“Everybody Hurts” also went over well in R.E.M.’s home country, going to No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. The commercial success was helped, maybe even overshadowed, by the song’s music video.

'Everybody Hurts' was the fourth single off R.E.M.'s multiplatinum 'Automatic for the People,' which the band released on Oct. 5, 1992.

I saw REM live later that year, and hearing them play Everybody Hurts, with 100,000 other voices in the crowd remains a very special memory to me. Helen, London I am not surprised Simon Cowell thought ...

Pink and Kelly Clarkson seem to know how we’re feeling. This has been a year -- especially the last few months -- marked by a seemingly unending torrent of bad news, from natural disasters to a ...

Everybody Hurts is not a typical REM song. For one thing, you can make out all of singer-songwriter Michael Stipe's words. More importantly, it's immediately obvious what they mean: don't give up.