Apologize - Timbaland (feat. OneRepublic) (3:15)

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.

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.

An 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. 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.

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 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.

Text paraphrased from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologize_(song)

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