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. When England beat Spain, Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock was the best selling single. When the chart of Friday, 25 November 1955 was published, there were ten surviving songs from the last chart when England played four weeks ago:-

1.	(3)	Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (Brunswick)
2.	(11)	Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - Four Aces (Brunswick)
3.	(1)	Hernando's Highway - Johnston Brothers (Decca)
4.	(8)	Let's Have A Ding Dong - Winifred Atwell (Decca)
5.	(2)	The Man From Laramie - Jimmy Young (Decca)
6.	(4)	Hey There - Rosemary Clooney (Philips)
7.	(6)	Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller (Phillips)
	(5)	Hey There - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
9.	(20)	Ain't That A Shame - Pat Boone (London)
10.	(13)	Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (Decca)
11.	(19)	Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (HMV)
12.		Christmas Alphabet - Dickie Valentine (Decca)
13.	(7)	Blue Star (The Medic Theme) - Cyril Stapleton Orchestra with Julie Dawn (Decca)
14.	(9)	I'll Come When You Call - Ruby Murray (Columbia)
15.	(10)	Song Of The Dreamer - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
16.		The Singing Dogs (Medley) - Singing Dogs (Nixa)
17.		When You Lose The One You Love - Dave Whitfield with Mantovani & his Orchestra (Decca)
18.		Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark (Pye Nixa)
19.	(re)	I'll Never Stop Loving You - Doris Day (Philips)
20.		Twenty Tiny Fingers - Coronets (Colombia)
		Hawkeye - Frankie Laine (Philips)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Doris Day and Frankie Laine, five, Tony Bennett, Guy Mitchell and Jimmy Young, two Rosemary Clooney, Bill Haley, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Lita Roza, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each