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Album artist 30 - Dire Straits

This page lists the album chart entries of Dire Straits. A list of songs by Dire Straits can be found here. The albums are listed with the most widely successful first.

#	Artist	Album Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms	1985	UK 1 - May 1985, Austria 1 - Jun 1985, Switzerland 1 - May 1985, Norway 1 - May 1985, Sweden 1 - May 1985, Global 4 - 29 M claimed, US 5 of 1986, France Best 6 of 1985, US CashBox 7 of 1985, UK Radio2 12, Italy 22 of 1985, Internet 26 - 25 M claimed 1985, RYM 46 of 1985, Channel4 47, Guiness 68, Fox101 83, NARM 89, Defin200 89, RIAA 100 - 9 M claimed, WXPN 172, Rolling Stone 351, Acclaimed 566
2	Dire Straits	On Every Street	1991	UK 1 - Sep 1991, Austria 1 - Sep 1991, Switzerland 1 - Sep 1991, Norway 1 - Sep 1991, Sweden 1 - Sep 1991, Italy 10 of 1991, Global 131 - 8 M claimed
3	Dire Straits	Money For Nothing	1988	UK 1 - Oct 1988, Switzerland 1 - Oct 1988, Austria 3 - Dec 1988, Norway 3 - Oct 1988, Italy 4 of 1989, Sweden 8 - Nov 1988, Global 103 - 10 M claimed, Internet 119 - 13 M claimed 1988
4	Dire Straits	Love Over Gold	1982	UK 1 - Oct 1982, Norway 1 - Sep 1982, Sweden 2 - Oct 1982, Austria 3 - Nov 1982, Italy 6 of 1982, RYM 43 of 1982, UK Radio2 96, WXPN 776
5	Dire Straits	Making Movies	1980	Norway 1 - Oct 1980, Italy 1 of 1981, UK 4 - Oct 1980, Sweden 4 - Oct 1980, Austria 15 - Dec 1980, RYM 70 of 1980, WXPN 77, Acclaimed 1231
6	Dire Straits	Communique	1979	Sweden 1 - Jun 1979, Norway 2 - Jun 1979, UK 5 - Jun 1979, Austria 7 - Jul 1979, Italy 51 of 1979, US CashBox 72 of 1979, RYM 158 of 1979
7	Dire Straits	Dire Straits	1978	UK 5 - Jul 1978, Sweden 6 - Sep 1978, Norway 10 - Jan 1979, US CashBox 15 of 1979, Austria 17 - May 1979, RYM 62 of 1978, Global 117 - 9 M claimed, WXPN 339, Acclaimed 437
8	Dire Straits	Sultans Of Swing: The Very Best Of Dire Straits	1998	Norway 2 - Jan 1998, Switzerland 3 - Nov 1998, UK 6 - Oct 1998, Austria 7 - Nov 1998, Sweden 7 - Oct 1998, Italy 28 of 1998
9	Dire Straits	On The Night	1993	Austria 2 - Jun 1993, UK 4 - May 1993, Switzerland 5 - May 1993, Norway 5 - May 1993, Sweden 14 - May 1993, Italy 18 of 1993
10	Dire Straits	Alchemy, Dire Straits Live	1984	UK 3 - Mar 1984, Switzerland 3 - Apr 1984, Norway 7 - Apr 1984, Austria 13 - Apr 1984, Sweden 19 - Apr 1984, RYM 55 of 1984
11	Dire Straits	Private investigations-The Best of	2005	Italy 95 of 2005

In addition to the above listed albums Dire Straits also contributed to the following entries:

#	Artist	Album Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler	Private Investigations : The Very Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler	2005	Norway 5 - Nov 2005, Sweden 6 - Nov 2005, Switzerland 15 - Nov 2005, UK 20 - Nov 2005