The Visitors (song)

"The Visitors"
"The Visitors"
Single by ABBA
from the album The Visitors
B-side	"Head Over Heels"
Released	5 April 1982
Recorded	22 October 1981
Studio	Polar Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre	New wave; electropop; synth-pop; disco;
Length	5:49
Label	Polar; Atlantic;
Songwriter(s)	Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus;
Producer(s)	Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus;
ABBA singles chronology
Audio video
	"The Visitors" on YouTube

"The Visitors" is a 1982 song by Swedish music group ABBA and is the title track to their eighth studio album The Visitors. It went to number 63 in the United States.

References

↑ "ABBA – The Visitors (Crackin' Up)". Official Aotearoa Music Charts. 5 April 1982. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
1 2 3 Sheffield, Rob (2 September 2021). "The 25 Best ABBA Songs, Ranked". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 November 2025. ...right up to this lost classic of Eighties creep-wave synth-pop paranoia. "The Visitors" is six minutes of frigid-pink electro-jitters...
1 2 Ewing, Tom (18 May 2012). "ABBA: The Visitors [Deluxe Edition] Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 20 December 2024. The music [on "The Visitors"] lurches between seasick synth-pop and nervous disco flourishes...

[1] "ABBA – The Visitors (Crackin' Up)". Official Aotearoa Music Charts. 5 April 1982. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

[RS_2021-2] 1 2 3 Sheffield, Rob (2 September 2021). "The 25 Best ABBA Songs, Ranked". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 November 2025. ...right up to this lost classic of Eighties creep-wave synth-pop paranoia. "The Visitors" is six minutes of frigid-pink electro-jitters...

[Pitchfork_2012-3] 1 2 Ewing, Tom (18 May 2012). "ABBA: The Visitors [Deluxe Edition] Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 20 December 2024. The music [on "The Visitors"] lurches between seasick synth-pop and nervous disco flourishes...

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Discography Unreleased songs
Ring Ring	"People Need Love" "He Is Your Brother" "Ring Ring" "Another Town, Another Train" "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" "Rock'n Roll Band" "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" "Disillusion" "I Saw It in the Mirror" "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" "She's My Kind of Girl"
Waterloo	"Waterloo" "King Kong Song" "Hasta Mañana" "My Mama Said" "Honey, Honey" "What About Livingstone?"
ABBA	"Mamma Mia" "Hey, Hey Helen" "SOS" "Bang-A-Boomerang" "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" "Rock Me" "Intermezzo No. 1" "I've Been Waiting for You" "So Long"
Greatest Hits	"Fernando"
Arrival	"When I Kissed the Teacher" "Dancing Queen" "My Love, My Life" "Dum Dum Diddle" "Knowing Me, Knowing You" "Money, Money, Money" "That's Me" "Why Did It Have to Be Me?" "Tiger" "Arrival"
ABBA: The Album	"Eagle" "Take a Chance on Me" "One Man, One Woman" "The Name of the Game" "Move On" "Hole in Your Soul" "Thank You for the Music" "I Wonder (Departure)" "I'm a Marionette"
Voulez-Vous	"As Good as New" "Voulez-Vous" "I Have a Dream" "Angeleyes" "The King Has Lost His Crown" "Does Your Mother Know" "If It Wasn't for the Nights" "Chiquitita" "Lovers (Live a Little Longer)" "Kisses of Fire"
Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" "Summer Night City"
Super Trouper	"Super Trouper" "The Winner Takes It All" "On and On and On" "Andante, Andante" "Me and I" "Happy New Year" "Our Last Summer" "The Piper" "Lay All Your Love on Me"
The Visitors	"The Visitors" "Head over Heels" "When All Is Said and Done" "Soldiers" "I Let the Music Speak" "One of Us" "Two for the Price of One" "Slipping Through My Fingers" "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room"
The Singles: The First Ten Years	"The Day Before You Came" "Under Attack"
Voyage	"I Still Have Faith in You" "Don't Shut Me Down" "Just a Notion" "Little Things"
Other songs	"Merry-Go-Round" "Elaine" "Put on Your White Sombrero" "Should I Laugh or Cry" "You Owe Me One"
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