HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/30/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/30/17

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 9/30/17. 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	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Little One”	1880
2	1	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Highway Tune”	1831
3	3	PAPA ROACH	“American Dreams”	1691
4	4	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1654
5	5	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1582
6	10	FOO FIGHTERS	“Run”	1302
7	6	IN THIS MOMENT	“Oh Lord”	1284
8	9	HELLYEAH	“Love Falls”	1239
9	7	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE	“The Way You Used To Do”	1155
10	11	NINE INCH NAILS	“Less Than”	1111
11	12	FOZZY	“Judas”	881
12	14	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	812
13	15	KORN	“Black Is The Soul”	737
14	13	PROPHETS OF RAGE	“Living On The 110”	734
15	17	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	644
16	18	STARSET	“Satellite”	563
17	16	ROYAL REPUBLIC	“Baby”	520
18	20	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	492
19	24	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	473
20	21	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	424
21	22	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	399
22	19	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	384
23	23	PALAYE ROYALE	“Get Higher”	373
24	47	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	363
25	28	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	284
26	31	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	271
27	29	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	248
28	34	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	244
29	26	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“The Come Up”	231
30	48	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	223
31	30	WAYLAND	“Through The Fire”	214
32	32	HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD	“California Dreaming”	208
33	25	BUSH	“The Beat Of Your Heart”	200
34	41	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	182
35	33	DOROTHY	“Down To The Bottom”	171
36	38	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	157
37	52	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	156
38	36	THE BLOOY BEETROOTS + JET	“My Name Is Thunder”	156
39	27	GREEN DAY	“Revolution Radio”	154
40	76	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	Into The Fire”	148
41	40	SEPERATIONS	“Exist”	140
42	39	VYCES	“Nocturnal”	139
43	42	RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA	“Weight Of The World”	134
44	35	SONS OF TEXAS	“Beneath The Riverhead”	134
45	43	U2	“You’re The Best Thing About Me”	127
46	45	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	119
47	46	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	111
48	53	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	107
49	49	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	102
50	114	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	85

 

 

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

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

Bobaflex introduced their eighth studio release with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Hey You.”  Because the cover stayed fairly true to the original, it might have been a challenging fit for Active Rock radio.  That is definitely NOT the case with their follow-up single, “Long Time Coming,” which hits you hard from the opening riff and doesn’t let up (for the most part).  Taking a page out of the prog rock playbook, there are brief, moody vocal harmonies that will remind you of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”  Bobaflex doesn’t get nearly the recognition that they deserve for their brilliant, distinct vocal harmonies.  From the softer moments to the sledgehammer power to the haunting vocals, everything just works on this song.  Of course, this is nothing new for Bobaflex.  Now, if only radio would recognize this band’s genius the way that I do.  Fingers crossed!

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Highly Suspect rises to the top of the chart, knocking Greta Van Fleet out after a nice run.  With a pretty solid lead, “Little One” could be on top for at least a few weeks if they keep increasing their spin count (or even plateau).  However, it’s not uncommon for an older song to hit #1 and then start dropping the next week.  Any significant slip is likely to make their reign on top fairly short.  With the rest of the top 6 gaining ground, we should know in the next week or two which of them will emerge as the next contender.  Keep an eye on Papa Roach, Nothing More, Theory Of A Deadman, and Foo Fighters.
 

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 – “Long Time Coming”

WAGE WAR – “Gravity”

WITHIN REASON – “Invictus”

THE WILD – “Livin’ Free”

ART OF ANARCHY – “Echo Of A Scream”

IGNITE THE FIRE – “Criticize”

NO RESOLVE – “Love Me To Death”

 

DROP IT…

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

QOTSA – “The Way You Used To Do”

Nine Inch Nails – “Less Than”

Green Day – “Revolution Radio”

Foo Fighters – “Run”

Royal Republic – “Baby”

Biffy Clyro – “Wolves Of Winter”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Nine Inch Nails reaches the Top 10 this week..

Two new arrivals in the Top 20, including the latest single from Ded…

Somewhat ironically, the biggest climb on the chart this week belongs to Marilyn Manson (47 to 24).  Stone Sour also breaks into the Top 30 very quickly…

Three songs crack the Top 40 this week, with All That Remains getting mileage from a cover tune, while Asking Alexandria enjoys a nice enough debut for their latest single (and the return of their long-time vocalist, Danny Worsnop)…

Nearly three months after the first signs of (secular) airplay, Christian rap-rocker Manafest breaks onto the published chart.  The next Royal Blood single debuts also.
 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Foo Fighters – “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

Marilyn Manson – “Kill4Me”

 

FALLING

Royal Republic – “Baby”

Foo Fighters – “Run”

Green Day – “Revolution Radio”
 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

With the recent chart success of cover songs, I can’t help but wonder if a few more recent ones might not have either been good choices as singles, or could be singled in the future.   In This Moment has “In The Air Tonight” available, Volbeat had a perfectly respectable version of “Battleship Chains,” and if not for the tragedy that befell them, I wonder if their solid accounting of “Rebel Yell” would have gotten Adrenaline Mob some airplay.  With “Come Together” actually getting airplay from two different artists in the past year – the Godsmack version has only been off the chart for 20 weeks – I suspect we haven’t seen the last of covers-as-singles.

 

WRAP-UP

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