Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day »

Dave McAleer is a music journalist and author whose previous books include The Chart Book (published by Guinness in the US) and Chart Beats (published by Guinness in the US). He was also a contributor to The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (published by Guinness in the US). He has also been record label manager for Pye, Stax and RCA amongst others. He does chart research for Sky Television's "UK Top 40", supplies daily trivia for radio and writes regularly for Vox, Replay/Gold CD and Country Music People. He also started the 'Music Business Trivia League' that led to numerous pop quizzes on radio and television.

Providing both the U.S. and U.K. top 20 hit songs from 1954 to 2007, this collection shows what was happening in the music worlds on both sides of the Atlantic.