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 lost to Sweden, Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife was the best selling single for its second and final week. When the chart of Friday, 23 October 1959 was published, there were 26 surviving songs from the last chart when England played a week ago:-

1.	(=)	Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (London)
2.	(3)	('Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers (London)
	(8)	Travellin' Light - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
4.	(5)	Sea Of Love - Marty Wilde (Philips)
5.	(2)	Here Comes Summer - Jerry Keller (London)
6.	(=)	The Three Bells - The Browns (RCA)
7.	(4)	Only Sixteen - Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
8.	(7)	Living Doll - Cliff Richard and The Drifters (Columbia)
9.	(=)	Broken Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan (Mercury)
10.	(=)	High Hopes - Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
	12)	Mona Lisa - Conway Twitty (MGM)
12.	(25)	Red River Rock - Johnny and The Hurricanes (London)
13.	(19)	Makin' Love - Floyd Robinson (RCA)
14.	(13)	Someone - Johnny Mathis (Fontana)
15.	(17)	Lonely Boy - Paul Anka (Columbia)
16.	(15)	Forty Miles Of Bad Road - Bert Weedon (London)
17.	(11)	Just A Little Too Much - Ricky Nelson (London)
18.	(14)	China Tea - Russ Conway (Columbia)
19.	(18)	Peggy Sue Got Married - Buddy Holly (Coral)
20.		One More Sunrise (Morgen) - Dickie Valentine (Pye)
21.	(re)	The Three Bells (The Jimmy Brown Song) - Les Compagnons De La Chanson (Columbia)
22.	(23)	Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran (London)
23.	(22)	The Honeymoon Song - Manuel and The Music Of The Mountains (Columbia)
24.	(27)	I Know - Perry Como (RCA)
25.	(26)	Sleep Walk - Santo And Johnny (Pye International)
	(28)	But Not For Me - Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
27.		Old Shep - Clinton Ford (Oriole)
28.		Terrible Chance - Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson (Pye)
29.	(23)	I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino (London)
30.	(21)	The Heart Of A Man - Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Connie Francis and Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Buddy Holly and Guy Mitchell, three Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Lonnie Donegan, Elvis Presley, Marvin Rainwater, Johnnie Ray and Jimmy Young, two Paul Anka, Winifred Atwell, Harry Belafonte, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Russ Conway, The Crickets, Tommy Edwards, 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