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This page lists albums, singles and compilations by the band R.E.M., alongside their chart positions, release date (U.S.), and sales achievements in the U.S. and UK.

Contents 1 Studio albums 2 EPs 3 Live albums 4 Compilation albums 5 Soundtracks 6 Singles 6.1 Notes 7 Christmas Fan Club singles 8 Internet-only releases

Year	Chart Statistics
1983	Murmur Released: April 11, 1983 U.S. #36 RIAA Certification: Gold[1]
1984	Reckoning Released: April 16, 1984 U.S. #27 UK #91 RIAA Certification: Gold[2]
1985	Fables of the Reconstruction Released: June 10, 1985 U.S. #28 UK #35 RIAA Certification: Gold[3]
1986	Lifes Rich Pageant Released: July 28, 1986 U.S. #21 UK #43 RIAA Certification: Gold[4]
1987	Document Released: September 1, 1987 U.S. #10 UK #28 RIAA Certification: Platinum[5]
1988	Green Released: November 8, 1988 U.S. #10 UK #27 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum[6]
1991	Out of Time Released: March 12, 1991 U.S. #1 UK #1 Austria #1 RIAA Certification: 4x Platinum[7]
1992	Automatic for the People Released: October 6, 1992 U.S. #2 UK #1 Austria #3 RIAA Certification: 4x Platinum[8]
1994	Monster Released: September 27, 1994 U.S. #1 UK #1 Austria #1 RIAA Certification: 4x Platinum[9]
1996	New Adventures in Hi-Fi Released: September 10, 1996 U.S. #2 UK #1 Austria #1 RIAA Certification: Platinum[10]
1998	Up Released: October 27, 1998 U.S. #3 UK #2 Austria #1 RIAA Certification: Gold[11]
2001	Reveal Released: May 15, 2001 U.S. #6 UK #1 Austria #1 RIAA Certification: Gold[12]
2004	Around the Sun Released: October 5, 2004 U.S. #13 UK #1 Austria #1

Year	Chart Statistics
1982	Chronic Town Released: August 24, 1982

Year	Chart Statistics
2007	R.E.M. Live Released: October 15, 2007 US #72

Year	Chart Statistics
1987	Dead Letter Office Released: April 27, 1987 U.S. #52 UK #60
1988	Eponymous Released: October 18, 1988 U.S. #44 UK #69
1991	The Best of R.E.M.† Released: September 30, 1991 UK #7 Austria #22
1994	R.E.M.: Singles Collected† Released: 1994
1997	R.E.M.: In the Attic† Released: October 7, 1997 U.S. #185
2003	In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 Released: October 28, 2003 U.S. #8 UK #1 Austria #1
2006	And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Released: September 12, 2006 U.S. #116 UK #70

^† denotes compilation was released out-of-contract

Year	Chart Statistics
1999	Man on the Moon Released: November 23, 1999 U.S. #109

Year	Single	UK Singles Chart	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. Mainstream Rock	U.S. Modern Rock	Album
1981	"Radio Free Europe" (Hib-Tone version)	–	–	–	–	Non-album release
1983	"Radio Free Europe" (re-recorded version)	–	78	25	–	Murmur
	"Talk About the Passion"	–	–	–	–
1984	"So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"	–	85	–	–	Reckoning
	"(Don't Go Back to) Rockville"	–	–	–	–
1985	"Cant Get There From Here"	–	–	14	–	Fables of the Reconstruction
	"Driver 8"	–	–	22	–
	"Wendell Gee"	91	–	–	–
1986	"Fall On Me"	–	94	5	–	Lifes Rich Pageant
	"Superman"	–	–	17	–
1987	"Ages of You" ³	–	–	39	–	Dead Letter Office
	"The One I Love" ¹	16	9	2	–	Document
	"It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" ²	39	69	16	–
1988	"Finest Worksong"	50	–	28	–
	"Stand"	48	6	1	1(2)	Green
	"Orange Crush"	28	–	1	1(8)
1989	"Pop Song 89"	–	86	14	16
	"Get Up"	–	–	–	–
	"Turn You Inside-Out" ³	–	–	7	10
1991	"Losing My Religion"	19	4	1	1(8)	Out of Time
	"Shiny Happy People"	6	10	8	3
	"Near Wild Heaven"	27	–	–	–
	"Radio Song"	28	–	–	–
	"Texarkana" ³	–	–	7	4
1992	"Drive"	11	28	2	1(5)	Automatic for the People
	"First We Take Manhattan" ³	–	–	–	11	I'm Your Fan: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
	"Ignoreland" ³	–	–	4	5	Automatic for the People
1993	"Man on the Moon"	18	30	4	2(1)
	"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"	17	–	28	24
	"Everybody Hurts"	7	29	–	21
	"Nightswimming"	28	–	–	–
	"Find the River"	54	–	–	–
	"Photograph"	–	–	–	9	Born To Choose
1994	"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"	9	21	2	1(5)	Monster
	"Bang and Blame"	15	19	3	1(3)
1995	"Star 69" ³	–	–	15	8
	"Strange Currencies"	9	47	8	14
	"Crush With Eyeliner" (UK-only release)	23	–	20	33
	"Tongue" (UK-only release)	13	–	–	–
1996	"E-Bow the Letter"	4	49	15	2(1)	New Adventures In Hi-Fi
	"Bittersweet Me"	19	46	7	6
1997	"Electrolite"	29	96	–	–
	"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"	–	–	–	–
	"The Wake-Up Bomb" ³	–	–	30	–
1998	"Daysleeper"	6	57	30	18	Up
	"Lotus"	26	–	31	31
1999	"At My Most Beautiful"	10	–	–	–
	"Suspicion"	–	–	–	–
2000	"The Great Beyond"	3	57	33	11	Man on the Moon OST
2001	"Imitation of Life"	6	83	–	22	Reveal
	"All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)"	24	–	–	–
	"I'll Take the Rain"	44	–	–	–
2003	"Bad Day"	8	–	–	–	In Time: The Best of R.E.M.
2004	"Animal"	33	–	–	–
	"Leaving New York"	5	–	–	–	Around the Sun
	"Aftermath"	41	–	–	–
2005	"Electron Blue"	26	–	–	–
	"Wanderlust"	27	–	–	–
2007	"#9 Dream"	–	101	–	–	Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur

¹ "The One I Love" reached #51 in UK, #16 in 1991 re-issue.
² "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" reached #87 in UK, #39 in 1991 re-issue.
³ "Ages of You", "Turn You Inside-Out", "Texarkana", "First We Take Manhattan", "Ignoreland", "Star 69" and "The Wake-Up Bomb" were not released as standard singles. They managed to chart on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and/or Modern Rock Tracks chart, which measure airplay on rock radio stations in the United States.

Every Christmas since 1988 R.E.M. have rewarded members of their official fan club with special, exclusive singles. Here are all the songs to have featured in each of those packages:

• "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" (R.E.M. original)/"See No Evil" (Television cover) (1988) Green vinyl 7"
• "Good King Wenceslas" (traditional)/"Academy Fight Song" (Mission of Burma cover) (1989) Vinyl 7"
• "Ghost Reindeer in the Sky" (spoof of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by Stan Jones)/"Summertime" (George Gershwin) (1990) Vinyl 7"
• "Baby Baby" (Vibrators cover)/"Christmas Griping" (R.E.M. original) (1991) Vinyl 7"
• "Where's Captain Kirk?" (Spizzenergi cover)/"Toyland" (Victor Herbert/Glen MacDonough, from Babes in Toyland) (1992) Vinyl 7"
• "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)/"Christmas Time Is Here" (Vince Guaraldi/Lee Mendelson, from A Charlie Brown Christmas) (1993) Vinyl 7"
• "Sex Bomb" (Flipper cover)/"Christmas in Tunisia" (R.E.M. original) (1994) Vinyl 7"
• "Wicked Game" (Chris Isaak cover)/"Java" (Allen Toussaint instrumental cover) (1995) Vinyl 7"
• "Only in America" (Jay & the Americans cover)/"I Will Survive" (Gloria Gaynor cover) (1996) Vinyl 7"
• "Live for Today" (R.E.M. original)/"Happy When I'm Crying" (performed by Pearl Jam; Pearl Jam original) (1997) Vinyl 7"
• "E-Bow the Letter" (live video, with backing vocals by Thom Yorke) /"Lucky" (live video, performed by Radiohead with vocals by Michael Stipe; Radiohead original) (both recorded at the Tibetan Freedom Concert, Washington, D.C. (1998) VHS
• "Country Feedback" (live version of the R.E.M. original, with Neil Young on guitar)/"Ambulance Blues" (performed by Neil Young and R.E.M.; Neil Young original) (1999) CD
• "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" (Beatles cover)/"Hastings and Main" (R.E.M. original)/"Take Seven" (R.E.M. original) (2000) Blue vinyl 7"
• "Let Me In" (live)/"Find the River" (live)/"Find the River" (Athens rehearsal video) (2001) CD ROM
• "No Matter What" (Badfinger cover)/"Jesus Christ" (Big Star cover)/video footage of Michael Stipe reading from a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (2002) CD ROM
• "Country Feedback" (live, with Wilco) /"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (live, with Wilco) (2003) CD
• "I Wanted to Be Wrong" (live)/"She Just Wants to Be" (live) (2004) CD
• "Turn You Inside Out" (live video)/"The Great Beyond" (live video) (2005) DVD
• "Tongue" (live, performed by Tin Cup Prophette)/"So. Central Rain" (live)/"These Days" (live, performed by The Observatory (band)|The Observatory)/"Begin The Begin" (live) (2006) CD
• "Merry Xmas Everybody" (Slade cover)/"Magnetic North" (2007) CD

• R.E.M.IX (2002) - remixes of Reveal tracks
• Not Bad for No Tour (2001) - live songs

v • d • e R.E.M.
Peter Buck · Mike Mills · Michael Stipe Bill Berry
Accompaniment	Scott McCaughey · Bill Rieflin · Ken Stringfellow · Amanda Brown · Nathan December · Buren Fowler · Peter Holsapple · Barrett Martin · Joey Waronker
Management and producers	Bertis Downs, IV · Jacknife Lee · Joe Boyd · Don Dixon · Mitch Easter · Don Gehman · Jefferson Holt · Scott Litt · Pat McCarthy
Studio albums and EPs	Chronic Town · Murmur · Reckoning · Fables of the Reconstruction · Lifes Rich Pageant · Document · Green · Out of Time · Automatic for the People · Monster · New Adventures in Hi-Fi · Up · Reveal · Around the Sun · Upcoming studio album #14
Compilations	Dead Letter Office · Eponymous · The Best of R.E.M. · Singles Collected · In the Attic · In Time · And I Feel Fine
Other albums	Athens Andover · Man on the Moon · Not Bad for No Tour · r.e.m.IX · R.E.M. Live
Singles	List of singles
Videos	Succumbs · Tourfilm · Pop Screen · This Film Is On · Parallel · Road Movie · In View · Perfect Square · When the Light Is Mine
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