HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/16/15

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 5/16/15.  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	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Failure”	2177
2	2	ZAC BROWN BAND (f. Chris Cornell)	“Heavy Is The Head”	1932
3	5	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Angel”	1393
4	4	SLASH	“Bent To Fly”	1385
5	7	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Human Race”	1327
6	8	ROYAL BLOOD	“Little Monster”	1319
7	6	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Drown”	1214
8	3	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Follow Me Down”	1146
9	11	TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT	“Take It Back”	953
10	12	AWOLNATION	“Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)”	917
11	9	OFFSPRING	“Coming For You”	911
12	13	WE ARE HARLOT	“Dancing On Nails”	827
13	14	NOTHING MORE	“Jenny”	825
14	10	FOO FIGHTERS	“Congregation”	810
15	15	HELLYEAH	“Hush”	747
16	20	HALESTORM	“Amen”	730
17	17	DEVOUR THE DAY	“Faith”	598
18	25	SEETHER	“Nobody Praying For Me”	589
19	19	THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH	“Unraveled Road”	566
20	23	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Lydia”	546
21	22	10 YEARS	“Miscellanea”	529
22	21	MUSE	“Dead Inside”	493
23	16	HALESTORM	“Apocalyptic”	490
24	24	APOCALYPTICA	“Cold Blood”	451
25	18	OTHERWISE	“Coming For The Throne”	442
26	26	IN THIS MOMENT	“Sex Metal Barbie”	436
27	27	OF MICE & MEN	“Never Giving Up”	326
28	28	FALLING IN REVERSE	“God If You Are Above”	313
29	30	ARANDA	“Don’t Wake Me”	300
30	29	AMARANTHE	“Drop Dead Cynical”	291
31	32	KILL IT KID	“Blood Stop And Run”	262
32	54	GODSMACK	“What’s Next”	244
33	37	MUSE	“Psycho”	237
34	31	SONS OF TEXAS	“Baptized In The Rio Grande”	221
35	39	CROBOT	“Legend Of The Spaceborne”	216
36	36	STARS IN STEREO	“Fair-Weather Friend”	191
37	35	FLYLEAF	“Thread”	188
38	33	INCUBUS	“Absolution Calling”	178
39	41	YOUNG GUNS	“Rising Up”	170
40	40	PERIPHERY	“Alpha”	169
41	45	STARSET	“Halo”	168
42	49	AC/DC	“Rock The Blues Away”	164
43	52	SLIPKNOT	“Killpop”	160
44	42	MUMFORD & SONS	“The Wolf”	155
45	38	TREMONTI	“Another Heart”	153
46	43	RED	“Darkest Part”	150
47	46	BEARTOOTH	“In Between”	149
48	48	DANKO JONES	“Do You Wanna Rock”	139
49	44	ADELITA’S WAY	“I Get Around”	112
50	51	ACIDIC	“Chicago”	108

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman

FALLING IN REVERSE – “God If You Are Above”

Often times, the pick of the week is a song that is not getting the attention that it deserves from Active Rock radio.  Although this song probably won’t reach the level on the chart that it is worthy of, it has gotten solid spins.  Let’s just say that the reason it was chosen this week has to do with a sign from above.  There is a fascinating backstory to the writing of this song, and the rest of the Falling In Reverse album for that matter, but that will be shared in another feature in the coming weeks on Hard Rock Daddy.  “God If You Are Above” is a high-energy track that captures frontman, Ronnie Radke’s torment as he passionately delivers thought-provoking lyrics.  Every once in a while, a track seems to plateau on the chart, but then continues to climb slowly.  Hopefully, this will be the case for a kick-ass tune that stands out as unique on Active Rock radio.

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

A week of steady growth for “Failure” keeps Breaking Benjamin atop the Mediabase Active Rock Airplay chart for a second straight week.  A virtually flat week with no erosion allows Zac Brown Band (f. Chris Cornell) to remain in the #2 spot with “Heavy Is The Head.”  Theory Of A Deadman is a “very distant” #3 with “Angel,” which  isn’t an exaggeration.  Third place is so far behind the leader at the moment, that even a sudden 50% increase in spins would still not overtake the reigning champion.

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Both Temperance Movement and Awolnation crack the Top 10 this week…

New arrivals in the Top 20 include mainstays Seether with “Nobody Praying For Me,” and newcomers Highly Suspect, the latter scoring an impressive debut with “Lydia” …

With all that movement you might think that there’d be a noticeable change in how radio sounded over the past week, but you’d be mistaken.  When you look at the Top 30 songs you’ll notice that every song is the exact same as last week; they’ve just been rearranged…

That’s something that will almost certainly change next week as Godsmack strongly leads a trio of songs debuting in (or returning to) to the Top 50 with their latest single, “What’s Next.”

 

 

 THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP

Breaking Benjamin – “Failure”

Halestorm – “Amen”

Seether – “Nobody Praying For Me”

 

DROPPING DOWN

Pretty Reckless – “Follow Me Down”

Offspring – “Coming For You”

Foo Fighters – “Congregation”

 

 

FUTURES REPORT

Given the continued growth for the current #1 song, and the rather enormous gap back to the next contenders for the top spot, it seems highly likely that the run will continue for at least another week – and possibly several weeks — for Breaking Benjamin.  There are several viable contenders to succeed them, but it appears they will all have to patiently wait their turn.

 

WRAP-UP

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