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 18th August, 2021
Chart notes:
American singer Lil Nas X captures the #1 position on the Midweek LGBT Chart with "Industry Baby", a collaboration with American rapper Jack Harlow. The track has reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the U.S.A., and is currently at #4 in radio airplay in the U.S. (according to the MediaBase CHR/Top 40 Chart) and at #3 in Canada. In the video, Nas breaks out of a prison which serves as a metaphor for homophobia. NPR elaborated, "It's understandable Lil Nas X would consider homophobia a prison, claustrophobic and imposing, especially in the music industry. As he becomes bolder in his lyrics and creative vision, Lil Nas X begins... carving out space for himself as an unapologetic messiah for today's young, queer generation." Over the past three days, the video for "Industry Baby" has gained an additional 5,516,941 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 7.24% over the previous chart).
Three videos move up into the Top 10. American country singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile jumps ahead 10 notches to #5 with "Right on Time". Mexican musician Raymix climbs 6 places to #6 with "No Pienso Caer". And finally, Belgian one-man band Oscar And The Wolf (the stage moniker used by Belgian musician Max Colombie) leaps up 11 more spots to reach #8 with "Oliver".
Ten songs fall off the chart to make way for ten new songs. The highest debut was "Forgot to Love You" by Australian singer/actress Hollie Col, entering the chart at #37. Hollie has previously appeared on this chart once before (with "She Knows", which peaked at #8 in May 2020 and spent a total of 7 weeks on the Top 50). Hollie released her debut EP as an independent artist in 2018 and has built a steadily-growing fanbase with her self-produced YouTube videos, but this track is her first single with a major label (the France-based distribution service Believe Digital Music, with whom she signed in July 2021). Over the past half-week, the video for "Forgot to Love You" has gained an additional 53,848 YouTube views (which is an increase of 28.90% over the chart prior).
Further down the chart, we have 9 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from England, the U.S.A., Wales, and the Netherlands:
- The FMs (from New York, USA)
- Mike Taveira (from New Jersey, USA)
- Becky Hill (from England, UK)
- Cavetown (from England, UK)
- Greyson Chance (from Oklahoma, USA)
- Drebae (from California, USA)
- Mykki Blanco (from North Carolina, USA) & Blood Orange (originally from England, UK & now residing in New York, USA)
- Bright Light Bright Light (originally from Wales, UK & now residing in New York, USA)
- Wrabel (originally from Texas, USA) & Duncan Laurence (from the Netherlands)
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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The Midweek LGBT Top 50 Chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 4 | Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow – “Industry Baby” | US | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 | Conan Gray – “People Watching” | US | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 6 | Tayla Parx – “Last Words” | US | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | Osvaldo Supino – “Lights Down Low” | IT | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 15 | Brandi Carlile – “Right on Time” | US | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 12 | Raymix – “No Pienso Caer” | MX | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | 7 | Emily Burns – “I’m So Happy” | GB | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | 19 | Oscar And The Wolf – “Oliver” | BE | 8 | 3 |
| 9 | 2 | Jérémy Frerot – “Fais-Le” | BE/FR | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | 3 | Måneskin – “I Wanna Be Your Slave” | IT | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | 14 | A Great Big World – “Boys in the Street” | US | 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 23 | Theo Tams – “Quit U Love” | CA | 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 27 | Will Young – “Crying on the Bathroom Floor” | GB | 13 | 2 |
| 14 | 10 | Jan Sport, Alaska Thunderfuck, & Peppermint – “(Put Your) Gay Hands Up” | US | 10 | 4 |
| 15 | 37 | Ariana And The Rose – “Every Body” | US | 15 | 2 |
| 16 | 20 | Entrópica – “Monarca” | CL | 16 | 3 |
| 17 | 32 | Benedict Cork – “The Lucky Ones” | GB | 17 | 3 |
| 18 | 11 | Seth Sikes – “The Trolley Song” | US | 11 | 5 |
| 19 | 40 | Lycinaïs Jean – “Tonbé Ajounou” | GP/MQ | 19 | 2 |
| 20 | 39 | Dion Yorkie – “Dream of You” | GB/CA | 20 | 2 |
| 21 | 16 | Griz & Jantsen – “Burn Up the Floor” | US | 16 | 3 |
| 22 | 26 | John Duff & Lillias White – “High Heels” | US | 1 | 9 |
| 23 | 41 | Adrian Bello & Esteman – “Una Noche Más” | PE/CO | 23 | 2 |
| 24 | 8 | Villano Antillano & Ana Macho – “Muñeca” | PR | 5 | 7 |
| 25 | 9 | Eli Lieb – “Boys Who Like Boys” | US | 4 | 8 |
| 26 | 45 | Máni Orrason – “Change the World” | IS | 26 | 2 |
| 27 | 42 | Darin – “Can’t Stay Away” | SE | 27 | 2 |
| 28 | 13 | Jakub & Dawid – “Inni” | PL | 6 | 6 |
| 29 | 18 | St. Vincent – “Sad But True” | US | 9 | 6 |
| 30 | 17 | LP – “Goodbye” | US | 2 | 7 |
| 31 | 43 | Wils – “Someone Who Loves You” | SG | 31 | 2 |
| 32 | 21 | Ruben – “Candy” | NO | 15 | 5 |
| 33 | 22 | Brothers Osborne & Dierks Bentley – “Lighten Up” | US | 22 | 3 |
| 34 | 46 | Nick Bolt – “Nunk+” | CL | 34 | 2 |
| 35 | 24 | Aquinas – “It Doesn’t Matter” | KR | 7 | 8 |
| 36 | 25 | Girli – “More Than a Friend” | GB | 1 | 15 |
| 37 | New | Hollie Col – “Forgot to Love You” | AU | 37 | 1 |
| 38 | New | The FMs – “Record Store” | US | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | New | Mike Taveira – “Switch” | US | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | New | Becky Hill & David Guetta – “Remember” | GB/FR | 40 | 1 |
| 41 | New | Cavetown – “Idea of Her” | GB | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | 48 | Kyle Motsinger – “Retro” | US | 42 | 2 |
| 43 | New | Greyson Chance – “Nobody” | US | 43 | 1 |
| 44 | 47 | Sondre Justad – “Chill Litt” | NO | 44 | 2 |
| 45 | 49 | Georgel & Tito Fuentes – “No Putx” | MX | 45 | 2 |
| 46 | 50 | Kuba Jasiecki – “This is Your Life” | SE | 46 | 2 |
| 47 | New | Drebae – “FaceTime” | US | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Mykki Blanco & Blood Orange – “It’s Not My Choice” | US/GB | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Bright Light Bright Light – “Uh Huh!” | GB/US | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Wrabel & Duncan Laurence – “Back to Back” | US/NL | 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 | Regard, Troye Sivan, & Tate McRae – “You” | XK/AU/ CA | 1 | 16 |
| ** | 29 | T. Thomason – “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” | CA | 29 | 3 |
| ** | 30 | Pink – “All I Know So Far” | US | 1 | 15 |
| ** | 31 | Brother Leo – “Strangers on an Island” | SE | 4 | 7 |
| ** | 33 | Ben Platt – “Yoü and I” | US | 5 | 6 |
| ** | 34 | Versus – “Extraños” | ES | 22 | 3 |
| ** | 35 | Knut Kippersund – “Head High” | NO | 35 | 3 |
| ** | 36 | Todrick Hall – “Rainin’ Fellas” | US | 1 | 11 |
| ** | 38 | Jax Anderson & Lauren Sanderson – “She Don’t Love Me” | US | 38 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Girl In Red – “Bad Idea!” | NO | 40 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BE = Belgium | CA = Canada |
| CL = Chile | CO = Colombia | ES = Spain |
| FR = France | GB = Great Britain | GP = Guadeloupe |
| IS = Iceland | IT = Italy | KR = South Korea |
| MQ = Martinique | MX = Mexico | NL = Netherlands |
| NO = Norway | PE = Peru | PL = Poland |
| PR = Puerto Rico | SE = Sweden | SG = Singapore |
| US = United States | XK = Kosovo | |
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