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 Denmark, Lonnie Donegan's Cumberland Gap was the best selling single for a fifth and final week. When the chart of Friday, 10 May 1957 was published, there were 25 surviving songs from the last chart when England played a week ago:-

1.	(=)	Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group (Pye Nixa)
2.	(10)	Butterfly - Andy Williams (London)
3.	(2)	The Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte (HMV)
	(6)	Rock-A-Billy - Guy Mitchell (Philips)
5.	(4)	Baby Baby - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (Colombia)
6.	(5)	99 Ways - Tab Hunter (London)
7.	(13)	Freight Train - Charles McDevitt Skiffle Group featuring Nancy Whiskey (Oriole)
8.		Yes Tonight Josephine - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
9.	(11)	When I Fall In Love - Nat 'King' Cole (Capitol)
10.	(3)	Young Love - Tab Hunter (London)
11	(13)	I'll Take You Home Kathleen - Slim Whitman (Oriole)
12.	(7)	You Don't Owe Me A Thing/Look Homeward, Angel - Johnnie Ray (Philips)
13.		Too Much - Elvis Presley (RCA)
14.	(8)	Long Tall Sally - Little Richard (London)
15.	(12)	The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard (London)
16.	(17)	Heart - Max Bygraves (Decca)
17.	(23)	Why Baby Why - Pat Boone (London)
18.		Chapel Of The Roses - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
19.	(9)	Don't Forbid Me - Pat Boone (London)
20.	(22)	Love Is A Golden Ring - Frankie Laine and The Easy Riders (Philips)
21.	(15)	True Love - Bing Cosby and Grace Kelly (Capitol)
22.	(26)	I'm Walkin - Fats Domino (London)
23.	(16)	I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (Colombia)
24.	(27)	Butterfly - Charlie Grace (Parlophone)
25.	(17)	Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O - Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa)
26.	(21)	Mangos - Rosemary Clooney (Philips)
27.	(24)	Marianne - The Hilltoppers (London)
28.		Nora Malone -Teresa Brewer (Vogue Coral)
29.		Party Doll - Buddy Knox (Columbia)
30.	(29)	The World Is Mine - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Tony Bennett, Lonnie Donegan, 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