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 the Republic of Ireland, Lonnie Donegan's Cumberland Gap was the best selling single for a fourth week. When the chart of Friday, 3 May 1957 was published, there were fifteen surviving songs from the last chart when England played four weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group (Pye Nixa)
2.	(=)	The Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte (HMV)
3.	(=)	Young Love - Tab Hunter (London)
4.	(6)	Baby Baby - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (Colombia)
5.	(8)	99 Ways - Tab Hunter (London)
6.	(19)	Rock-A-Billy - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
7.	(31)	You Don't Owe Me A Thing/Look Homeward, Angel - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
8.	(5)	Long Tall Sally - Little Richard (London)
9.	(4)	Don't Forbid Me - Pat Boone (London)
10.	(16)	Butterfly - Andy Williams (London)
11.	(9)	When I Fall In Love - Nat 'King' Cole (Capitol)
12.	(17)	The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard (London)
13.	(12)	Freight Train - Charles McDevitt Skiffle Group featuring Nancy Whiskey (Oriole)
	(11)	I'll Take You Home Kathleen - Slim Whitman (Oriole)
15.	(17)	True Love - Bing Cosby and Grace Kelly (Capitol)
16.	(15)	I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (Colombia)
17.	(6)	Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O - Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa)
	(14)	Heart - Max Bygraves (Decca)
19.	(12)	Knee Deep In The Blues - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
20.	(=)	Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
21.	(27)	Mangos - Rosemary Clooney (Philips)
22.	(=)	Love Is A Golden Ring - Frankie Laine and The Easy Riders (Philips)
23.	(28)	Why Baby Why - Pat Boone (London)
24.	(30)	Marianne - The Hilltoppers (London)
25.		Butterfingers - Tommy Steele and The Steelemen (Decca)
26.	(25)	I'm Walkin - Fats Domino (London)
27.	(21)	Butterfly - Charlie Grace (Parlophone)
28.	(23)	Heart - The Johnston Brothers (Decca)
29.	(re)	The World Is Mine - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
30.		Round And Round - Jimmy Young (Decca)
♪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, Lonnie Donegan, 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