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Alone is the tenth studio album by English-American rock band The Pretenders. The album was released on October 21, 2016, by BMG Rights Management.[1][2]

Alone
Studio album by The Pretenders
Released	21 October 2016
Recorded	2016
Studio	Easy Eye Sound, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Rock
Length	46:19
Label	BMG Rights Management
Producer	Dan Auerbach
The Pretenders chronology
Break Up the Concrete (2008) Alone (2016) Hate for Sale (2020)

Chrissie Hynde is the only member of the band to appear on the album (which may the explain the chosen album title), with the backing band consisting of session musicians; this was also the case with Packed! (1990), the first Pretenders album that used this method. The album is the band's second consecutive album not to include drummer Martin Chambers.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
American Songwriter	[5]
Consequence of Sound	B[6]
The Guardian	[7]
The Independent	[8]
The Observer	[9]
Rolling Stone	[10]

Alone received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[3]

Track listing

Personnel

• Chrissie Hynde – vocals

Additional personnel

• Dan Auerbach – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Duane Eddy, Kenny Vaughan – guitar
• Russ Pahl – pedal steel
• Dave Roe – upright bass
• Leon Michels – keyboards
• Richard Swift – drums, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Tchad Blake – mixing
• Collin Dupuis – recording

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11]	107
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12]	113
French Albums (SNEP)[13]	198
Scottish Albums (OCC)[14]	31
UK Albums (OCC)[15]	40
US Billboard 200[16]	150

References

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