Losing my Religion, the timeless classic by the North American band R.E.M., has seen significant growth in streaming on Spotify Brazil in 2024. According to information from Universal Music, the comical video, set to this famous song from the album Out of timesince 1991, amounts to more than 1.3 million views to date.
Furthermore, it was observed at 36% increase in daily consumption From Losing my Religion node Spotify only in the first half of September.
In the platform’s overall stream count, the song accumulates more than 1.4 billion plays.
REM: The 40 songs chosen by the band members
Former members of R.E.M., one of the most acclaimed bands in rock history, have created a list of their 40 Favorite Songs of the Group and the result was surprising in just one detail.
The band’s greatest hits they were not chosen by them.
Iconic tracks like Losing my religion, bright and happy people AND Everyone hurts They didn’t even come close to matching the musicians’ choices.
“Just for fun, Bill, Peter, Mike, and Michael put together a cool playlist of their 40 favorite REM songs. Each guy picked ten songs, and the results are pretty interesting: Michael’s are 1-10, Peter’s are 11-20, Mike’s are 21-30, and Bill’s are 31-40.”REM wrote on his official profile on Instagram.
The result was the creation of a playlist on Spotify.
5 years ago, R.E.M. returned to Billboard after 24 years with the album ‘Monster’
In 2019, the REM returned to Billboard’s coveted best-selling albums list with the album’s 25th anniversary commemorative re-release Monster, who have joined the Billboard 200 on November 16 of the same year at 115th position, with an increase of 1.237% of album salesjumping to 7 thousand equivalent units. The information comes from billboard and from Music Nielsen.
Monster last appeared on the Billboard 200 in October 1995after reaching the top of said list in October 15, 1994. This would be the second time R.E.M. had reached number one: the first was in 1991 with the classic Out of time.
At that time, Monster he also remained 3rd place among the best-selling vinyl records in the USA.
The album revealed the mega successes What’s the frequency, Kenneth?, Bang and Blame AND Strange currencies.
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