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 20th July, 2022
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Chart notes:
British singer/songwriter Rina Sawayama claims the #1 spot on the LGBT chart at midweek with "This Hell", moving up one more place from the weekend's #2 position. Rina was born in Japan, but she moved to England with her family when she was just five years old. At the beginning of the song, Rina recalls seeing a religious poster condemning so-called sinners for their identities. She rebukes the hateful messaging with an eye roll, singing "Don't know what I did, but they seem pretty mad about it." Rina wrote in a statement that, "It's an important song for me, given the human rights that are being taken away from minorities at a rapid rate in the name of traditional religious beliefs, and more specifically I was thinking about the rights being taken away from the LGBTQ community when I wrote this song. When the world tells us we don't deserve love and protection, we have no choice but to give love and protection to each other. This hell is better with you." Over the past three days, the video for "This Hell" has gained an additional 68,518 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 3.06% since the weekend's chart).
Four videos move up into the Top 10 at midweek, including a return from a former #1 hit: Swedish singer/songwriter Darin rebounds back up 7 positions to #10 with "Superstar". American singer John Duff (from Los Angeles, California) climbs 7 notches to #7 with "Is It a Sin?". French DJ/producer Kiddy Smile leaps ahead 12 places to #8 with "Sugar". They're joined in the Top 10 by American artist Todrick Hall (from Plainview, Texas), who's rising 10 spots to #9 with "Sorry Barbie".
Ten songs fall off the chart to make way for ten new songs. The highest debut at midweek was "Till You Get There" by American country singer Ty Herndon, entering the chart at #28. Between 1995 and 2002, Ty racked up 17 hits on the official U.S. country chart (including three songs that reached #1). In 2014, he became the first mainstream American male country star to publicly come out as gay. Shortly afterwards, he hosted The Concert For Love and Acceptance, which is now an annual event and provides a stage for LGBTQ artists in the country genre. In 2020 Ty created The Foundation For Love And Acceptance to further his work with LGBTQ youth. This track is the first single off Ty's new album Jacob (released on July 15th), which is his first full-length studio album since 2016. Over the past half-week, the video for "Till You Get There" has gained an additional 2,183 YouTube views (which is a massive increase of 37.13% over the previous chart period!).
Further down the chart, we have 9 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from the U.S.A., Turkey, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark, and England:
- Mabel Matiz (from Turkey)
- Qing Feng Wu (from Taiwan) & Aurora (from Norway)
- Conan Gray (from California, USA)
- Mø (from Denmark)
- Corvyx & King Vagabond (both from New York, USA)
- Drebae (from California, USA)
- Skunk Anansie (from England, UK)
- Blimes Brixton (from California, USA)
- MkX (from Massachusetts, USA)
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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The midweek Top 50 LGBT chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 2 | Rina Sawayama – “This Hell” | GB | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 7 | Dreamers – “Body Language” | US | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 5 | Mika – “Yo Yo” | GB | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 9 | Blas Cantó – “El Bueno Acaba Mal” | ES | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 6 | Dion Yorkie – “Sweet Peach” | GB/CA | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 8 | Harel Skaat & Nowruz – “Bruch Haba Lleblagne” | IL | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 14 | John Duff & Eric Kupper – “Is It a Sin?” | US | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | 20 | Kiddy Smile & Catz’n’Dogz – “Sugar” | FR/PL | 8 | 3 |
| 9 | 19 | Todrick Hall – “Sorry Barbie” | US | 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 17 | Darin – “Superstar” | SE | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | 24 | Javiera Mena – “La Isla De Lesbos” | CL | 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 21 | King Princess – “Too Bad / Cursed” | US | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 18 | Jamie Hannah – “Bohemian Rhapsody” | GB | 1 | 7 |
| 14 | 3 | Davi Bandeira – “Eu Vou Chorar Dançando” | BR | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | 37 | The Aces – “Girls Make Me Wanna Die” | US | 15 | 2 |
| 16 | 32 | YooJung – “Begin” | KR | 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 38 | Elliot Lee – “54321” | US | 17 | 2 |
| 18 | 4 | Reinder – “Pies Rosados” | CL | 4 | 5 |
| 19 | 11 | Gabrielius Vagelis – “Man Trūksta Dienų” | LT | 1 | 11 |
| 20 | 1 | Cub Sport – “Always Got the Love” | AU | 1 | 6 |
| 21 | 12 | Måneskin – “Supermodel” | IT | 1 | 15 |
| 22 | 44 | Leopold – “Warning Signs” | DE | 22 | 2 |
| 23 | 15 | Nimmo – “Company” | GB | 15 | 4 |
| 24 | 10 | Felix Jaehn & Zoe Wees – “Do It Better” | DE | 6 | 7 |
| 25 | 13 | Calum Scott – “Boys In the Street” | GB | 7 | 7 |
| 26 | 45 | Immanuel Casto – “Amore Ariano” | IT | 26 | 2 |
| 27 | 16 | Blanco – “Nostalgia” | IT | 3 | 9 |
| 28 | New | Ty Herndon – “Till You Get There” | US | 28 | 1 |
| 29 | 46 | Steam Powered Giraffe – “Harmony” | US | 29 | 2 |
| 30 | 47 | Alice Longyu Gao & Oli Sykes – “Believe the Hype” | CN/US/ GB | 30 | 2 |
| 31 | 22 | Yavin & Michael Christmas – “Dumb” | US | 22 | 3 |
| 32 | 49 | Myylo – “Cling On” | US | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 48 | Johnny Hooker & Silva – “Maré” | BR | 33 | 2 |
| 34 | 25 | Daniel Schuhmacher – “You Are Alive” | DE | 25 | 3 |
| 35 | 50 | Oscar And The Wolf – “Donnie’s Dream” | BE | 35 | 2 |
| 36 | 28 | Zemmoa – “Querido Corazón” | MX | 28 | 3 |
| 37 | 29 | Rubio – “Pasos De Gigantes” | CL | 29 | 3 |
| 38 | 30 | Kylie Minogue – “Dance Floor Darling” | AU | 30 | 3 |
| 39 | New | Mabel Matiz – “Karakol” | TR | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | 35 | Isak Danielson – “Better Days” | SE | 35 | 3 |
| 41 | New | Qing Feng Wu & Aurora – “Storm” | TW/NO | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | New | Conan Gray – “Disaster” | US | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | New | Mø – “True Romance” | DK | 43 | 1 |
| 44 | 39 | Trey Pearson – “Piedmont Park” | US | 1 | 7 |
| 45 | 41 | Ambar Lucid – “Girl Ur So Pretty” | US | 41 | 3 |
| 46 | New | Corvyx & King Vagabond – “Running Up That Hill” | US | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | New | Drebae – “Badd” | US | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Skunk Anansie – “(Can’t Get By) Without You” | GB | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Blimes Brixton – “Solitude” | US | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | MkX – “Runnin’ Late” | US | 50 | 1 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 23 | Brooke Eden – “Left You For Me” | US | 18 | 4 |
| ** | 26 | Gloria Groove – “Jogo Perigoso” | BR | 10 | 7 |
| ** | 27 | Allison Ponthier – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery” | US | 10 | 6 |
| ** | 31 | Oliver Sim – “Hideous” | GB | 23 | 4 |
| ** | 33 | Lily Rose – “I Don’t Smoke” | US | 26 | 4 |
| ** | 34 | Wrabel & Cam – “London” | US | 24 | 5 |
| ** | 36 | KT Tunstall – “Canyons” | GB/US | 27 | 3 |
| ** | 40 | Piotr Zioła – “Błysk” | PL | 33 | 3 |
| ** | 42 | Anna Akana – “Sunshine” | US | 35 | 2 |
| ** | 43 | Layke – “XOXO” | US | 40 | 2 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BE = Belgium | BR = Brazil |
| CA = Canada | CL = Chile | CN = China |
| DE = Germany | DK = Denmark | ES = Spain |
| FR = France | GB = Great Britain | IL = Israel |
| IT = Italy | KR = South Korea | LT = Lithuania |
| MX = Mexico | NO = Norway | PL = Poland |
| SE = Sweden | TR = Turkey | TW = Taiwan |
| US = United States | ||
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