Latest available artist snapshot; observation coverage varies by metric.
R.E.M. ranks #371 worldwide and currently has 23,029,394 monthly listeners and 5,889,937 followers. StreamClout groups R.E.M. in the superstar tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 57 albums and 1,148 tracks and has drawn 23,718,492,570 Spotify streams in total.
R.E.M. lost 260.6K monthly listeners (-1.1%) over the last 7 days and lost 872.2K monthly listeners (-3.6%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 10.5K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 with 4,733,482,654 streams. The first release on record dates to 1981 — 45 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in São Paulo (515.7K listeners), Santiago (405.7K listeners) and Mexico City (359.6K listeners).
R.E.M. marked the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded trad
R.E.M. currently has 23,029,394 monthly listeners on Spotify. That's a -1.1% recorded count change across 7 observed days.
R.E.M. has 23,718,492,570 total streams across 1148 tracks on Spotify.
R.E.M. has 5,889,937 followers on Spotify. They are ranked #371 globally.
R.E.M.'s top cities by listeners are São Paulo, Santiago, Mexico City, London, Sydney.