ONEREPUBLIC Adds 22 Additional Dates to Upcoming Summer Tour

According to Billboard, popular music group OneRepublic have added 27 new dates to their upcoming summer tour to support their most recent album 'Native'.

"We always knew we were going to go out again in the summer, we just didn't know in what capacity or how big or whatever," said frontman Ryan Tedder. "To test the waters, we picked mostly the major markets for the June tour, and it blew out so quickly in so many of the cities that... we were just kind of stupefied.

However, with the large success of their single 'Counting Stars', ticket sales were far greater than originally anticipated for the Colorado-based band. 'Counting Stars', the third single off of 'Native', peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 last year, in addition to reaching No. 1 on the Pop Songs and Adult Top 40 charts respectively. The track has been the band's most successful single in six years.

"It's always been a slow-growth process with this band; everything about this band is the tortoise. We're not the hare. We've always been the tortoise. That's what this tour is." Ryan Tedder added. "It's always been a building experience for us -- like I said, we are the tortoise, we're the kid in the back of the classroom that doesn't really talk a lot and by the end of the school year might just end up being the valedictorian".

At this point in their success, this analogy is certainly not a stretch.

Tedder futher teased fans by announcing the band's plans to play new never-before-heard songs on the upcoming tour, consisting of tracks in the works for the next OneRepublic album. However, the group is not scheduled to actually hit the recording studios until this fall while they embark on their European tour. Tedder explained, "The goal is, by the time we get off the road, that we already have half an album in the bag and already know what the singles are going to be, which is very ambitious but I'd prefer to do that rather than go into panic mode in 2015 and not know what the hell we're doing. We've gotten pretty adept at writing on the road."

OneRepublic will be joined by pop-rock acts The Script and American Authors on the upcoming tour. For a full list of dates, see below.

May 28 - Denver, Colo. (Red Rocks Amphitheatre)
May 29 - Denver, Colo. (Red Rocks Amphitheatre)
May 31 - Albuquerque, N.M. (Islete Amphitheatre)
June 1 - Phoenix, Ariz. (Ak-Chin Pavilion)
June 2 - San Diego, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheatre)
June 3 - Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 5 - Los Angeles, Calif. (Hollywood Bowl)
June 6 - Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheatre)
June 7 - Concord, Calif. (Concord Pavilion)
June 8 - Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater)
June 10 - Portland, Ore. (Sleep Country Amphitheater)
June 12 - Seattle, Wash. (Comcast Arena)
June 13 - Boise, Idaho (Taco Bell Arena)
June 14 - Salt Lake City, Utah (USANA Amphitheatre)
June 17 - Minneapolis, Minn. (Target Center)
June 18 - Chicago, Ill. (Revinia Festival)
June 19 - Chicago, Ill. (Revinia Festival)
June 21 - Detroit, Mich. (DTE Music Energy Theatre)
June 22 - Toronto, Ontario (Molson Canadian Amphitheatre)
June 24 - Boston, Mass. (Blue Hills Bank Pavilion)
June 25 - Boston, Mass. (Blue Hills Bank Pavilion)
June 27 - Bristow, Va. (Jiffy Lube Live)
June 28 - Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
June 29 - Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon at Jones Beach Theater)
July 30 - Omaha, Neb. (CenturyLink Center)
Aug. 1 - Kansas City, Mo. (Starlight Theatre)
Aug. 2 - St. Louis, Mo. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
Aug. 3 - Indianapolis, Ind. (Klipsch Music Center)
Aug. 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio (Riverbend Music Center)
Aug. 6 - Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center)
Aug. 8 - Pittsburgh, Pa. (First Niagara Pavilion)
Aug. 9 - Darien Lake, N.Y. (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 10 - Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
Aug. 12 - Virginia Beach, Va. (Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach)
Aug. 13 - Raleigh, N.C. (Walnut Creek Amphitheatre)
Aug. 14 - Charlotte, N.C. (PNC Music Pavilion)
Aug. 16 - Tampa Bay, Fla. (MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre)
Aug. 17 - West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
Aug. 19 - Atlanta, Ga. (Chastain Park Amphitheatre)
Aug. 21 - New Orleans, La. (UNO Lakefront Arena)
Aug. 22 - Houston, Texas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Aug. 23 - Austin, Texas (Austin360 Amphitheatre)
Aug. 25 - San Antonio, Texas (Freeman Coliseum)
Aug. 26 - Dallas, Texas (Gexa Energy Pavilion)
Aug. 28 - Tulsa, Okla. (BOK Center)

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