Why Ryan Tedder loves visiting Ed Sheeran in Suffolk

Ryan Tedder is riding high right now.

He scored one of the hottest summer tunes of 2016 with OneRepublic's Wherever You Go and is also guesting on Cassius's huge new tune The Missing.

Now, his band have dropped the second single from their (as-yet untitled) fourth album Kids and it is already a well-traveled tune.

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"We've not stopped traveling," Ryan told Nick Grimshaw on today's Breakfast Show.

"Kids was written in London, Mexico City, Tokyo and Colorado. The whole album is like that.

"We're in Iceland next week for a couple of days and I have to finish the last two songs on the album that don't have my final vocals."

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Ryan also revealed he's been visiting Ed Sheeran in Suffolk to write more hit singles and that the two have bonded because of they both grew up in the middle of nowhere.

"I was talking to Ed Sheeran a few weeks ago, I was out in Suffolk with him, writing," Ryan said.

"We're in the middle of nowhere. Where he is, there's literally nothing anywhere nearby [I asked him] 'how did you end up writing all these hit records?' and he had the same exact upbringing in terms of his exposure.

"When you're in the middle of nowhere and you don't have a ton of distractions, your escape is music. My Top 40 station, the equivalent of Radio 1 where i'm from, was my only escape.

"When there's less to do, you write songs."

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It has been three years since OneRepublic dropped their third album, Native, but fans will be relieved to know the follow-up is nearly complete.

"If I don't hand it in by the last week of August, i'm pretty much dead," he joked.

"I'll get picked up by some shadowy figures in a limousine and i'll be taken to a dark place.

"I have to hand it in by the end of August."