Which album by Dire Straits was the best-selling album of 1985?
Dire Straits "Walk of Life" (1985). Their most commercially successful album was "Brothers in Arms" (1985), which has sold more than 30 million copies and was the first album to sell a million copies on the compact disc (CD) format. Dire Straits' sound was drawn from a wide variety of musical influences including jazz, folk, and country, as well as the blues-rock of J. J. Cale and Eric Clapton. Their stripped-down sound contrasted with punk rock and demonstrated a roots rock influence that emerged from pub rock. According to the "Guinness Book of British Hit Albums", Dire Straits have spent over 1,100
Dire Straits (album) of the cassette had "Down to the Waterline" and "Wild West End" interchanged in the order listed above to allow for more equal playing time on each side. "Dire Straits" spent 132 weeks in the UK Albums Chart. In Australia, the album was the tenth best-selling album of 1978. Dire Straits (album) Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached #4 on the "Billboard" Hot