Morrison reunites with previous collaborators and adds Tedder.

James Morrison has become the latest UK artist to benefit from the incredible songwriting prowess of Ryan Tedder.

The One Republic frontman, whose hits with British acts include Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love and Natasha Bedingfield's Love Like This, has co- written Please Don't Stop The Rain for Sony/ATV-signed Morrison's second album Songs For You Truths For Me.

"Unlike some of the other people, Ryan Tedder sought us out," says Morrison's manager Paul McDonald. "I believe he heard some of James' music when he was in the offices of Interscope and then contacted Colin Barlow."

The album, which is released today (Monday), reunites the Polydor artist with a number of the songwriters he collaborated with on his chart-topping first album Undiscovered, while Tedder - signed to Kobalt for his work outside One Republic - and others come on board for the first time.

Sony/ATV A&R manager Flash Taylor says, although the first album surpassed expectations commercially, it was important not to be complacent with the second album.

"It's great to have a multi-platinum album, but you cannot rest on your laurels because there is a danger between albums people will forget who the artist is. James had to come back with an album of killer tunes," he says.

That was reflected by around 50 songs competing to try to make the album, with McDonald noting, "On this record James wanted to set the bar really high and he was really hard on himself. He started the process last October with a visit to LA with John Shanks and he kept going. In one interview he said he'd written too many songs."