Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #9 of 2022: Week of 27th February
Chart notes:
Chilean musician/actress Vesta Lugg earns her first #1 on the LGBT chart this weekend with "No Somos Buenxs", moving up 3 more places from the midweek's #4 position. In addition to her acting and musical career, Vesta is also a vlogger with more than a million followers on Instagram. She came out as bisexual in January 2021, stating "I think sexuality is fluid... I want to love who I want to love." Over the past four days, the video for "No Somos Buenxs" has gained an additional 52,455 views on YouTube (which is a massive increase of 24.96% since the midweek's chart!).
Please note that Vesta Lugg was previously misidentified on this blog/chart as being from Spain. This was an error. She's actually from Chile, and she will be correctly referred to here as a Chilean artist from this point onward.
Four videos move up into the Top 10 this weekend, including a return from a former #1 hit: American vocalist Katy Perry re-enters the Top 10 with "When I'm Gone", rebounding back up 8 spots to the #10 position. Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin climbs 7 notches to #6 with "Otra Noche en L.A." Danish singer/songwriter Mø rises 4 spots to #7 with "New Moon". They're joined in the Top 10 by Italian artist Michele Bravi, who leaps ahead 14 places to to #9 with "Inverno Dei Fiori".
Nine songs fall off the chart to make way for eight new songs and one re-entry. The highest debut this weekend was "Just an Artist" by Austrian singer/rapper Mavi Phoenix, entering the chart at #24. Mavi started his career as a contestant in the music competition Lautstark! in 2013, and released his first EP as a free download in 2014. His first full-length album (entitled Boys Toys) was released in 2020 and made it to the Top 20 on the official album chart in his native Austria (peaking at #18). Mavi came out publicly as a transgender man in 2019 and refers to himself using "he/him" pronouns. Over the past half-week, the video for "Just an Artist" has gained an additional 1,994 YouTube views (which is a huge increase of 22.02% over the previous chart period!).
Further down the chart, we have 7 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from England, the U.S.A., and the Netherlands:
- Duncan Laurence (from the Netherlands)
- Halsey (from New Jersey, USA)
- Omar Apollo (from Indiana, USA)
- Arlo Parks (from England, UK)
- King Princess (from New York, USA)
- Kailee Morgue (from Arizona, USA)
- Lava La Rue (from 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 and 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 | 4 | Vesta Lugg & Pablo Feliu – “No Somos Buenxs” | CL | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | Davi Bandeira – “Vai Passar” | BR | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | The Xx – “Say Something Loving” | GB | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 9 | Hollis – “Tripwires” | US | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 6 | Griz – “Space Camp” | US | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 13 | Ricky Martin – “Otra Noche en L.A.” | PR | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 11 | Mø – “New Moon” | DK | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 7 | Chumina Power – “No Pensar En Ti” | ES | 7 | 5 |
| 9 | 23 | Michele Bravi – “Inverno Dei Fiori” | IT | 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 18 | Alesso & Katy Perry – “When I’m Gone” | SE/US | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | 1 | Kany García – “Agüita E Coco” | PR | 1 | 7 |
| 12 | 16 | Years And Years & Galantis – “Sweet Talker” | GB/SE | 1 | 15 |
| 13 | 15 | White Lies – “Am I Really Going to Die?” | GB | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 19 | OnlyOneOf – “Skinz” | KR | 14 | 5 |
| 15 | 38 | Calum Scott – “If You Ever Change Your Mind” | GB | 15 | 2 |
| 16 | 21 | Mabel Matiz – “Hanfendi” | TR | 16 | 4 |
| 17 | 17 | Alex Spinney – “Boodiyayay” | GB | 17 | 4 |
| 18 | 41 | Bryce Bowyn – “Bye Bye” | US | 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 5 | Hippo Campus – “Ride or Die” | US | 2 | 6 |
| 20 | 8 | Keanan – “Obstacle” | GB | 5 | 7 |
| 21 | 10 | Joshua Bassett – “Secret” | US | 6 | 8 |
| 22 | 12 | Isak Danielson – “Good Things Come to Those Who Wait” | SE | 8 | 7 |
| 23 | 36 | KT Tunstall – “I Don’t Want You Now” | GB | 23 | 3 |
| 24 | New | Mavi Phoenix – “Just an Artist” | AT | 24 | 1 |
| 25 | 14 | Daddy Dawg – “Cowboy Shake” | US | 14 | 6 |
| 26 | New | Duncan Laurence – “Sleeping On the Phone” | NL | 26 | 1 |
| 27 | 34 | Sevndeep – “Hips” | US | 27 | 3 |
| 28 | 27 | Pablo Alborán – “Castillos De Arena” | ES | 3 | 8 |
| 29 | New | Halsey – “Girl Is a Gun” | US | 29 | 1 |
| 30 | 40 | Placebo – “Try Better Next Time” | GB | 30 | 2 |
| 31 | 20 | Maruv & Boosin – “Destination” | UK | 1 | 10 |
| 32 | 22 | Wallis Bird – “What’s Wrong With Changing?” | IE/DE | 22 | 3 |
| 33 | New | Omar Apollo & Daniel Caesar – “Invincible” | US/CA | 33 | 1 |
| 34 | 32 | Tom Aspaul – “Let Them (It’s All Love)” | GB | 32 | 4 |
| 35 | 30 | Morgxn – “The Way It Was” | US | 30 | 4 |
| 36 | 46 | Max Barskih – “No Exit” | UK | 36 | 2 |
| 37 | New | Arlo Parks – “Softly” | GB | 37 | 1 |
| 38 | 48 | Josey Greenwell – “OMW!” | US | 38 | 2 |
| 39 | 33 | Dreamer Isioma – “Bad Ting” | US | 33 | 3 |
| 40 | 39 | Brother Leo – “Living In a Zoo” | SE | 39 | 3 |
| 41 | 44 | Barbacius – “Error 404” | CL | 41 | 2 |
| 42 | 42 | Pussy Riot – “Punish” | RU | 42 | 3 |
| 43 | 45 | Jordanelle – “Je Vote Pour Moi” | FR | 43 | 2 |
| 44 | 47 | GoodLuck & Rudi Smit – “Bird of Paradise” | ZA | 44 | 2 |
| 45 | 49 | Hubert Bisto – “Czujȩ, Ze Umrȩ” | PL | 45 | 2 |
| 46 | 50 | Walt Disco – “How Cool Are You?” | GB | 46 | 2 |
| 47 | New | King Princess – “Little Bother” | US | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Kailee Morgue – “Another Day in Paradise” | US | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | R/E | Wrabel – “Wish You Well” | US | 1 | 8 |
| 50 | New | Lava La Rue – “Vest and Boxers” | 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 | ||
| ** | 24 | Fancy Hagood & Devon Gilfillian – “Let Me Be” | US | 24 | 3 |
| ** | 25 | Donna Missal – “Insecure” | US | 25 | 3 |
| ** | 26 | The Magnettes – “Monster” | SE | 26 | 3 |
| ** | 28 | Benedict Cork – “The Life We Planned” | GB | 11 | 6 |
| ** | 29 | Jessie Paege – “Fictional Character” | US | 13 | 5 |
| ** | 31 | Jedet – “Veneno Dulce” | ES | 18 | 4 |
| ** | 35 | Raymix & NZO – “Te Voy A Conquistar” | MX | 5 | 6 |
| ** | 37 | Gloria Groove – “Leilão” | BR | 1 | 16 |
| ** | 43 | Virginia Ernst – “Dance Alone” | AT | 43 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AT = Austria | BR = Brazil | CA = Canada |
| CL = Chile | DE = Germany | DK = Denmark |
| ES = Spain | FR = France | GB = Great Britain |
| IE = Ireland | IT = Italy | KR = South Korea |
| MX = Mexico | NL = Netherlands | PL = Poland |
| PR = Puerto Rico | RU = Russia | SE = Sweden |
| TR = Turkey | UK = Ukraine | US = United States |
| ZA = South Africa | ||
