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Harvest by Neil Young
Harvest is an album by Neil Young, released in 1972. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 165 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Heart Of Gold”, on 72 lists with a best position of #28.
Harvest, Neil Young's fourth album, came out on Reprise in February 1972, and it's the sound of a restless rocker easing back into something quieter and homespun. Young produced it himself, and the guest list reads like a canyon party: David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor all sing on it, while the London Symphony Orchestra swells up behind 2 tracks.
It's country rock and folk rock played slow and plain, with that high, lonesome tenor out front. "Heart of Gold" went to number one, "Old Man" followed it onto the charts, and the album sat atop the Billboard 200 for two weeks on its way to outselling every other record in America in 1972. One writer later heard in it both the last gasp of the counterculture's hope and the cynicism of the coming Watergate years. It remains Young's best seller and his signature record, and it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Harvest on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heart Of Gold | 72 | #28 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 2 | Old Man | 56 | #39 | – | 1991–2026 | |
| 3 | The Needle And The Damage Done | 33 | #67 | – | 2001–2025 | |
| 4 | Harvest | 2 | #335 | – | 2018–2020 | |
| 5 | Out on the Weekend | 2 | #522 | – | 2001–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.