HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/11/15

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 1/11/15.  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	1	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wrong Side Of Heaven”	2057
2	2	FOO FIGHTERS	“Something From Nothing”	1977
3	3	ROYAL BLOOD	“Figure It Out”	1904
4	5	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	1727
5	4	SEETHER	“Same Damn Life”	1695
6	6	GODSMACK	“Something Different”	1444
7	7	POP EVIL	“Beautiful”	1126
8	8	PAPA ROACH	“Face Everything And Rise”	1118
9	9	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Moving On”	1034
10	10	HELLYEAH	“Moth”	983
11	11	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sick Like Me”	917
12	15	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Follow Me Down”	871
13	12	NOTHING MORE	“Mr. MTV”	811
14	14	NICKELBACK	“Million Miles An Hour”	799
15	13	SLIPKNOT	“The Devil In I”	691
16	16	SIXX A.M.	“Stars”	665
17	17	YOUNG GUNS	“I Want Out”	654
18	18	AC/DC	“Rock Or Bust”	647
19	19	CHEVELLE	“An Island”	615
20	21	STARSET	“Carnivore”	563
21	20	LINKIN PARK	“Rebellion”	518
22	22	MARILYN MANSON	“Deep Six”	489
23	23	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Reincarnate”	425
24	24	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Savages”	363
25	27	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Drown”	357
26	26	SLASH	“Bent To Fly”	349
27	29	OF MICE & MEN	“Feels Like Forever”	328
28	28	RISE AGAINST	“Tragedy + Time”	298
29	34	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“Dangerous”	278
30	30	LIKE A STORM	“Wish You Hell”	271
31	36	ARCTIC MONKEYS	“R U Mine?”	252
32	32	FALL OUT BOY	“Centuries”	249
33	33	AC/DC	“Play Ball”	247
34	38	3 YEARS HOLLOW	“For Life”	244
35	39	LINKIN PARK	“Final Masquerade”	241
36	37	WE AS HUMAN	“Bring To Life”	239
37	31	BLACK KEYS	“Gotta Get Away”	239
38	41	NICKELBACK	“Edge Of A Revolution”	221
39	57	ALL THAT REMAINS	“This Probably Won’t End Well”	196
40	40	BUSH	“The Only Way Out”	195
41	46	BEARTOOTH	“Beaten In Lips”	189
42	43	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Zombies In The Sun”	179
43	45	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Born This Way”	163
44	49	ISLANDER	“New Wave”	153
45	47	SAVING ABEL	“Blood Stained Revolution”	140
46	44	LIVE	“Way Around Is Through”	129
47	51	LENNY KRAVITZ	“Dirty White Boots”	125
48	50	AMARANTHE	“Drop Dead Cynical”	122
49	48	HINDER	“Hit The Ground”	121
50	53	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	Cigarette Daydreams	92

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman

NICKELBACK – “A Million Miles An Hour”

This spot is usually reserved for songs that have not yet cracked the Top 50 on the Active Rock radio chart.  However, the exception is being made in this case because of a number of comments that were made on Hard Rock Daddy’s Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of 2014 about Nickelback’s inclusion.

HRD Radio Report readers are well aware of the fact that we regularly call out programmers for including songs that are not Active Rock in our “I CALL B#LL$HIT!” section, and we also regularly feature songs that are not getting the attention that they deserve.  That being said, Nickelback has absolutely earned their place on Active Rock radio.  And though they have a huge fanbase, they also have numerous detractors (for reasons that are not entirely clear).

While, the reaction to the Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of 2014 has been overwhelmingly positive, there are “squeaky wheels” out there whose focus is solely on Nickelback, and not the other 99 songs that were featured.

If you are amongst those who revel in being a Nickelback hater, please feel free to share the reasons for your disdain with HRD Radio Report.

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

Five Finger Death Punch remains atop the Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart for a second two-week stint with “Wrong Side Of Heaven” on slight increase in airplay over a Foo Fighters’ “Something From Nothing,” which slightly decreased this week.  The stage appears to be set for Royal Blood to be the next chart topper if they can sustain even modest gains when the current leader suffers from eventual attrition.

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

As noted last week in this space All That Remains debuts “This Probably Won’t End Well” this week on the strength of early airplay…

Disappointing second week stall for the new Hinder single …

Looking ahead, it will be interesting to see if anyone joins the early adopters for “First Kiss,” the latest from Kid Rock or if it’s stuck just outside the Top 50 indefinitely …

The airplay stagnation – which can no longer be attributed solely to the holidays — continues with the top eight songs remaining exactly the same for the fifth consecutive week, the top three songs are unchanged for an EIGHTH straight week.  I guess this should fall under the heading of “notable lack of chart movement.”

 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP
Royal Blood – “Figure It Out”
Pretty Reckless – “Follow Me Down”
Marilyn Manson – “Deep Six”

 

DROPPING DOWN
Godsmack – “Something Different”
Linkin Park f. Daron Malakian – “Rebellion”
Live – “Way Around Is Through”

 

 

JL’s PICK OF THE WEEK

SONS OF TEXAS – “Baptized In The Rio Grande”

Whatever you call these newcomers from McAllen, TX – blues-metal, power metal – they’re a welcome breath of fresh air to start 2015.  Standout guitar work, vocals that punch you right in the face and make you like it and strong production that feels polished without stripping away the raw, real sound, there’s a lot to like in this debut single.

 

 

I CALL B#LL$HIT!

Seems like every bit of good news is paired with some sort of bad news.  The departure of the Smashing Pumpkins from the Active Rock chart might be worth celebrating if not for the fact that the chart simply replaced them with a decidedly light alternative track from Cage The Elephant.  They join Fall Out Boy, Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys to tie up over 800 spins that could have been better used for a legitimate active rock song … or on a dial tone, static, white noise or just plain silence.

 

 

FUTURES REPORT

In the next HRD Radio Report we’ll see if programmers remain asleep at the switch and continue to run their stations on auto-pilot or if they suddenly decide to earn their paychecks.

 

 

WRAP-UP

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