Mark Knopfler has been very busy in 2024. The former Dire Straits frontman and solo superstar’s new album has arrived, and it lands on several Billboard charts this week. The set earns the rocker one of the biggest sales wins of his career–and it comes just a few weeks after he snagged his first hit on a pair of rankings as well.
One Deep River, Knopfler’s latest full-length, debuts on four Billboard lists this week. The set was a very strong seller, and all those first-frame purchases helped make it another win on several rankings that the rocker has reached before.
On the Top Album Sales chart, One Deep River debuts at No. 7. The title sold 8,284 copies in the first seven days it was available, according to Luminate.
That’s a large enough figure to make One Deep River one of Knopfler’s three career placements inside the top 10 on Billboard’s ranking of the bestselling titles in the U.S. It’s the lowest of the trio, but that still makes it the third-loftiest placement for the musician of his 11 solo appearances on this tally.
One Deep River also brings Knopfler back to several other charts–and all for the first time since 2018. The album arrives on the Billboard 200 at No. 157. In its first frame of availability, the project shifted a total of 9,023 equivalent units, with almost all of those being pure purchases.
The same title is also new to both the Top Americana/Folk Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. On the former, Knopfler debuts at No. 15–in last place–while his new effort opens at No. 36 on the latter.
Knopfler returns to these four albums charts just a few weeks after he collected his first hit on two other Billboard tallies. As the frontman of the supergroup Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes, his charity single “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” became a different kind of sales smash in late March. That track, which featured a bevy of superstars—like Ringo Starr and Sheryl Crow, among dozens of others—peaked at No. 22 on the Digital Song Sales list and No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
