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Dire Straits Album Becomes First CD to Sell One Million Copies
Music history milestones are recapped: the first CD to sell 1,000,000 copies marked a shift from vinyl, while the Beatles' She Loves You became the era's biggest UK single with 1.93 million copies sold. Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is hailed as a top classic of the 1970s, Beatles' Love Me Do spawned multiple UK/US versions, and Nickelback's Silver Side Up marked a defining early-2000s breakthrough.
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About Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers. The band was active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1995.
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