Week 04: Week of 27th January 2019
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Blair St. Clair (from Indianapolis) takes over the top spot on the countdown this week with "Irresistible". Blair (whose real name is Andrew Bryson) competed on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2018, Blair's debut EP (which is entitled Call My Life) reached the #1 spot on Billboard magazine's Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
Also in the Top Five this week are: Sam Tsui (from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania), JHart (originally from Essex, England), Jordy (from Los Angeles), and Troye Sivan's collaboration with Jonsi (from Australia and Iceland, respectively).
Seven songs fell off the countdown this week to make way for seven new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Fire On Fire" by Sam Smith (from London), coming in at #37. The ballad is from the BBC/Netflix miniseries Watership Down, an animated tale about a group of rabbits.
Chart positions are based on (1) the previous week's position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) views on YouTube, (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:
Blair St. Clair (from Indianapolis) takes over the top spot on the countdown this week with "Irresistible". Blair (whose real name is Andrew Bryson) competed on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2018, Blair's debut EP (which is entitled Call My Life) reached the #1 spot on Billboard magazine's Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
Also in the Top Five this week are: Sam Tsui (from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania), JHart (originally from Essex, England), Jordy (from Los Angeles), and Troye Sivan's collaboration with Jonsi (from Australia and Iceland, respectively).
Seven songs fell off the countdown this week to make way for seven new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Fire On Fire" by Sam Smith (from London), coming in at #37. The ballad is from the BBC/Netflix miniseries Watership Down, an animated tale about a group of rabbits.
Chart positions are based on (1) the previous week's position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) views on YouTube, (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 | 3 | Blair St. Clair – “Irresistible” | US | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 4 | Sam Tsui – “A Million Pieces” | US | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 1 | J Hart – “Why Does It Hurt?” | GB/US | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | 5 | Jordy – “Just Friends” | US | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 9 | Troye Sivan & Jónsi – “Revelation” | AU/IS | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 11 | Astrid S – “Emotion” | NO | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | Aaron Porter – “Boy” | GB | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 15 | Christopher Sorensen – “Afterglow” | US | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | 21 | Kany García & Residente – “Banana Papaya” | PR | 9 | 4 |
| 10 | 14 | Velo & Pablo Hernandez – “Up and Down” | US | 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 12 | Dan Crossley – “7 Minutes” | GB | 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 19 | CupcakKe – “Dangled” | US | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 22 | Jess Glynne – “Thursday” | GB | 13 | 4 |
| 14 | 20 | Jvel – “La Nube” | ES | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 27 | Raja Kumari – “Shook” | IN/US | 15 | 3 |
| 16 | 30 | Anne-Marie & James Arthur –“Rewrite the Stars” | GB | 16 | 3 |
| 17 | 26 | Matt Simons – “Amy’s Song” | US | 17 | 3 |
| 18 | 31 | The 1975 – “Sincerity Is Scary” | GB | 18 | 3 |
| 19 | 25 | Torrey Mercer – “Boys/Girls” | US | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 28 | Perfume Genius – “Not For Me” | US | 20 | 3 |
| 21 | 6 | King Princess – “Pussy Is God” | US | 6 | 8 |
| 22 | 2 | Zee Machine – “Dangerous” | US | 1 | 12 |
| 23 | 34 | Mylène Farmer – “Désobéissance” | FR | 23 | 2 |
| 24 | 32 | Indigo Face – “A Rose Is A Rose” | GB | 2 | 9 |
| 25 | 35 | Girli – “Young” | GB | 25 | 2 |
| 26 | 33 | Joey Suarez – “Dancing By Myself” | US | 4 | 7 |
| 27 | 10 | Carly Rae Jepsen – “Party For One” | CA | 10 | 7 |
| 28 | 37 | Davi & Jade Baraldo – “De Boa” | BR | 28 | 2 |
| 29 | 36 | Lauren Ruth Ward – “Riders On The Storm” | US | 29 | 2 |
| 30 | 13 | Openside – “Character Flaws” | NZ | 2 | 14 |
| 31 | 40 | Vök – “Night and Day” | IS | 31 | 4 |
| 32 | 38 | Jaime Kohen – “Fuego” | MX | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 7 | alextbh – “Walls” | MY | 7 | 5 |
| 34 | 42 | Alex Winston – “Tourist” | US | 34 | 2 |
| 35 | 18 | Theo X – “You Don’t Wanna Dance” | DK | 12 | 7 |
| 36 | 16 | Jeff Carl – “Buried in New York” | US | 1 | 14 |
| 37 | New | Sam Smith – “Fire On Fire” | GB | 37 | 1 |
| 38 | New | Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus – “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” | GB/US | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | 43 | Yanni Burton – “Awake” | AU | 39 | 2 |
| 40 | 41 | J. Tyler & James Shealey – “Dance With Me” | US | 40 | 2 |
| 41 | 17 | The Regrettes – “California Friends” | US | 17 | 4 |
| 42 | New | Jax Jones (with Years and Years) – “Play” | GB | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | 23 | Kika Lorace – “Resaca” | ES | 23 | 5 |
| 44 | 24 | Allie X – “Can’t Stop Now” | CA | 24 | 3 |
| 45 | 46 | Leigh Garland – “15 Minutes” | IE | 45 | 2 |
| 46 | New | Tove Lo – “Cycles” | SE | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | 29 | Siena Liggins – “Naked” | US | 1 | 13 |
| 48 | New | Sampa the Great & Nadeem Din-Gabisi – “Energy” | ZM/AU | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | KT Tunstall – “Human Being” | GB | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Maribelle – “Down For You” | AU | 50 | 1 |
Numbers with a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 39 | Ty Herndon – “Walking in Memphis” | US | 11 | 4 |
| ** | 44 | Brandon Stansell – “Hometown” | US | 9 | 6 |
| ** | 45 | Somme – “Broken Hearted Lovers” | US | 12 | 4 |
| ** | 47 | Ryan Amador – “Liars” | US | 20 | 3 |
| ** | 48 | Njomza – “Lonely Nights” | US | 21 | 3 |
| ** | 49 | Conan Gray – “Crush Culture” | US | 19 | 4 |
| ** | 50 | Skamp – “Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow” | LT | 30 | 5 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BR = Brazil | CA = Canada |
| DK = Denmark | ES = Spain | FR = France |
| GB = Great Britain | IE = Ireland | IN = India |
| IS = Iceland | LT = Lithuania | MX = Mexico |
| MY = Malaysia | NO = Norway | NZ = New Zealand |
| PR = Puerto Rico | SE = Sweden | US = United States |
| ZM = Zambia | ||
