List of top 12 singles in 1952 (UK)
| 1950s in music in the UK | |
| Number-one singles | |
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| Best-selling singles | |
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| Summaries and charts 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 |
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| Top 10/12 singles | |
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1952, 1953, 1954 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 |
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The UK Singles Chart, compiled by the Official Charts Company, calculates the best-selling record singles of the week in the United Kingdom.New Musical Express (NME) magazine published the United Kingdom record charts for the first time in 1952.NME originally published only a top 12 (although the first chart had a couple of songs that were tied so a top 15 was announced) but this was gradually extended to encompass a top 20 by October 1954. Songs that entered the top 12 in 1952 but did not peak until 1953 are included in the table, as well as in List of top 12 singles in 1953 (UK).
Eighteen songs reached their peak in 1952. "Because You're Mine" was recorded by Nat King Cole and Mario Lanza and both versions reached the top 10. Additionally, five songs entered the charts in 1952 but did not peak until 1953. The first song to reach number-one in the United Kingdom was "Here in My Heart" by Al Martino; the song debuted at the top of the charts on 9 November 1952 and spent nine consecutive weeks in that position.
American Bing Crosby and British singer Vera Lynn shared the record for most top 12 hits in 1952, both achieving three. One of Crosby's songs, "Zing a Little Zong", was a collaboration with Jane Wyman. This was one of three collaborations to record hit singles in 1952; the others were Doris Day and Frankie Laine ("Sugar Bush", which peaked at number 8), and Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads ("Faith Can Move Mountains", which reached number 7). Lynn had three songs—"The Homing Waltz", "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" and "Forget Me Not"—in the chart at the same time.
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