HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/17/14 (NEW FEATURE)

HRD RADIO REPORT 

Welcome to the HRD Radio Report!  This new feature, which showcases the weekly Active Rock Mediabase Charts (compiled by AllAccess.com), will appear every Tuesday on HardRockDaddy.com.  The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions.  The HRD Radio Report will also be quoting radio and record industry people on a regular basis, and talking directly to a variety of hard rock artists about their music, tours and more!

Many of the artists featured on the Active Rock charts have already been reviewed on HardRockDaddy.com.

Click on the hyperlinked song titles to read song reviews, and the hyperlinked artist names to read album reviews.

The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 8/17/14.  All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

 

CHART POSITION THIS WEEK	CHART POSITION LAST WEEK	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO SPINS THIS WEEK
1	2	NOTHING MORE	“This Is The Time (Ballast)”	2079
2	1	GODSMACK	“1000hp”	1954
3	3	SEETHER	“Words As Weapons”	1771
4	4	LINKIN PARK	“Until It’s Gone”	1460
5	7	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Messed Up World”	1398
6	5	RISE AGAINST	“I Don’t Want To Be Here”	1386
7	10	YOU ME AT SIX	“Room To Breathe”	1110
8	6	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Drown”	1104
9	9	SLASH	“World On Fire”	1100
10	8	STARSET	“My Demons”	1070
11	11	WE AS HUMAN	“Take The Bullets Away”	1025
12	12	KORN	“Hater”	971
13	14	CHEVELLE	“Hunter Eats Hunter”	969
14	15	WEEZER	“Back To The Shack”	965
15	13	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Painkiller”	856
16	16	CROBOT	“Nowhere To Hide”	741
17	17	OF MICE & MEN	“Would You Still Be There”	638
18	23	SIXX A.M.	“Gotta Get It Right”	626
19	18	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“This Means War”	592
20	20	KONGOS	“Come With Me Now”	533
21	19	SKILLET	“Rise”	529
22	21	FRAMING HANLEY	“Criminal”	460
23	22	LIKE A STORM	“Love The Way You Hate Me”	418
24	30	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	413
25	28	OTHERWISE	“Darker Side Of The Moon”	374
26	24	DEVOUR THE DAY	“Respect”	373
27	29	ISLANDER	“Coconut Dracula”	345
28	27	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Can You Feel My Heart”	339
29	32	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	319
30	26	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Angel Of Mercy”	314
31	31	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“End Of Me”	274
32	37	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Picture Perfect”	249
33	39	FOZZY	“Lights Go Out”	244
34	35	REDLIGHT KING	“Devil’s Dance”	244
35	42	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	234
36	41	DIRTY HEADS	“My Sweet Summer”	223
37	38	HELLYEAH	“Sangre Por Sangre (Blood For Blood)”	199
38	33	AVATAR	“Bloody Angel”	194
39	25	ADELITAS WAY	“Dog On A Leash”	188
40	45	SLEEPWAVE	“Through The Looking Glass”	187
41	43	SLIPKNOT	“The Negative One”	174
42	54	NONPOINT	“Breaking Skin”	159
43	52	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	146
44	50	FLYLEAF	“Set Me On Fire”	136
45	49	FUEL	“Cold Summer”	136
46	51	TRIVIUM	“Villainy Thrives”	127
47	55	EVE TO ADAM	“Locked & Loaded”	123
48	47	HEARTIST	“Skeletons”	123
49	48	WITHIN REASON	“Enemy”	117
50	46	LAST INTERNATIONALE	“Life Liberty & The…”	117

 

BAM-BAM’S BREAKDOWN

By Craig “Bam-Bam” Stegall

 

Well, well, well…as we look at our Top 50 Active Rock spinners at commercial radio for the week ending August 17th 2014, it’s clear that exciting new hard rock bands are making a solid run at the crown.

 

CHART TOPPERS:

Nothing More has been the favorite hard rock band of every fan and critic this year! (see HRD album review).

As a new band, they are getting their start in small clubs and woodsheds, but that hasn’t stopped “This Is The Time (Ballast)” from dominating the Active Rock radio charts.  Watching them take down Godsmack (the reigning Active Rock radio champions) has been some award-winning theatrics.

By over 100 spins, the freshman foursome has done something that has rarely been done since Korn rocketed up the Billboard charts in the early 90s!  Nothing More’s self-titled debut release is my personal favorite to be named “Best Album Of 2014.”

Uproar Festival co-headliners, Godsmack and Seether, round out the top three Active Rock radio songs respectively this week with “1000hp” and “Words As Weapons.”

 

 

CHART HIGHLIGHTS:

I’m very pleased to see newcomers, Starset, make it into the Top 10 with “My Demons,” although I wish that they had done it with “Halo,” the song that I consider to be the best track from their recently-released album, Transmissions.  Clearly, the decision-maker on this one got it right, so I’ll defer to them and stick to reviewing.

I’m really digging the new Escape The Fate single, “Picture Perfect,” which got a nice 5-spin boost this week, slightly edging out Fozzy for the #32 spot on the chart.

Fozzy may not have been taken seriously at first because they are fronted by former WWE superstar, Chris Jericho, but make no mistake; Jericho is a very good singer and songwriter, and this band is no joke!  Their incredible tune, “Lights Go Out” – off of their latest album, Do You Wanna Start A War – is a solid Active Rock radio performer.

 

 

CHART CLIMBER:

The biggest climb on this week’s Active Rock radio charts came courtesy of Christian hard rockers, Thousand Foot Krutch, who debut in the Top 50 with their new single, “Born This Way,” a nice little radio rocker with a shredding guitar solo.

 

 

BAM-BAM’S BIG ONES!:

Get your minds out of the gutter!  “Bam-Bam’s Big Ones” is not about my nether region.  This weekly feature is simply one man’s opinion on the music that you SHOULD be listening to if you like the music that is regularly featured on Hard Rock Daddy and the HRD Radio Report.  You dig?  No payouts, no bias…just killer music that I get the chance to hear before others because I’m cool like that!

 

This week’s “Bam-Bam’s Big Ones!” are:

Message To Venus – “Hollow”

Brilliantly executed new rock that fuses elements of…come to think of it, I don’t know what they’re fusing because they sound like no one else that I’ve heard before!  The band’s 2010 EP, The Envelope, took Active Rock radio by storm with the single “Universal You,” which was featured on  The Witness soundtrack (an action-horror film released in 2012).

Message To Venus returns this fall with a new album entitled Victims & Villains, a solid, much heavier and brainier effort.  “Hollow,” the first single from the album, should break onto the Active Rock radio charts in the very near future!

 

 HellYeah – “Moth”

Vinnie Paul and the boys hit back with their second release from their brilliant Blood For Blood album.  This one is a smoker that is sure to get your blood pumping like the title track did when it was released as a single ( it still sits in the top 20 of the Active Rock radio charts).  It won’t be long before “Moth” joins “Sangre Por Sangre (Blood For Blood)” on the charts!

 

 Young Guns – “I Want Out”

Don’t let the name fool you; this band is not that young.  Their maturity will win you over with this track, a nice little rocker featuring bluesy guitar that will have the ladies shakin’ it!  “I Want Out” has some nice preliminary legs on it as it heads towards the Active Rock radio charts.

 

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!:

Each week (for reasons unknown) there are songs on the chart by bands that don’t belong on Active Rock radio.  Hard Rock Daddy launched the HRD Radio Report to showcase and report on hard rock artists on radio.  Rather than edit these bands off of the chart, we decided to add an “I CALL B#LL$HIT!” feature to this column to point out the bands that have no place on Active Rock radio.

Here are this week’s “I CALL B#LL$HIT!” bands:

• Black Keys
• Dirty Heads
• Weezer

 

 

WRAP-UP:

That’s it for this week!  Tune in to HardRockDaddy.com every Tuesday for the HRD Radio Report and Bam-Bam’s Breakdown.

Next Tuesday, we bring you interviews from my friends at Roadrunner Records as they talk about their artists that are currently climbing the charts, and we’ll also check in with Godsmack drummer, Shannon Larkin, reporting from the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival.  It’s all happening exclusively on HardRockDaddy.com!

Peace/Out!