Dreaming Out Loud by One Republic

Dreaming Out Loud, OneRepublic's debut, finally reached stores on November 20, 2007, through Timbaland's Mosley Music Group at Interscope, after a long and bumpy road. The Colorado Springs band had cut an album with Greg Wells at his Rocket Carousel studio in Culver City in 2005, only for Columbia to drop them two months before its planned release, while their songs racked up more than 28 million plays on Myspace. Wells produced the finished record, Ryan Tedder produced two tracks himself, and Joe Zook engineered and mixed it.

It's big, earnest pop rock with Tedder's soaring voice out front, and critics were quick to hear U2, Coldplay, The Fray, Muse and Snow Patrol in it, not always kindly. None of that slowed down Timbaland's remix of "Apologize", a number one in many countries and a number 2 on the Hot 100, and "Stop and Stare" kept the momentum rolling.

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