HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/2/16

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 1/2/16.  All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

Before moving on to the current charts, take a look back at the year-end charts below:

TOP 135 HARD ROCK SONGS 2015

TOP 50 ACTIVE ROCK SONGS (by spins) OF 2015

TOP 30 OCTANE BIG ‘UNS COUNTDOWN SONGS OF 2015

 

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK			THIS WEEK
1	1	DISTURBED	“The Light”	2148
2	2	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Wash It Away”	2059
3	3	SHINEDOWN	“State Of My Head”	1598
4	4	HALESTORM	“I Am The Fire”	1403
5	6	SEETHER	“Save Today”	1324
6	5	GHOST	“Cirice”	1288
7	7	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Fallen Angel”	1206
8	8	POP EVIL	“Ways To Get High”	1023
9	9	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Throne”	966
10	10	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Angels Fall”	884
11	11	NOTHING MORE	“Here’s To The Heartache”	833
12	15	FOO FIGHTERS	“Saint Cecilia”	823
13	13	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Bloodfeather”	810
14	12	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Blow”	799
15	16	TRIVIUM	“Until The World Goes Cold”	720
16	14	LIKE A STORM	“Become The Enemy”	700
17	17	CHRIS CORNELL	“Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart”	622
18	18	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Mess Around”	611
19	19	MUSE	“Reapers”	534
20	21	PARKWAY DRIVE	“Vice Grip”	484
21	23	SAINT ASONIA	“Let Me Live My Life”	465
22	22	ARANDA	“We Are The Enemy”	459
23	24	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Through It All”	449
24	25	ALL THAT REMAINS	“Victory Lap”	422
25	20	NATHANIEL RATELIFF / NIGHTSWEATS	“S.O.B.”	387
26	28	IN THIS MOMENT	“Big Bad Wolf”	383
27	30	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“In Chains”	323
28	29	WILSON	“Right To Rise”	309
29	34	THE STRUTS	“Kiss This”	299
30	32	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Alive”	289
31	31	ATREYU	“Do You Know Who You Are”	276
32	35	TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA	“Forget About The Blame”	253
33	36	STITCHED UP HEART	“Finally Free”	231
34	33	TURBOWOLF	“Rabbits Foot”	222
35	38	FAILURE ANTHEM	“Paralyzed”	221
36	42	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Happy Song”	194
37	39	DROWNING POOL	“By The Blood”	184
38	37	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	“Stressed Out”	184
39	41	TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN	“Loaded Dice & Buried Money”	171
40	40	NOTHING BUT THIEVES	“Trip Switch”	168
41	46	ANDREW WATT	“Ghost In My Head”	165
42	44	GODSMACK	“Inside Yourself”	152
43	43	LACEY STURM	“Impossible”	152
44	47	WAYLAND	“Bloody Sunrise”	109
45	48	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE	“Venom”	107
46	57	RED SUN RISING	“Emotionless”	95
47	49	STONE SOUR (f. LZZY HALE)	“Gimme Shelter”	92
48	50	I PREVAIL	“Crossroads”	91
49	56	SLIPKNOT	“Goodbye”	86
50	67	ADELITA’S WAY	“Bad Reputation”	83

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (by Adam Waldman)

LEO MORACCHIOLI – “Hello”

When Adele released “Hello” she came as close as you can come to “breaking the Internet.”  In just two short months, the song has received almost 900 million views.  While the original version can be appreciated by people of various musical tastes, there is something undeniably appealing about Leo Moracchioli’s metal cover of this insanely popular song.  Unlike I Prevail, whose cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” helped expose Active Rock audiences to their original music, Moracchioli makes no bones about what he is…”a musician from Norway most known for doing crazy covers on YouTube.”  His cover of “Hello” is approaching 5 million page views, and has started getting radio attention as of late.  Most hard rock and metal bands today scratch and claw for exposure with their original material, but will never approach having a YouTube video with millions of page views.  Moracchioli has carved out a niche for himself that is highly entertaining without ever taking himself too seriously.

 

 

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…

UGLY KID JOE – “She’s Already Gone”

SEPTEMBER MOURNING – “Eye Of The Storm”

ADAKAIN – “Hey Girl”

VEER UNION – “Defying Gravity”

AUDIOTOPSY – “The Calling”

SHALLOW SIDE – “Stand Up”

BLAMESHIFT – “Tell Me It’s Alright”

 

DROP IT…

Twenty One Pilots – “Stressed Out”

Nate Rateliff & The Nightsweats – “S.O.B.”

Nothing But Thieves – “Trip Switch”

Cage The Elephant – “Mess Around”

The Struts – “Kiss This”

In This Moment – “Big Bad Wolf”

Bring Me The Horizon – “Throne”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

2016 begins the same way 2015 ended, with Disturbed atop the Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart for a fifth straight week.   Five Finger Death Punch is still #2, for a fourth straight week, and Shinedown stays at #3 for a third straight week.

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Another week of the exact same Top Ten songs, third week in a row…

The only movement in the Top 20 is the arrival of Parkway Drive’s “Vice Grip,” up one position on less than 2% spin growth …

Both The Struts and Escape The Fate reach the Top 30, as each moves up on scarce growth (thanks to songs simply falling below them)…

Two songs climb into the Top 40, led by Bring Me The Horizon’s “new” single, “Happy Song”…

Three new arrivals to the Top 50, all of which have good potential for nice chart runs.  Red Sun Rising (2015’s hottest newcomer) debuts with their second single, “Emotionless.”  Slipknot quietly charts a fifth single in fifteen months as “Goodbye” enters the Top 50, and Adelita’s Way returns to the published chart for the first time since May with “Bad Reputation,” a new single that’s getting a huge push from SiriusXM’s Octane (providing virtually half its total monitored spins for the week).

 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP

Foo Fighters – “Saint Cecilia”

Red Sun Rising – “Emotionless”

Adelita’s Way – “Bad Reputation”

 

DROPPING DOWN

Like A Storm – “Become The Enemy”

Nate Rateliff/Nightsweats – “S.O.B.”

Turbowolf – “Rabbit’s Foot”

 

 

FUTURES REPORT

While the recent stagnation of the chart is due, in large part, to the annual holiday slowdown, there’s also another factor in play.  The current Top 3 each rushed into heavy rotation very quickly, meaning that the songs are relatively young compared to many of the other contenders.  While radio could decide to make moves based on burn out, we could very well see the current logjam continue for several more weeks.

 

WRAP-UP

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