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Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits is the second greatest hits compilation by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 19 October 1998 by Mercury Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.
"Swing, Swing" peaked at No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 8 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and No. 13 in the United Kingdom Singles chart. In 2005, the All-American Rejects released their second album, Move Along, which placed at number six on the Billboard 200.
New jack swing, new jack, or ... Many songs with elements of new jack swing peaked in the top 10 of the U.S. R&B and U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart throughout the late ...
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
Record Mirror named "Sultans of Swing" the tenth-best song of 1978. [23] In 1992, Life named it one of the top five songs of 1979. [24] In 1993, Paul Williams included it in his book Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles. [25] The song is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, Dire Straits' only appearance. [26]
The jazz, R&B, and swing revival vocal group Manhattan Transfer and Bette Midler included swing era hits on albums during the early 1970s. In Seattle the New Deal Rhythm Band and the Horns O Plenty Orchestra revived 1930s swing with a dose of comedy behind vocalists Phil "De Basket" Shallat, Cheryl "Benzene" Bentyne , and six-foot-tall "Little ...
The album features the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached the top of the album charts in Germany, Australia and France, number 2 in the United States and number 5 in the United Kingdom.
"Together Again" by Janet (pictured) placed at number six on the Year-End list after topping the Hot 100 for two weeks, while her song "I Get Lonely" featuring Blackstreet was included at number 43. " The Boy Is Mine ", a duet between Brandy ( pictured ) and Monica, was the number two song on the Year-End list.