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“Apologize” is a song written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder for Britney Spears’ fifth studio album, but Spears didn’t record it. A few months later, Tedder recorded and used the music in the band’s debut album Dreaming Out Loud. A remix version was included on the Timbaland album, Shock Value and on the deluxe version of Dreaming Out Loud. Luke Bryan also covered this song on his new album, Doin’ My Thing. The song was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of the Top 40 radio in North America, with 10,331 plays in one week, until its record was broken by Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,“ which was also co-written by Tedder. The song was a major hit internationally, reaching number-one in 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, New... Read on...