Album
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Album
Dire Straits
- Peak position
- #2
- Weeks on chart
- 41
Dire Straits (1979) is a Dire Straits album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Dire Straits (1979) is a Dire Straits album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 9 tracks on this release. It reached #2 and charted for 41 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Sultans Of Swing".
The music
- 1
Down to the Waterline
- 2
Water of Love
- 3
Setting Me Up
- 4
Six Blade Knife
- 5
Southbound Again
6 Sultans of Swing
- 7
In the Gallery
- 8
Wild West End
- 9
Lions
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
A rocket up the chart — jumping 29 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #101, exploded upward for 15 weeks to reach #2, then spent 13 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 41 weeks on the chart.
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
Album facts
- Singles"Sultans Of Swing"
- ArtistDire Straits
- Year1979
