Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #3 of 2022: Week of 16th January
Chart notes:
English singer/songwriter Calum Scott has the new #1 video on the LGBT chart this weekend with "Rise", moving up one more place from the midweek's #2 position. Gay Times called the song "an anthem full of pounding drums, sweeping piano work, and stunning harmonies" and "a triumphant track with an uplifting message of embracing life and chasing your dreams". Calum shared, "I wanted to write a song that would empower people... no matter what they are going through or what their circumstances. We all have the opportunity to do it our way, to put our best foot forward, and to rise". Over the past four days, the video for "Rise" has gained an additional 87,978 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 4.14% since the midweek's chart).
Four videos move up into the Top 10. English singer Years and Years climbs 9 spots to #5 with "Sweet Talker". American vocalists Rebecca Black (from Irvine, California) and Slayyyter (from Kirkwood, Missouri) leap ahead 11 places to #8 with "Read My Mind". Two more American singers, Fletcher (from Wall Township, New Jersey) and Hayley Kiyoko (from Agoura Hills, California) rise 9 notches to #9 with "Cherry". They're joined in the Top 10 by London-based quintet Steps, who are moving up 3 more positions to #10 with "A Hundred Years of Winter".
Seven songs fall off the chart to make way for seven new songs. The highest debut this weekend was "Mexa" by Mexican musician Yari Mejía, entering the chart at #34. Yari began her career as a makeup artist who specializes in working with drag queens, and she began sharing her work via social media in 2012. Today she is best-known for her work as a judge on the web series La Más Draga since 2018, which is a drag competition based on the format of RuPaul's Drag Race and adapted for Mexican pop culture. The music video for "Mexa" features all the queens from the most recent season (season 4) of La Más Draga. Over the past half-week, the video for "Mexa" has gained an additional 30,552 YouTube views (which is an increase of 5.12% over the previous chart period).
Further down the chart, we have 6 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from England, the U.S.A., France, Canada, Denmark, Syria, and South Africa:
- Chéri (from France)
- Theo Tams (from Alberta, Canada)
- Mø (from Denmark)
- El Sam (originally from Syria & now residing in England, UK)
- Omar Apollo (from Indiana, USA) & Kali Uchis (from Virginia, USA)
- Baby Queen (originally from South Africa & now living in England, UK)
Chart positions are based on points assigned from a combination of YouTube views and votes. If you'd like to vote for your favorite videos, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog (anonymous comments are permitted) 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 weekend's Top 50 LGBT chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 2 | Calum Scott – “Rise” | GB | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 5 | Billy Porter – “Children” | US | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 8 | Bilal Hassani – “Merci” | FR | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 7 | Kevin Y Karla – “Easy on Me (Spanish Version)” | CL | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 14 | Years And Years & Galantis – “Sweet Talker” | GB/SE | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 9 | Ateez – “The Real” | KR | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | 1 | Gloria Groove – “Leilão” | BR | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | 19 | Rebecca Black & Slayyyter – “Read My Mind” | US | 8 | 3 |
| 9 | 18 | Fletcher & Hayley Kiyoko – “Cherry” | US | 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 13 | Steps – “A Hundred Years of Winter” | GB | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 23 | Marina Lin & Jon Caryl – “Fall Apart” | CA/US | 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 30 | Piettro – “5 Minutinhos” | BR | 12 | 2 |
| 13 | 11 | Darin – “Holding Me More” | SE | 1 | 13 |
| 14 | 25 | Apolo – “Mi Príncipe” | ES | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 20 | Gordi – “Grass is Blue” | AU | 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 22 | LP – “Conversation” | US | 16 | 3 |
| 17 | 3 | Astrid S. & Dagny – “Pretty” | NO | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | 32 | Rostam – “From the Back of a Cab” | US | 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 36 | David Rees – “De Tokio A Rio” | ES | 19 | 2 |
| 20 | 26 | Pablo Alborán – “Soy Capaz” | ES | 5 | 6 |
| 21 | 15 | Jão – “Idiota” | BR | 5 | 7 |
| 22 | 37 | Brittany Howard & Herbie Hancock – “Both Sides Now” | US | 22 | 2 |
| 23 | 33 | Bitch – “Easy Target” | US | 23 | 3 |
| 24 | 24 | Todrick Hall – “Boys in the Ocean” | US | 3 | 6 |
| 25 | 4 | Halsey – “Honey” | US | 4 | 6 |
| 26 | 6 | Romero Ferro & Lucy Alves – “Essa Paixão” | BR | 6 | 6 |
| 27 | 42 | Angèle & Damso – “Démons” | BE/FR | 27 | 2 |
| 28 | 10 | Joshua Bassett – “Crisis” | US | 1 | 7 |
| 29 | 12 | Alaska Thunderfuck – “Wow” | US | 8 | 7 |
| 30 | 38 | Ladyhawke – “My Love” | NZ | 30 | 3 |
| 31 | 21 | Craig David & MNEK – “Who You Are” | GB | 1 | 16 |
| 32 | 16 | G Flip & Upsahl – “Scream” | AU/US | 14 | 6 |
| 33 | 17 | Jack Hawitt – “Borrowed Time” | GB | 13 | 5 |
| 34 | New | Yari Mejía – “Mexa” | MX | 34 | 1 |
| 35 | 46 | Meduza & Hozier – “Tell It to My Heart” | IT/IE | 35 | 2 |
| 36 | 29 | Jordy – “Trevor” | US | 4 | 8 |
| 37 | New | Chéri – “Quiero Comerte” | FR | 37 | 1 |
| 38 | 28 | Manila Luzon – “Hot Couture (10 Year Anniversary Edition)” | US | 4 | 7 |
| 39 | 35 | Fran Coem – “Highlight” | ES | 35 | 3 |
| 40 | 43 | Jesse Y Joy – “Llórale A Tu Madre” | MX | 40 | 3 |
| 41 | 41 | Dion Yorkie – “Book of the Beast” | GB/CA | 11 | 8 |
| 42 | New | Theo Tams – “One Last Chance” | CA | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | 45 | Oddkin – “Straighty Perry” | US | 43 | 3 |
| 44 | New | Mø – “Brad Pitt” | DK | 44 | 1 |
| 45 | 48 | A Great Big World – “The One” | US | 45 | 2 |
| 46 | 49 | Shawnee Kish – “Diagnosed Dissociative” | CA | 46 | 2 |
| 47 | 50 | The G3sha – “Tank Top” | SG/HK | 47 | 2 |
| 48 | New | El Sam – “Hot Boy Summer” | SY/GB | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Omar Apollo & Kali Uchis – “Bad Life” | US | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Baby Queen – “Wannabe” | ZA/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 | ||
| ** | 27 | Arca & Sia – “Born Yesterday” | VE/ES/ AU | 21 | 5 |
| ** | 31 | Pabllo Vittar & Rennan da Penha – “Number One” | BR | 5 | 7 |
| ** | 34 | Cazwell, Chanel Jolé, & Trace Lysette – “Taser in My Telfar Bag” | US | 29 | 4 |
| ** | 39 | Miss Caffeina – “Autoayuda” | ES | 28 | 3 |
| ** | 40 | Fayçal Azizi – “Kif Mana (Wake Up Call)” | MA | 36 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Oscar Zia – “Nyårsvals” | SE | 38 | 3 |
| ** | 47 | Lisa Remar – “Holy Nights” | US/JP | 47 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BE = Belgium | BR = Brazil |
| CA = Canada | CL = Chile | DK = Denmark |
| ES = Spain | FR = France | GB = Great Britain |
| HK = Hong Kong | IE = Ireland | IT = Italy |
| JP = Japan | KR = South Korea | MA = Morocco |
| MX = Mexico | NO = Norway | NZ = New Zealand |
| SE = Sweden | SG = Singapore | SY = Syria |
| US = United States | VE = Venezuela | ZA = South Africa |
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