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 drew with Italy, Buddy Holly's It Doesn't Matter Anymore was the best selling single for its second week. When the chart of Friday, 1 May 1959 was published, there were nineteen surviving songs from the last chart when England played three weeks ago:-

1.	(=)	It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Buddy Holly (Coral)
2.	(4)	A Fool Such As I/I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis Presley (RCA)
3.	(=)	Petite Fleur - Chris Barber's Jazz Band (Pye Nixa)
4.	(5)	Side Saddle - Russ Conway (Columbia)
5.	(=)	Donna - Marty Wilde (Philips)
6.	(=)	Charlie Brown - The Coasters (London)
7.	(=)	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters (Mercury)
8.	(=)	C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran (London)
9.	(16)	It's Late - Ricky Nelson (London)
10.	(20)	Come Softly To Me - Fleetwoods (London)
11.		Come Softly To Me - Frankie Vaughan and The Kaye Sisters (Philips)
12.		I've Waited So Long - Anthony Newley (Decca)
13.	(24)	I Go Ape - Neil Sedaka (RCA)
14.	(10)	Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price (HMV)
15.	(9)	My Happiness - Connie Francis (MGM)
16.	(13)	A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty (Columbia)
17.	(11)	Tomboy - Perry Como (RCA)
18.	(12)	Gigi - Billy Eckstine (Mercury)
19.	(14)	As I Love You - Shirley Bassey (Philips)
20.	(22)	Venus - Dickie Valentine (Pye Nixa)
21.	(27)	Venus - Frankie Avalon (HMV)
22.	(18)	French Foreign Legion - Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
23.	(15)	Little Drummer Boy - Beverley Sisters (Decca)
24.	(17)	Wait For Me/Willingly - Malcolm Vaughan (HMV)
25.		May You Always - Joan Regan (HMV)
26.	(19)	Sing Little Birdie - Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson (Columbia)
27.		May You Always - McGuire Sisters (Coral)
28.		Lovin' Up A Storm - Jerry Lee Lewis (London)
29.	(21)	Maybe Tomorrow - Billy Fury (Decca)
30.	(23)	By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Little Richard (London)
♪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, Buddy Holly, 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