Dire Straits
Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Active since
- 1979
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 11 nummers, hoogste #6 (Sultans of Swing)
- in the list since 1987, 38 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 5 albums, 0 singles
- Brothers In Arms platina x4, 2022
- Private Investigations - The Best Of platina, 2012
- Private Investigations - The Best Of goud, 2008
- Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of Dire Straits platina, 1998
- and 1 more
the Netherlands: 16 albums, 0 singles- Sultans of Swing-Very Best Of goud, 1998
- On the night platina, 1993
- On the night goud, 1993
- Alchemy platina, 1992
- and 12 more
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Joe 33 1.1 a day Willy 23 0.8 a day VRT Radio 1 7 0.2 a day Studio Brussel 6 0.2 a day Oui FM 6 0.2 a day RADIO BOB! 6 0.2 a day MNM 3 0.1 a day FIP Rock 2 0.1 a day Since we track the stationWilly 400 0.6 a day since Dec 2024 Studio Brussel 280 0.3 a day since Nov 2023 Joe 208 1.1 a day since May 2026 KINK 49 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 NPO 3FM 49 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 Qmusic 17 0.0 a day since Feb 2025 KEXP 16 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 13 0.0 a day since Oct 2024
De Tijdloze on StuBru
De Tijdloze is the all-time list of Studio Brussel, the Flemish rock station. Listeners vote for their favourite songs every year, and since 1987 StuBru has broadcast the top 100 at the end of December. Since 2019 the rest of the vote is known as well: 500 places in 2019, around 2,000 since 2021. A place above 100 did not make the broadcast. The figures come from tijdloze.rocks, an independent site that keeps every list since 1987. Click a column header to sort.
| Song | From | Years in the list | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sultans of Swing | 1978 | 38 (1987–2025) | #6 | #6 (2025) | #50 (2003) |
| Brothers in Arms | 1985 | 33 (1988–2025) | #19 | #18 (2020) | #97 (1996) |
| Money for Nothing | 1985 | 14 (1990–2025) | #45 | #45 (2025) | #98 (1995) |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1980 | 7 (2019–2025) | #57 | #57 (2025) | #121 (2019) |
| Telegraph Road | 1982 | 7 (2019–2025) | #122 | #122 (2023) | #311 (2019) |
| Private Investigations | 1982 | 17 (1987–2025) | #156 | #32 (1988) | #199 (2020) |
| Tunnel of Love | 1980 | 7 (2019–2025) | #184 | #176 (2024) | #268 (2019) |
| Walk of Life | 1985 | 7 (2019–2025) | #286 | #246 (2020) | #375 (2024) |
| Your Latest Trick | 1985 | 6 (2020–2025) | #443 | #284 (2021) | #443 (2025) |
| On Every Street | 1991 | 4 (2022–2025) | #568 | #568 (2025) | #1149 (2023) |
| Why Worry? | 1985 | 5 (2021–2025) | #1061 | #1061 (2025) | #1441 (2023) |
Records
Albums in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) and with gold or platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dire Straits | 2024 | #71 (37 wk) | #3 (170 wk) | gold NL, platinum NL |
| Live 1978-1992 | 2023 | #22 (3 wk) | #10 (1 wk) | – |
| The Studio Albums 1978-1991 | 2020 | – | #18 (2 wk) | – |
| Brothers In Arms | 2019 | #8 (402 wk) | #1 (571 wk) | 4x platinum BE |
| Alchemy - Live (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) | 2010 | – | #60 (7 wk) | – |
| Private Investigations - The Best Of | 2005 | #14 (70 wk) | #23 (29 wk) | gold BE, platinum BE |
| Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of Dire Straits | 1998 | #3 (29 wk) | #6 (74 wk) | gold BE, platinum BE |
| Live At The BBC | 1995 | – | #15 (11 wk) | – |
| On The Night | 1993 | – | #2 (32 wk) | gold NL, platinum NL |
| On Every Street | 1991 | – | #1 (58 wk) | gold NL, platinum NL |
| Money For Nothing | 1988 | – | #1 (188 wk) | platinum NL |
| Alchemy - Dire Straits Live | 1984 | – | #1 (55 wk) | – |
| Love Over Gold | 1982 | – | #1 (47 wk) | gold NL, platinum NL |
| Making Movies | 1980 | – | #6 (14 wk) | gold NL |
| Communiqué | 1979 | – | #3 (22 wk) | gold NL, platinum NL |
| Sultans of Swing-Very Best Of | – | – | gold NL | |
| Alchemy | – | – | gold NL, platinum NL |
How popular is Dire Straits compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
Per edition, historical
Score measured in the twelve months before each edition, place = rank in that line-up. The letter differs per festival: an A at Best Kept Secret can be a C at Rock Werchter.
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Over the years
◆ purple = album, ▲ red = festival in Belgium, ▲ green = festival in the Netherlands, ● grey = own concert. Click the legend to switch them on or off.
Place among all acts on this site: 80 = viewed or searched more than 80% of the other acts that month. The thick line is the average.
Studio Brussel since August 2023, NPO 3FM and KINK since 2020, the other stations since late October 2026. "Compare countries" shows the average per station.
Songs per station, last 18 months
| Station | Country | Most played |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Netherlands | Sultans Of Swing 116 · Walk Of Life 53 · Money For Nothing 30 · So Far Away 3 · Calling Elvis 2 |
| MNM | Belgium | Sultans Of Swing 4 · Walk Of Life 1 |
| Qmusic | Belgium | Walk Of Life 11 · Sultans Of Swing 2 · Brothers In Arms 1 · Money For Nothing 1 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Sultans Of Swing 54 · Money For Nothing 49 · Walk Of Life 9 · Brothers In Arms 9 · Romeo And Juliet 6 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Your Latest Trick 2 · Sultans Of Swing 2 · Brothers In Arms 2 · Romeo And Juliet 1 · Down To The Waterline 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Sultans Of Swing 144 · Calling Elvis 55 · Lady Writer 47 · Tunnel Of Love 31 · Money For Nothing 14 |
| FIP | France | Sultans Of Swing 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | Calling Elvis 1 · Industrial Disease 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Sultans Of Swing 4 · Money For Nothing 3 · Water Of Love 1 · Walk Of Life 1 · So Far Away 1 |
| Oui FM | France | Romeo And Juliet 2 · Lady Writer 1 · Sultans Of Swing 1 · Calling Elvis 1 · Brothers In Arms 1 |
| RADIO BOB! | Germany | Walk Of Life 2 · Lady Writer 1 |
| RTL2 | France | Sultans Of Swing 1 |