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.
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lucky760>>OneRepublic covers Timbaland's song Apologize.
Actually, it was all confusing to me at first, but OneRepublic didn't cover Timbaland's song, but their own song. Timbaland just produced the remix with them and added a "Yeah, yeah" here and there as background vocals.
You should totally * beg this into Beggar's Canyon. This should be published. (I'd promote but I have nary a point.)
Stingray>> ^lucky760:
>> OneRepublic covers Timbaland's song Apologize.
Actually, it was all confusing to me at first, but OneRepublic didn't cover Timbaland's song, but their own song. Timbaland just produced the remix with them and added a "Yeah, yeah" here and there as background vocals.
You should totally beg this into Beggar's Canyon. This should be published. (I'd promote but I have nary a point.)
Thanks lucky, I have always been confused about this "remix" in regards to who the original writer was and so on. I wiki-ed up some info and helped better explain this in the video description.
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soulmonarchI actually like the song, but the video annoys me for some reason... ><
Upvote anyway.
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