The classic Dire Straits album Brother In Arms is the twelfth best selling album of all time? It has sold almost 30,000,000 albums worldwide. THIRTY MILLION!!!!!!! Of the nine tracks, you've heard of maybe two of them (Money For Nothing, which any kid growing up in the MTV era has heard a couple dozen times, and Walk of Life, which seems to be on any time you turn on a classic rock radio station). Other than those two songs, I'd imagine that most people would be hard pressed to name another song by the Dire Straits, let alone from that one album (and if you can, I'm sure it's Sultans of Swing).
This makes me think that it must have been pretty great back in the day when CDs first came out, where you would be an album because you liked the band and felt they put together a complete, comprehensive album that you could listen to front-to-back (which Brother In Arms is).
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