Twice a week, Tad's LGBT Music Chart brings you the Top 50 music videos by LGBTQ artists from around the world.
Chart Week #43 of 2022: Week of 23rd October
Click here for this week's playlist on YouTube:
Chart notes:
Brazilian artist Piettro takes over the top of the LGBT chart this weekend with "Rei De Cocada", moving up one more place from the midweek's #2 position. On a radio tour of Brazil to support his newest single, Piettro talked about his busy schedule and said, "In November there will be a lot of LGBT parades, so I'm adjusting to be able to participate in as many as possible. I do shows on a weekly basis, but singing at these events in front of crowds, I think is every artist's dream." Over the past four days, the video for "Rei De Cocada" has gained an additional 52,703 views on YouTube (which is an astounding increase of 21.34% since the midweek's chart!).
Three videos move up into the Top 10 this weekend. British musician Elton John (originally from Middlesex, England) leaps ahead 10 positions to #5 with "Hold Me Closer". German rapper Badmómzjay rises 6 notches to #7 with "Keine Tränen". They're joined in the Top 10 by Peruvian singer Adrian Bello, who's moving up 5 more spots to #9 with "Bailemos En La Sala".
Six songs fall off the chart to make way for five new songs and one re-entry. The highest debut this weekend was "Amour, Haine, Et Danger" by Belgian/French singer/songwriter Angèle, entering the chart at #36. The song's lyrics talk about the dangers of technology and how it can control our lives. Angèle sings about how everything we do is controlled by our devices, from the music we listen to and the videos we watch to the people we talk to. Our devices can stress us out, make us anxious and even make us feel bad. We are addicted to our devices and we can't help it. At the end of the day, all this technology is really just an object, but it has so much power over us. In the video, Angèle portrays a giant smartphone that is accompanying people throughout their daily lives. Over the past half-week, the video for "Amour, Haine, Et Danger" has gained an additional 230,088 YouTube views (which is a massive increase of 12.25% over the previous chart period!).
Further down the chart, we have 4 more debuts by LGBTQ artists from France, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea:
- Wapayasos (from Mexico)
- Tokischa (from the Dominican Republic)
- Téo Lavabo (from France)
- Lionesses (from South Korea)
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 | 2 | Piettro – “Rei De Cocada” | BR | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | Gabrielius Vagelis – “Man Moji” | LT | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | Anne-Marie & Aitch – “Psycho” | GB | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | 8 | Alma – “Summer Really Hurt Us” | FI | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 15 | Elton John & Britney Spears – “Hold Me Closer” | GB/US | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 6 | Mabel Matiz – “Fan” | TR | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 13 | Badmómzjay – “Keine Tränen” | DE | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 5 | Autoheart – “Time Machine” | GB | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | 14 | Adrian Bello – “Bailemos En La Sala” | PE | 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 7 | Duncan Laurence – “Electric Life” | NL | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | 18 | Vök & the Reykjavik Queer Choir – “Something Bad” | IS | 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 17 | Andie Case & Alex Goot – “It Must Have Been Love” | US | 1 | 8 |
| 13 | 4 | Yungblud – “Tissues” | GB | 1 | 10 |
| 14 | 20 | Isak Danielson – “Say That Everything Will Be Alright” | SE | 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 9 | Corvyx – “Eat Me” | US | 9 | 5 |
| 16 | 12 | Conchita Wurst – “All That I Wanted” | AT | 12 | 6 |
| 17 | 24 | Davi Bandeira & Leandro Buenno – “Me Diz (Onde Que Isso Vai Dar)” | BR | 17 | 3 |
| 18 | 34 | Lil Nas X – “Star Walkin’” | US | 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 29 | Nuno Freitas – “Um Rumo Em Ti” | PT/US | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 36 | Sam Smith & Kim Petras – “Unholy” | GB/DE | 20 | 2 |
| 21 | 25 | Maggie Lindemann – “Cages” | US | 21 | 3 |
| 22 | 38 | Artem Pivovarov & Alyona Alyona – “Liuli-Liuli” | UK | 22 | 2 |
| 23 | 19 | David Archuleta – “Faith In Me” | US | 19 | 4 |
| 24 | 16 | Mylène Farmer – “Á Tout Jamais” | FR | 3 | 7 |
| 25 | 32 | Joesef – “Joe” | GB | 25 | 3 |
| 26 | 21 | Cobrah – “Brand New Bitch” | SE | 5 | 7 |
| 27 | 37 | Lia Clark & MC Naninha – “PQP! (Tu Fez Do Jeito Que En Queria)” | BR | 27 | 2 |
| 28 | 22 | Kany García & Christian Nodal – “La Siguiente” | PR/MX | 14 | 5 |
| 29 | 39 | Joshua Bassett – “Lifeline” | US | 29 | 2 |
| 30 | 10 | JunJi – “Be Mine” | KR | 6 | 9 |
| 31 | 11 | Hatari – “Dansiđ Eđa Deyiđ” | IS | 4 | 9 |
| 32 | 40 | Rodrigo Massa & Filipe Gonçalves – “Chamuco” | BR | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 28 | KQ Fellaz 2 – “Geek” | KR | 28 | 3 |
| 34 | 26 | Lena Meyer-Landrut – “Looking For Love” | DE | 1 | 15 |
| 35 | 30 | Zolita – “20 Questions” | US | 30 | 3 |
| 36 | New | Angèle – “Amour, Haine, et Danger” | BE/FR | 36 | 1 |
| 37 | R/E | Brooke Candy – “Flip Phone” | US | 9 | 6 |
| 38 | 47 | Ryan Cassata & Rillakill – “Everything Changed” | US | 38 | 2 |
| 39 | New | Wapayasos – “Arroz Con Leche” | MX | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | New | Tokischa & Eladio Carrion – “Hola” | DO/PR | 40 | 1 |
| 41 | New | Téo Lavabo & Manon Lavabo – “Vernini Vernana” | FR | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | 49 | LA Laura Paris – “Kissing Boys” | BE/FR | 42 | 2 |
| 43 | 41 | Smashby – “Bad Influence” | GB | 41 | 3 |
| 44 | 42 | Kevin Chomat – “Tour D’Ivoire” | FR | 42 | 3 |
| 45 | 43 | DreamDoll – “Misunderstood” | US | 43 | 2 |
| 46 | 44 | Uni And The Urchins – “Doll Parts” | US | 44 | 3 |
| 47 | New | Lionesses – “Isanghan Salang-e Ppajin Sonyeon-ege (Boy With Strange Love)” | KR | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | 45 | Sage Suede, Dazmin D’leon, & Girlxhighlight – “You Go Girl” | US | 45 | 3 |
| 49 | 48 | Jason Kwan – “Ritual” | HK/GB | 48 | 2 |
| 50 | 50 | Middlespoon – “Bon Bon Boy” | US | 50 | 2 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 23 | Pales Waves – “Clean” | GB | 18 | 6 |
| ** | 27 | Kevin Vásquez – “Light Switch (Spanish Version)” | CL | 17 | 6 |
| ** | 31 | Dion Yorkie – “No Malice” | GB/CA | 18 | 6 |
| ** | 33 | Sam Tsui & Casey Breves – “Running Up That Hill” | US | 16 | 4 |
| ** | 35 | Alice Longyu Gao – “Make You Love Me” | CN/US | 27 | 2 |
| ** | 46 | Yavin – “Outgrow Me” | US | 46 | 2 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AT = Austria | BE = Belgium | BR = Brazil |
| CA = Canada | CL = Chile | CN = China |
| DE = Germany | DO = Dominican Republic | FI = Finland |
| FR = France | GB = Great Britain | HK = Hong Kong |
| IS = Iceland | KR = South Korea | LT = Lithuania |
| MX = Mexico | NL = Netherlands | PE = Peru |
| PR = Puerto Rico | PT = Portugal | SE = Sweden |
| TR = Turkey | UK = Ukraine | US = United States |
