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, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. In 2000, "Q" magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album ranked number 351 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and number 352 in a 2012 revised list, and number 418 in the 2020 revision. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".