HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 3/28/15

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 3/28/15.  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	FOO FIGHTERS	“Congregation”	1929
2	2	HALESTORM	“Apocalyptic”	1749
3	3	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Follow Me Down”	1710
4	4	OFFSPRING	“Coming For You”	1595
5	6	SIXX A.M.	“Stars”	1130
6	10	SLASH	“Bent To Fly”	1120
7	13	ZAC BROWN BAND (f. Chris Cornell)	“Heavy Is The Head”	1091
8	5	PAPA ROACH	“Face Everything And Rise”	1059
9	11	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Drown”	966
10	8	THREE DAYS GRACE	“I Am Machine”	939
11	12	ALL THAT REMAINS	“This Probably Won’t End Well”	901
12	14	INCUBUS	“Absolution Calling”	893
13	15	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Angel”	882
14	9	AC/DC	“Rock Or Bust”	774
15	0	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Failure”	762
16	7	MARILYN MANSON	“Deep Six”	753
17	16	STARSET	“Carnivore”	709
18	17	KID ROCK	“First Kiss”	642
19	18	TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT	“Take It Back”	608
20	20	WE ARE HARLOT	“Dancing On Nails”	601
21	22	ROYAL BLOOD	“Little Monster”	597
22	21	LIKE A STORM	“Wish You Hell”	501
23	23	AWOLNATION	“Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)”	470
24	24	ISLANDER	“New Wave”	442
25	25	OTHERWISE	“Coming For The Throne”	401
26	19	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Cigarette Daydreams”	400
27	26	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Unraveled Road”	378
28	27	DEVOUR THE DAY	“Faith”	312
29	29	10 YEARS	“Miscellanea”	284
30	28	SLIPKNOT	“Custer”	247
31	0	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Human Race”	245
32	38	HELLYEAH	“Hush”	237
33	32	SONS OF TEXAS	“Baptized In The Rio Grande”	230
34	34	AMARANTHE	“Drop Dead Cynical”	220
35	33	BLACK VEIL BRIDES	“Goodbye Agony”	220
36	31	ARCTIC MONKEYS	“R U Mine?”	197
37	42	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sex Metal Barbie”	181
38	0	MUSE	“Dead Inside”	180
39	40	STARS IN STEREO	“Fair-Weather Friend”	172
40	44	FALLING IN REVERSE	“God If You Are Above”	171
41	36	FLYLEAF	“Thread”	168
42	39	APOCALYPTICA	“Cold Blood”	153
43	41	FRAMING HANLEY	“Collide”	150
44	45	PERIPHERY	“Alpha”	136
45	47	ADELITA’S WAY	“I Get Around”	134
46	48	BRIDGE TO GRACE	“Bitch”	133
47	43	CHARM CITY DEVILS	“Karma”	130
48	51	HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD	“Day Of The Dead”	110
49	46	IN FLAMES	“Paralyzed”	103
50	53	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Lydia”	93

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman

Tremonti – “Another Heart”

With Alter Bridge’s three-year album cycle, fans will have to wait until 2016 for a new music from the band, but that doesn’t mean that the individual members are taking a break.  Quite the contrary!

Active Rock radio programmers have embraced the work that frontman, Myles Kennedy is doing with Slash, and they would be wise to do the same for Tremonti, the side project of guitarist, Mark Tremonti.  The band’s first single, “Another Heart,” off of their upcoming album, Cauterize, not only features the inspired guitar playing that we’ve come to expect from Tremonti, but also impressive lead vocals and a powerful band which includes Wolfgang Van Halen on bass.

“Another Heart” features a nice blend of speed and melody, and would offer a welcome infusion of a different kind of sound to Active Rock radio.  Given that Alter Bridge is largely under-appreciated by Active Rock radio, it’s hard to say what kind of traction “Another Heart” will generate, but hopefully some smart programmers will add the song into rotation.

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

No surprise to see Foo Fighters’ “Congregation” hold on to the top spot on this week’s Mediabase Active Rock Airplay chart.  Mildly surprising is the fact that Halestorm, Pretty Reckless and Offspring remained in the same order for the next three positions on the chart.   The song to watch as a future chart topper might just be the one at #7 from Zac Brown Band, “Heavy Is The Head.”

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

A stellar debut for the return of Breaking Benjamin.  The massive overhaul of the band’s lineup certainly seemed to have no effect on radio’s reception of them, as they debut as the only new entrant in the entire Top 30 …

A new single from Three Days Grace just missed cracking that layer of the chart and seems likely to be in the mid-20s or higher a week from now …

A total of five songs enter (or re-enter) the Top 50 overall this week, including the first single from Brooklyn-based (by way of Cape Cod) newcomers Highly Suspect …

 

 

 THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP

Zac Brown Band f. Chris Cornell – “Heavy Is The Head”

Breaking Benjamin – “Failure”

Three Days Grace – “Human Race”

 

 

DROPPING DOWN

Papa Roach – “Face Everything And Rise”

AC/DC – “Rock Or Bust”

Marilyn Manson – “Deep Six”

 

 

 FUTURES REPORT

The most likely outcome next week seems to be a fairly stable chart in the upper reaches … we’ll see if radio manages to surprise us with a plot twist.

 

 

WRAP-UP

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