a b "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Dire Straits; 'Brothers In Arms ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. While it's easy to speculate that the colossal success of Brothers in Arms relates to its timing – its release during an era obsessed with catchy singles, flashy MTV videos, and whistle-friendly melodies – reasons for the album's chart-busting success primarily owe to the expertly crafted songs and memorable playing turned in by a group hitting its creative peak. Not to mention the spatial dimensions that cause instruments and vocals to naturally float in a fixed area. Brothers In Arms (Booklet). Dire Straits. Vertigo (5483572). 2000. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) In 2010, when Brothers in Arms was among ten albums nominated for the best British album of the past 30 years by the Brit Awards, music broadcaster and author Paul Gambaccini described the list of nominees as "risible" but added, " Brothers in Arms runs away with it for the quality of songwriting and musicianship." [45] [46] Accolades [ edit ] The Music Australia Loved". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2013. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)

Sullivan, Caroline (11 June 2011). "Brothers in Arms popularises the CD". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 April 2023. Walk of Life" was a number two hit in the UK Singles Chart in early 1986 and a number seven hit in the US Billboard Hot 100 later that year. The song was nearly left off the album, but was included after the band out-voted producer Neil Dorfsman. It was 20 — or maybe not — years ago today". Archived from the original on 10 June 2007 . Retrieved 14 June 2006.

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Bignell, Paul; Harmon, Will (14 February 2010). "Better than the Brits: The IoS offers an alternative selection". The Independent . Retrieved 13 November 2019. As of July 2016 Brothers in Arms is the eighth-best-selling album of all-time in the UK. [54] It is also the third-best-selling album of all-time in Australia, [ citation needed] and the 18th-best-selling album of all-time in France. [ citation needed] In the Netherlands, the album used to hold the record for longest run ever on the Dutch Album chart with 269 weeks (non-consecutive) but lost it to Adele's 21 in 2016.

In 1986 Brothers in Arms won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while the 20th Anniversary Edition won another Grammy in 2006 for Best Surround Sound Album, [47] and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. [48] In 2000, Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. [49] In 2003, the album ranked number 351 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [50] and number 352 in a 2012 revised list, and number 418 in the 2020 revision. [51] [52] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [53] Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): 1-25264-B-SH12 RL B-21168-SH12 SLM △9536-X 1̶-̶2̶ SPO-1SM13 SH-SP MASTERDISK [Allied logo] Matrix / Runout (LP2 Side 2 (Variant 2)): [Written] 0602537529094 B2 [Stamped] [MPO logo] 20 173778 [Written] 00602537529070-D CB MPO Copsey, Rob (22 June 2018). "Albums with the most weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 14 August 2018. Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): 1-25264-B-SH12 MASTERDISK RL B-21168-SH12 SLM Δ9536-X 1-2 SP0-1SM1-3 SH-SP

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