America Album • America • 1971

America is the debut studio album by America, released in 1971. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which was released as a single in Europe in late 1971 and in the U.S. in January 1972. When "A Horse with No Name" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track. The album went to the top of Billboard's album chart in the United States and stayed there for five weeks. It produced two hit singles, with "A Horse with No Name" which spent three weeks on top of the Billboard singles chart in 1972, and "I Need You" hit the ninth position on the Billboard singles chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations, including "Sandman" and "Three Roses". The album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the United States.