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Chart Rewind: In 1994, R.E.M. Had a ‘Monster’ Week on the Billboard 200
R.E.M.'s 'Monster' debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 15, 1994, marking the band's biggest career sales week. Here's the chart rewind.
Billboard ’s review of Monster in the Oct. 1, 1994, issue praised R.E.M.’s crunchier turn on the set: “After a glorious acoustic phase, band reverts to the power-pop sound it sported in the late ‘80s, now sharpened with an industrial edge. In 1997, drummer Bill Berry left R.E.M., which continued as a trio of lead singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter Buck. The group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 and upped its count to 10 Billboard 200 top 10s through its last LP of all-new music, Collapse Into Now, in 2011, when Stipe, Mills and Buck announced their amicable split on R.E.M.’s website.
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