1952 in British music

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This is a summary of 1952 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This year was a turning point for music in not only the UK, but all over the world. The first official UK singles chart began in November 1952, compiled by the New Musical Express. This made the United Kingdom the first country in the world to have an official singles chart and created it in many other countries, with the Billboard Hot 100 era beginning in 1958 in the USA. The singles chart quickly became a phenomenon and record breaking became a new excitement for the public. Compiled solely on sales; it kept this trend until April 2005, when it was combined with legal downloads.

On the week ending November 14 1952, NME published the first ever UK singles chart. Only a Top 12 at the time, it slowly grew over the years as nowadays sales data is gathered electronically and a Top 200 is compiled weekly for industrial purposes. During the rest of the decade and the early 1960s, there were many different charts forming and the general public and the BBC's "Pick Of The Pops" (now known as Top Of The Pops) were all confused as to which was the most accurate. The Official Charts Company uses NME until March 1960 and then uses Record Retailer until 1969, when an official sole chart was formed by an alliance between the two most popular charts.

Issue Date Song Title Artist
8 November Here In My Heart Al Martino
15 November Here In My Heart Al Martino
22 November Here In My Heart Al Martino
29 November Here In My Heart Al Martino
5 December Here In My Heart Al Martino
12 December Here In My Heart Al Martino
19 December Here In My Heart Al Martino
26 December Here In My Heart Al Martino
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