WALK OF LIFE – DIRE STRAITS

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
16-Mar-86	25	New
23-Mar-86	22	+3
30-Mar-86	23	-1
06-Apr-86	15	+8	Biggest climber/Star rater
13-Apr-86	12	+3
20-Apr-86	11	+1
27-Apr-86	11	0
04-May-86	6	+5	Star rater
11-May-86	3	+3
18-May-86	3	0
25-May-86	3	0
01-Jun-86	2	+1	Peak
08-Jun-86	3	-1
15-Jun-86	4	-1
22-Jun-86	5	-1
29-Jun-86	7	-2
06-Jul-86	7	0
13-Jul-86	11	-4
20-Jul-86	15	-4
27-Jul-86	14	+1
03-Aug-86	15	-1
10-Aug-86	19	-4
17-Aug-86	24	-5
24-Aug-86	24	0

Written by: Mark Knopfler
Produced by: Neil Dofsman & Mark Knopfler
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Vertigo

Hit number for artist	4
Peak position	2
Weeks	24
Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest faller awards	0
Top 20 points	233
Overall Top 20 points ranking	238
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	460
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=157
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1986

9

Other chart success:

Australia	11
Austria	18
Belgium	32
Canada	7
Germany	15
Ireland	1
Netherlands	17
New Zealand	3
Spain	13
Switzerland	24
UK	2
US	7
Zimbabwe	11

SA Radio charts:

Capital 604	2
Radio 5	1
Radio 702	10

The song originally appeared as the b-side of the ‘So Far Away’ single which was released in advance of the band’s highly successful album, ‘Brothers In Arms’. The reason for this was that Mark Knopfler did not think it was good enough for the album and saw it only as a b-side. The band’s manager heard it and thought otherwise. Both tracks would appear on the album and ‘Walk Of Life’ would subsequently be released as a single. It was denied the top spot on our charts by Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus’. In the UK it was A-ha’s ‘The Sun Always Shines On T.V.’ that kept it off the top spot and it would share the band’s best showing on the UK charts (peak of 2) with their 1982 hit ‘Private Investigations’.

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Artist link: Dire Straits