AMERICA (US)

America were an American band consisting of Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek. Despite their name and the fact that the members were American, the band was actually formed in London, UK where their fathers’ were stationed as part of the US Air Force. Their biggest hit was ‘A Horse With No Name’ which topped the US charts for 3 weeks and would peak at 3 on the UK charts. It would be their only SA chart hit, although they would see their 1983 hit, ‘The Border’ reach 4 on the 702 charts and 2 on the Radio 5 ones. In total they managed 17 US chart hits and 3 UK ones.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
31-Mar-1972	A Horse With No Name	12	8
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	8

Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	0
Biggest fallers	1
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	8
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=919
Top 20 points ranking	=891
Top 30 points	134
Top 20 points	54