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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris earned a Grammy nomination today for “Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.” “All the Roadrunning” is up against releases from Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Rosanne Cash, and Guy Clark.
The 49th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 11, and broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
There are nearly 4 million reasons for Mark Knopfler to be happy — that’s how many copies of Dire Straits’ phenomenal CD “Brothers in Arms” were sold since 1985. That makes it the FOURTH best-selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, according to the Official UK Charts Company as announced this week. The top ten include:
#1 Queen, Greatest Hits (5,407,587 sold)
#2 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (4,811,996 sold)
#3 Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (4,314,715 sold)
#4 Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms (3,956,704 sold)
#5 ABBA, Gold: Greatest Hits (3,943,950 sold)
#6 Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd (3,781,993 sold)
#7 Queen, Greatest Hits II (3,644,619 sold)
#8 Michael Jackson, Thriller (3,578,107 sold)
#9 Michael Jackson, Bad (3,554,301 sold)
#10 Madonna, The Immaculate Collection (3,402,160 sold)
REAL LIVE ROADRUNNING is the new CD/DVD combination to be released in the US on November 14, 2006. Recorded at the Gibson Theatre in Universal City, California, this past June, the live concert recordings feature nearly all of the songs performed live by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris during this past summer’s mini-tour to support their April release “All the Roadrunning.”
Preorder from Amazon and other retailers, or find it in the shops November 14 (November 13 for Europe and the UK).
