Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #35 of 2021: Week of 29th August
Chart notes:
Brandi Carlile stays put at the #1 spot on this weekend's LGBT chart with "Right on Time". The video, which was directed by actress Courtney Cox (best known for her role as Monica on Friends), begins with Brandi onstage at the end of a show as the crowd cheers. She walks through the backstage area to find herself separated by glass from other people. By the end of the video, Brandi is ready to bust through that glass barrier but she finds that it's no longer there (or perhaps it was never really there at all?). The track is the first single released off her upcoming album In These Silent Days (due on October 1st). Over the past four days, the video for "Right on Time" has gained an additional 41,098 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 5.22% over the previous chart).
Three videos move up into the Top 10 this weekend. Canadian singer Ryland James rises 8 spots to #4 with "3 Purple Hearts". American vocalist Fletcher leaps ahead 13 places to #5 with "Healing". And finally, American musician Wrabel teams up with Dutch artist Duncan Laurence on "Back to Back" which climbs another 7 notches to reach the #10 position.
Nine songs fall off the chart to make way for nine new songs. The highest debut was "Mistress Violet" by American drag queen Violet Chachki (originally from Atlanta, Georgia), entering the chart at #34. Violet, who's best known for winning the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2015, identifies as gender-fluid and uses either "she/her" or "they/them" pronouns. The track is a collaboration with Canadian singer/songwriter Allie X, who penned the song for Violet. Over the past half-week, the video for "Mistress Violet" has gained an additional 44,708 YouTube views (which is an increase of 7.14% over the chart prior).
Further down the chart, we have 8 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from the U.S.A., Spain, Palestine, Italy, Sweden, and Scotland:
- Blas Cantó (from Spain)
- Griz (from Michigan, USA)
- Bashar Murad (from Palestine)
- Mattia Toni (from Italy)
- Bobby Newberry (from California, USA)
- Jordy (from Illinois, USA)
- Patrik Jean (from Sweden)
- Allan Jay (from Scotland, UK)
Chart positions are based on points assigned from a combination of YouTube views & votes. If you'd like to vote for your favorite videos, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog or send me a private message (see the contact info below). Suggestions for new videos are also welcomed, but they must be from an LGBTQ artist & they must be available on YouTube.
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This week's Top 50 LGBT Chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 1 | Brandi Carlile – “Right on Time” | US | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | Conan Gray – “People Watching” | US | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 7 | Becky Hill & David Guetta – “Remember” | GB/FR | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 12 | Ryland James – “3 Purple Hearts” | CA | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | 18 | Fletcher – “Healing” | US | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 3 | Oscar And The Wolf – “Oliver” | BE | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 6 | Måneskin – “I Wanna Be Your Slave” | IT | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Theo Tams – “Quit U Love” | CA | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | 5 | Will Young – “Crying on the Bathroom Floor” | GB | 5 | 5 |
| 10 | 17 | Wrabel & Duncan Laurence – “Back to Back” | US/NL | 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 15 | Cavetown – “Idea of Her” | GB | 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 9 | Lycinaïs Jean – “Tonbé Ajounou” | GP/MQ | 9 | 5 |
| 13 | 23 | Jason Mraz – “Be Where Your Feet Are” | US | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 10 | Raymix – “No Pienso Caer” | MX | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | 32 | Ben Hazlewood – “Younger Years” | NZ/AU | 15 | 2 |
| 16 | 37 | Allison Ponthier – “Faking My Own Death” | US | 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 13 | Dion Yorkie – “Dream of You” | GB/CA | 12 | 5 |
| 18 | 11 | Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow – “Industry Baby” | US | 1 | 7 |
| 19 | 16 | Mike Taveira – “Switch” | US | 16 | 4 |
| 20 | 40 | May-A – “Central Station” | AU | 20 | 2 |
| 21 | 30 | Brother Leo – “People” | SE | 21 | 3 |
| 22 | 35 | Benji Lewis & Inbar Lavi – “Polaroids” | AU/IL | 22 | 2 |
| 23 | 41 | Calvyn Cass – “Enemy Number One” | CA | 23 | 2 |
| 24 | 43 | Saucy Santana – “Here We Go” | US | 24 | 2 |
| 25 | 8 | The FMs – “Record Store” | US | 8 | 4 |
| 26 | 20 | Jérémy Frerot – “Fais-Le” | BE/FR | 2 | 8 |
| 27 | 14 | Kuba Jasiecki – “This is Your Life” | SE | 14 | 5 |
| 28 | 39 | Walk The Moon – “Can You Handle My Love?” | US | 28 | 2 |
| 29 | 48 | Sigala & Rita Ora – “You for Me” | GB | 29 | 2 |
| 30 | 26 | Ben Platt – “Happy to Be Sad” | US | 26 | 3 |
| 31 | 22 | Emily Burns – “I’m So Happy” | GB | 1 | 13 |
| 32 | 45 | Syd – “Fast Car” | US | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 19 | Adrian Bello & Esteman – “Una Noche Más” | PE/CO | 14 | 5 |
| 34 | New | Violet Chachki & Allie X – “Mistress Violet” | US/CA | 34 | 1 |
| 35 | 47 | David Rees – “Me Gusta Un Chico” | ES | 35 | 2 |
| 36 | 21 | Máni Orrason – “Change the World” | IS | 16 | 5 |
| 37 | 24 | Ariana And The Rose – “Every Body” | US | 6 | 5 |
| 38 | 25 | A Great Big World – “Boys in the Street” | US | 11 | 7 |
| 39 | New | Blas Cantó & Echosmith – “Americana” | ES/US | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | 27 | Troye Sivan – “Could Cry Just Thinkin’ About You” | AU | 27 | 3 |
| 41 | New | Griz, ProbCause, & Chrishira Perrier – “Rainbow Brain” | US | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | 49 | Wapayasos – “Preventivo” | MX | 42 | 2 |
| 43 | New | Bashar Murad & Tamer Nafar – “Antenne” | PS | 43 | 1 |
| 44 | New | Mattia Toni, Veralibera, & Ste Livierato – “Wait for Me” | IT | 44 | 1 |
| 45 | 42 | Montana Tucker & Todrick Hall – “Be Myself” | US | 42 | 3 |
| 46 | New | Bobby Newberry – “Ride” | US | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | 50 | Thx4Crying – “Soleil Sans Amour” | FR | 47 | 2 |
| 48 | New | Jordy – “Till It Hurts” | US | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Patrik Jean – “Gravitate” | SE | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Allan Jay & 7th Heaven – “Drama Queen” | GB | 50 | 1 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 28 | John Duff & Lillias White – “High Heels” | US | 1 | 11 |
| ** | 29 | Darin – “Can’t Stay Away” | SE | 20 | 4 |
| ** | 31 | Jan Sport, Alaska Thunderfuck, & Peppermint – “(Put Your) Gay Hands Up” | US | 10 | 6 |
| ** | 33 | Tayla Parx – “Last Words” | US | 3 | 7 |
| ** | 34 | Osvaldo Supino – “Lights Down Low” | IT | 1 | 9 |
| ** | 36 | Bright Light Bright Light – “Uh Huh!” | GB/US | 36 | 3 |
| ** | 38 | Greyson Chance – “Nobody” | US | 32 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Drebae – “FaceTime” | US | 38 | 3 |
| ** | 46 | Mykki Blanco & Blood Orange – “It’s Not My Choice” | US/GB | 40 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BE = Belgium | CA = Canada |
| CO = Colombia | ES = Spain | FR = France |
| GB = Great Britain | GP = Guadeloupe | IL = Israel |
| IS = Iceland | IT = Italy | MQ = Martinique |
| MX = Mexico | NL = Netherlands | NZ = New Zealand |
| PE = Peru | PS = Palestine | SE = Sweden |
| US = United States | ||
