Love Over Gold: Dire Straits' slow-burner at 7.5 million copies

Love Over Gold topped the UK Albums Chart for four weeks and reached No. 19 on the US Billboard 200, moving about 7.5 million copies worldwide. But the interesting stat is “Private Investigations” hitting No. 2 on the UK singles chart — a nearly nine-minute instrumental piece on the pop charts is practically unheard of.