CSPC: Dire Straits Popularity Analysis

Records & Achievements

• At 45,751,000 equivalent album sales, Brothers In Arms is the most successful album from 1985.
• At 20,880,000 equivalent album sales, Sultans of Swing is the most successful song from 1978.
• At 14,860,000 equivalent album sales, Money for Nothing is among the three most successful songs from 1985.
• Brothers In Arms belongs to the Top 10 best selling albums ever in several countries including the UK, Australia and New-Zealand.
• Brothers In Arms is the only studio album ever with 400,000 sales or more in each the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
• At 34 weeks, Brothers In Arms holds the longest run ever among artist albums at #1 in Australia.
• Dire Straits is the only act ever with 3 studio albums which charted 200 weeks or more inside the UK Album Chart.
• At 218,923,000 streams, Sultans of Swing is the 7th most streamed song from the 70s on Spotify.