America Discography: All Studio Albums and Hit Singles

America's studio albums, as listed in Wikipedia's America discography table, with release date, label, peak on the US Billboard 200 and US certification where there is one:

• America — January 1972, Warner Bros., No. 1 (five weeks), Platinum
• Homecoming — 15 November 1972, Warner Bros., No. 9, Platinum
• Hat Trick — 26 October 1973, Warner Bros., No. 28
• Holiday — 26 June 1974, Warner Bros., No. 3, Gold
• Hearts — 19 March 1975, Warner Bros., No. 4, Gold
• Hideaway — 9 April 1976, Warner Bros., No. 11, Gold
• Harbor — March 1977, Warner Bros., No. 21
• Silent Letter — 15 June 1979, Capitol, No. 110
• Alibi — 15 August 1980, Capitol, No. 142
• View from the Ground — August 1982, Capitol, No. 41
• Your Move — 3 June 1983, Capitol, No. 81
• Perspective — 21 September 1984, Capitol, No. 185
• Hourglass — 17 May 1994, American Gramaphone
• Human Nature — September 1998, Oxygen
• Holiday Harmony — October 2002, Rhino
• Here & Now — 16 January 2007, Burgundy, No. 52
• Back Pages — 26 July 2011, E1 Music
• Lost & Found — 5 May 2015, America Records
• Archives, Vol. 1 — 24 November 2015, America Records

Wikipedia's infobox gives a total of 23 studio albums. The band's own site, venturahighway.com, lists the catalogue by title and year only; it adds archive sets such as Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970–1973 and Live from the Hollywood Bowl 1975.

America placed seven singles in the US top 10 (Wikipedia, America discography):

• A Horse with No Name — 1972, No. 1
• I Need You — 1972, No. 9
• Ventura Highway — 1972, No. 8
• Tin Man — 1974, No. 4
• Lonely People — 1974, No. 5
• Sister Golden Hair — 1975, No. 1
• You Can Do Magic — 1982, No. 8

A Horse with No Name also topped the charts in Canada and Finland and reached No. 3 in the UK. On the US chart it replaced Neil Young's Heart of Gold at No. 1 (Wikipedia, A Horse with No Name). The 1982 hit You Can Do Magic came from View from the Ground, the band's best-charting Capitol album.

This is the detail that matters most if you own an early copy. The self-titled debut was first issued in Europe without A Horse with No Name and sold poorly. The song came out on its own as a single in the UK on 12 November 1971. When it became a hit, Warner Bros. reissued the album with the song added (Wikipedia, America album and A Horse with No Name).

The original first side ran Riverside, Sandman, Three Roses, Children and Here. So check the label and the back cover: a copy whose side one does not list A Horse with No Name is from the first issue, and one that does is the reissue that sold in the US. The US album reached No. 1 and stayed there for five weeks.

After that, the numbers work against rarity. History: America's Greatest Hits is 4× Platinum and the first two albums are Platinum, so played copies of these are common records and their price depends on grade.

Date a copy by label and runout, not by cover. Warner Bros. issued everything up to Harbor (1977), and the move to Capitol came with Silent Letter in 1979, so a Capitol label on one of the early titles is a later reissue or licensed pressing, not an original.

Copy the catalogue number from the label and the full string in the dead wax on both sides; our runout code guide explains what each part means. Then grade the disc and the sleeve separately on the vinyl grading scale. A photo of the label in the app identifies the pressing.