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 Yugoslavia, Johnnie Ray's Just Walkin' In The Rain was the best selling single for a second week. When the chart of Friday, 23 November 1956 was published, there were 22 surviving songs from the last chart when England played two weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	Just Walkin' In The Rain - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
2.	(=)	A Woman In Love - Frankie Laine (Philips)
3.	(=)	Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (HMV)
4.	(=)	More - Jimmy Young (Brunswick)
	(9)	Green Door - Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
6.	(15)	When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba - Mitchell Torok (Brunswick)
	(4)	My Prayer - The Platters (Mercury)
8.	(6)	Rip It Up - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
9.	(15)	Blue Moon - Elvis Presley (HMV)
10.	(12)	St. Therese Of The Roses - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
11.	(7)	Rockin' Through The Rye - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
	(13)	Make It A Party - Winifred Atwell (Decca)
13.	(14)	Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
14.	(8)	Green Door - Jim Lowe and The High Fives (London)
15.		Cindy Oh Cindy - Eddie Fisher (HMV)
16.	(18)	More - Perry Como (HMV)
17.	(11)	Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow - Nat 'King' Cole (Capitol)
18.	(24)	Two Different Worlds - Ronnie Hilton (HMV)
19.	(10)	Lay Down Your Arms - Anne Shelton (Philips)
20.	(re)	In The Middle Of The House - Alma Cogan (HMV)
21.	(23)	The Great Pretender/Only You - The Platters (Mercury)
22.	(20)	Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day (Philips)
	(=)	Autumn Concerto - George Melachrino Orchestra (HMV)
24.		True Love - Bing Cosby and Grace Kelly (Capitol)
25.	(27)	Bring A Little Water Sylvie/Dead Or Alive - Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa)
26.	(25)	A House With Love In It - Vera Lynn (Decca)
27.	(26)	Green Door - Glen Mason (Parlophone)
28.	(15)	Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong - Freddie Bell and The Bellboys (Mercury)
29.		I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine - Elvis Presley (HMV)
30.		Rudy's Rock - Bill Haley and His Comets (Brunswick)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Tony Bennett, Guy Mitchell and Jimmy Young, two Winifred Atwell, Rosemary Clooney, Bill Haley, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Johnnie Ray, Lita Roza, Anne Shelton, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each