Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #21 of 2022: Week of 22nd May
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Chart notes:
Canadian country singer Orville Peck claims the top spot on the LGBT chart this weekend with "Daytona Sand", moving up 4 more places from the midweek's #5 position. Orville shared a little about the track on Apple Music and wrote that "This is about a cowboy I know who was born in Mississippi and grew up in Daytona, so I wanted to write this kind ode to Florida. And I was listening to a lot of Beach Boys, so I wanted to do my version of a country-surf song." Over the past four days, the video for "Daytona Sand" has gained an additional 9,257 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 2.48% since the midweek's chart).
Four videos move up into the Top 10 this weekend. Canadian singer/songwriter Xana (from Vancouver Island, British Columbia) climbs 8 notches to #3 with "12 Missed Calls". Austrian drag superstar Conchita Wurst rises 7 spots to #6 with "All I Wanna Do". American drag queen Violet Chachki (from Atlanta, Georgia) leaps ahead 10 places to #7 with "Fade to Grey". They're joined in the Top 10 by German singer Prince Damien, who's moving up 6 more positions to #10 with "Du Bist Der Hammer".
Ten songs fall off the chart to make way for ten new songs. The highest debut this weekend was "Don't F*ck With Ukraine" by Ukrainian pop star Max Barskih, entering the chart at #38. Max told Billboard Magazine in a recent interview that he wrote the song shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: he broke all contracts with his Russian label, transferred all the money from an upcoming (now cancelled) Russian tour to go towards Ukrainian humanitarian aid, and then he started getting a stream of hateful comments from some of his once-beloved Russian fans. Max helped his family to escape Ukraine, then he returned to Kyiv to join up with the Ukrainian army. He recorded this track in his military unit, placing a towel over his head for better acoustics, then sent it off to a friend to finish production. Max's goal in writing this song was to show the strength of the Ukrainian people to the world, mixing verses in English with traditional Ukrainian folk music and a modern techno beat. Over the past half-week, the video for "Don't F*ck With Ukraine" has gained an additional 41,484 YouTube views (which is an increase of 6.36% over the previous chart period).
Further down the chart, we have 9 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from Germany, England, the U.S.A., Sweden, Ireland, Canada, Slovenia, France, and Denmark:
- Yoke Lore (from New York, USA)
- Tove Lo (from Sweden)
- Wallis Bird (originally from Ireland & now residing in Germany)
- Felix Jaehn (from Germany) & Calum Scott (from England, UK)
- Clay (from California, USA) & Alessia Cara (from Ontario, Canada)
- July Jones (originally from Slovenia & now living in England)
- Thibaut Pez (from France)
- Joelle Brian (from Florida, USA)
- Sander Sanchez (from Denmark)
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 | 5 | Orville Peck – “Daytona Sand” | CA | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | Chéri – “Mira Me” | FR | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 11 | Xana – “12 Missed Calls” | CA | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 9 | Charli XCX – “Used to Know Me” | GB | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 8 | Netta – “I Love My Nails” | IL | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | 13 | Conchita Wurst – “All I Wanna Do” | AT | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | 17 | Violet Chachki – “Fade to Grey” | US | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 6 | Billkin, PP Krit, & 4Eve – “Læk Ley Pa (Hoo Whee Hoo)” | TH | 6 | 4 |
| 9 | 1 | Sheldon Riley – “Not the Same” | AU | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | 16 | Prince Damien – “Du Bist Der Hammer” | DE | 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 24 | Lia Clark – “Vrau” | BR | 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 2 | Lizzo – “About Damn Time” | US | 2 | 6 |
| 13 | 10 | Miley Cyrus – “Like a Prayer” | US | 1 | 10 |
| 14 | 27 | Angèle – “Libre” | BE/FR | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 21 | Big Freedia – “Re-Drop / Shake Ya Body” | US | 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 25 | Tokio Hotel – “Him” | DE | 16 | 4 |
| 17 | 28 | Soak – “Purgatory” | GB | 17 | 4 |
| 18 | 38 | Artem Pyvovarov & Zlata Ognevich – “Do Vesny” | UK | 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 31 | Will Young – “Why Does It Hurt?” | GB | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 4 | Conan Gray – “Memories” | US | 4 | 6 |
| 21 | 19 | Omar Apollo – “Tamagotchi” | US | 1 | 8 |
| 22 | 22 | Regard & Years And Years – “Hallucination” | XK/GB | 1 | 15 |
| 23 | 15 | Laskaar – “Bendecido” | CH/ES | 15 | 4 |
| 24 | 20 | Todrick Hall – “Queen” | US | 1 | 9 |
| 25 | 43 | Taichi Mukai & CrazyBoy – “99’” | JP | 25 | 2 |
| 26 | 7 | Pabllo Vittar & Rina Sawayama – “Follow Me” | BR/GB | 1 | 9 |
| 27 | 41 | Jamie Hannah – “Flowers” | GB | 27 | 2 |
| 28 | 23 | Lauren Sanderson – “Tongue Tied” | US | 5 | 7 |
| 29 | 12 | Nieri – “Face” | IT/US | 4 | 7 |
| 30 | 29 | Jackson Wang – “Blow” | HK/CN | 1 | 11 |
| 31 | 14 | Piettro – “Quem Mama É Você” | BR | 3 | 6 |
| 32 | 47 | Sam Smith – “Love Me More” | GB | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 32 | Brothers Osborne – “Headstone” | US | 4 | 7 |
| 34 | 49 | Kehlani – “Everything” | US | 34 | 2 |
| 35 | 18 | Ricky Martin & Reik – “A Veces Bien Y A Veces Mal” | PR/MX | 8 | 6 |
| 36 | 50 | Isak Danielson – “Fire Burns You Cold” | SE | 36 | 2 |
| 37 | 35 | Gina Venier – “Nora Jane” | US | 35 | 2 |
| 38 | New | Max Barskih – “Don’t F*ck With Ukraine” | UK | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | New | Yoke Lore – “Shock Flesh” | US | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | New | Tove Lo – “No One Dies From Love” | SE | 40 | 1 |
| 41 | New | Wallis Bird – “Go” | IE/DE | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | New | Felix Jaehn, The Stickmen Project, & Calum Scott – “Rain In Ibiza” | DE/GB | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | 36 | Jessie Paege – “Preach” | US | 36 | 3 |
| 44 | 39 | Boyish – “Congratulations” | US | 39 | 3 |
| 45 | 42 | Bentley Jones – “Light Me Up” | GB/JP | 42 | 3 |
| 46 | New | Clay & Alessia Cara – “W.T.S.G.D.” | US/CA | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | New | July Jones – “Loner” | SI/GB | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Thibaut Pez – “Sans Logique” | FR | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Joelle Brian – “Another Try” | US | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Sander Sanchez – “Feel the Love” | DK | 50 | 1 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 26 | Gabrielius Vagelis – “Gyvenu” | LT | 2 | 7 |
| ** | 30 | The Knocks & Donna Missal – “Bang Bang” | US | 30 | 3 |
| ** | 33 | Willow Smith & Siiickbrain – “Purge” | US | 1 | 11 |
| ** | 34 | Wapayasos – “El Mango Relajado” | MX | 23 | 4 |
| ** | 37 | ElyOtto – “Dayzee” | CA | 27 | 3 |
| ** | 40 | Pussy Riot & Slayyyter – “Hatefuck” | RU/US | 35 | 2 |
| ** | 44 | Daniel Schumacher – “And Just Like That” | DE | 1 | 11 |
| ** | 45 | Uni And The Urchins – “Needle In the Hay” | US | 45 | 3 |
| ** | 46 | Walt Disco – “Be an Actor” | GB | 46 | 3 |
| ** | 48 | Minute Taker – “Lead You Home” | GB | 47 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AT = Austria | AU = Australia | BE = Belgium |
| BR = Brazil | CA = Canada | CH = Switerland |
| CN = China | DE = Germany | DK = Denmark |
| ES = Spain | FR = France | GB = Great Britain |
| HK = Hong Kong | IE = Ireland | IL = Israel |
| IT = Italy | JP = Japan | LT = Lithuania |
| MX = Mexico | PR = Puerto Rico | RU = Russia |
| SE = Sweden | SI = Slovenia | TH = Thailand |
| UK = Ukraine | US = United States | XK = Kosovo |
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