On Friday, 15 November 1952, The New Musical Express published the first ever singles chart in the UK, comprising the twelve highest selling singles of the week, it increased to twenty on Friday, 1 October 1954, and thirty on Friday, 13 April 1956. When England drew in Northern Ireland, Anne Shelton's Lay Down Your Arms was the best selling single for a third week. When the chart of Friday, 5 October 1956 was published, there were four surviving songs from the last chart when England played nineteen weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	Lay Down Your Arms - Anne Shelton (Philips)
2.	(=)	Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day (Philips)
3.	(8)	A Woman In Love - Frankie Laine (Philips)
4.	(5)	Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (HMV)
5.	(4)	Rockin' Through The Rye - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
6.	(16)	Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong - Freddie Bell and The Bellboys (Mercury)
7.	(3)	The Ying Tong Song/Bloodnok's Rock N' Roll Call - The Goons (Decca)
8.	(6)	The Great Pretender/Only You - The Platters (Mercury)
9.	(7)	Bring A Little Water Sylvie/Dead Or Alive - Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa)
10.	(9)	Walk Hand In Hand - Tony Martin (HMV)
11.	(15)	Born To Be With You - The Chordettes (London)
12.	(13)	Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
13.	(12)	Mountain Greenery - Mel Torme (Vogue Coral)
	(17)	Razzle Dazzle - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
15.	(10)	Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl - Teresa Brewer (Vogue Coral)
16.	(11)	The Saints Rock 'N' Roll - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
17.	(14)	Why Do Fools Fall In Love - The Teenagers feat. Frankie Lymon (Colombia)
18.	(26)	More - Perry Como (HMV)
19.	(23)	When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba - Mitchell Torok (Brunswick)
20.	(19)	See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
21.	(re)	You Are My First Love - Ruby Murray (Colombia)
22.	(26)	More - Jimmy Young (Brunswick)
23	(24)	Be Bop A Lula - Gene Vincent (Capitol)
24	(29)	I'm In Love Again - Fats Domino (London)
25.	(re)	Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow - Nat 'King' Cole (Capitol)
26.	(re)	Walk Hand In Hand - Jimmy Parkinson (Colombia)
27.	(18)	Serenade - Slim Whitman (London)
28.		Ten thousand Miles - Michael Holliday (Colombia)
29.	(25)	Glendora - Perry Como (HMV)
30.	(28)	Glendora - Glen Mason (Parlophone)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Doris Day and Frankie Laine, five, Ronnie Hilton, four, Tony Bennett, Guy Mitchell and Jimmy Young, two Winifred Atwell, Rosemary Clooney, Bill Haley, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Lita Roza, Anne Shelton, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each