A HORSE WITH NO NAME – AMERICA

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
31-Mar-72	16	New
07-Apr-72	14	+2
14-Apr-72	15	-1
21-Apr-72	15	0
28-Apr-72	12	+3	Biggest climber/Peak
05-May-72	16	-4	Biggest faller
12-May-72	14	+2
19-May-72	12	+2	Peak

Written by: Dewey Bunnell
Produced by: Ian Samwell
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Warner Bros.

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	12
Weeks	8
Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	0
Biggest faller awards	1
Top 20 points	54
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=1545
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	134
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=1593
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1972

61

Other chart success:

Australia	2
Belgium	29
Canada	1
Finland	1
France	17
Ireland	4
Netherlands	12
New Zealand	5
Russia*	3
Spain	27
UK	3
US	1
Zimbabwe	7

* This is the peak in Russia as noted on the Wikipedia page for the song. However, it is not referenced and as Western music would have been restricted in the USSR at the time, this peak is questionable.

SA Radio charts:

LM Radio

2

The song originally went under the working title of ‘Desert Song’. It would shift over a million copies in the US and over 600,000 in the UK. It was 1 of 4 songs to spend 8 weeks in the charts and end on its peak position. One song did so with a 9 week run and 2 did so with a record 10 week run.

Video:

Artist link: America

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