Week 11: Week of 17th March 2019

                                                                                                                                
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Chart notes:
   Troye Sivan has knocked his own song off the top of the LGBT chart this week. Troye's "I'm So Tired" (a collaboration with Lauv) moves up 3 spots to claim the #1 position, which pushes "Lucky Strike" back one space to land at #2 for the week.

   Russian duo N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T received the most votes this week, which helps to propel them up 5 more spots to #3. The remainder of the Top Five are: Australian drag queen Courtney Act (dropping a spot to #4) and American singer Erik Altemus (moving up 8 spots to #5).

   Nine songs fell off the chart this week to make way for nine new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Venus Or Mars" by Daniel Schuhmacher, coming in at #24. In 2009, Daniel was the winner of the sixth season of Deutschland such den Superstar (the German version of American Idol). Later that same year, his first single ("Anything But Love") hit #1 in 3 countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). Daniel came out as gay in 2014.

   The song that received the most votes last week was "Lingering Wine" by Pragya Pallavi, but it hadn't yet reached my Top 50. Those points helped push her video up onto the countdown faster, and this week she debuts at #25. The song is being billed as "the first ever release in India by an openly queer Indian artist since the legalisation of homosexuality in the country". The video has already gotten more than 61,500 views on YouTube.

   The official video for "Melancholic Paradise" by Tokio Hotel (which is at #28 on my chart this week) has suddenly disappeared from YouTube. The site's automated bots are infamous for flagging videos indiscriminately for "copyright violations" and sometimes they even take down the official videos from an artist's own channel. (Other artists who've been affected by this have included Maroon 5, Cardi B, Fifth Harmony, and Travis Scott.) Usually it's only temporary and the video gets restored, but in the meantime I'll be substituting the lyric video for that song into my playlists.

   Chart positions are based on points assigned from (1) the previous week's position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) my votes, (4) views on YouTube and percentage of increase in views from one week to the next, and (5) any votes I've received by Thursday morning. If you'd like to vote for your favorite songs, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog or send me a private message (see the contact info above).


This week's Top 50 chart:

This week	Last week	Artist & title	Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
1	4	Lauv & Troye Sivan – “I’m So Tired”	US/AU	1	5
2	1	Troye Sivan – “Lucky Strike”	AU	1	6
3	8	N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T – “Чужие Судьбы (Aliens Destiny)”	RU	3	3
4	3	Courtney Act – “Fight For Love”	AU	3	4
5	13	Erik Altemus – “Desidero”	US	5	4
6	15	Greyson Chance – “Shut Up”	US	6	3
7	12	Miss Benny – “Rendezvous”	US	7	4
8	17	Bitch – “New Year”	US	8	6
9	16	Ty Herndon – “That Kind Of Night”	US	9	6
10	18	Andie Case – “Mysterious”	US	10	6
11	9	Jordy – “Just Friends”	US	1	13
12	20	Fiákra & Danna Lisboa – “Trava”	BR	12	6
13	2	Sam Smith & Normani – “Dancing With A Stranger”	GB/US	2	5
14	27	Kfir – “Drama Queen”	IL/US	14	3
15	24	Leland – “Middle Of A Heartbreak”	US	15	5
16	10	Jão – “Me Baija Com Raiva”	BR	5	5
17	7	Jax Jones (with Years and Years) – “Play”	GB	1	8
18	19	MNEK – “Girlfriend”	GB	18	3
19	28	Alex vdH – “Dead Without Dancing”	US	19	5
20	25	Tuure Boelius – “Vihaan Rakastaa Sua”	FI	20	2
21	5	Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus – “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart”	GB/US	3	8
22	11	Bilal Hassani – “Roi”	FR	2	7
23	39	Alex G – “Pray It Away”	US	23	4
24	New	Daniel Schuhmacher – “Venus Or Mars”	DE	24	1
25	New	Pragya Pallavi – “Lingering Wine”	IN	25	1
26	34	Leo Kalyan – “Focus”	GB	26	4
27	37	Shawnee – “Haunted”	CA	27	4
28	30	Tokio Hotel – “Melancholic Paradise”	DE	28	2
29	38	Cub Sport – “Party Pill”	AU	29	2
30	40	Hatari – “Spillingardans”	IS	30	3
31	43	Maggie Lindemann – “Would I?”	US	31	4
32	46	Echo Black – “Reckless Heart”	US	32	2
33	45	Gia Woods – “Jump the Fence”	US	33	2
34	6	Jvel – “La Nube”	ES	2	10
35	42	Christopher Sorensen – “Afterglow”	US	5	9
36	44	Betty Who – “I Remember”	AU	36	2
37	41	Mateus Carrilho & MC Tha – “Sonzeira”	BR	37	2
38	22	Miss Caffeina – “Merlí”	ES	20	6
39	26	Boy George & Culture Club – “Life”	GB	26	4
40	New	Saro – “Please”	US	40	1
41	New	Reigen – “High On U”	US	41	1
42	14	Westlife – “Hello My Love”	IE	14	7
43	New	Alfie Arcuri – “To Myself”	AU	43	1
44	21	Gloria Groove – “Coisa Boa”	BR	12	6
45	New	Flavia – “I Don’t Wanna Be Here”	IE/US	45	1
46	New	Jordy – “Irrational”	US	46	1
47	23	Sam Smith – “Fire On Fire”	GB	4	8
48	New	Alex vdH – “Georgia Summer Dream”	US	48	1
49	29	Lizzo – “Juice”	US	5	6
50	New	Flint Eastwood & Siena Liggins – “Hurt”	US	50	1

Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.

Falling off the chart this week:			Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
**	31	Matt Simons – “Amy’s Song”	US	8	9
**	32	Velo, Manila Luzon, & Eureka O’Hara – “Where My Man At?”	US	31	4
**	33	Jaimie Wilson – “Everything Is New”	US	30	4
**	35	Jaime Kohen – “Fuego”	MX	10	8
**	36	Astrid S – “Emotion”	NO	3	12
**	47	Anne-Marie & James Arthur –“Rewrite the Stars”	GB	10	9
**	48	Allen King – “Mejor Me Quedo Solo”	ES	13	6
**	49	Javiera Mena – “Alma”	CL	40	3
**	50	Kalen Blanco – “Tonight”	US	50	1

Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above
AU = Australia	BR = Brazil	CA = Canada
CL = Chile	DE = Germany	ES = Spain
FI = Finland	FR = France	GB = Great Britain
IE = Ireland	IL = Israel	IN = India
IS = Iceland	MX = Mexico	NO = Norway
RU = Russia	US = United States