Dann learnt his trade alongside one of the most successful Record Producers of recent times, Steve Mac. Starting as tea boy, the team have enjoyed enormous success in the pop genre including something like 38 number 1's including 4 US chart toppers.
2009 ended on a high with the worldwide release of the much anticipated Susan Boyle debut album (selling in excess of 9 million units within 5 weeks) which Dann engineered. The team also scored heavily in the UK charts with JLS (Beat Again) and The Saturdays (Ego).
Dann Discography
Dann's writing and production expertise extends from classical crossover to contemporary pop and onto Rock (his preferred genre) and he uses his talent for memorable hooks and chart focussed sound appealing to the masses and extending the barriers of rock itself. His writing is developing with co writing projects with some extremely established major writers.
Dann is currently working on a solo project (fitting it around his duties on the new Susan Boyle album and the latest JLS single) that will be released digitally (worldwide) and physically in the UK via Universal.
His latest writing success emerges with the re-emergence of ASIA. Their first album for 25 years (Phoenix) contains Dann's song "Orchard Of Mines". Not only is it satisfying to have someone cover a song, but to be the ONLY song to appear on an ASIA album not written by the band. Released on EMI AMERICA and being highlighted in reviews, this could be the beginning on a truly "classic song"
Orchard Of Mines sample as recorded by ASIA
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The Saturdays - Ego
Released November 2009
UK Number 2 |
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JLS - Beat Again
Released November 2009
UK Number 1 |
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Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
Released November 2009 worldwide
Number one best-selling CD on charts around the globe. Sold over 700,000 in its first week of release in the US. BILLBOARD Number one for 6 straight weeks |
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Westlife - Westlife
Released 1999 Number 2 Album,2 Number 1 Singles
The first of 7 albums recorded with Dann |
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Il Divo - Il Divo
Number 1 Album UK
Recently completed 3 further albums with them |
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Atomic Kitten - Right Now
Number 1 Album UK |
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Clay Aiken - The Measure Of A Man
Number 1 Album USA
2 Number 1 Singles USA |
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Russell Watson & Fay Tozer - Someone Like You
Number 10 Single UK |
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Ruben Stoddard - Soulful
Number 2 Single USA
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Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough
Number 1 UK |
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O-Town - O-Town
Number 7 Album USA
Number 1 Single USA |
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Charlotte Church |