HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 7/23/16

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.

 

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2016 Active Rock Radio / Octane Quarterly Report: Q2  

 

The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 7/23/16.  All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK			THIS WEEK
1	1	RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS	“Dark Necessities”	1952
2	4	CHEVELLE	“Joyride”	1897
3	3	SHINEDOWN	“Asking For It”	1876
4	2	VOLBEAT	“The Devil’s Bleeding Crown”	1792
5	6	POP EVIL	“Take It All”	1313
6	7	BLINK 182	“Bored To Death”	1248
7	5	GHOST	“From The Pinnacle To The Pit”	1160
8	8	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“Paranoia”	1124
9	11	3 DOORS DOWN	“Still Alive”	899
10	10	KALEO	“No Good”	874
11	12	HOLY WHITE HOUNDS	“Switchblade”	840
12	9	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Here I Am”	815
13	28	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Take Me Down”	804
14	14	DEFTONES	“Phantom Bride”	765
15	13	ROB ZOMBIE	“Get High”	751
16	15	AVATAR	“The Eagle Has Landed”	650
17	16	SKILLET	“Feel Invincible”	644
18	17	HELLYEAH	“I Don’t Care Anymore”	607
19	18	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Ashes Of Eden”	579
20	20	THRICE	“Black Honey”	517
21	23	ZAKK WYLDE (f. COREY TAYLOR)	“Sleeping Dogs”	414
22	24	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Lost And Alone”	369
23	22	TRIVIUM	“Dead And Gone”	357
24	0	PROPHETS OF RAGE	“Prophets Of Rage”	353
25	43	DISTURBED	“Open Your Eyes”	353
26	19	SICK PUPPIES	“Stick To Your Guns”	350
27	25	STITCHED UP HEART	“Monster”	322
28	26	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	“Heathens”	320
29	27	THROUGH FIRE	“Stronger”	267
30	35	CITIZEN ZERO	“Go (Let Me Save You)”	216
31	31	BEARTOOTH	“Aggressive”	213
32	46	SIXX: A.M.	“Prayers For The Damned”	203
33	37	DOROTHY	“Raise Hell”	193
34	40	KALEO	“Way Down We Go”	187
35	30	LIKE A STORM	“Break Free”	183
36	36	MEGADETH	“Post-American World”	177
37	34	HELLYEAH	“Human”	176
38	32	NONPOINT	“Generation Idiot”	176
39	33	CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN	“Soundcheck”	171
40	41	FAILURE ANTHEM	“First World Problems”	169
41	38	NOTHING BUT THIEVES	“Wake Up Call”	169
42	39	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Trouble”	162
43	42	PIERCE THE VEIL	“Circles”	137
44	0	KORN	“Rotting In The Vain”	131
45	48	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Avalanche”	130
46	44	MACHINE HEAD	“Is There Anybody Out There?”	126
47	49	THE RECORD COMPANY	“Off The Ground”	119
48	47	PUSCIFIER	“The Arsonist”	114
49	58	FOALS	“What Went Down”	111
50	53	ISLANDER	“Bad Guy”	99

 

 

 

ALTER BRIDGE – “SHOW ME A LEADER”

The three-year wait for new Alter Bridge music is finally over!  Yesterday, the band released “Show Me A Leader,” the lead single off of their upcoming album, The Last Hero, and it couldn’t have come at a better time, at least in terms of subject matter.  Although the song was obviously written before the political conventions, it’s obvious that the current political climate helped to inspire this balls-to-the-wall single.  According to Myles Kennedy, the song “reflects the frustrations that a lot of people are feeling with the current state of the world.  The world is looking for trustworthy, effective leadership and not this undignified dog and pony show that’s really made a mockery of our system.”  Kennedy’s vocals are mind-blowing as usual, complemented by the blazing guitar work of Mark Tremonti, and a hard-driving, blood-pumping rhythm section.  This full version of this song should be all over Active Rock radio, including the epic intro!

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (by Adam Waldman)

Red Hot Chili Peppers will end their run at the top next week, and be replaced by either Chevelle or Shinedown.  Whichever band emerges on top will be replaced by Pretty Reckless in the not-too-distant future.  Supergroup Prophets Of Rage and Disturbed will crack the Top 10 within the month.

 

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…

ALTER BRIDGE – “Show Me A Leader”

RICHARDS / CRANE – “Black And White”

SHAMAN’S HARVEST – “Here It Comes”

SONS OF TEXAS – “Blameshift”

BRIDGE TO GRACE – “Left Inside”

HUDSON – “Cast Out”

EVE TO ADAM – “Lucky”

FIFTYWATT FREIGHT TRAIN – “Whiskey & Hate”

 

DROP IT…

Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”

Twenty One Pilots – “Heathens”

Cage The Elephant – “Trouble”

Kongos – “Take It From Me”

Catfish And The Bottlemen – “Soundcheck”

Holy White Hounds – “Switchblade”

Blink 182 – “Bored To Death”

Ghost – “From The Pinnacle To The Pit”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless

KING OF THE HILL

The hunter has become the hunted, as Red Hot Chili Peppers retains their spot atop the Mediabase Active Rock Airplay chart for a third week (albeit by a steadily shrinking margin).  Chevelle leapfrogs Shinedown for the #2 spot, but don’t entirely rule out the possibility of a resurgence, since the gap between #2 and #3 is still smaller than the mere 55 spins between #1 and #2.

 

 

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Three Doors Down scores another Top 10 hit…

Pretty Reckless triples their airplay, rocketing into the Top 20…

Prophets of Rage lead three songs with their debut in Top 30…

Sixx A.M. and Failure Anthem both crack the Top 40 …

Late week addition Korn leads a trio of new songs debuting in more typical positions.

 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

MOVING UP

Blink 182 – “Bored To Death”

Pretty Reckless – “Take Me Down”

Disturbed – “Open Your Eyes”

 

DROPPING DOWN

Volbeat – “The Devil’s Bleeding Crown”

Ghost – “From The Pinnacle To The Pit”

Sick Puppies – “Stick To Your Guns”

 

 

TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Pretty Reckless and Disturbed make nice leaps in their first full week of airplay for their new singles, as does Sixx A.M. (to a lesser extent).  I fully expect Korn to see the same surge next week as the summer of big names rolls right on.

 

WRAP-UP

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