‘Brothers In Arms’ Back In UK Top Ten
Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, one of the bestselling albums of all time with worldwide sales estimated at some 30 million copies, is back in the UK top ten.
The 1985 Grammy-winner, which topped the UK chart for ten weeks and the US survey for nine on initial release, smashed back into the Official Charts Company album listings today (Sunday) at No. 8. The new chart position follows the record being made available at a low-budget price in the UK at some leading digital retailers.
Brothers In Arms has sales in the UK alone of well over 4.1 million copies, placing it comfortably inside the all-time top ten among individual artist albums. Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ continues to lead that chart. The Dire Straits classic is certified 13-times platinum in Britain, nine times in the US, and topped the bestsellers in more than 25 countries worldwide.
The album’s spectacular success on its first release helped the band to win Best British Group for the second time at the fifth annual BRIT Awards, in the February after its release. It then won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal for one of its signature songs, ‘Money For Nothing,’ while the LP itself took the Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical) title.
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