Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #40 of 2022: Week of 2nd October
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Chart notes:
Dutch singer/songwriter Duncan Laurence reaches the top of the LGBT chart this weekend with "Electric Life", moving up 2 more places from the midweek's #3 position. Duncan came out publicly as bisexual shortly before The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, which he went on to win with his single "Arcade". In the lyrics of "Electric Life", Duncan explores the complexities of grief. He explained in a statement that "I sing about a warm, loving, and grateful feeling towards loved ones who have passed away. It is a positive song about the transformation of deep sorrow into a feeling of hope. Delving into your memories like that probably comes closest to a brief visit to heaven and being there with all the ones you have lost." He says he decided to give the song an up-tempo pre-chorus because "You can sing about sad things, but there has to be a little bit of sunshine poking through those big gray clouds." Over the past four days, the video for "Electric Life" has gained an additional 15,540 views on YouTube (which is a massive increase of 14.16% since the midweek's chart!).
Three videos move up into the Top 10 this weekend. South Korean boy-band OnlyOneOf climbs 9 notches to #7 with "Zuruion'na". English rapper/singer Yungblud leaps ahead 10 places to #8 with "Tissues". They're joined in the Top 10 by Canadian duo Tegan And Sara (from Calgary, Alberta), who rise 4 more spots to #10 with "Faded Like a Feeling".
Ten songs fall off the chart to make way for ten new songs. The highest debut this weekend was "Flip Phone" by American rapper/singer Brooke Candy, entering the chart at #35. Brooke (who's originally from Agoura Hills, California) says that she began her musical career after coming out to her mother as gay and subsequently being thrown out of her mother's house. Brooke explains, "I ended up being pretty homeless for a second. I was living on friends' couches... The trauma of coming out sent me into this space where I felt like I needed to adopt a new identity. Everything I had done was rejected by my mother, and that's such a hard thing for a young girl." She dealt with this traumatic situation by creating rap music, which eventually led her to a new career. Over the past half-week, the video for "Flip Phone" has gained an additional 13,486 YouTube views (which is a huge increase of 6.58% over the previous chart period!).
Further down the chart, we have 9 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from England, France, the U.S.A., Sweden, Canada, and Chile:
- Cobrah (from Sweden)
- Stewart Taylor (from New York, USA)
- Dion Yorkie (originally from England & now residing in Ontario, Canada)
- Cavetown (from England, UK)
- Mylène Farmer (from France)
- Kevin Vásquez (from Chile)
- Pale Waves (from England, UK)
- Pauline Mancini (from France)
- Bronze Avery (from Florida, 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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This week's Top 50 LGBT chart:
| This week | Last week | Artist & title | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart |
| 1 | 3 | Duncan Laurence – “Electric Life” | NL | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | Jake Wesley Rogers – “Modern Love” | US | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 8 | Mabel Matiz – “Fan” | TR | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | Alek Sandar, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, & Sasha Belair – “Please Don’t Go Go” | BG/US | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 | Tommy Boi – “Personal” | US | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 7 | Cazwell, Nathan Hayes, & Alma Lake – “Guava Juice” | US | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | 16 | OnlyOneOf – “Zuruion’na” | KR | 7 | 3 |
| 8 | 18 | Yungblud – “Tissues” | GB | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | 10 | Måneskin – “If I Can Dream” | IT | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | 14 | Tegan And Sara – “Faded Like a Feeling” | CA | 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 9 | Pablo Alborán – “Carretera Y Manta” | ES | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | 21 | Hatari – “Dansiđ Eđa Deyiđ” | IS | 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 1 | Lena Meyer-Landrut – “Looking For Love” | DE | 1 | 9 |
| 14 | 26 | Marwin Balsters – “Jetlag” | DE | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 23 | Tiësto & Charli XCX – “Hot In It” | NL/GB | 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 11 | Madonna & Saucy Santana – “Material Gworl” | US | 11 | 7 |
| 17 | 39 | Tiziano Ferro – “La Vita Splendida” | IT | 17 | 2 |
| 18 | 6 | Brian Falduto – “Same Old Country Love Song” | US | 2 | 10 |
| 19 | 30 | Chico Blanco & Simona – “Stop” | ES | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 28 | Mø – “Spaceman” | DK | 20 | 4 |
| 21 | 41 | Andie Case & Alex Goot – “It Must Have Been Love” | US | 21 | 2 |
| 22 | 33 | The Veronicas – “Seeing Stars” | AU | 22 | 3 |
| 23 | 25 | Rina Sawayama – “Hold the Girl” | GB | 1 | 10 |
| 24 | 17 | Ginger Minj & Brandon Stansell – “Sunshine State” | US | 17 | 4 |
| 25 | 13 | Jessie Ware – “Free Yourself” | GB | 1 | 11 |
| 26 | 42 | Tokischa & Treinticiete 3730 – “Sistema Del Patio” | DO/BR | 26 | 2 |
| 27 | 34 | Big Dipper & VinceTheAlien – “Feels Like” | US | 27 | 3 |
| 28 | 15 | Mark Tuan – “Far Away” | US | 3 | 6 |
| 29 | 12 | Netta & Mr. Eazi – “Playground Politica” | IL/NG/ GH | 10 | 5 |
| 30 | 20 | GraveyardGuy – “Kiss My Self” | US | 5 | 7 |
| 31 | 47 | Davis Mallory & Nexeri – “Without You I Feel Good” | US | 31 | 3 |
| 32 | 43 | JunJi – “Be Mine” | KR | 32 | 3 |
| 33 | 19 | Artem Pivovarov & Olya Polyakova – “Tishsya” | UK | 13 | 6 |
| 34 | 22 | Scotty Dynamo – “Beyoncé x Lizzo Mashup” | CA | 16 | 6 |
| 35 | New | Brooke Candy – “Flip Phone” | US | 35 | 1 |
| 36 | New | Cobrah – “Brand New Bitch” | SE | 36 | 1 |
| 37 | 24 | ILoveMakonnen – “Bet That” | US | 5 | 7 |
| 38 | New | Stewart Taylor – “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk” | US | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | New | Dion Yorkie – “No Malice” | GB/CA | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | 38 | Davi Sabbag & Lucs Romero – “Dreamy” | BR | 38 | 3 |
| 41 | New | Cavetown – “1994” | GB | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | New | Mylène Farmer – “Á Tout Jamais” | FR | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | 49 | Jackson Wang – “Blue” | HK/CN | 43 | 2 |
| 44 | 37 | Panic! At The Disco – “Don’t Let the Light Go Out” | US | 20 | 5 |
| 45 | 40 | Jordan Doww – “Worst Of the Worst” | US | 40 | 3 |
| 46 | New | Kevin Vásquez – “Light Switch (Spanish Version)” | CL | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | New | Pales Waves – “Clean” | GB | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Pauline Mancini – “You’ve Got Me” | FR | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | 50 | Harry Strange – “God Damn Shame” | GB | 49 | 2 |
| 50 | New | Bronze Avery – “Figure It Out” | 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 | ||
| ** | 27 | Barbacius & Yorka – “Dime Que Te Quedarás” | CL | 27 | 3 |
| ** | 29 | Alma – “I Forgive Me” | FI | 21 | 5 |
| ** | 31 | Hayley Kiyoko & Johnny Rain – “Forever” | US | 22 | 5 |
| ** | 32 | Kim Petras – “Can’t Do Better” | DE | 4 | 7 |
| ** | 35 | G Flip – “Kiwi” | AU | 10 | 8 |
| ** | 36 | Joel Corry & Becky Hill – “History” | GB | 32 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Trixie Mattel & Michelle Branch – “White Rabbit” | US | 36 | 3 |
| ** | 45 | Matt Palmer & Ze Futur – “Hurricane” | US | 41 | 2 |
| ** | 46 | Middlespoon – “Crush On U” | US | 1 | 10 |
| ** | 48 | Sage Suede – “My Summer Fling” | US | 48 | 2 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AU = Australia | BG = Bulgaria | BR = Brazil |
| CA = Canada | CL = Chile | CN = China |
| DE = Germany | DK = Denmark | DO = Dominican Republic |
| ES = Spain | FI = Finland | FR = France |
| GB = Great Britain | GH = Ghana | HK = Hong Kong |
| IL = Israel | IS = Iceland | IT = Italy |
| KR = South Korea | NG = Nigeria | NL = Netherlands |
| SE = Sweden | TR = Turkey | UK = Ukraine |
| US = United States | ||
