Chart Week 27: Week of 7th July, 2019

                                                                                                                                          
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Chart notes:
   Although Todrick Hall can be a controversial figure because of his penchant for stirring up drama on social media, there's no denying that he is a creative genius when it comes to music and choreography. His brilliant video for "Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels" vaults ahead six spots this week to reach #1 on the LGBT chart.

   The remainder of the Top Five this week are: Scottish singer Allan Jay (holding steady for a 2nd week at #2), Canadian-American singer Elliot Jones (climbing 8 notches to #3), American singer/actor Chris Jehnert (slipping back 3 places to #4), and French chanteuse Mylene Farmer (moving up 10 spots to #5).

   Eleven songs fell off the chart this week to make way for eleven new songs. The highest debut of the week was "Your Song" by gay English musician Elton John and American actor Taron Egerton, coming in at #20. The classic song was originally a hit for Elton back in 1970, but it's been re-released with its inclusion in the Rocketman soundtrack.

   Just one artist (Jamie Hannah) is making his very first appearance on the LGBT chart this week. An additional ten artists (Elton John, Pentatonix, Pragya Pallavi, LP, Shea Diamond, Adam Lambert, Jordy, Kim Petras, Openside, and Kevin Chomat) are returning to the chart with brand-new videos.

   Chart positions are based on points assigned from: (1) the previous week's position, (2) length of time on the chart, (3) views on YouTube from the previous seven days, (4) percentage of increase in views from the week prior, (5) my votes, and (6) any votes I've received by Thursday morning. If you'd like to vote for your favorite songs, feel free to leave a comment on this blog or send me a private message (see the contact info above).


This week's Top 50 LGBT chart:

This week	Last week	Artist & title	Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
1	7	Todrick Hall – “Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels”	US	1	4
2	2	Allan Jay – “Work Ya Love”	GB	2	6
3	11	Elliot Jones – “Emotions”	CA/US	3	3
4	1	Chris Jehnert – “Welcome to the Hollow”	US	1	6
5	15	Mylène Farmer – “Des Larmes”	FR	5	3
6	6	Reigen – “Lit Summer”	US	6	5
7	18	Michael Medrano – “Easier”	US	7	3
8	8	Daya – “Insomnia”	US	1	11
9	4	Wrabel – “Love to Love U”	US	4	5
10	3	Katey Brooks – “All of Me”	GB	2	8
11	21	Alfie Arcuri – “Same”	AU	11	2
12	13	Daniel Schuhmacher – “Feelings”	DE	12	4
13	20	Matthew James – “Right Now”	MA/US	13	2
14	12	Wils – “Open Up Babe”	SG	12	5
15	9	Parker Matthews – “Running from Me”	US	7	6
16	24	Bilal Hassani – “Jaloux”	FR	16	3
17	22	Keiino – “Spirit in the Sky”	NO	17	3
18	5	Domo Wilson – “Bisexual Anthem”	US	5	9
19	31	Michael Medrano – “No More Tequila”	US	19	2
20	New	Elton John & Taron Egerton – “Your Song”	GB/US	20	1
21	32	The Chainsmokers & Bebe Rexha – “Call You Mine”	US	21	2
22	26	Katy Perry – “Never Really Over”	US	22	3
23	33	Mosimann & Maruv – “Mon Amour”	CH/UK	23	2
24	New	Pentatonix – “Shallow”	US	24	1
25	New	Pragya Pallavi – “Queer It Up”	IN	25	1
26	New	LP – “Dreamer”	US	26	1
27	40	Gloria Trevi – “Ábranse Perras”	MX	27	3
28	10	Fletcher – “If You’re Gonna Lie”	US	10	6
29	35	Hannah Trigwell – “Attention”	GB	29	2
30	New	Shea Diamond – “Don’t Shoot”	US	30	1
31	37	Rayvon Owen – “X”	US	31	2
32	17	Halsey – “Nightmare”	US	14	5
33	14	LP – “When I’m Over You”	US	11	6
34	39	Lady Leshurr – “Your Mr”	GB	34	2
35	16	Carly Rae Jepsen – “Too Much”	CA	16	4
36	46	Shea Diamond – “Seen It All”	US	36	2
37	45	Myylo – “Be My Baby”	US	37	2
38	19	LPX – “Give Up the Ghost”	GB	19	5
39	23	Greyson Chance – “Yours”	US	1	13
40	25	Kevin Abstract – “Peach”	US	22	5
41	27	Cub Sport – “Limousine”	AU	23	5
42	28	Maruv – “Siren Song”	UK	1	11
43	29	Buhos – “Connectats”	ES	7	8
44	30	Taylor Swift & Brendon Urie – “Me!”	US	3	8
45	New	Adam Lambert – “New Eyes”	US	45	1
46	New	Jordy – “Love Me Right”	US	46	1
47	New	Kim Petras – “Blow It All”	DE	47	1
48	New	Openside – “Kiss Me”	NZ	48	1
49	New	Jamie Hannah – “Sound of My Youth”	GB	49	1
50	New	Kevin Chomat – “L’horloge”	FR	50	1

Numbers on a gold-colored background indicate a new peak position.

Falling off the chart this week:			Orig.	Peak	Weeks on chart
**	34	The Veronicas – “Think of Me”	AU	3	6
**	36	Keara Graves & Marina Lin – “Wish You Were Gay (But Actually Gay)”	US	25	4
**	38	Iggy Azalea – “Started”	AU	8	5
**	41	Duncan Laurence – “Arcade”	NL	1	14
**	42	Elton John & Taron Egerton – “Rocket Man”	GB/US	42	2
**	43	Douwe Bob – “Consider”	NL	4	7
**	44	Conchita Wurst – “Hit Me”	AT	1	12
**	47	Dorian Electra – “Flamboyant”	US	30	3
**	48	Kevin McHale – “Help Me Now”	US	35	3
**	49	Tiago Braga – “Dois A Perder”	PT	39	4
**	50	Indigo Face – “A Womxn Will Save Us All”	GB	44	2

Codes used in the ‘Origin’ columns from the tables above
AT = Austria	AU = Australia	CA = Canada
CH = Switzerland	DE = Germany	ES = Spain
FR = France	GB = Great Britain	IN = India
MA = Morocco	MX = Mexico	NL = Netherlands
NO = Norway	NZ = New Zealand	PT = Portugal
SG = Singapore	UK = Ukraine	US = United States

Midweek Music Update

 for 3rd July, 2019

                                                                                                                           
The Midweek Music Update (published on Wednesdays) is intended to give you a "sneak peek" at some new music that hasn't made my chart yet. It's comprised of two sections: the Hot New Track and the Fresh New Releases.

Each week, I'll choose one video for the Hot New Track -- one song that is certain to make my chart & playlist next weekend (based on all the points it's earned so far).

The Fresh New Releases are two or three videos that appear likely to enter my chart in the near future (based on YouTube views alone). All of the songs in this 2nd section will be relatively recent (i.e., released in the past month or so). Because they are so new, it might take them an additional few weeks to work their way onto my chart.

Although I mention the total number of views for each video below, song selections are based on their YouTube views from the past seven days only.

Hot New Track:
This week's Hot New Track is "Don't Shoot" by transgender American singer/songwriter Shea Diamond. Even as a young child, Shea identified as a girl but she was punished by her parents whenever she acted feminine. As a teen, she ran away from home (in Flint, Michigan) and then, desperate for money, Shea robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. She was incarcerated in a Michigan men's prison for a decade. After her release, she relocated to New York and was signed by a major label. This will be Shea's second track on the LGBT Top 50 chart (her song "Seen It All" debuted last weekend at #46). As I write this, Shea's latest video has 30,022 views on YouTube (an increase of 28.31% from the week before).

Fresh New Releases:
The first Fresh New Release this week is "You Need To Calm Down" by straight American singer (and lately, vocal LGBT ally) Taylor Swift. The video advocates for the passage of the Equality Act (a non-discrimination bill that would protect LGBT rights in employment and housing) and the clip is filled with LGBT celebrities making cameo appearances (including Laverne Cox, Hayley Kiyoko, Chester Lockhart, the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Adam Lambert, RuPaul, Hannah Hart, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Todrick Hall, Adam Rippon, Ellen DeGeneres, Billy Porter, and Katy Perry).Taylor is already on the LGBT chart this week with the rainbow-tinted video for "Me!" (a collaboration with pansexual singer Brendon Urie), which peaked at #3 and is currently at #30. Taylor's newest video currently has 68,046,455 views on YouTube.

The second Fresh New Release this week is "Blame It On Your Love" by bisexual English singer Charli XCX and label-rejecting (but definitely queer-friendly) American singer Lizzo. This bizarre video features multiple same-sex couples who tell the camera they "evolved in 2023" into elf-like creatures. In early June, Charli XCX teamed up with gay Australian singer Troye Sivan to launch a new LGBT Pride festival called the Go West Fest in Los Angeles. The clip now has 1,302,908 views on YouTube.

In the last two editions of the Midweek Music Update, I've provided links for a few videos that didn't quite make the LGBT Top 50 chart (but came very close) and were being "retired" after 3 months. However, the list of eligible videos is quickly becoming so long that it's unmanageable and I need to cut it down to size. I'll now be retiring the videos that have the fewest points each week, rather than doing it by release date. There are 16 videos being retired this week, which have all had multiple opportunities to make the chart but they just can't seem to break through. Next week I'll likely eliminate even more videos. Links are provided below, just in case you're curious and you'd like to watch them:

Dan Crossley -- "Mind Games"

Caveboy -- "Landslide"

Grayson -- "Cherry Pits"

Luis Gamarra – “No Siento Màs”

Casey Breves -- "First Dance"

Alessandro Alo Casini -- "Achille"

Yhago Sebaz & Allvdin – “Você Bagunçou Comigo”

Drumaq -- "Insecurities"

Agustín Malandra – “Don’t Take Me For Granted”

Boy Untitled -- "Skin"

Deitre -- "Jesse"

Saint Torrente -- "Gasolina"

Okenyo -- "Buckle Up"

Adam Joseph & Diversity Unity Harmony -- "Diversity"

Chris Jehnert -- "Don't Blame Me"

Smashby & Aja -- "Independent B**ch"

A couple of people have inquired as to whether I'd consider making the chart a Top 75 or a Top 100 instead. I'd really like to keep it down to a Top 50, which I think is a manageable size for most people. With 50 videos on the playlist each week (and each one averaging about 3 to 4 minutes apiece), it's possible to watch the entire playlist in about 3 hours. Obviously, a Top 100 would take double that amount of time to watch -- more than 6 hours. It's never been my intention to catalog every single song that comes out, and I don't think people have time to watch so many videos. For now, at least, I've decided to keep the Top 50 format.

That's it for another edition of the Midweek Music Update. Make sure to come back on Saturday or Sunday (depending on your time zone) for the latest LGBT Top 50 chart & playlist. Until then, I hope you all have a great week!