HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 10/19/14

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 10/19/14.  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	1	NICKELBACK	“Edge Of A Revolution”	1637
2	2	SLASH	“World On Fire”	1390
3	6	SLIPKNOT	“The Devil In I”	1317
4	5	KORN	“Hater”	1294
5	7	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wrong Side Of Heaven”	1241
6	9	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	1240
7	3	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Messed Up World”	1180
8	4	YOU ME AT SIX	“Room To Breathe”	1072
9	21	AC/DC	“Play Ball”	1001
10	8	WEEZER	“Back To The Shack	974
11	10	VOLBEAT	“Doc Holliday”	956
12	12	SEETHER	“Same Damn Life”	912
13	11	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	816
14	13	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	815
15	20	GODSMACK	“Something Different”	737
16	17	HELLYEAH	“Moth”	694
17	15	BUSH	“The Only Way Out”	690
18	16	OTHERWISE	“Darker Side Of The Moon”	667
19	19	POP EVIL	“Beautiful”	657
20	25	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	552
21	22	DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979	“Trainwreck 1979”	551
22	0	FOO FIGHTERS	“Something From Nothing”	534
23	27	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sick Like Me”	532
24	24	ISLANDER	“Coconut Dracula”	513
25	26	NONPOINT	“Breaking Skin”	512
26	23	GODSMACK	“1000hp”	447
27	28	KONGOS	“I’m Only Joking”	434
28	29	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	406
29	32	NOTHING MORE	“Mr. MTV”	405
30	14	SIXX A.M.	“Gotta Get It Right”	352
31	30	RISE AGAINST	“I Don’t Wanna Be Here”	330
32	33	YOUNG GUNS	“I Want Out”	326
33	36	LIVE	“Way Around Is Through”	321
34	37	MASTODON	“The Motherload”	299
35	35	FALL OUT BOY	“Centuries”	297
36	38	FLYLEAF	“Set Me On Fire”	292
37	39	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Reincarnate”	259
38	40	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“Dangerous”	256
39	43	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Savages”	222
40	31	DEVOUR THE DAY	“Respect”	207
41	42	ADELITA’S WAY	“Save The World”	197
42	61	LINKIN PARK	“Until It’s Gone”	184
43	47	NEW MEDICINE	“One Too Many”	174
44	44	TRIVIUM	“Villainy Thrives”	164
45	46	3 YEARS HOLLOW	“For Life”	162
46	48	BLACK VEIL BRIDES	“Heart Of Fire”	155
47	45	BLACK STONE CHERRY	“Remember Me”	150
48	56	SIXX A.M.	“Stars”	139
49	52	REV THEORY	“Born 2 Destroy”	129
50	50	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Zombies In The Sun”	114

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK  – By Adam Waldman

 

TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION – “Monster In Me”

 “Monster In Me” is a cool, gritty, seductive rocker that is ideally suited for a “gentlemen’s club” but also for Active Rock radio.  Octane has given it some love, but quite frankly, not nearly enough.  It boggles the mind that this song isn’t in the Top 50.  Is it too cool for Active Rock radio?  Too southern rock sounding?  Is it because Big Dad Ritch doesn’t look like a typical hard rock frontman?  The singer categorizes their sound as “Red Dirt Metal,” and describes it as follows…“It’s like Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top had a child, and Pantera ended up raising it.” Intrigued?  Check out the full review of the song, and the lyric video below.  The time has come to push unique sounding songs like this into rotations to spice up Active Rock radio.

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

Big names at the top, legends still going strong and yet another red hot debut featured on this week’s HRD Radio Report.

 

CHART TOPPERS

Nickelback’s “Edge Of A Revolution” hangs on to the #1 spot on this week’s Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart, but is already showing slight signs of weakening after losing a fraction of its spins this week.  Former #1 song “World On Fire” by Slash has enough fuel to remain #2 while Slipknot finally moves up to #3 with “The Devil In I.”  Korn’s “Hater” continues a slow and steady growth to reach #4, while Five Finger Death Punch returns to the top five with “Wrong Side Of Heaven.”

 

CHART HIGHLIGHTS

The rumored demise of AC/DC was clearly exaggerated.  The rock legends are being welcomed with open arms by Active Rock Radio with their latest single, “Play Ball,” which zoomed up the chart 12 spots to the #9 slot.  The song’s meteoric rise pushed the latest single from Volbeat (“Doc Holliday”) down one spot, froze Seether’s “Same Damn Life” at #12, and knocked “I Am Machine” by Three Days Grace back to #14.  Asking Alexandria climbs five spot to crack the Top 20 with “Moving On.” 

  

CHART DEBUTS 

• Foo Fighters debut at #22 with “Something From Nothing”
• Linkin Park debuts at #42 with “Rebellion”
• Sixx: A.M. debuts at #48 with “Stars”
• Rev Theory debuts at #49 with “Born 2 Destroy”

 

 RAPID RISERS & FREEFALLERS

“Something From Nothing” is not only the title of the new track from Foo Fighters but it’s also a good way to describe their chart debut at #22 (534 spins out of the box).  AC/DC’s “Play Ball” has another strong showing (gaining 407 spins) and Royal Blood’s “Figure It Out” jumped from #9 to #6 on nearly a 20% increase in spins.

Songs on the way down (and eventually out) include:  “Room To Breathe” by You Me At Six, which falls four spots to #8 after losing 11% of its’ spins from a week ago.  A big drop-off for the Sixx A.M. single “Gotta Get It Right”, dropping sharply from #14 to #30 with 47% less airplay.  A similar decline (-43%) for Devour The Day’s “Respect” sees them drop to #40 from #31 last week, and Black Stone Cherry’s “Remember Me” drops to #47 on decreased spins.

 

INSTANT REPLAY

Instant Replay features the active rock track of the week that I’m ready to hear again as soon as it ends…

 “The Devil In I” – Slipknot

This long-time staple of rock radio has been hit or miss with me through the years, missing at least often as not, but this one’s a hit!  Easily the best track on their new album to my ears thus far.  My tendency to turn this one up whenever it comes on the radio reinforces the reason that I listen to just about any song before passing judgment on it, no matter what history says about how they’ll suit my taste.

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!

Still at least 10% of the songs in the Top 50 reside in the manure pile of tracks that, whatever else they might be, simply aren’t Active Rock.  The good news, however, is that, while the amount of manure on this week’s chart remains fairly steady, it is actually shrinking a little in terms of overall airplay.  Weezer’s airplay was down over 10%, while Black Keys, Death From Above 1979, Kongos and Fall Out Boy showed only minimal gains to remain essentially flat.  Maybe these will finally be shoveled out, but unfortunately, it appears a fresh load may get dropped on unsuspecting listeners fairly soon.

 

  FUTURES REPORT

Will radio continue to back away from Nickelback just as quickly as it took to their new single?   Could Slipknot be just a week away from another #1 Active Rock track?  Will AC/DC take it to the top or will fatigue set in?  Will active rock radio ever catch on to the new Black Veil Brides single?  Will Chevelle’s latest single “An Island” give us a fourth straight week with a huge debut?.  These questions and more will be answered next week…

 

WRAP-UP

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