Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

Dire Straits

On tour

  • Listeners

    2.8M

  • Scrobbles

    81.2M

  • Listeners

    2.8M

  • Scrobbles

    81.2M

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Years Active
1977 – 1995 (18 years)
Founded In
Deptford, Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). They were active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1995. Their first single, "Sultans of Swing", from their 1978 self-titled debut album, reached the top ten in the UK and US charts. It was followed by a series of hit singles including "Romeo and Juliet" (1981), "Private Investigations" (1982), "… read more
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). They were active from 1977 to 1988 and agai… read more
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). They were active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1995. Their first single, "Sultans of Swing", f… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Mark Knopfler

  2. Avatar for Eric Clapton

  3. Avatar for Supertramp
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
  • Loading
 24,919 listeners
2 Play track Brothers in Arms Money for Nothing
  • Loading
 8,649 listeners
3 Play track Brothers in Arms Walk of Life
  • Loading
 7,057 listeners
4 Play track Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits Lady Writer
  • Loading
 4,870 listeners
5 Play track Money for Nothing Romeo and Juliet
  • Loading
 4,313 listeners
6 Play track Dire Straits Down to the Waterline
  • Loading
 4,283 listeners
7 Play track Money For Nothing - Remastered 1996 Money For Nothing - Remastered 1996
  • Loading
 3,676 listeners
8 Play track Walk Of Life - Remastered 1996 Walk Of Life - Remastered 1996
  • Loading
 3,381 listeners
9 Play track Brothers in Arms Brothers in Arms
  • Loading
 2,763 listeners
10 Play track Dire Straits Six Blade Knife
  • Loading
 2,673 listeners

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 1,171,984 listeners

    2 Jun 1978 · 9 tracks

    Dire Straits
    • Loading

  2. 1,065,384 listeners

    17 Apr 1985 · 9 tracks

    Brothers in Arms
    • Loading

  3. 394,651 listeners

    15 Aug 1991 · 12 tracks

    On Every Street
    • Loading

  4. 388,989 listeners

    1 Jan 1980 · 7 tracks

    Making Movies
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
11,756
10,791
10,022
10,928
11,076
11,017
11,063
12,391
11,389
10,754
11,331
11,388
11,544
11,577
12,244
11,297
10,591
11,027
11,100
11,199
10,950
11,490
10,924
10,190
10,744
11,052
11,248
11,137
11,619
10,817
10,126
11,056
11,362
11,822
12,444
12,679
11,508
10,586
11,356
11,356
11,402
11,912
12,131
11,711
11,105
11,720
11,600
11,410
11,230
11,773
11,186
10,285
11,066
11,293
11,571
11,752
11,646
11,414
10,848
10,533
10,690
11,426
11,509
11,479
11,710
12,892
11,082
11,251
11,496
11,569
11,934
11,740
10,934
11,445
11,413
11,556
11,731
12,116
11,683
10,865
11,454
11,910
11,934
11,983
12,605
12,134
11,201
12,093
12,267
12,336
12,343
12,765
11,912
11,284
11,995
12,043
12,219
11,999
12,333
11,951
11,071
11,598
11,846
11,789
12,228
12,679
11,579
10,776
10,987
11,513
11,780
11,924
12,267
11,741
11,052
11,470
11,861
11,627
11,846
12,042
11,698
11,133
11,565
11,769
11,853
12,019
12,057
11,548
10,945
11,721
11,734
11,728
11,915
12,487
11,387
11,070
11,368
11,646
12,020
12,076
12,487
12,275
11,306
11,970
12,316
12,372
12,624
12,564
11,963
11,126
11,970
12,235
12,343
12,876
12,929
12,609
11,880
12,285
12,650
12,597
12,495
12,729
12,245
11,697
12,305
12,247
12,436
12,270
12,859
12,360
11,649
12,284
12,972
12,684
12,553
12,966
12,262
11,117
12,165
12,645
12,821
12,772

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

External Links

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 746,720 listeners

    Avatar for Mark Knopfler

  2. 2,914,023 listeners

    Avatar for Eric Clapton

  3. 1,744,838 listeners

    Avatar for Supertramp

  4. 141,270 listeners

    Avatar for Nils Lofgren

  5. 1,068,172 listeners

    Avatar for Chris Rea

  6. 3,055,639 listeners

    Avatar for Eagles

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls