Chart Week 18: Week of 5th May, 2019

                                                                                                                                         
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Chart notes:
   Former drag queen Conchita Wurst received the most votes this week for "Hit Me", and those extra points have helped to push the video into the #1 slot on the LGBT chart. Conchita first rose to international fame after winning the Eurovision song contest for Austria in 2014, and is scheduled to perform live at this year's Eurovision finals in Tel Aviv.

   The remainder of the Top Five this week are: New Zealand band Openside (rising 5 places to #2), Dutch singer Duncan Laurence (falling 2 spots to #3), Russian duo N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T (rebounding 8 notches to #4), and American singer Gia Woods (moving up 4 spots to #5).

   Six songs fell off the countdown this week to make way for six new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Buzina" by Pabllo Vittar, coming in at #42. The Brazilian singer last appeared on my chart in November, with the videos for "Disk Me" and "Problema Seu". Pabllo was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2018 (for Best Urban Fusion Performance, for the single "Sua Cara" which she recorded with Major Lazer & Anitta), which makes her the very first Grammy-nominated drag queen.

   Chart positions are based on points assigned from: (1) last week's position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) views on YouTube and the percentage of increase in views from one week to the next, (4) my votes, 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	5	Conchita Wurst – “Hit Me”	AT	1	4
2	7	Openside – “Waiting For Love”	NZ	2	4
3	1	Duncan Laurence – “Arcade”	NL	1	6
4	12	N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T – “Чужие Судьбы (Someone Else’s Fate)”	RU	1	10
5	9	Gia Woods – “New Girlfriend”	US	5	6
6	15	André Seravat – “Not Enough”	PT	6	5
7	11	Greyson Chance – “Yours”	US	7	4
8	13	Reigen – “High On U”	US	8	8
9	22	Diego Diaz – “Caótico”	AR	1	7
10	14	Cameron Hawthorn – “Dancing in the Living Room”	US	10	5
11	19	Adam Joseph – “Bye Felicia”	US	11	6
12	23	Will Young – “All the Songs”	GB	12	3
13	16	Miss Caffeina – “Prende”	ES	13	5
14	24	Maruv – “Siren Song”	UK	14	2
15	33	Jordy – “Stay Together”	US	15	3
16	20	Ben Platt – “Temporary Love”	US	16	4
17	30	Katey Brooks – “Never Gonna Let Her Go”	GB	17	4
18	4	Daniel Schuhmacher – “Venus Or Mars”	DE	1	8
19	26	Bang Bang Romeo – “Bag of Bones”	GB	19	5
20	31	Mx Blouse – “No Match”	ZA	20	4
21	29	Asiahn – “Like You”	US	21	5
22	25	Westlife – “Better Man”	IE	22	3
23	36	Corvyx – “Lady Gaga Tribute: The Mother Monster Mashup”	US	23	3
24	3	Kfir – “Drama Queen”	IL/US	2	10
25	38	Port Cities – “Montreal”	CA	25	3
26	42	Lizette Lizette – “Non”	US	26	3
27	2	Greyson Chance – “Shut Up”	US	1	10
28	32	Mɏss Keta & Guè Pequeno – “Pazzeska”	IT	28	3
29	28	Iggy Azalea – “Sally Walker”	AU	28	3
30	6	Troye Sivan – “Lucky Strike”	AU	1	13
31	50	Troy Garrick – “Okay”	US	31	2
32	10	Not.Your.Regular.Boy. – “I Want You”	NL	8	7
33	49	Sagi Kariv & Karina Kay – “Dreaming Material”	IL	33	2
34	45	Zonderling & Andreas Moss – “I Do”	NL/SE	34	2
35	40	Walk The Moon – “Timebomb”	US	35	2
36	35	Bebe Rexha – “Last Hurrah”	US	35	2
37	48	Billy Winn & B. Ames – “WDHS”	US	37	2
38	37	Daya – “Insomnia”	US	37	2
39	44	Aurora – “Animal”	NO	39	2
40	17	Lauv & Troye Sivan – “I’m So Tired”	US/AU	1	12
41	8	Superfruit – “The Promise”	US	8	6
42	New	Pabllo Vittar – “Buzina”	BR	42	1
43	18	Omyo – “Champion”	GB	18	6
44	New	Holland – “Nar_C”	KR	44	1
45	21	TEO Entertainment – “Lucky Star”	RU/FI	21	4
46	New	Lil Peep, ILoveMakonnen, & Fall Out Boy – “I’ve Been Waiting”	US	46	1
47	New	Tokio Hotel – “When It Rains It Pours”	DE	47	1
48	27	Buhos – “Volcans”	ES	27	3
49	New	Osvaldo Supino – “How Do We Know?”	IT	49	1
50	New	Myylo – “Jonesing”	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
**	34	Jax Jones (with Years and Years) – “Play”	GB	1	14
**	39	Flavia – “Til I Die (I Don’t Wanna Be Here)”	IE/US	15	7
**	41	Saro – “Please”	US	20	7
**	43	Sam Smith & Normani – “Dancing With A Stranger”	GB/US	2	11
**	46	Cleland – “Order Up”	US	24	4
**	47	Rayvon Owen – “Volume”	US	25	3

Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above
AR = Argentina	AT = Austria	AU = Australia
BR = Brazil	CA = Canada	DE = Germany
ES = Spain	FI = Finland	GB = Great Britain
IE = Ireland	IL = Israel	IT = Italy
KR = South Korea	NL = Netherlands	NO = Norway
NZ = New Zealand	PT = Portugal	RU = Russia
SE = Sweden	UK = Ukraine	US = United States
ZA = South Africa