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 22nd February, 2023
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Chart notes:
Dutch singer/songwriter Duncan Laurence ascends to the top of Tad's LGBT Music Chart at midweek with "I Want It All", moving up one more place from the weekend's #2 position. According to SoundCharts, the song has reached #1 on the radio airplay charts of two European countries (France and Belgium) and has also reached the Top 10 in four others (#4 in Finland, #4 in Portugal, #4 in Lithuania, and #7 in Moldova). In Duncan's native country of the Netherlands, the track has gotten as high as #25 on The iTunes Streaming Chart. Over the past three days, the video for "I Want It All" has gained an additional 2,173 views on YouTube (which is an increase of 2.34% since the weekend's chart).
Four videos move up into the Top 10 at midweek. Australian singer/actor Troye Sivan climbs 5 notches to #7 with "You Know What I Need". American musician/actress Pink (from Doylestown, Pennsylvania) leaps ahead 10 places to #8 with "Trustfall". British singer/producer MNEK (from London, England) rises 2 spots to #9 with "Radio". They're joined in the Top 10 by Italian trio Italove, who move up 4 more positions to #10 with "Chasing Ghosts".
Ten songs fall off the chart to make way for ten new songs. The midweek chart features 10 debuts by LGBTQ artists from the U.S.A., Brazil, Chile, the Netherlands, France, and Canada:
- Rebecca Black (from California, U.S.A.)
- The Scarlet Opera (from California, U.S.A.)
- Nya (from Florida, U.S.A.)
- Lizzo (from Texas, U.S.A.)
- Romero Ferro (from Brazil)
- Big Dipper (from Illinois, U.S.A.)
- Dani Ride (from Chile)
- Starrlight (from the Netherlands)
- Thx4Crying (from France)
- Dragonette (from Ontario, Canada)
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 email address 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 | Duncan Laurence – “I Want It All” | NL | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | Miley Cyrus – “Flowers” | US | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 4 | Mad Tsai – “Stacy’s Brother” | US | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 8 | Gregory Dillon – “LSD” | US | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 7 | Kelela – “Contact” | US | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | Sam Smith, Koffee, & Jessie Reyez – “Gimme” | GB/JM/ CA | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | 12 | PNAU & Troye Sivan – “You Know What I Need” | AU | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 18 | Pink – “Trustfall” | US | 8 | 3 |
| 9 | 11 | Sigala & MNEK – “Radio” | GB | 9 | 5 |
| 10 | 14 | Italove – “Chasing Ghosts” | IT | 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 13 | Pierre De Maere – “Enfant De” | BE | 1 | 8 |
| 12 | 1 | Adam Mac – “Disco Cowboy” | US | 1 | 8 |
| 13 | 20 | Taylor Swift – “Lavender Haze” | US | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 19 | Mabiland – “Fue” | CO | 14 | 5 |
| 15 | 23 | Seeb & Alexander Stewart – “Would You Lie?” | NO/CA | 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 21 | Model/Actriz – “Crossing Guard” | US | 16 | 3 |
| 17 | 10 | Wincent Weiss – “Bleiben Wir” | DE | 10 | 5 |
| 18 | 17 | Urias – “Neo Thang” | BR | 1 | 13 |
| 19 | 28 | Joesef – “Just Come Home With Me Tonight” | GB | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 15 | Sakima – “Pretty Boys” | GB | 1 | 13 |
| 21 | 26 | OnlyOneOf – “Chrome Arts” | KR | 21 | 4 |
| 22 | 5 | Conchita Wurst – “Dirty Maria” | AT | 1 | 10 |
| 23 | 29 | Emeli Sandé – “Who Needs the World?” | GB | 23 | 3 |
| 24 | 27 | Fever Ray – “Kandy” | SE | 24 | 4 |
| 25 | 46 | Chéri – “Chéripop” | FR | 25 | 2 |
| 26 | 39 | Carpetgarden – “Adrenaline” | US | 26 | 2 |
| 27 | 38 | Siovo – “Backseat Bromance” | DE | 27 | 3 |
| 28 | 24 | Måneskin & Tom Morello – “Gossip” | IT | 10 | 7 |
| 29 | 9 | Lola Indigo & Luis Fonsi – “Corazones Rotos” | ES/PR | 4 | 8 |
| 30 | 41 | Pussy Riot – “Putin’s Ashes” | RU | 30 | 2 |
| 31 | 16 | MeseMoa – “Ī Konomama De” | JP | 16 | 5 |
| 32 | 50 | Wrabel – “Happier” | US | 32 | 2 |
| 33 | 48 | Blanco – “L’Isola Delle Rose” | IT | 33 | 2 |
| 34 | 32 | Darin – “Satisfaction” | SE | 3 | 11 |
| 35 | 30 | Heartthrob Robb – “Nothing for You” | US | 15 | 7 |
| 36 | 49 | Rita Ora – “You Only Love Me” | GB | 36 | 2 |
| 37 | 47 | Nakhane – “My Ma Was Good” | ZA | 37 | 2 |
| 38 | New | Rebecca Black – “Sick To My Stomach” | US | 38 | 1 |
| 39 | New | The Scarlet Opera – “Big City Thing” | US | 39 | 1 |
| 40 | 33 | K. Flay – “It’s Been So Long” | US | 33 | 3 |
| 41 | New | Nya – “I’ll Be OK” | US | 41 | 1 |
| 42 | New | Lizzo – “Special” | US | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | 42 | Xana – “Bet You’ll Get Off On This” | CA | 42 | 2 |
| 44 | New | Romero Ferro – “Meu Diário” | BR | 44 | 1 |
| 45 | 43 | Lou Asril – “Feelings” | AT | 43 | 3 |
| 46 | New | Big Dipper – “Club Go Up” | US | 46 | 1 |
| 47 | New | Dani Ride & Karla Grunewaldt – “Duchita” | CL | 47 | 1 |
| 48 | New | Starrlight, TreBeats, & Reks – “Divine Lines” | NL/CH/ US | 48 | 1 |
| 49 | New | Thx4Crying – “La Fin De La Terre” | FR | 49 | 1 |
| 50 | New | Dragonette – “Stormy” | CA | 50 | 1 |
Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.
| Falling off the chart this week: | Orig. | Peak | Weeks on chart | ||
| ** | 22 | Ryland James – “Love on the Brain” | CA | 2 | 7 |
| ** | 25 | Adam Lambert – “Holding Out for a Hero” | US | 3 | 7 |
| ** | 31 | Hannah Trigwell – “Treat You Better” | GB | 26 | 4 |
| ** | 34 | Kany García & Abel Pintos – “Mi Plan De Vida” | PR/AR | 13 | 6 |
| ** | 35 | Marilina Bertoldi – “Pucho” | AR | 29 | 3 |
| ** | 36 | Mavi Phoenix – “Cute” | AT | 36 | 3 |
| ** | 37 | Trinity The Tuck & Yvie Oddly – “She Nasty” | US | 27 | 4 |
| ** | 40 | Softee – “Red Light Green Light” | US | 40 | 3 |
| ** | 44 | Danny Bond – “Vai Maluca” | BR | 37 | 3 |
| ** | 45 | Uni And The Urchins – “Simulator” | US | 42 | 3 |
| Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above | ||
| AR = Argentina | AT = Austria | AU = Australia |
| BE = Belgium | BR = Brazil | CA = Canada |
| CH = Switzerland | CL = Chile | CO = Colombia |
| DE = Germany | ES = Spain | FR = France |
| GB = Great Britain | IT = Italy | JP = Japan |
| JM = Jamaica | KR = South Korea | NL = Netherlands |
| NO = Norway | PR = Puerto Rico | RU = Russia |
| SE = Sweden | US = United States | ZA = South Africa |
