HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/4/15

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 1/4/15.  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	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wrong Side Of Heaven”	2026
2	1	FOO FIGHTERS	“Something From Nothing”	1997
3	3	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	1821
4	4	SEETHER	“Same Damn Life”	1722
5	5	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	1706
6	6	GODSMACK	“Something Different”	1485
7	7	POP EVIL	“Beautiful”	1150
8	8	PAPA ROACH	“Face Everything And Rise”	1062
9	10	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	977
10	9	HELLYEAH	“Moth”	974
11	11	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sick Like Me”	931
12	12	NOTHING MORE	“Mr. MTV”	810
13	15	SLIPKNOT	“The Devil In I”	762
14	14	NICKELBACK	“Million Miles An Hour”	757
15	13	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Follow Me Down”	754
16	17	SIXX A.M.	“Stars”	659
17	19	YOUNG GUNS	“I Want Out”	631
18	18	AC/DC	“Rock Or Bust”	620
19	16	CHEVELLE	“An Island”	616
20	20	LINKIN PARK	“Rebellion”	552
21	21	STARSET	“Carnivore”	529
22	23	MARILYN MANSON	“Deep Six”	392
23	22	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Reincarnate”	289
24	24	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Savages”	386
25	26	NONPOINT	“Breaking Skin”	364
26	25	SLASH	“Bent To Fly”	346
27	30	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Drown”	308
28	29	RISE AGAINST	“Tragedy + Time”	304
29	28	OF MICE & MEN	“Feels Like Forever”	292
30	31	LIKE A STORM	“Wish You Hell”	278
31	37	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	276
32	33	FALL OUT BOY	“Centuries”	267
33	34	AC/DC	“Play Ball”	265
34	27	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“Dangerous”	253
35	32	SMASHING PUMPKINS	“One And All”	252
36	38	ARCTIC MONKEYS	“R U Mine?”	244
37	40	WE AS HUMAN	“Bring To Life”	233
38	35	3 YEARS HOLLOW	“For Life”	226
39	39	LINKIN PARK	“Final Masquerade”	223
40	36	BUSH	“The Only Way Out”	217
41	41	NICKELBACK	“Edge Of A Revolution”	210
42	44	VOLBEAT	“Doc Holliday”	206
43	42	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Zombies In The Sun”	200
44	43	LIVE	“Way Around Is Through”	195
45	46	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	170
46	45	BEARTOOTH	“Beaten In Lips”	170
47	48	SAVING ABEL	“Blood Stained Revolution”	159
48	51	HINDER	“Hit The Ground”	142
49	49	ISLANDER	“New Wave”	133
50	50	AMARANTHE	“Drop Dead Cynical”	126

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman

REVOLVE – “Stranded”

2015 has arrived, but radio is still 2014 mode (as you can see from the lack of chart movement).  New releases will be dropping in the coming weeks, which is something to look forward to for fans of Active Rock radio.  One release that you should definitely keep on your radar is the upcoming debut EP from Baltimore’s own, Revolve.  “Stranded” is tailor-made for Active Rock radio, and if programmers are keeping their eye on the ball, this song should be hitting the airwaves sooner rather than later.  Produced by Clint Lowery, this track will definitely appeal to Sevendust fans, and also to fans of bands like Shinedown and Breaking Benjamin.  To learn more about the band and the song, check out the interview with guitarist, Debbie Barlow, that was featured on Music Discovery Monday.  “Stranded” was also featured on Hard Rock Daddy’s TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2014.

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

Meet the new #1, same as the old #1.  “Wrong Side Of Heaven” from Five Finger Death Punch climbs back atop the Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart to begin the new year, with extremely modest growth pushing them past the even more stable spins of Foo Fighters’ “Something From Nothing.”  This is the tenth straight week with the same songs taking the top two spots.

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The repeat #1 scenario for Five Finger Death Punch is nothing new; the same thing happened to start 2014 when “Battle Born” returned to the top for a week after “Deal With The Devil” by Pop Evil interrupted their first stay for three weeks in December …  One song debuts on the chart this week, as Hinder arrives with “Hit The Ground” … Sitting just outside the Top 50, it it looks like radio may give a warm welcome to the forthcoming single from All That Remains, getting early airplay despite virtually no other playlist additions for anything else.

 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP
Five Finger Death Punch – “Wrong Side Of Heaven”

Godsmack – “Something Different”

Bring Me The Horizon – “Drown”

DROPPING DOWN
Three Days Grace – “I Am Machine”

Chevelle – “An Island”

Linkin Park f. Daron Malakian – “Rebellion”

 

 

JL’s PICK OF THE WEEK

HINDER – “Hit The Ground” 

Lead singer departs, band finds replacement, band produces a strong effort in their first release after the changes.   If that’s a trend, then it’s a good one.   Nolan Neal proves himself equal to the task on the band’s first single from their forthcoming album When The Smoke Clears, delivering the goods without any real sense that anything is missing. 

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!

2015 begins with the same quartet of songs wasting space on the Active Rock chart that littered the chart to close 2014.   Fall Out Boy, Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins and Arctic Monkeys tied up just over 1,000 spins in the past week.   That’s enough spins do give at least four, (if not more) other actual ACTIVE ROCK songs a chance to perform.. What a concept!

 

 

FUTURES REPORT

In the next HRD Radio Report, we’ll see if radio decision-makers are actually ready to go back to work after taking most of a month off.

 

WRAP-UP

That’s all for this week.  Tune in to HardRockDaddy.com every Tuesday for the HRD Radio Report. \m/