The Distance is the twelfth studio album by US-American rock singer Bob Seger, released in December 1982.

It peaked at #5 on Billboard's album chart and sold close to two million copies in the United States.

Seger, influenced by the Woody Allen film Annie Hall, originally intended the album to be built around the theme of relationships but eventually that fell apart when Seger decided that sticking to the theme too strictly would make the album "maudlin".

[2] The album's lead single, "Shame on the Moon", was one of Seger's biggest hits, holding at #2 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

However, Seger asked the label to include that format for this album, knowing that many of his fans still used 8-track players.