HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 10/14/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 10/14/17

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.

The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 10/14/17. 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	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1913
2	3	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1830
3	4	PAPA ROACH	“American Dreams”	1726
4	1	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Little One”	1575
5	6	FOO FIGHTERS	“Run”	1520
6	5	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Highway Tune”	1476
7	7	HELLYEAH	“Love Falls”	1396
8	8	IN THIS MOMENT	“Oh Lord”	1095
9	11	FOZZY	“Judas”	993
10	12	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	958
11	10	NINE INCH NAILS	“Less Than”	862
12	9	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE	“The Way You Used To Do”	858
13	13	KORN	“Black Is The Soul”	830
14	16	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	714
15	17	STARSET	“Satellite”	638
16	15	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	636
17	18	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	21
18	20	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	577
19	19	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	511
20	14	PROPHETS OF RAGE	“Living On The 110”	506
21	25	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	505
22	21	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	479
23	24	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	418
24	26	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	340
25	23	PALAYE ROYALE	“Get Higher”	331
26	38	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	330
27	30	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	328
28	28	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	309
29	22	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	303
30	29	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	279
31	31	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	255
32	32	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	241
33	34	HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD	“California Dreaming”	215
34	33	DOROTHY	“Down To The Bottom”	202
35	37	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	197
36	27	ROYAL REPUBLIC	“Baby”	197
37	36	THE BLOOY BEETROOTS + JET	“My Name Is Thunder”	195
38	40	SONS OF TEXAS	“Beneath The Riverbed”	176
39	39	VYCES	“Nocturnal”	165
40	41	SEPARATIONS	“Exist”	151
41	44	RED	“Still Alive”	145
42	50	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	132
43	42	U2	“You’re The Best Thing About Me”	125
44	46	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	121
45	48	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	120
46	43	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	120
47	45	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	112
48	53	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	97
49	47	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	95
50	61	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	90

 

 

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

KIRRA – “My Disease”

It’s admirable for an up-and-coming band to embrace the true essence of rock and roll, and resist the temptation to overproduce their music.  There’s a raw quality to “My Disease” that is a refreshing change of pace.  The heavy bottom and distortion would make you think of Kirra as a stoner rock band at first blush, but as you dig deeper into this song, a number of other styles and influences shine through.  With an aggression that melds the heaviness, and crunchy, tight riffs of bands like Five Finger Death Punch and Metallica, you would expect an angst-ridden vocal delivery.  It’s easy to be predictable; it’s much more challenging to be interesting.  Kirra is interesting.  Jesse Williamson’s vocals are more melodic than angry.  Though I doubt that lead guitarist Daxton Page is heavily influenced by Eric Clapton, there are moments in the song where his leads capture the same bluesy style.  If radio gravitated towards the band’s debut single, “Downfall,” there is no reason to think that they won’t do the same with “My Disease.”
 

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Last week, it was guaranteed that Highly Suspect would yield the throne to either Theory Of A Deadman or Nothing More this week.  TOAD gets the nod with “Rx” breaking the tie and outpacing Nothing More (but by less than 100 spins).  The songs now sit in the top 2 positions.  Unless either (or both) of the songs start to decline right away, the trend would indicate that they will stay in these spots for the next few weeks at the very least.  It would be surprising if Nothing More doesn’t eventually end up at the top.  The next likely challenger after these songs will come from either Papa Roach or 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…

KIRRA – “My Disease”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

ART OF ANARCHY – “Echo Of A Scream”

THE WILD – “Livin’ Free”

IGNITE THE FIRE – “Criticize”

WITHIN REASON – “Invictus”

NO RESOLVE – “Love Me To Death”

 

DROP IT…

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

QOTSA – “The Way You Used To Do”

Nine Inch Nails – “Less Than”

Foo Fighters – “Run”

Biffy Clyro – “Wolves Of Winter”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

The Struts – “One Night Only”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Both Fozzy and Seether enter the Top 10 this week…

The composition of the Top 20 is actually identical to the week before…

Royal Blood jumps another tier, the only new arrival in the entire Top 30…

Separations creeps back into the Top 40, the only new arrival there … except it isn’t really “new” to the space, it was there three weeks ago (40-41-41-40 for the past month)..

Greta Van Fleet reaches the Top 50 with their second single, and Motionless In White (f. Jonathan Davis) debuts this week as well.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Theory Of A Deadman – “Rx”

Hellyeah – “Love Falls”

Gary Clark Jr. – “Come Together”

 

FALLING

Queens Of The Stone Age – “The Way You Used To Do”

Prophets Of Rage – “Living On The 110”

Royal Republic – “Baby”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Nine months after it began getting regular airplay on Octane, and some 20 weeks after that airplay really started to spread, Hellyeah gains nearly 10% in spins over last week.  I’ve heard of a song “having legs” but this is getting a little ridiculous, into territory only experienced this year on the satellite outlet by an I Prevail track.  No slight to Vinnie and the gang intended, but beating a song to death is of questionable benefit as far as I’m concerned.  There IS too much of a good thing.  Similarly, I’m happy to see Fozzy score their first Mediabase Top 10 single, and a well-deserved one at that, but having now heard the truly stellar new album, I’m looking forward to a second single getting action.  I suspect both fans and casual listeners are as well.

 

WRAP-UP

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