Dire Straits Album Becomes First CD to Sell One Million Copies
Music history milestones are recapped: the first CD to sell 1,000,000 copies marked a shift from vinyl, while the Beatles' She Loves You became the era's biggest UK single with 1.93 million copies sold. Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is hailed as a top classic of the 1970s, Beatles' Love Me Do spawned multiple UK/US versions, and Nickelback's Silver Side Up marked a defining early-2000s breakthrough.
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About Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 May 1985, by Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It was the first album in history to sell over one million copies in CD format. The album was produced by bandleader Mark Knopfler and by Neil Dorfsman, who had engineered Dire Straits' 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler's 1983 soundtrack album Local Hero.
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