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Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Andrew Unterberger. Copied to clipboard. Instead, the guitarist Brent Kutzle came to play the bass. With him, the band's sound changed, as musicians began to use the cello, which the bassist plays skillfully. After "Apologize," the musicians were invited on television, and in OneRepublic went on tour with Maroon 5 and Brandi Carlile. The band's first album, Dreaming Out Loud, was released in and went platinum in the United States.

A former member, Jarrod Bettis, developed the cover for it. The single "Come Home" was recorded with Sara Bareilles. Tedder wrote a song in memory of a friend who served in the army outside the country, and as a tribute to American soldiers.

In , OneRepublic released its second album, Waking Up, which ranked 21st in the Billboard chart. In the same year, the band recorded a song with Leona Lewis "Lost Then Found," which is included in the album of the singer.

The actor is a fan of the American band. Four years later, one of the most successful records of the musicians, Native, saw the light of day. The band recorded songs for it in different countries. The group went to Paris to Philippe Zdar who helped them with their first record. According to leader Ryan Tedder, OneRepublic has always been and remains a band that strives for diversity in sound.

The quality of the music was improved with each new record. In , the team recorded the single Ordinary Human, which became a track for the film The Giver, in which viewers see the perfect world of the future.

In the same year, another single came out, OneRepublic — Love Runs Out, and the director Sophie Muller shot a music video on it in the style of arthouse. Two years later, the fourth album, Oh My My, came out. According to Tedder, it was their best work.

The musicians recorded songs in different countries. The work on the album began in Poland. The group originally performed its music under the name This Beautiful Mess, but the group performed at one talent show and disbanded after about a week.

From there, the duo devoted themselves to spending time as a team sharpening their skills as both musicians and songwriters.

In the summer between his junior and senior year of college, Ryan earned a record deal as the result of winning a songwriting contest on MTV. After turning down the record deal following the MTV contest, Ryan set out for Nashville, Tennessee to improve his skills as a songwriter.

Zach, on the other hand, had stayed in school to study aerospace engineering at a college in Illinois. In , both men found themselves back in Colorado and ready to give their musical career another shot as a duo.

After deciding to give it another shot, the pair moved to Los Angeles. Within nine months of moving to Los Angeles the pair had signed a deal with Columbia Records. Third of the OneRepublic albums, Native was released worldwide on March 26, The album was to release at the end of , but due to being incomplete was pushed further ahead.

Counting Stars , the third single from the OneRepublic album peaked at number 2 at the Billboard Hot list, just as their single, Apologize.

The band received positive reviews and Native was one of the chart-topping OneRepublic albums that had a spot on the top 20 of the Billboard in over 11 countries. It was released on October 7, , by Interstate Records. It was one of the OneRepublic albums that could not do commercially well, due to the absence of a chart-topping single.