Chart Week 33 of 2020: Week of 16th August

Chart Week #33 of 2020: Week of 16th August

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Chart notes:
   American musician Vincint Cannady (who is known professionally by just his first name) has captured the #1 spot on the LGBT chart with "Save Myself", climbing one position from last week. He's originally from Pennsylvania, but he now resides in California. Vincint was a finalist on the television talent competition The Four during its first season in 2018. He's previously appeared on the LGBT chart with the videos for "Marrow" (which reached the Top 10 in 2018) and "Please Don't Fall in Love" (which spent five weeks on the chart in 2019 and peaked at #22). Vincint released his debut album The Feeling this past February. He's scheduled to perform live this weekend (on Sunday 8/16) for the online UK Black Pride Festival which is utilizing an all-streaming format this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

   Nine songs fell off the chart this week to make way for nine new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Lying" by New Zealand/Australian singer Ben Hazlewood, entering the chart at #29. It's the follow-up single to his #1 smash "Lay Me Down" which is now spending its ninth week on the LGBT chart at #21. Ben's music has earned rave reviews in publications as varied as Billboard and Huffington Post and Harper's Bazaar. He says he's been writing songs since he was 14 years old. "Writing songs allowed me to express all the emotions that I wasn't able to speak about," he wrote on his official website. For him, songwriting was "a way to understand what was going on in my own head".

   Chart positions are based on points assigned from (1) the previous week's chart position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) views on YouTube from the past seven days, (4) percentage of increase in YouTube views from the week prior, (5) my votes, and (6) any votes I've received by Wednesday 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 LGBT chart:

This week	Last week	Artist & title	Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
1	2	Vincint – “Save Myself”	US	1	6
2	1	Dotan – “No Words”	NL	1	5
3	11	Marshmello & Halsey – “Be Kind”	US	3	3
4	12	Tiziano Ferro & Jovanotti – “Balla Per Me”	IT	4	3
5	8	Duncan Laurence – “Someone Else”	NL	5	4
6	7	Kim Petras – “Malibu”	DE	6	6
7	10	Ruben – “Burn Down This Room”	NO	7	5
8	13	Zee Machine – “Stealing Candy”	US	8	5
9	4	Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – “Rain On Me”	US	1	8
10	26	Carlie Hanson – “Stealing All My Friends”	US	10	2
11	14	Elliot Jones – “Groupie”	CA/US	11	5
12	3	Sia – “Together”	AU	2	6
13	18	Jason Mraz – “Look For the Good”	US	1	10
14	36	Big Dipper & Boy Radio – “Like This”	US	14	3
15	30	Limahl – “Still in Love”	GB	15	3
16	48	Troye Sivan – “Easy”	AU	16	2
17	44	Apolo – “Otro Nivel”	ES	17	2
18	5	Donna Missal – “Let You Let Me Down”	US	5	5
19	6	Greyson Chance – “Honeysuckle”	US	6	7
20	41	Bronze Avery – “Only You”	US	20	3
21	25	Ben Hazlewood – “Lay Me Down”	NZ/AU	1	9
22	9	Adam Joseph – “Daddy”	US	3	8
23	49	Bilal Hassani – “Fais Le Vide”	FR	23	2
24	47	Keiino – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”	NO	24	2
25	22	Fletcher & Kito – “Bitter”	US	12	5
26	17	Madblush – “Isolados”	BR	6	6
27	15	Carly Rae Jepsen & Jack Antonoff – “This Love Isn’t Crazy”	CA/US	15	4
28	16	Titus Burgess – “Dance MF”	US	16	4
29	New	Ben Hazlewood – “Lying”	NZ/AU	29	1
30	New	Javiera Mena – “Corazón Astral”	CL	30	1
31	19	Amber Liu & James Lee – “Alright”	US	19	5
32	23	Doug Locke – “Black Travolta”	US	5	8
33	20	George Michael, Mary J. Blige, Tommy Theo, Waze & Odyssey – “Always (Drag Stars Remix)”	GB/US/ NL	20	4
34	21	Douwe Bob – “What a Wonderful World”	NL	21	4
35	50	rIVerse – “Stand Up”	CA	35	2
36	24	Jvel – “No Somos Humanos”	ES	24	4
37	New	Isaac Dunbar – “Boy”	US	37	1
38	New	Maruv & Boosin – “I Want You”	UK	38	1
39	27	Felix Jaehn, Gashi, & Faangs – “Sicko”	DE/US/CA	1	11
40	28	Davi Clintori – “B*tch, Please!”	BR	6	8
41	29	Daniel Schuhmacher – “Supalonely”	DE	15	6
42	New	LP – “The One That You Love”	US	42	1
43	31	Jordy – “Boys Boys Boys”	US	31	3
44	New	Jaime Kohen – “Mar de Sábanas”	MX	44	1
45	New	Kazaky – “Fucking Beautiful”	UK	45	1
46	42	Dani Ride – “Ven Dímelo”	CL	42	3
47	45	Billy Porter – “For What It’s Worth”	US	45	2
48	46	Luis Gamarra – “Libre”	BO	46	2
49	New	Agoney – “Más”	ES	49	1
50	New	Bonavega – “Pain and Pleasure”	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
**	32	Esteman – “Para Siempre”	CO	32	3
**	33	Dotan – “Numb”	NL	4	8
**	34	Davi Sabbag & Urias – “Não Faz Diferença”	BR	2	8
**	35	The Irrepressibles – “Let Go (Everybody Move Your Body Listen to Your Heart)”	GB	3	9
**	37	Monique Heart & Koil – “Hot Sauce and High Heels”	US	17	6
**	38	Matilda – “Tonight”	NO	38	3
**	39	Divina De Campo – “A Drag Race Song”	GB	39	3
**	40	Yuma X – “Secret Lover”	AU	22	6
**	43	Hurts – “Voices”	GB	35	3

Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above
AU = Australia	BO = Bolivia	BR = Brazil
CA = Canada	CL = Chile	CO = Colombia
DE = Germany	ES = Spain	FR = France
GB = Great Britain	IT = Italy	MX = Mexico
NL = Netherlands	NO = Norway	NZ = New Zealand
UK = Ukraine	US = United States