The Visitors (song)

"The Visitors" (working title "Den första", meaning "The first"), is a song by the Swedish recording group ABBA. It serves as the opening track to their eighth studio album of the same name. Anni-Frid Lyngstad provided the lead vocals to the track. In the inner sleeve of the album, the track is listed as "The Visitors (Crackin' Up)". It was released as the album's fourth and final single on 5 April 1982, only in North America via Atlantic Records. Internationally, the sides were switched, with "Head over Heels" serving as the A-side, and overall third single. "The Visitors" is a new wave protest song against the persecution of political dissidents in the Soviet Union, which ended up getting the album banned from the country.

Due to no promotion, "The Visitors" only achieved minor success in the United States, peaking at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100. Many critics, retrospectively, have come to name the song as one of the group's finest.