HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 10/5/14

HRD RADIO REPORT 

The HRD Radio Report showcases the weekly Active Rock Mediabase Charts (compiled by AllAccess.com), and appears every Tuesday on HardRockDaddy.com.  The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions.  This weekly report also features quotes from radio and record industry people on a regular basis, in addition to 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 10/5/14.  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	SLASH	“World On Fire”	1690
2	1	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Messed Up World”	1642
3	3	NICKELBACK	“Edge Of A Revolution”	1527
4	4	YOU ME AT SIX	“Room To Breathe”	1413
5	7	KORN	“Hater”	1215
6	8	SLIPKNOT	“The Devil In I”	1176
7	5	WEEZER	“Back To The Shack”	1144
8	12	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wrong Side Of Heaven”	1021
9	11	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	986
10	9	NOTHING MORE	“This Is The Time (Ballast)”	940
11	6	LINKIN PARK	“Until It’s Gone”	866
12	13	SIXX A.M.	“Gotta Get It Right”	861
13	17	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	755
14	19	VOLBEAT	“Doc Holliday”	716
15	16	GODSMACK	“1000hp”	668
16	18	OTHERWISE	“Darker Side Of The Moon”	626
17	20	HELLYEAH	“Moth”	613
18	23	BUSH	“The Only Way Out”	594
19	21	POP EVIL	“Beautiful”	583
20	29	SEETHER	“Same Damn Life”	572
21	26	DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979	“Trainwreck 1979”	555
22	14	RISE AGAINST	“I Don’t Wanna Be Here”	531
23	25	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	513
24	15	CHEVELLE	“Hunter Eats Hunter”	492
25	24	ISLANDER	“Coconut Dracula”	491
26	38	GODSMACK	“Something Different”	480
27	22	DEVOUR THE DAY	“Respect”	478
28	33	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sick Like Me”	471
29	28	NONPOINT	“Breaking Skin”	444
30	34	KONGOS	“I’m Only Joking”	391
31	35	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	358
32	0	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	339
33	32	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Can You Feel My Heart”	321
34	40	YOUNG GUNS	“I Want Out”	275
35	50	NOTHING MORE	“Mr. MTV”	271
36	36	FALL OUT BOY	“Centuries”	271
37	27	CROBOT	“Nowhere To Hide”	261
38	30	FRAMING HANLEY	“Criminal”	255
39	51	LIVE	“Way Around Is Through”	237
40	41	FLYLEAF	“Set Me On Fire”	231
41	44	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“Dangerous”	226
42	39	SLEEPWAVE	“Through The Looking Glass”	213
43	42	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Reincarnate”	212
44	43	MASTODON	“The Motherload”	184
45	46	TRIVIUM	“Villainy Thrives”	173
46	45	BLACK STONE CHERRY	“Remember Me”	171
47	47	ADELITA’S WAY	“Save The World”	161
48	53	BLACK VEIL BRIDES	“Heart Of Fire”	141
49	52	3 YEARS HOLLOW	“For Life”	135
50	59	NEW MEDICINE	“One Too Many”	128

 

 PUBLISHER’S PICKS – By Adam Waldman 

 PICK OF THE WEEK:  Black Veil Brides – “Heart Of Fire”

Black Veil Brides are back with an incredible track off of their upcoming self-titled album.  With the dominance that “In The End” displayed in recent years, it’s hard to believe that this track didn’t debut in the Top 50, while others that are barely “rock” have done so (see I CALL B#LL$HIT! below).  No matter, once this track starts building momentum, it should have a nice run.  Not only is the song incredibly melodic, but the dual-guitar virtuosity is like a journey back in time.  Check out the full Hard Rock Daddy review, and listen to “Heart Of Fire” below…

 

HONORABLE MENTION:  Black Label Society – “Angel Of Mercy”

By and large, Zakk Wylde is highly regarded in both the hard rock and metal communities, but for some reason, he doesn’t seem to get the radio play that he deserves.  Black Label Society’s “Angel Of Mercy” taps into another side of Wylde that goes beyond brilliant guitar shredding.  It’s hard to understand why radio would fall in love with a song like “Moth” by Hellyeah and not show the same kind of love to BLS’s “Angel Of Mercy,” a song in a similar vein.  Check out the full Hard Rock Daddy review, and listen to “Angel Of Mercy” below…

 

 THE BREAKDOWN – By Jon Loveless

A new number one, a potential heavyweight brawl looming on the horizon, and a red-hot debut all featured on this week’s HRD Radio Report.

 

CHART TOPPERS

For the second time ever, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have reached the top of the Active Rock chart.  A nice increase of nearly 200 spins pushed “World On Fire” past the still-strong “Messed Up World,” dethroning The Pretty Reckless after three weeks.  Nickelback’s “Edge Of A Revolution” and You Me At Six’s “Room To Breathe” remain basically flat, holding on to the #3 & #4 slots respectively on this week’s chart.   “Hater” by Korn holds off Slipknot’s “The Devil In I” for the #5 slot…at least for another week.

 

 CHART HIGHLIGHTS

As predicted in last week’s Rapid Risers and Freefallers, a good bit of movement took place in the Top 50 this week as five songs exited while five songs entered (or re-entered).

“Wrong Side Of Heaven” climbs four spots to #8, giving Five Finger Death Punch their fourth top 10 song in less than 18 months.  “Same Damn Life” by Seether makes a nice move, up from #29 to #20.  Among the new entries onto the chart this week is “Heart of Fire” by Black Veil Brides (up five spots to #48), and “One Too Many,” the latest single from Minnesota natives, New Medicine, claims the final spot in the Top 50 (up from #59 last week).

 

 RAPID RISERS & FREEFALLERS

No song on this week’s chart showed more explosive growth than “I Am Machine” by Three Days Grace (growing from 0 spins to 339) and debuting at #32 on the chart.  A huge week as Godsmack’s “Something Different” (which more than doubled its airplay) climbs from #38 to #26.

Spin gains of over 90% pushed the second single from Nothing More (“Mr. MTV”) up from #50 to #35, and vaulted Live’s “The Way Around Is Through” from #51 to #39.

Plummeting this week (for the second week in a row) was “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore” by Rise Against, which slipped from #14 to #22 with 38% fewer spins.  Chevelle saw “Hunter Eats Hunter” suffer a similar fate as they fell from #15 to #22.  “Until It’s Gone” by Linkin Park dropped out of the top 10 (to #11) after losing 25% of its airplay.   Also notable this week is the Top 50 departure of “My Demons,” the smash debut single by Starset, which had been on the chart since of November 2013. 

 

INSTANT “THREEPLAY”

 “Man is only great when he acts from passion”

— Benjamin Disraeli

I believe the words of the 19^th Century British statesman might have taught me something about how I approach music and what I write about it.  It’s the passion that the music inspires in me that drives me to listen, to explore and to share with others.   One telltale sign of that passion happens when a song ends, and I immediately find myself ready to hear it again (maybe even a little louder on the next play).   Here are the three songs that are causing me to hit “repeat” and crank it up this week…

[1]  “World On Fire” – Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators – It’s great to have a number one song that reaches the top before becoming “worn” from overuse.   By the time the final verse rolls around, I’m almost starting to look forward to the next time I hear it. (see Hard Rock Daddy review).

[2]  “Something Different” – Godsmack – The second single from 1000hp starts slower than its predecessor, but the intensity builds as the track continues.  It’s a song that illustrates why many are viewing the first new release from the band in four years as an “Album of the Year” contender.

[3]   “Breaking Skin” – Nonpoint – As the lead single from the just-released album, The Return, the song sets the table for what might turn out to be the best work to date from these Florida veterans.   It’s   emotional without being soft and aggressive without being angry.  Just a song that feels very real to me. (see Hard Rock Daddy review).

 

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!

For all of the good stuff on the chart this week, there’s also some not-so-good, which is a problem that has to be addressed.  This week’s chart includes quite a few songs that simply aren’t worthy of being described as “rock,” much less “active rock.”  Weezer, Black Keys, Death From Above 1979, Fall Out Boy and the Kongos are obvious examples.   There are several others that are right on the edge of the same status, but for this week, I choose to happily note that we’ve avoided the addition of any more glaring mistakes.  That’s improvement … maybe.

 

 FUTURES REPORT

Of the top eight songs in this week’s chart, five showed increased airplay.  There’s still a significant gap between some of them, but with Slash, Nickelback, Korn, Slipknot, and Five Finger Death Punch all within visual range of the top of the chart (and all still growing), there’s certainly a reason to suspect some epic battles to claim the top spot in the coming weeks.  It’s possible that the first number one song of 2015 is already somewhere in the Top 50 just waiting to be crowned.

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS

As predicted, Five Finger Death Punch’s “Wrong Side Of Heaven” made its move into the top 10, and Nothing More’s second single “Mr. MTV” continues on the big run that was predicted weeks ago, jumping all the way to #35 this week.

It was great to see Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators climb to the top of the chart with “World On Fire.”  It’s somewhat surprising that the song was able to top the Active Rock charts, but can’t seem to get any traction on the Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown, even though the station featured “Slash Week” around the release.  Based on the spins, it looks like the song will have multi-week run at the top before being challenged by heavy-hitters, Slipknot, Five Finger Death Punch and Volbeat.

 

WRAP-UP

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