Encores

Encores
EP by Dire Straits
Released 10 May 1993
Recorded May 1992
Genre Roots rock
Label Vertigo
Producer Guy Fletcher, Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits chronology
On the Night
(1993)		 Encores
(1993)		 Live at the BBC
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Encores is a live EP by Dire Straits, released shortly after their live album On the Night. Although it was an EP, it was charted on the Singles charts of many countries, including France where it debuted at number one.

Contents

Track listings

All tracks are composed by Mark Knopfler.

CD maxi
  1. "Your Latest Trick" (live) — 5:41
  2. "The Bug" (live) — 5:24
  3. "Solid Rock" (live) — 5:20
  4. "Local Hero (Wild Theme)" (live) — 4:19

Charts

This EP stayed 3 weeks in the UK Albums Chart.[2]

Peak positions

Chart (1993) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] 47
Austrian Singles Chart[3] 19
Dutch Top 40[4] 4
French Singles Chart[3][5] 1
German Singles Chart[6] 34
Norwegian Singles Chart[3] 10
Swiss Singles Chart[3] 20
UK Singles Chart[7] 31

End of year charts

End of year chart (1993) Position
Dutch Top 40[4] 49

Chart successions

Preceded by
"No Limit" by 2 Unlimited		 French SNEP number-one single
May 29, 1993 - July 3, 1993 (6 weeks)		 Succeeded by
"No Limit" by 2 Unlimited

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ a b c d e "Encores", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  4. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1993" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201993.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  5. ^ "Your Latest Trick" ("Encores" EP), French Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  6. ^ "Dire Straits singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Dire+Straits/single. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  7. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
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