The Visitor (Neil Young and Promise of the Real album)

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The Visitor
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Studio album by
Neil Young and Promise of the Real
ReleasedDecember 1, 2017 (2017-12-01)
Recorded
  • November 4 – 7, 2016
  • June 9, 2017
  • August 5 – 7, 2017
Studio
Genre Rock
Length51:11
Label Reprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Hitchhiker
(2017)		The Visitor
(2017)		 Paradox
(2018)
Promise of the Real chronology
Something Real
(2016)		The Visitor
(2017)		 Paradox
(2018)
No.TitleLength
1."Already Great"5:47
2."Fly by Night Deal"2:37
3."Almost Always"4:50
4."Stand Tall"5:13
5."Change of Heart"5:54
6."Carnival"8:21
7."Diggin' a Hole"2:33
8."Children of Destiny"3:24
9."When Bad Got Good"2:00
10."Forever"10:32

Critical reception

The Visitor has a 68/100 average on Metacritic. [5]

Personnel

Additional roles

Charts

Chart (2017–18)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 85
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [8] 32
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 29
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 87
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [11] 43
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 39
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [13] 47
French Albums (SNEP) [14] 113
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] 25
Irish Albums (IRMA) [16] 45
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ) [17] 5
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [18] 36
Scottish Albums (OCC) [19] 36
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [20] 52
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [21] 32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 40
UK Albums (OCC) [23] 65
US Billboard 200 [24] 167
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [25] 24
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [26] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [27] 4

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