Former X Factor contestant Ella Henderson makes her chart debut at number one and Kasabian's fifth album is their fourth number one.

Ella Henderson has her first number one single and Kasabian score their fourth number one album.

The weekly turnover at the top of the singles chart as former X Factor contestant Ella Henderson enters at number one with Ghost. The number one spot has now changed hands for 17 weeks in a row. The song was co-written by Ryan Tedder who thereby adds to his collection of chart-topping singles which have included Ellie Goulding’s Burn and Counting Stars by his own band One Republic. It is the second number one song to featur ethe word Ghost in its title following The Specials’ brilliant Ghost Town in 1981. Among the other ghost songs to reach the chart is the wonderfully haunting Ghosts which reached number five for Japan in 1982.

This week’s highest Dutch new entry comes from producer Tijs Verwest, better known as Tiesto, who enters at number three with Wasted. He had five top 40 hits between 2001 and 2005 without ever breaking in to the top twenty. He broke a lengthy absence from the top 40 in 2011 when C’mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise) reached number 13, his biggest hi.t at the time. He made his top ten debut earlier this year when Red Lights reached number six and he now reaches a new peak nearly 13 years after his first top 40 appearance. Wasted features American singer-songwriter Matthew Koma who notches up his third top 40 hit of the year.

Two recent number ones double their position this week. Ed Sheeran’s Sing falls one place to number two after his week at the summit and Sam Smith’s Stay With Me falls two places to number four. Another former chart-topper, Mr Probz’s Waves, slips one place to number five.

After a guest appearance on the final of Britain’s Got Talent last weekend - presumably in order to demonstrate that talent having is not always necessary to get on television - Little Mix climb 18 places to number six with Salute.

Even someone whose interest in football is on a par with my interest in 18th century Hungarian art cannot have failed to notice that the World Cup is now under way in Brazil. It was announced some time ago that the England World Cup song would be a revamped version of Take That’s Greatest Day featuring Gary Barlow, Katy B and former England striker Michael Owen. However, the release was quietly dropped. Whether that was a result of Barlow’s tax issues is unclear. Even at the start of the week it looked as if there would be no football-related song in the upper reaches of the chart. However, that changed with the sudden death of comic actor Rik Mayall on Monday.

In 2010 Mayall recorded a song, Noble England, for that year’s World Cup in South Africa but, along with many others, it did not trouble the chart. Within 24 hours of Mayall’s death the people responsible for the successful campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to number one for Christmas 2009 had launched their attempt to get Noble England to number one. For the time being they will have to settle for number seven. In the wake of England’s defeat against Italy last night it is losing support but a good result against Uruguay on Thursday could see a revival. The song is based on a monologue from William Shakespeare’s Henry V. Thus, at the age of 450, Shakespeare becomes one of the oldest lyricists to have a hit song. His sister - minus the final e - had a few hits of her own including eight weeks at number one with Stay in 1992.

Rik Mayall’s previous chart outing was as a member of the cast of The Young Ones who joined forces with Cliff Richard - a hero of Mayall’s character in the show - to record a new version of Living Doll as the first Comic Relief single in 1986. It spent three weeks at number one. Hank Marvin - who entered the albums chart last week - was also credited on the single.

Naturally there is a reappearance of one of the few decent football songs and I am not referring to Tom Hark (We Want Falmer) by Seagulls Ska for which song, as a Brighton supporter, I can only apologise. The song in question is, of course, Three Lions by Baddiel & Skinner and The Lightning Seeds, originally written for the Euro ’96 tournament in England. The song reached number one (twice) that year and an impromptu version of it at the semi final with Germany (with Baddiel and Skinner among them) was among the highlights of that football summer. A slightly revamped version of the song returned to the top two years later for the World Cup in France. It has been a regular visitor to the charts in World Cup years ever since and makes its 2014 debut at number 27. It’s future fate this year, once again, is dependent on the fortunes of the England team.

The official World Cup song, i.e. for the tournament as a whole rather than just England, is We Are One (Ole Ola). For reasons best known to organisers FIFA the song is performed largely by two Americans not known to have an interest in football, Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez. There is but a token appearance from a Brazilian performer, Claudia Leitte, towards the end of the song although many people may not be able to listen to it for long enough to hear that bit. The World Cup opening ceremony may not have won as many plaudits as Danny Boyle’s ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics - OK, so it didn’t win any plaudits - but it did help lift the song into the chart at number 29. There had been rumours that Lopez would not appear due to “production issues”. There had even been suggestions that she was unsure whether she could fit it into her schedule as if the date of the start of the tournament had been a closely guarded secret until this week. Cynics may feel that the ”production issues” were more a matter of whether she could mime her part rather than having to perform live.

Not many people record songs so unutterably awful that they immediately try to dissociate themselves from them. However, Skepta - Joseph Adenuga -seems to have attempted to do so by calling his latest offering That’s Not Me. Yes, Joseph, it is you as well as JME whose part in this monstrosity should not go unmentioned. Skepta’s previous hit - which again featured JME - was called Can You Hear Me. Sadly it is still possible to hear both of them on this “song” which enters at number 21.

Bristolian Jacob Anderson is best known as an actor having appeared in Noel Clark’s film Adulthood and ITV series Broadchurch as well suffering interrogation by Karen in an episode of Outnumbered. This week he makes his debut as a singer using the moniker Raleigh Ritchie as Stronger Than Ever enters at number 30.

Lil Wayne and Drake are two artists whose list of hits consist almost entirely of songs credited to A feat. B, each appearing both as main and featured artists. Inevitably, some of those hits have involved both of them although only one of them, Right Above It (2010) reached the top 40. This week - with Lil Wayne as the lead artist - they make it two top 40 hits together as Believe Me enters at number 36.

DJ Sanke and Lil John return at number 37 with Turn Down For What thanks to some idiot who posted a video of some cats on Youtube. No matter how cute the cats may be it cannot make the song any better. It is still dreadful. Zedd and Foxes also re-enter (again) at number 31 with Clarity. It remains to be seen whether it hangs around any longer this time after two previous short-lived visits to the top 40.

The various versions of Three Lions have now spent a total of 33 weeks in the top 40. The one version of Pharrell’s Happy clocks up its 28th week in the top 40 and indeed remains in the top 20 for a 27th week. Idina Menzel’s Let It Go still won’t let go and stretches its top 40 run to 23 excruciating weeks. At least it is in its lowest position for 11 weeks so perhaps it will melt away soon. We live in hope. Clean Bandit’s Rather Be has been entertaining listeners to the top 40 for 21 weeks. With the return of Three Lions and a new number one, 15 of the top 40 (37.5%) have reached the summit.

When the headline acts for this year’s Glastonbury Festival were announced some people were decidedly underwhelmed. For some of us, that feeling of disappointment was tempered somewhat by the realisation that there would be less of a conflict between watching the coverage form Somerset or the World Cup. Arcade Fire - playing on Friday 27th June when there is no football - should be brilliant but I am not a fan of Metallica (Sunday’s headliners) at all and cannot get too enthusiastic about Kasabian (playing on the Saturday). Nevertheless all bands have their fans and Kasabian’s followers have propelled their new set 48:13 (the length of the album) to the top of the chart. Their eponymous debut album, released in 2004, peaked at number four but the next four, including this one, have all reached the summit.

Coldplay’s Ghost Stories remains at number two for a third week. Without the Kasabian release we could have had a ghostly double at the top of the charts four and a half months away from Hallowe’en. After a fortnight at number one Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (not the best time to encounter a ghost) drops to number three.

When embarking on his musical career John Gillis took the unusual step of adopting his wife’s surname and calling himself Jack White. That did at least fit on with the name of their band, The White Stripes. They released six albums between 1999 and 2007. The first two flopped altogether and the third White Blood Cells (2001) fared little better. Their fortunes changed with the release of the highly-acclaimed Elephant in 2003. The album went straight to number one and they went on to have hit singles with 7 Nation Army - helped by its very recognisable guitar introduction - and a terrific version of the Bacharach & David song I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, originally a hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964. Their final two albums Get Behind Me Satan (2005) and Icky Thump (2007) also reached the top three. While the marriage broke up in 2000 the band continued until 2011 although Jack White also had side projects with The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. His first solo album, Blunderbuss, went to number one. The follow-up, Lazaretto, is a new entry at number four this week.

As with the White Stripes, Passenger’s first three albums were unsuccessful in chart terms. The fourth set, All The Little Lights, started off slightly better although entering at number 71 does not exactly constitute a massive hit. However, the success of the single Let Her Go boosted sales of the album and it went on to reach number three. His fifth album Whispers is a more instant success as a new entry at number five.

Country star Dolly Parton has, unsurprisingly, enjoyed rather more success in her native USA than in the UK although, even there, it took her a decade to achieve a big hit in the mainstream charts rather than the specialist country charts. She is best known here for songs such as Jolene (later covered by The White Stripes), Love Is Like A Butterfly (used as the theme tune for a 1970s sitcom which helped launch Nicholas Lyndhurst’s career) and 9 to 5 as well as for writing I Will Always Love You. All those songs appear on her latest collection, Blue Smoke: The Best Of Dolly Parton which enters at number six. It is only her third top ten album in the UK and her highest ever position in either chart. Comments on her appearance and the use of surgery have been met with the quip “It took a lot of money to look this cheap”.

Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit enter at number 11 with their third album Stay Gold. Their previous release The Lion’s Roar (2012) reached number 35.

Representing obscure rock bands this week are Californians Rival Sons who enter at number 14 with Great Western Valkyrie (which sounds like a scary train ride) and Liverpudlians Anathema who land at number 33 with Distant Satellites (which doesn’t sound like a train ride at all).

Chrissie Hynde made her name in the UK as lead singer of The Pretenders who had hits with songs such as Kid, Stop Your Sobbing and the number one hit Brass In Pocket. Younger music fans will perhaps be more familiar with their song I’ll Stand By You courtesy of the vastly inferior Girls Aloud version recorded for Children In Need. Now, at the age of 62, she has finally released her first solo album Stockholm. Perhaps she has been too busy supporting various animal rights campaigns. The album enters at number 22, her first appearance in the chart since The Pretenders’ ninth studio album Break Up The Concrete in 2008.

It has been stated here before that live albums rarely achieve chart success. One of the exceptions was The Who’s Live At Leeds album which reached number three although that was back in 1970 when they were at their peak. The band achieved much of their success with two “rock operas”, Tommy and Quadrophenia, both of which were also made into films. A live version of the latter, recorded in 2012 with Zak Starkey (son of Ringo Starr) replacing Keith Moon on drums, enters at number 28. The original album reached number two in 1973 while a film soundtrack recording also charted in 1979.

The Eagles’ Selected Works 1972-99 has spent several months in the top 75 without ever breaking in to the top 40 despite a number of television documentaries giving it a boost. They have recently been playing some live dates in the UK with, presumably, each of them trying to remember which of the other members they most recently had a row with. That has perhaps reminded some people how many fabulous songs they recorded and the album climbs into the top 40 at number 30.

Charlotte Jaconelli who previously charted as half of Britain’s Got Talent alumni Jonathan and Charlotte enters on her own at number 40 with the aptly titled Solitaire. As well as the title track - which has been a hit for both Andy Williams and The Carpenters - is her selection from the list of songs which must, by EU law, appear on a vaguely operatic pop album, Pie Jesu.

Whenever veteran music critics compile a collective list of the best albums of all time it is a fair bet that Carole King’s Tapestry will feature somewhere. The album reached number four in 1971 and, after a BBC4 documentary on King was shown last weekend, it is back at number 27 this week. The album features the original version of You’ve Got A Friend which has been covered by, inter alia, James Taylor, Dusty Springfield (her again) and McFly (another Comic Relief song).

There are also re-entries for Gregory Port’s Liquid Spirit at number 21 and Little Mix’s Salute at 32.