In this part of the site i will be listing all the new entries of the U.K. charts.

Below i will try and give a note of any changes to the charts through the years.

Record charts in the UK began life in 1952 when Percy Dickins from New Musical Express (NME) gathered a pool of 52 stores willing to return data sales figures. For the first British chart, Dickins telephoned a sample of around 20 shops asking for a list of the 10 best-selling songs. These results were then aggregated to give a Top 12 chart which was published in NME on 14 November 1952 with Al Martino's "Here in My Heart" awarded the number-one position. The chart became a successful feature of the periodical.

It was expanded to a Top 20 for 1st October 1954, and rival publications began compiling their own charts starting in 1955. Record Mirror compiled its own Top 10 chart for 22 January 1955 and was based on the postal returns from record stores that were financed by the newspaper, NME was based on a telephone poll.

Both charts expand in size with Mirror's becoming a Top 20 in October 1955 and NME's becoming a Top 20 in April 1956. Another rival publication, Melody Maker, began compiling its own chart and telephoned 19 stores to produce a Top 30 for 7 April 1956; it was also the first chart to include Northern Ireland in its sample.