Dave McAleer

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Dave McAleer was the Chief Consultant/Contributor of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums (now discontinued) and the sole Music Consultant for the Guinness World Records book since 1998.

Prior to that, he spent 25 years in the record business – working in A&R for labels including RCA, Pye Records, DJM, Champagne and was responsible for many chart entries.

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  • Now That's What I Call A Decade Of Hits – The 1980s (1989)
  • The Omnibus Book of British & American Hit Singles (1990)
  • Chart Beats (1991)
  • Labatts Top 500 Records (1993)
  • Hit Parade Heroes: British Beat Before The Beatles (1993)
  • The Fab British Rock'n'Roll Invasion of 1964 (1994)
  • Beat Boom (1992)
  • All Music Book of Hit Singles (1994)
  • The Warner Guide to UK & US Hit Albums (1995)
  • The Warner Guide to UK & US Hit Singles (1996)
  • The Encyclopedia of Hits – The 1960s (1996)
  • The Encyclopedia of Hits – The 1950s (1997)
  • The Book of Hit Singles (2001)
  • Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day (current edition from 2004)
  • The Music Downloader's Source Book: The Complete A-Z of the World's Best Songs (2005)
  • The Downloader's Bible (2006)

He has also co-written such books as The NME Rock’n’Roll Years, The Guinness Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music’, The NME Who’s Who Of Rock, Guinness Rockopedia, The Guinness Encyclopedia Of Popular Music, The Virgin Ultimate Rock Encyclopedia, This Day In Rock, The Virgin Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music’.

In addition he has compiled/sequenced/written sleeve notes for over 1500 albums for companies such as Universal, EMI, Sony/BMG and Time Life.