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Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2002" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. In 1986, Brothers in Arms won two Grammy Awards and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. [59] [76] Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever in 2000. [77] The album also ranked number 351 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. [78] Brothers in Arms is also ranked number 3 in the best albums of 1985 and number 31 in the best albums of the 1980s, and as of December 2017, the album was ranked the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history, and is the 107th-best-selling album in the United States. [79] In August 1986, MTV Europe was launched with Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing". [80] 1987–1990: First break-up [ edit ]Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. On the Night DVD" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012 . Retrieved 22 October 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)

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Top Albums (Week 45, 2023)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 13 November 2023. Brothers in Arms (album) (booklet). Dire Straits. Warner Bros. Records. 1985. p.5. 947773-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Bakker, Machgiel; Inglis, Cathy (23 December 1985). "Pan-European Awards 1985" (PDF). Eurotipsheet. Vol.2, no.51/52. p.7. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. Stratospheric Sounds - Live In Basel, Switzerland, 1992 DVD". hitparade.ch . Retrieved 22 October 2016. Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael, eds. (7 February 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.a b c d e "French chart peaks" (in French). infodisc.fr. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013 . Retrieved 18 October 2016. Sultans of Swing" was re-released as a single in the UK in November 1988 to promote the greatest hits compilation Money for Nothing, released in October that year. [8] Mark Knopfler announced the dissolution of Dire Straits in September 1988. He told Rob Tannenbaum in Rolling Stone: "A lot of press reports were saying we were the biggest band in the world. There's not an accent then on the music, there's an accent on popularity. I needed a rest." [84] The tremendous success of the Brothers in Arms album and the tour that went with it left the band members under a significant amount of stress, and Knopfler announced that he wanted to work on more personal projects. A best of / greatest hits compilation, Money for Nothing, was released in October 1988 and reached number one in the UK. [35] The group's first hit single " Sultans of Swing" was re-released as a single in the UK to promote the album. [85] Also in 1988, John Illsley released his second solo album, Glass, which featured Mark Knopfler, Alan Clark, Guy Fletcher and Chris White. [86] During this period, Alan Clark joined Eric Clapton's band for three years, during which time Knopfler also briefly joined Eric's band.