Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Brothers in Arms!
I want my MTV…
This memorable album was released on May 17, 1985.
This is the cover art for the album Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.
Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums directed at the CD market, and it was a full digital recording (DDD) at a time when most popular music was recorded on analog equipment; it was the first album in history to sell over one million copies in CD format. Brothers in Arms spent a total of nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. It was the first album to be certified ten-times platinum in the UK and is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history. It is also one of the world's best-selling albums, having sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The album won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. The album’s second track "Money for Nothing" was Dire Straits' most commercially successful single, peaking at number one for three weeks on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks charts. In July 1985, the month following its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the song at Live Aid. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards in 1986, "Money for Nothing" won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year as well. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received 11 nominations, winning Video of the Year and Best Group Video.
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