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 8/30/15. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
2015 Mid-Year Recap: HRD Radio Report Active Rock and Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | THIS WEEK | ||
| 1 | 1 | SHINEDOWN | “Cut The Cord” | 2156 |
| 2 | 2 | DISTURBED | “The Vengeful One” | 1923 |
| 3 | 3 | POP EVIL | “Footsteps” | 1870 |
| 4 | 4 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | “Jekyll And Hyde” | 1714 |
| 5 | 5 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | “Lydia” | 1637 |
| 6 | 6 | NOTHING MORE | “Jenny” | 1218 |
| 7 | 7 | BREAKING BENJAMIN | “Angels Fall” | 1201 |
| 8 | 9 | RED SUN RISING | “The Otherside” | 1150 |
| 9 | 8 | SAINT ASONIA | “Better Place” | 1111 |
| 10 | 10 | PAPA ROACH | “Gravity” | 1044 |
| 11 | 11 | FOO FIGHTERS | “Outside” | 846 |
| 12 | 12 | THE STRUTS | “Could Have Been Me” | 786 |
| 13 | 13 | SLIPKNOT | “Killpop” | 706 |
| 14 | 18 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | “Throne” | 686 |
| 15 | 14 | ALL THAT REMAINS | “For You” | 668 |
| 16 | 15 | P.O.D. | “This Goes Out To You” | 610 |
| 17 | 17 | ARANDA | “Don’t Wake Me” | 603 |
| 18 | 20 | STARSET | “Halo” | 594 |
| 19 | 19 | OF MICE & MEN | “Never Giving Up” | 556 |
| 20 | 31 | CHRIS CORNELL | “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” | 538 |
| 21 | 16 | HALESTORM | “Amen” | 484 |
| 22 | 21 | BEARTOOTH | “In Between” | 477 |
| 23 | 22 | SEETHER | “Nobody Praying For Me” | 395 |
| 24 | 28 | SEVENDUST | “Thank You” | 367 |
| 25 | 25 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | “I Won’t Give In” | 353 |
| 26 | 24 | WE ARE HARLOT | “Someday” | 346 |
| 27 | 27 | MUSE | “Mercy” | 341 |
| 28 | 26 | GHOST | “Cirice” | 329 |
| 29 | 29 | TRAPT | “Passenger” | 295 |
| 30 | 30 | MUMFORD & SONS | “The Wolf” | 246 |
| 31 | 33 | ARCS | “Outta My Mind” | 239 |
| 32 | 23 | I PREVAIL | “Blank Space” | 228 |
| 33 | 34 | BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE | “You Want A Battle? (Here’s A War)” | 191 |
| 34 | 36 | LAMB OF GOD | “Overlord” | 178 |
| 35 | 37 | BUCKCHERRY | “Bring It On Back” | 175 |
| 36 | 32 | SHAMAN’S HARVEST | “Dirty Diana” | 170 |
| 37 | 45 | LIKE A STORM | “Become The Enemy” | 165 |
| 38 | 40 | SEASONS AFTER | “Weathered And Worn” | 151 |
| 39 | 39 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | “Unstoppable” | 150 |
| 40 | 46 | IN THIS MOMENT | “Big Bad Wolf” | 147 |
| 41 | 42 | WILSON | “Right To Rise” | 147 |
| 42 | 49 | ISLANDER | “Cold Speak” | 141 |
| 43 | 41 | WITHIN REASON | “Here Comes The Light” | 140 |
| 44 | 36 | ZAC BROWN BAND | “Junkyard” | 132 |
| 45 | 43 | WE CAME AS ROMANS | “The World I Used To Know” | 112 |
| 46 | 44 | BUTCHER BABIES | “Never Go Back” | 101 |
| 47 | 51 | AWOLNATION | “I Am” | 96 |
| 48 | 47 | MIGGS | “Ordinary” | 96 |
| 49 | 48 | NEW YEAR’S DAY | “Defame Me” | 92 |
| 50 | 52 | AWAKEN THE EMPIRE | “Cross My Heart” | 92 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK by Adam Waldman
BOBAFLEX – “Mama Don’t Take My Drugs Away”
Bobaflex has had previous success on Active Rock radio, and continues to write songs that make you reach for the dial and crank up the volume. “Mama Don’t Take My Drugs Away” features everything that you want in an Active Rock song, but inexplicably, it still hasn’t cracked the Top 50 to date. Thankfully, SiriusXM’s Octane has jumped on the track already to give it some exposure. Although I personally have only heard it a handful of times on Octane, I know that it’s getting played because fans of the band are sharing photos of their radios every time that they hear the song (another clever way that this hard-working, DIY band connects with their fans). While existing fans have embraced the latest Bobaflex single, Active Rock radio listeners are not getting the opportunity that they deserve to discover the band. Yes, this is going to sound like a broken record in this forum, but it’s mind-boggling that programmers continue to waste spins on a number of bands that are a terrible fit for the format, while bands that are a perfect fit fight for they attention that they deserve. Any programmer that hears “Mama Don’t Take My Drugs Away” and chooses to spin songs that clearly don’t fit the Active Rock format instead, probably should have their drugs taken away!
HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)
Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist.
SPIN IT…
BOBAFLEX – “Mama Don’t Take My Drugs Away”
GEMINI SYNDROME – “Eternity”
TRIVIUM – “Silence In The Snow”
RUBIKON – “Live That Lie”
TREMONTI – “Radical Change”
HEARTIST – “Ignite”
PARKWAY DRIVE – “Vice Grip”
DROP IT…
Awolnation – “I Am”
Mumford & Sons – “The Wolf”
The Struts – “Could Have Been Me”
Muse – “Mercy”
The Arcs – “Outta My Mind”
Zac Brown Band – “Junkyard”
THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless
KING OF THE HILL
Another week at #1 for Shinedown’s “Cut The Cord” as the Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart remains largely unchanged. Disturbed is still second with Pop Evil and Five Finger Death Punch once again just behind.
NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT
Only one position change in the Top 13 songs this week, a flipping of #8 and #9…
Chris Cornell has the only song to debut in the Top 20; it’s also the only song to break into the Top 30 for the first time as it moves from 31 to 20…
Like A Storm has a second straight benchmark week, leading two new arrivals into the Top 40…
Only two debuts in the Top 50, and one of those is actually a re-entry.
THREE UP & THREE DOWN
MOVING UP
Red Sun Rising – “The Otherside”
Foo Fighters – “Outside”
Chris Cornell – “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart”
DROPPING DOWN
Disturbed – “The Vengeful One”
Nothing More – “Jenny”
Halestorm – “Amen”
FUTURES REPORT
A good bit of the stagnation on the chart appears to be a function of how quickly several of the top songs flew up the chart. The average time for the current Top 5 to have been in heavy rotation is around ten weeks now, and most of those songs reached the top within a couple of weeks of their chart debut. It does look like there will be at least some shuffling of the order at the top by this time next week, but since there was less than usual to discuss this week, I’ll take advantage of the opportunity and leave you with a classic song that seems more than a little appropriate…
WRAP-UP
That’s all for this week. Tune in to HardRockDaddy.com every Tuesday for the HRD Radio Report. \m/
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