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 beat Scotland, Tab Hunter's Young Love was the best selling single for a seventh and final week. When the chart of Friday, 5 April 1957 was published, there was one surviving songs from the last chart when England played seventeen weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	Young Love - Tab Hunter (London)
2.	(=)	Don't Forbid Me - Pat Boone (London)
3.	(5)	The Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte (HMV)
4.	(3)	Long Tall Sally - Little Richard (London)
5.	(3)	Knee Deep In The Blues - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
6.		Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group (Pye Nixa)
7.	(6)	Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O - Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa)
8.	(7)	True Love - Bing Cosby and Grace Kelly (Capitol)
9.	(=)	Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
10.	(11)	The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard (London)
11.	(32)	Look Homeward, Angel - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
12.	(8)	The Banana Boat Song - Shirley Bassey (Philips)
13.	(12)	Friendly Persuasion - Pat Boone (London)
14.	(32)	You Don't Owe Me A Thing/Look Homeward, Angel - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
15.	(19)	She's Got It - Little Richard (London)
	(13)	Cumberland Gap - Vipers Skiffle Group (Parlophone)
17.	(13)	The Wisdom Of A Fool - Norman Wisdom (Colombia)
18.		Heart - Max Bygraves (Decca)
19.	(23)	Knee Deep In The Blues - Tommy Steele and The Steelemen (Decca)
20.		Marianne - The Hilltoppers (London)
21.	(10)	The Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
22.	(re)	Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody) - Jerry Lewis (Brunswick)
23.	(20)	The Wisdom Of A Fool - Ronnie Carroll (Philips)
	(27)	I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (Colombia)
25.	(16)	The Adoration Waltz - David Whitfield (Decca)
26.	(=)	Whatever Lola Wants - Alma Cogan (HMV)
	(18)	The Great Pretender/Only You - The Platters (Mercury)
28.		I'll Find You - David Whitfield (Decca)
29.	(25)	Mangos - Rosemary Clooney (Philips)
30.		Cry Me A River - Julie London (London)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Tony Bennett, Guy Mitchell, Johnnie Ray and Jimmy Young, two Winifred Atwell, Rosemary Clooney, Bill Haley, Tab Hunter, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Lita Roza, Anne Shelton, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each