HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/30/14

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.  It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general.  

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 11/30/14.  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	FOO FIGHTERS	“Something From Nothing”	2071
2	2	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wrong Side Of Heaven”	1958
3	3	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	1764
4	5	SEETHER	“Same Damn Life”	1577
5	4	SLIPKNOT	“The Devil In I”	1531
6	6	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	1496
7	7	GODSMACK	“Something Different”	1329
8	8	AC/DC	“Play Ball”	1022
9	10	POP EVIL	“Beautiful”	1019
10	11	HELLYEAH	“Moth”	900
11	16	PAPA ROACH	“Face Everything And Rise”	835
12	12	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sick Like Me”	810
13	15	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	795
14	14	BUSH	“The Only Way Out”	770
15	9	VOLBEAT	“Doc Holliday”	766
16	17	NOTHING MORE	“Mr. MTV”	730
17	13	LINKIN PARK	“Rebellion”	728
18	18	NONPOINT	“Breaking Skin”	708
19	23	CHEVELLE	“An Island”	563
20	22	SIXX A.M.	“Stars”	563
21	19	YOUNG GUNS	“I Want Out”	547
22	24	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	493
23	20	NICKELBACK	“Edge Of A Revolution”	447
24	25	MASTODON	“The Motherload”	411
25	28	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Savages”	378
26	45	NICKELBACK	“Million Miles An Hour”	373
27	26	STARSET	“Carnivore”	371
28	27	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Reincarnate”	341
29	34	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Follow Me Down”	336
30	21	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	335
31	30	LENNY KRAVITZ	“Dirty White Boots”	322
32	29	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“Dangerous”	308
33	33	LIVE	“Way Around Is Through”	271
34	32	SMASHING PUMPKINS	“One And All”	263
35	36	OF MICE & MEN	“Feels Like Forever”	245
36	31	WEEZER	“Back To The Shack	238
37	37	3 YEARS HOLLOW	“For Life”	220
38	38	WE AS HUMAN	“Bring To Life”	212
39	62	LINKIN PARK	“Final Masquerade”	200
40	35	RISE AGAINST	“Tragedy + Time”	195
41	39	ADELITA’S WAY	“Save The World”	194
42	40	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Drown”	193
43	41	ARCTIC MONKEYS	“R U Mine?”	189
44	46	LIKE A STORM	“Wish You Hell”	187
45	43	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Zombies In The Sun”	182
46	47	SLASH	“Bent To Fly”	179
47	42	REV THEORY	“Born 2 Destroy”	154
48	53	AC/DC	“Rock Or Bust”	145
49	48	BUCKCHERRY	“Say Fuck It”	112
50	52	TWELVE FOOT NINJA	“Coming For You”	99

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman 

HINDER – “Hit The Ground”

A year after the surprising departure of frontman, Austin Winkler, Hinder is back with Nolan Neal at the helm.  While the two have different vocal styles, the one thing that they have in common in an incredible flair for delivering melodic tracks with big hooks and catchy choruses.  Many Hinder fans were worried that Winkler’s departure would mark the end of the road for these Oklahoma rockers, but the band’s first single with Neal proves that they are more than ready to “hit the ground” running when their album drops in 2015.

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

 

KING OF THE HILL

Foo Fighters have spent six weeks atop the Active Rock chart with “Something From Nothing,” but it looks like this could be their final week at #1.

Five Finger Death Punch looks poised to claim the top spot with “Wrong Side Of Heaven,” but it’s possible that programmers may opt to push Royal Blood’s “Figure It Out” to the top instead.

Also, keep an eye on Seether as the potential “king of the hill” with their latest single, “Same Damn Life.”

 

 

NOTABLE CHART ACTION

Hellyeah has their biggest radio hit in four years with “Moth” cracking the Top 10…

Nickelback picks up speed quickly with “Million Miles An Hour” getting ready to zoom past “Edge Of A Revolution” (the first single off of their latest album, No Fixed Address)…

Linkin Park has the highest of three debuting songs this week with “Final Masquerade.”  It sure would be interesting to know whether their label/management decided to effectively kill the band’s previous single (“Rebellion”) after just six weeks on the chart, or if radio insisted on calling an audible …

The title track from the new AC/DC album, “Rock Or Bust,” enters the Top 50 this week, but without anywhere near the fanfare enjoyed by the album’s first single, “Play Ball.”

 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP

Papa Roach – “Face Everything And Rise”
Pretty Reckless – “Follow Me Down”
Linkin Park – “Final Masquerade”

 

DROPPING DOWN

Slipknot – “The Devil In I”
AC/DC – “Play Ball”
Volbeat – “Doc Holliday”

 

 

JL’s PICK OF THE WEEK

GUS G. (Featuring ALEXIA RODRIGUEZ) – “Break Away”

The latest in a succession of strong songs from this Greek guitar hero might just be his best of the year.  While he’s better known to many simply as “Ozzy’s guitar player,” this is a song that hits the Active Rock niche nicely (thanks in no small part to a stellar performance by guest vocalist, Alexia Rodriguez, of Eyes Set To Kill).  I wouldn’t have necessarily predicted the combination as one that would work, but this exceeded all expectations I had for the track.

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!

Five decidedly not-active-rock tracks from a week ago are reduced to four as Death From Above 1979 mercifully departs from the chart.  That still leaves Black Keys, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins and Arctic Monkeys wasting roughly 1,000 spins – the equivalent of a top ten song – that could be much better spent elsewhere on something that fits the format.

 

 

 FUTURES REPORT

In the next HRD Radio Report, we’ll look to see how radio resolved the question at the top of the chart, find out if any existing songs on the chart suddenly get a substantial increase in airplay (something we really haven’t seen happen a lot lately), and see if any songs takes advantage of the slowdown in releases that often comes as the holidays approach.

 

 

WRAP-UP

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