Encores
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This article is about Dire Straits' EP. For New York City Center's annual series of musical revivals, see Encores!. For the Jimmy Buffett album, see encores (Jimmy Buffett album).
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| EP by Dire Straits | ||||
| Released | 10 May 1993 | |||
| Recorded | May 1992 | |||
| Genre | Roots rock | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Producer | Guy Fletcher, Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler | |||
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| 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.
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[edit] Track listings
All tracks are composed by Mark Knopfler.
- CD maxi
- "Your Latest Trick" (live) — 5:41
- "The Bug" (live) — 5:24
- "Solid Rock" (live) — 5:20
- "Local Hero (Wild Theme)" (live) — 4:19
[edit] Charts
This EP stayed 3 weeks in the UK Albums Chart.[2]
[edit] Peak positions
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| 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 |
| Spain (AFYVE)[7] | 1 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[3] | 20 |
| UK Singles Chart[8] | 31 |
[edit] End of year charts
| End of year chart (1993) | Position |
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| Dutch Top 40[4] | 49 |
[edit] 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 |
[edit] References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b c d e "Encores", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Your Latest Trick" ("Encores" EP), French Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
- ^ "Dire Straits singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Dire+Straits/single. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 8480486392.
- ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
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