After all those weeks of rapid turnover, we finally have a proper number one single, as “We Found Love” by Rihanna ft Calvin Harris holdings on for a third week.  It was at number two on the midweeks but pulled back ahead on Thursday.  Will it manage a fourth?  Probably not – but it does now have a proper video, so the added airplay on the music channels could make a difference.

The unfortunate record which was ahead in the midweeks but turned out to have frontloaded its sales was “Lightning” by the Wanted, just missing out on their third number one.  As usual with the Wanted, it’s unashamedly targetted at 13-year-old girls, but there’s nothing wrong with that.  Not sure I’d have rhymed “frightening” and “lightning” quite so prominently, but that aside, it’s a decent enough record.

Number 3 is Charlene Soraia’s version of “Wherever You May Go”, and the Calling’s original is up to 16.  Other notable climbers this week: Ed Sheeran’s “Lego House” (now with a proper video) moves 30-18, and the release of the Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds album has apparently reminded some people about their second single “AKA What A Life”, as it re-enters at 25.

But back to the new entries.  Number 6 is “Mr Know It All” by Kelly Clarkson, which – in the video director’s interpretation, at least – is one of those irritating records in which a celebrity whines that people on the internet are nasty to her.  Clarkson has made some very good pop singles, and this is not one of them.  Her biggest UK hit was “My Life Would Suck Without You”, which made number 1 in 2009.

At number 9, it’s an unexpectedly high new entry for “Video Games” by Lana Del Rey.  Songs like this don’t normally get chosen as lead singles – unless you’re promoting to an album market – but it did very well on YouTube, so that’s what the record label are running with.  Apparently there’s something of a backlash against Del Rey in some circles, as some people were rather put out to discover that she’s backed by Interscope and she had a previous, unsuccessful career under her real name of Lizzie Grant.  But frankly, if something like this fails your “manufactured pop” threshold, you really need to recalibrate.  It’s a fantastic single.

From the sublime to the ridiculous: at number 11, “Got 2 Luv U” by Sean Paul featuring Alexis Jordan.  This is his biggest hit since “Temperature” back in 2006.  Having noted that, it need not detain us futher.

Number 21 is the calendar-defying “Mistletoe” by Justin Bieber, which is apparently the lead single from a planned Christmas album.  So presumably we can expect several Justin Bieber Christmas singles, some of which may actually come out at Christmas.  This is the second most out-of-season Christmas single in chart history; the record, unlikely ever to be broken, is held by the Goons’ “I’m Walking Backwards For Christmas”, which made number 4 in July 1956.

Number 22 is “The One That Got Away” by Katy Perry, which is her next single, and doesn’t have a video yet, but it’s charting because she performed it on X Factor.  And at number 37, “Natural Disaster” by Laidback Luke featuring Example.  It’s Luke’s second hit, following his co-credit on a remake of “Show Me Love” two years ago.