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 Scotland, Russ Conway's Side Saddle was the best selling single for its third week. When the chart of Friday, 10 April 1959 was published, there were no surviving songs from the last chart when England played nineteen weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	Side Saddle - Russ Conway (Columbia)
2.	(=)	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters (Mercury)
3.	(=)	It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Buddy Holly (Coral)
4.	(5)	My Happiness - Connie Francis (MGM)
5.	(6)	Petite Fleur - Chris Barber's Jazz Band (Pye Nixa)
6.	(4)	As I Love You - Shirley Bassey (Philips)
7.	(=)	Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price (HMV)
8.	(9)	Gigi - Billy Eckstine (Mercury)
9.	(8)	A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty (Columbia)
10.	(15)	Donna - Marty Wilde (Philips)
11.	(=)	Little Drummer Boy - Beverley Sisters (Decca)
12.	(10)	Tomboy - Perry Como (RCA)
13.	(16)	Charlie Brown - The Coasters (London)
14.	(17)	C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran (London)
15.	(12)	Sing Little Birdie - Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson (Columbia)
16.	(13)	Wait For Me/Willingly - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
17.	(20)	By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Little Richard (London)
18.	(22)	Maybe Tomorrow - Billy Fury (Decca)
19.	(14)	Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight) - Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
20.	(18)	(All Of Sudden) My Heart Sings - Paul Anka (Columbia)
21.		With The Wind And Rain n Your Hair - Pat Boone (London)
22.		The All American Boy - Bill Parsons (London)
23.	(19)	Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me - Shirley Bassey (Philips)
24.	(21)	One Night/I Got Stung - Elvis Presley (RCA)
25.		French Foreign Legion - Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
26.		Early To Bed - Poni-Tails (HMV)
27.	(=)	Problems - The Everly Brothers (London)
28.	(29)	Manhattan Spiritual - Reg Owen (Pye International)
29.	(30)	Baby Face - Little Richard (London)
30.	(23)	The Wonderful Secret of Love - Robert Earl (Philips)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Connie Francis and Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Guy Mitchell, three Tony Bennett, Lonnie Donegan, 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