Everybody Hurts Single: R.E.M. Album: Automatic for the People Released: April 5, 1993 Genre: Alternative rock, soft rock Songwriters: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe "Everybody Hurts" - released from R.E.M . 's eighth studio album, Automatic for the People - peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It reached the top 10 on the Australian, Canadian, and UK music charts. In 2003, Q ranked the song number 31 of the "1001 Best Songs Ever." Blender placed it at number 238 of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" in 2005. It topped a poll compiled by PRS For Music of the songs most likely to make a grown man cry. Second in the list came Eric Clapton 's " Tears In Heaven " followed by Leonard Cohen 's " Hallelujah ."