Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits Album) - Accolades

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"Looked at now with 20/20 vision of hindsight, the image on the sleeve of Brothers In Arms seems uncannily prophetic: that National steel guitar heading up into the clouds - a shiny 6 stringed rocket devoid of any obvious means of propulsion - describes, better than any words can, what happened to Dire Straits after the release of their 5th studio album. Up till the summer of 1985 success had, for them, come as a by-product of the music making process. They had never courted celebrity, chased fads, or played safe. Dire Straits had been loved and respected as one of the few bands to have maintained strong and credible links with the multifarious roots of rock and roll at a time - remember all the desperate pop posing of the early 80s? - when roots were emphatically not a fashionable place to be"

— Robert Sandall, British music jounalist, 1996.

In 1986, Brothers In Arms won two Grammy Awards at the 28th Grammy Awards, 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".

In November 2006, the results of a national poll conducted by the public of Australia revealed their top 100 favourite albums. Brothers in Arms came in at number 64 (see "My Favourite Album"). Brothers in Arms is ranked number 3 in the best albums of 1985 and number 31 in the best albums of the 1980s.

As of June 2012, Brothers in Arms is the 7th best-selling album of all-time in the UK, the 4th best-selling album of all-time in Australia, the 18th best-selling album of all-time in France and the 109th best-selling album in the United States.