Fact #58379
When:
Short story:
The first UK popular music chart, the Top Twelve, is published in the pop paper NME (New Musical Express). Artists on the chart, compiled from sales at twenty major record stores, include Al Martino at No1 with Here In My Heart, plus Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Max Bygraves and, with no less than three entries, Vera Lynn.
Tweet this Fact