the top 10 and peaked at number three for 10 weeks on the Hot 100 Airplay. In the United States, "Apologize" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for four non-consecutive weeks, first blocked from the top spot for two weeks by Chris Brown's "Kiss Kiss" and then for two weeks by Alicia Keys' "No One". "Apologize" was OneRepublic's breakout hit and first number-one hit. It has more than 100 million views as of March 2016. A fan made video by Aaron Platt is also popular. It also features footage of people falling and floating in the air in slow motion. It features the same footage as the original but has more scenes from different angles of the camera. A Japanese version of the video was also made available for a short time. A European version of the video features clips of the film Keinohrhasen, starring Til Schweiger. In a third version of the video, also directed by Robert Hales and associated with the remix, Timbaland is shown remixing the song himself. The video also includes scenes from a New Year's Eve countdown party, starring actor Brian A. The video was directed by Robert Hales and was shot in a recording studio showing OneRepublic performing the song. The video premiered on VH1's Top 20 Countdown on October 27, 2007. As the song gained popularity it was changed to "Timbaland Presents OneRepublic"Īn official video associated with the remix was filmed on Septemand released in early October. When the remix debuted, on the back of the strong Timbaland name, radio outlets announced the artist for the song as "Timbaland" or "Timbaland with OneRepublic". The guitar solo after the second verse was omitted, completing its transformation to a more R&B style to fit with Shock Value. This version, also produced by Greg Wells, included an extra line of percussion, new backing vocals, and added sound samples, in addition to sound mixing and various other minor changes. Timbaland remixed the song for his second studio album, Shock Value. It was OneRepublic's biggest hit single in the United States until " Counting Stars" was released in 2013. It was also ranked number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. It spent 25 consecutive weeks in the top 10, the longest stay there for any song since "Smooth" by Santana, which spent 30 weeks in 1999. "Apologize" earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and was ranked number 50 on the list of the Billboard Hot 100's All-Time Top Songs list from the chart's first 50 years. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, staying in the top-10 for 25 weeks, and spent 13 weeks at number one in Canada. The song was a major hit internationally, reaching number one in 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Turkey, and the Netherlands, as well as staying at number one for eight consecutive weeks on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. The song was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of the Mainstream Top 40 chart in North America, with 10,394 plays in one week, until its record was broken by Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love", which was also co-written by Tedder. A remix version was included on the Timbaland album, Shock Value and on the deluxe version of Dreaming Out Loud. It was released as the lead single of that album on April 30, 2006.
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However, there overall tone of the song was sad and the theme was about a young man that knew it was time to let go of a girl that had hurt him even though he did not want to.This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).Īpologize is the debut single written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder for OneRepublic's debut album Dreaming Out Loud. The attitudes and feeling of this song shift after the first stanza from how he loved the girl to how he knew it was time to let go. The attitude of this song is nostalgic because he knows it is about time to let go even though he doesn’t want too. The singers use the metaphor of the ten meter rope to express how what he has been through and how much he has hold on to the girl and the fire to know how his feelings are vanishing. The damage was already done and even though she tried to apologize, there was no going back for her actions he had already been through too much. His love for her was starting to fade and the flame he had was starting to die down. However, she hurt him really badly and this time he was not going to apologize her. Her boyfriend, the person how is singing the song, was very caring with her, never let her go and was willing to take another chance and anything just to stay with her. This song is about a girl that hurt his boyfriend as is trying to apologize for her mistakes.