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"Living in America" is a song written by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight and performed by James Brown. It was released as a single in 1985 and reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song entered the Billboard top 40 on January 11, 1986, and remained on the chart for 11 weeks.
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 .
The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
“Why don’t we liberate these United States/ We’re the ones need it the worst/ Let the rest of the world help us for a change/ And let’s rebuild America first,” goes one part of the song.
The single fared far better on adult contemporary radio, peaking at number 4. This even bettered "You Can Do Magic," which had peaked at number 5 on the adult contemporary charts the year before. However, lacking a major hit single, Your Move was unable to replicate the success of View From The Ground, peaking at number 81 on the Billboard ...
America (stylized in uppercase) is the fifth studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released on April 6, 2018 through Interscope Records.It is their first album in five years, after Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), as well as their first and only release for Interscope, following the band's departure from Virgin Records in 2014.
Mars spins a little more quickly each year, according to data collected by NASA’s now-retired InSight lander.
Winter in America" or "Leave Love Enough Alone" is a 1974 song by Australian singer-songwriter Doug Ashdown, co-written with Jimmy Stewart. It was issued in that year but did not chart. When it was re-released as a single in 1976 and on his album Winter in America (Festival Records / Infinity 1976).