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 Wales, Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife was the best selling single for its first week. When the chart of Friday, 16 October 1959 was published, there were no surviving songs from the last chart when England played seventeen weeks ago:-

1.	(3)	Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (London)
2.	(1)	Here Comes Summer - Jerry Keller (London)
3.	(5)	('Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers (London)
4.	(2)	Only Sixteen - Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
5.	(13)	Sea Of Love - Marty Wilde (Philips)
6.	(8)	The Three Bells - The Browns (RCA)
7.	(4)	Living Doll - Cliff Richard and The Drifters (Columbia)
8.	(14)	Travellin' Light - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
9.	(16)	Broken Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan (Mercury)
10.	(=)	High Hopes - Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
11.	(12)	Just A Little Too Much - Ricky Nelson (London)
12.	11)	Mona Lisa - Conway Twitty (MGM)
13.	(6)	Someone - Johnny Mathis (Fontana)
14.	(9)	China Tea - Russ Conway (Columbia)
15.	(=)	Forty Miles Of Bad Road - Bert Weedon (London)
16.	(18)	Dynamite - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
17.	(7)	Lonely Boy - Paul Anka (Columbia)
18.	(20)	Peggy Sue Got Married - Buddy Holly (Coral)
19.		Makin' Love - Floyd Robinson (RCA)
20.	(19)	Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis (MGM)
21.	(17)	The Heart Of A Man - Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
22.	(25)	The Honeymoon Song - Manuel and The Music Of The Mountains (Columbia)
23.		Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran (London)
		I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino (London)
25.	(29)	Red River Rock - Johnny and The Hurricanes (London)
26.		Sleep Walk - Santo And Johnny (Pye International)
27.	(21)	I Know - Perry Como (RCA)
28.	(23)	Plenty Good Lovin' - Connie Francis (MGM)
	(27)	Lonesome - Chis Barber featuring Monty Sunshines (Columbia)
		But Not For Me - Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
♪Most weeks at number one when England played: Frankie Laine, six Connie Francis and Doris Day, five Ronnie Hilton, four Buddy Holly and Guy Mitchell, three Tony Bennett, Lonnie Donegan, Elvis Presley, Marvin Rainwater, Johnnie Ray and Jimmy Young, two Paul Anka, Winifred Atwell, Harry Belafonte, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Russ Conway, The Crickets, Bobby Darin, 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