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Breakfast in America is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released on 16 March 1979, by A&M Records. [5] It was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It spawned three US Billboard hit singles: " The Logical Song " (No. 6), " Goodbye Stranger " (No. 15), and " Take the Long Way Home " (No. 10).
In 1971, Carole King's Music reportedly sold "1,300,000 copies on the day of its release in the U.S." [91] In 1975, Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, the first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, sold "1,400,000 in the U.S. in the first 4 days on the market". [91] [92]
America's best-known song is their 1972 debut single, "A Horse with No Name". It was the lead-off single to their self-titled debut album and became their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was also a Top 5 hit in the United Kingdom reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart .
According to Eric Olsen, Pink Floyd was "the most eccentric and experimental multi-platinum band of the album rock era", while the reggae artist Bob Marley was "the only towering figure of the rock era not from America or the U.K." [50] The 1970 Joni Mitchell LP Ladies of the Canyon is commonly regarded as one of the album era's most important ...
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If priced as a single, they will not qualify for the main album chart but can appear in the separate Budget Albums chart. [31] [32] An intermediate format between EPs and full-length LPs is the mini-LP, which was a common album format in the 1980s. These generally contained 20–30 minutes of music and about seven tracks.
America is the debut studio album by America, released in January 1972. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which was released as a single in Europe in late 1971 and in the US in January 1972. When "A Horse with No Name" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.