HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/12/17

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/12/17

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.

QUARTERLY REPORTS…

ACTIVE ROCK RADIO QUARTERLY REPORT: 2017 – FIRST QUARTER

OCTANE BIG ‘UNS COUNTDOWN – 2017 QUARTERLY REPORT

The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 8/12/17. 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	2	ROYAL BLOOD	“Lights Out”	1997
2	4	RISE AGAINST	“The Violence”	1748
3	1	FOO FIGHTERS	“Run”	1681
4	3	STONE SOUR	“Song #3”	1628
5	6	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Little One”	1592
6	7	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Highway Tune”	1471
7	8	I PREVAIL	“Alone”	1355
8	9	PAPA ROACH	“American Dreams”	1233
9	10	GREEN DAY	“Revolution Radio”	1186
10	5	METALLICA	“Now That We’re Dead”	1173
11	11	IN THIS MOMENT	“Oh Lord”	1122
12	12	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1034
13	13	HELLYEAH	“Love Falls”	980
14	14	PRETTY RECKLESS	“Back To The River” (f. W. Haynes)	814
15	15	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE	“The Way You Used To Do”	787
16	16	BEARTOOTH	“Sick Of Me”	745
17	17	ROYAL REPUBLIC	“Baby”	631
18	18	PROPHETS OF RAGE	“Living On The 110”	622
19	23	NINE INCH NAILS	“Less Than”	594
20	19	KID ROCK	“Greatest Show On Earth”	584
21	21	KORN	“Black Is The Soul”	508
22	20	FOZZY	“Judas”	497
23	24	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	388
24	25	DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979	“Freeze Me”	341
25	33	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	324
26	28	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“The Come Up”	293
27	26	IN FLAMES	“Here Until Forever”	284
28	27	THRICE	“Hurricane”	275
29	32	STARSET	“Satellite”	251
30	30	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Where The Wind Blows”	223
31	38	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	207
32	36	BUSH	“The Beat Of Your Heart”	205
33	41	PALAYE ROYALE	“Get Higher”	193
34	37	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	193
35	29	MUSE	“Dig Down”	193
36	31	OF MICE AND MEN	“Back To Me”	182
37	39	WAYLAND	“Through The Fire”	156
38	34	CHEVELLE	“Rivers”	147
39	35	NICKELBACK	“Must Be Nice”	19
40	40	RANCID	“Bovver Rock And Roll”	131
41	46	DOROTHY	“Down To The Bottom”	126
42	45	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	118
43	42	CHEAP TRICK	“Long Time Coming”	118
44	47	RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA	“Weight Of The World”	110
45	44	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Like A Nightmare”	107
46	57	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	78
47	48	THE STRUTS	“One Night Ony”	75
48	50	SEPERATIONS	“Exist”	73
49	112	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	72
50	43	HINDER	“Remember Me”	70

 

 

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

OTHERWISE – “Angry Heart”

The rational mind allows for a perspective that helps you realize that things aren’t always as bad as they seem.  However, when you’re really pissed off, the rational mind (for many) doesn’t stand a chance against an “Angry Heart.”  Otherwise’s latest single is an aggressive, angst-ridden, piss-and-vinegar type anthem that perfectly taps into the feeling of an anger that drowns out the rational mind.  Most people can relate to the anger that you feel towards a person or about a situation that causes you to allow the good in you to be overpowered by negativity.  Some people choose to let things fester beneath the surface, potentially creating an inner powderkeg, while others choose to wear their emotions on their sleeve and embrace the rage.  If you fall into the latter category, you will find “Angry Heart” to be cathartic.  Either way, this is a song that is getting well-deserved attention at radio.
 

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Royal Blood has ascended to the throne with their latest single, “Lights Out,” toppling Foo Fighters after a nice “Run” at the top.  Also predicted was the “rise” of Rise Against to #2 with their latest single, “The Violence.”  With Foo Fighters and Stone Sour filling out the top 4 (but dropping steadily), it looks like it will be at least a few weeks until there are any other serious challengers for #1.  Greta Van Fleet is still showing solid gains, but they trail Royal Blood by over 500 spins at the moment, so they don’t look to be a threat in the next few weeks (at the very least).
 

 

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…

ART OF ANARCHY – “Echo Of A Scream”

SCREAMING FOR SILENCE – “House Of Glass”

VAJRA – “The Mirror”

HANDS LIKE HOUSES – “Drift”

MANAFEST – “House Of Cards”

DEMON HUNTER – “Raining Down”

 

DROP IT…

Death From Above 1979 – “Freeze Me”

QOTSA – “The Way You Used To Do”

Muse – “Dig Down”

Nine Inch Nails – “Less Than”

The Struts – “One Night Only”

Green Day – “Revolution Radio”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The top eighteen songs remain the same as last week, just with a few position shuffles…

Nine Inch Nails pops into the Top 20 on a 20% increase in spins…

A warm welcome for the new Theory Of A Deadman single (“Rx”) finds them quickly entering the Top 30, along with Starset…

Palaye Royale has the only new arrival in the Top 40…

Debuting in the Top 50 this week are the new singles from Adelita’s Way and Seether.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Royal Blood – “Lights Out”

Papa Roach – “American Dreams”

Theory Of A Deadman – “Rx”

 

FALLING

Foo Fighters – “Run”

Stone Sour – “Song #3”

Metallica – “Now That We’re Dead”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

At this point, Active Rock radio seems to either love songs or hate them, with little ground in between.  Songs rocket into the Top 10 and stay there with almost no movement, or they get little airplay at all.  There are relatively few monitored stations playing anything that hasn’t already hit the Top 50, and in most cases, they’re only playing a portion of those.  The power to make a song rise rests in relatively few hands at this point.  Thankfully, at least a few stations with independent decision-makers are still around… for now.

 

WRAP-UP

That’s all for this week.  Tune in to HardRockDaddy.com every Tuesday for the HRD Radio Report. \m/