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.
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The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 2/13/16. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
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 | SHINEDOWN | “State Of My Head” | 2122 |
| 2 | 2 | POP EVIL | “Ways To Get High” | 1781 |
| 3 | 3 | FOO FIGHTERS | “Saint Cecilia” | 1543 |
| 4 | 6 | NOTHING MORE | “Here’s To The Heartache” | 1374 |
| 5 | 7 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | “Bloodfeather” | 1270 |
| 6 | 9 | MUSE | “Reapers” | 1208 |
| 7 | 10 | 3 DOORS DOWN | “In The Dark” | 1203 |
| 8 | 13 | DISTURBED | “The Sound Of Silence” | 1159 |
| 9 | 5 | SEETHER | “Save Today” | 1081 |
| 10 | 4 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | “Wash It Away” | 1038 |
| 11 | 11 | CAGE THE ELEPHANT | “Mess Around” | 1001 |
| 12 | 12 | TRIVIUM | “Until The World Goes Cold” | 943 |
| 13 | 14 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | “Happy Song” | 888 |
| 14 | 8 | DISTURBED | “The Light” | 851 |
| 15 | 15 | SAINT ASONIA | “Let Me Live My Life” | 808 |
| 16 | 20 | RED SUN RISING | “Emotionless” | 687 |
| 17 | 16 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | “Through It All” | 685 |
| 18 | 17 | PAPA ROACH | “Falling Apart” | 678 |
| 19 | 19 | SHAMAN’S HARVEST | “In Chains” | 601 |
| 20 | 18 | PARKWAY DRIVE | “Vice Grip” | 465 |
| 21 | 23 | ADELITA’S WAY | “Bad Reputation” | 463 |
| 22 | 25 | THE STRUTS | “Kiss This” | 386 |
| 23 | 26 | ESCAPE THE FATE | “Alive” | 380 |
| 24 | 27 | SLIPKNOT | “Goodbye” | 361 |
| 25 | 35 | ROB ZOMBIE | “Well, Everybody’s…in a UFO” | 357 |
| 26 | 28 | STITCHED UP HEART | “Finally Free” | 342 |
| 27 | 21 | ARANDA | “We Are The Enemy” | 338 |
| 28 | 49 | DEFTONES | “Prayers/Triangles” | 325 |
| 29 | 29 | FAILURE ANTHEM | “Paralyzed” | 313 |
| 30 | 22 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | “Blow” | 303 |
| 31 | 34 | WOLFMOTHER | “Victorious” | 285 |
| 32 | 33 | MEGADETH | “Dystopia” | 275 |
| 33 | 50 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | “My Nemesis” | 272 |
| 34 | 30 | LACEY STURM | “Impossible” | 264 |
| 35 | 31 | DROWNING POOL | “By The Blood” | 251 |
| 36 | 24 | ALL THAT REMAINS | “Victory Lap” | 247 |
| 37 | 36 | DEVOUR THE DAY | “Lightning In The Sky” | 227 |
| 38 | 32 | ANDREW WATT | “Ghost In My Head” | 222 |
| 39 | 40 | PUSCIFIER | “The Remedy” | 186 |
| 40 | 43 | KILLSWITCH ENGAGE | “Hate By Design” | 146 |
| 41 | 41 | FOALS | “Mountain At My Gates” | 145 |
| 42 | 45 | ANTHRAX | “Breathing Lightning” | 126 |
| 43 | 47 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | “In Our Dreams” | 116 |
| 44 | 46 | THROUGH FIRE | “Stronger” | 113 |
| 45 | 44 | BARONESS | “Shock Me” | 100 |
| 46 | 48 | CILVER | “I’m America” | 97 |
| 47 | 42 | WAYLAND | “Bloody Sunrise” | 94 |
| 48 | 51 | MONSTER TRUCK | “Don’t Tell Me How To Live” | 89 |
| 49 | 53 | SMASHING SATELLITES | “Gamblin’ Man” | 75 |
| 50 | 61 | GHOST | “From The Pinnacle To The Pit” | 66 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (by Adam Waldman)
ANTHRAX – “Breathing Lightning”
Since the turn of the millennium, Anthrax’s studio releases have been fewer and further between than the time period between 1984-1998. There has been an undeniable shift in the hard rock and metal genres in recent years, but Anthrax’s music has always had a timeless quality to it. If they chose to continue creating new music with their signature sound, they would have no trouble connecting with fans. Getting radio attention, on the other hand, would not necessarily be so easy in the current climate. “Breathing Lightning” features enough of the band’s signature sound to appeal to longtime fans, but it is the infusion of huge melodic hooks that is likely to bring in new fans from younger generations that didn’t grow up with their music. While “Breathing Lightning” wasn’t written to be “radio-friendly,” the end result is a song that has huge radio potential. With a vast catalog of timeless thrash songs, would it be sacrilege to say that the band’s most memorable chorus has arrived in 2016 (over 30 years after their debut)? Perhaps, but it doesn’t make it any less true. The melodic refrain of the song (which conjures up memories of Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains The Same”) sets the stage with a theatrical intro, and is intertwined around customary in-your-face Anthrax riffs throughout. Although it doesn’t appear on the radio-edit, the full-length version of the song ends with a beautifully melodic, haunting fade out. When all is said and done, “Breathing Lightning” is a good bet to be one of the top songs of 2016.
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…
SOTO – “FreakShow”
BOBAFLEX – “A Spider In The Dark”
EVANS BLUE – “iGod”
UGLY KID JOE – “Bad Seed”
VEER UNION – “Defying Gravity”
HANDS LIKE HOUSES – “New Romantics”
DROP IT…
Foals – “Mountain At My Gates”
Cage The Elephant – “Mess Around”
The Struts – “Kiss This”
Pucifier – “The Remedy”
Theory Of A Deadman – “Blow”
Parkway Drive – “Vice Grip”
THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless
KING OF THE HILL
Shinedown notches a third straight week at #1 on the Mediabase Active Rock airplay chart, giving up little ground to #2 Pop Evil. A change is forthcoming, but probably not for another week (or more). Foo Fighters’ “Saint Cecilia” once again gained more ground from the #3 spot than the current runner-up.
NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT
Disturbed turned out to be the only new arrival to the Top 10, replacing their previous single (“The Light”) with their current one (“The Sound Of Silence”)…
Nary a change in the Top 20 songs aside from some shuffling of their order on the chart…
Charging into the Top 30 this week are the latest singles from both Rob Zombie and Deftones…
New to the Top 40 this week is “My Nemesis,” the latest single from Five Finger Death Punch, and last week’s highest debuting single from Killswitch Engage…
A trio of new arrivals takes up the bottom three spots in the Top 50 this week. The highest debuting song comes from Monster Truck, with a track that has been in the Canadian Active Rock Top 5 for the past three months. Also cracking the Top 50 is the debut single from Smashing Satellites (“Gamblin’ Man”), and the latest single from the Grammy-winning Ghost.
THREE UP & THREE DOWN
MOVING UP
3 Doors Down – “In The Dark”
Disturbed – “The Sound Of Silence”
Deftones – “Prayers/Triangles”
DROPPING DOWN
Seether – “Save Today”
Five Finger Death Punch – “Wash It All Away”
Disturbed – “The Light”
TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS
I’m pleased to see more crossover of songs that have been successful in Canada gaining traction on the U.S. chart. There’s no shortage of common titles on the two charts, but frequently, it seems that songs that fare exceptionally well north of the border end up getting overlooked by U.S. radio. In addition to the Monster Truck title that debuted this week, the current single from Wolfmother also broke more quickly on Canadian stations than on their U.S. counterparts. It’s a small trend that I’d like to see continue, as there have been a number of airplay-worthy songs that failed to see significant breakthroughs in the larger market over the past several years. Glorious Sons, I Mother Earth, The Wild, and The Lazys are all recent prime examples of band that had songs worthy of U.S. airplay.
WRAP-UP
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