Week 12: Week of 24th March 2019

                                                                                                                               
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Chart notes:
   Russian duo N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T climbs two spots this week, becoming the first non-Anglophone act to reach #1 on the LGBT chart this year. Many bloggers (including myself) have been referring to this title as "Aliens Destiny", but I've been informed that a better translation would be "Someone Else's Fate". As usual, the automated translations from YouTube are not very accurate. If you're curious to see what the lyrics mean in English, a better translation can be found here.

  Greyson Chance received the most votes this week, which helps to propel him up 3 more spots to #3. The remainder of the Top Five this week are: the Lauv/Troye Sivan collaboration (dropping one notch to #2), Texas country/EDM singer Ty Herndon (rising 5 spots to land at #4), and Australian drag queen Courtney Act (dropping a spot to #5).

   Six songs fell off the chart this week to make way for six new songs. The highest debut of the week was "I Want You" by Not.Your.Regular.Boy. (from the Netherlands), coming in at #27. NYRB (whose real name is Ferry de Ruiter) participated in The Voice of Holland in 2014, becoming the first person to appear on that show in full drag. This is his fourth single released since then, and it's the fourth time he has appeared on this chart.

   Making his first appearance on the LGBT chart is Bentley Jones, who debuts at #47 with "Lay Down On My Heart". Originally from England but now living in Japan, he sings in both Japanese and English. (Subtitles are provided in both languages.) According to Fandom, Bentley is the very first British musician to ever release a major-label album in Japanese.

   Another artist making his first appearance on the LGBT chart is Henry Newbury, who debuts at #50 with "I Thought You'd Know By Now". Henry was a finalist in the Pride's Got Talent competition at last year's London Pride.

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

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

New entries are in red text.

Songs that fell off the countdown are in purple text.

Falling off the chart this week:			Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
**	38	Miss Caffeina – “Merlí”	ES	20	6
**	39	Boy George & Culture Club – “Life”	GB	26	4
**	42	Westlife – “Hello My Love”	IE	14	7
**	44	Gloria Groove – “Coisa Boa”	BR	12	6
**	47	Sam Smith – “Fire On Fire”	GB	4	8
**	49	Lizzo – “Juice”	US	5	6

Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above
AR = Argentina	AU = Australia	BR = Brazil
CA = Canada	DE = Germany	ES = Spain
FI = Finland	FR = France	GB = Great Britain
IE = Ireland	IL = Israel	IN = India
IS = Iceland	JP = Japan	NL = Netherlands
RU = Russia	US = United States