Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Midweek chart for 24th May, 2023
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Chart notes:
British musician Romy Madley Croft (known professionally as Romy) takes over the #1 spot on Tad's LGBT Music Chart at midweek with "Enjoy Your Life", moving up one more place from the weekend's #2 position. Romy (who's from London, England) has appeared on this chart as the guitarist for The XX, but this is her first solo appearance. The track is from her first solo album Mid Air, which peaked at #15 on the U.K. albums chart. She's also written songs for other LGBTQ artists, including King Princess and Halsey. Over the past three days, the video for "Enjoy Your Life" has gained an additional 50,849 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 3.83% since the weekend's chart).
Four videos move up into the Top 10 at midweek, including returns from two former #1 hits: American rock quintet The Scarlet Opera (from Los Angeles, California) rebounds back up 6 places to #8 with "Riot" and Canadian singer Alexander Stewart (from Toronto, Ontario) moves back up 3 positions to #10 with "Leave Me in the Dark". Turkish singer/songwriter Mabel Matiz is climbing 11 notches to #6 with "Aferin". They're joined in the Top 10 by Spanish singer/dancer Lola Indigo, who's leaping ahead 12 spots to #7 with "El Tonto".
Nine songs fall off the chart to make way for nine new songs. The midweek chart features 9 debuts by LGBTQ artists from the U.S.A., Germany, Romania, and South Korea:
- Felix Jaehn (from Germany)
- Chris Housman (from Kansas, U.S.A.)
- Muna (from California, U.S.A.)
- Roxen (from Romania)
- Durand Bernarr (from Ohio, U.S.A.)
- Joy Oladokun (from Arizona, U.S.A.)
- Lauren Jauregui (from Florida, U.S.A.)
- MkX (from Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
- Xikers (from South Korea)
Chart positions are determined by a system of points assigned from a combination of YouTube views and votes. If you'd like to vote for your favorite videos, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog (anonymous comments are permitted) or send me a private message (see the email address below). Suggestions for new videos are also welcomed, but they must be from an LGBTQ artist and they must be available on YouTube.
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The midweek Top 50 LGBT chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 2 | Romy – “Enjoy Your Life” | GB | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 5 | Nick Bolt – “Dramático” | CL | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 4 | Johnny Manuel – “Out of Time” | US/AU | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 8 | Danni Moreno – “Adicción” | MX | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 6 | Xana – “Bad Bandit” | CA | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | 17 | Mabel Matiz – “Aferin” | TR | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 19 | Lola Indigo & Quevedo – “El Tonto” | ES | 7 | 3 |
| 8 | 14 | The Scarlet Opera – “Riot” | US | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | 1 | Diplo, Johnny Blue Skies, & Dove Cameron – “Use Me (Brutal Hearts)” | US | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | 13 | Alexander Stewart – “Leave Me in the Dark” | CA | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | 11 | Robleis – “Solo” | AR/AD | 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 23 | Adam Mac & Jenna DeVries – “Chapel” | US | 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 29 | Henry Moodie – “Eighteen” | GB | 13 | 2 |
| 14 | 21 | Boygenius – “Emily I’m Sorry” | US | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 16 | Bright Light Bright Light – “Sweet Release” | GB | 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 31 | Big Freedia – “Central City Freestyle” | US | 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 41 | Seventeen – “(세븐틴) '손오공' (Son-Ogong)” | JP | 17 | 2 |
| 18 | 32 | Allen King & Jacky Ramirez – “VIP” | ES | 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 33 | Bebe Rexha & Snoop Dogg – “Satellite” | US | 19 | 2 |
| 20 | 38 | La Cruz – “Boulevard” | VE/ES | 20 | 2 |
| 21 | 20 | Lou Asril – “MaMaMaMa” | AT | 16 | 4 |
| 22 | 3 | Thiago Pantaleão – “Mente Pra Mim” | BR | 2 | 9 |
| 23 | 18 | Téo Lavabo – “Caisse Automatique” | FR | 11 | 5 |
| 24 | 7 | Jake Shears – “Too Much Music” | US/GB | 5 | 9 |
| 25 | 22 | The Aces – “Always Get This Way” | US | 22 | 5 |
| 26 | 9 | Alessandra Mele – “Queen of Kings” | IT/NO | 1 | 12 |
| 27 | 39 | Jedet – “En El Club” | ES | 27 | 2 |
| 28 | 10 | Serpentwithfeet – “Gonna Go” | US | 7 | 6 |
| 29 | 42 | Sam Williams – “Lost Its Allure” | US | 29 | 2 |
| 30 | 40 | Jessie Ware – “Begin Again” | GB | 30 | 2 |
| 31 | 12 | Mathew V – “The Man I Love” | CA | 8 | 8 |
| 32 | 15 | Zee Machine – “Thunder” | CN/US | 1 | 12 |
| 33 | 48 | Jackson Wang & Ciara – “Slow” | HK/CN/ US | 33 | 2 |
| 34 | 43 | Christine And The Queens – “To Be Honest” | FR | 34 | 2 |
| 35 | 28 | Arlo Parks – “Impurities” | GB | 28 | 3 |
| 36 | 46 | Sébastien Delage – “Une Longue Histoire” | FR | 36 | 2 |
| 37 | 45 | Alma – “Hey Mom Hey Dad” | FI | 37 | 2 |
| 38 | New | Butschi, Felix Jaehn, & Fairy Mary – “Atme Ein (Atme Rauch Aus)” | DE | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | 47 | Phenix – “When We Dance” | US | 39 | 2 |
| 40 | New | Chris Housman – “Drag Queen” | US | 40 | 1 |
| 41 | New | Muna – “One that Got Away” | US | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | 34 | Karina Kay – “One Night Only” | IL/US | 34 | 3 |
| 43 | New | Roxen – “Cenusa” | RO | 43 | 1 |
| 44 | New | Durand Bernarr – “Mango Butter” | US | 44 | 1 |
| 45 | New | Joy Oladokun – “Changes” | US | 45 | 1 |
| 46 | New | Lauren Jauregui – “Trust Issues” | US | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | 49 | Harry Strange – “Twenty Seven Twenty Five” | GB | 47 | 2 |
| 48 | 50 | Jeffrey Chan – “Surreal” | AU | 48 | 2 |
| 49 | New | MkX – “Play Out” | US | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Xikers – “Rockstar” | KR | 50 | 1 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 24 | Asbjørn – “Glor På Vinduer” | DK | 18 | 3 |
| ** | 25 | Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj – “Princess Diana” | US/TT | 12 | 5 |
| ** | 26 | Chappell Roan – “Kaleidoscope” | US | 9 | 7 |
| ** | 27 | Oscar Zia – “Autopilot” | SE | 23 | 4 |
| ** | 30 | Grupo Firme & Los Tucanes De Tijuana – “Secuestro de Amor” | MX | 22 | 3 |
| ** | 35 | Bilal Hassani – “Marathon” | FR | 33 | 3 |
| ** | 36 | Chéri & Joanna – “Torrents de Larmes” | FR | 35 | 3 |
| ** | 37 | Maddie Zahm – “Step on Me” | US | 31 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Allison Ponthier – “Character Development” | US | 40 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AD = Androrra | AR = Argentina | AT = Austria |
| AU = Australia | BR = Brazil | CA = Canada |
| CL = Chile | CN = China | DE = Germany |
| DK = Denmark | ES = Spain | FI = Finland |
| FR = France | GB = Great Britain | HK = Hong Kong |
| IL = Israel | IT = Italy | JP = Japan |
| KR = South Korea | MX = Mexico | NO = Norway |
| RO = Romania | SE = Sweden | TR = Turkey |
| TT = Trinidad & Tobago | US = United States | VE = Venezuela |
