HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/11/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/11/17

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 11/11/17. 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	1	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	2107
2	2	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	2063
3	3	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1812
4	4	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1389
5	7	FOZZY	“Judas”	1242
6	10	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	993
7	9	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	933
8	6	HELLYEAH	“Love Falls”	897
9	14	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	883
10	8	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“Little One”	846
11	12	STARSET	“Satellite”	799
12	13	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	787
13	15	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	735
14	17	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	696
15	22	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	669
16	16	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	662
17	20	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	569
18	24	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	565
19	23	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	507
20	21	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	499
21	29	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	493
22	19	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	481
23	18	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	451
24	28	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	406
25	27	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	391
26	26	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	387
27	30	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	305
28	32	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	275
29	31	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	250
30	39	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	230
31	33	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	229
32	74	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	215
33	34	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	210
34	37	RED	“Still Alive”	205
35	35	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	191
36	36	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	173
37	41	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	159
38	42	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	158
39	57	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	131
40	44	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	127
41	72	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	117
42	54	BUSH	“This Is War”	113
43	45	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	112
44	46	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	105
45	52	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	97
46	51	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	97
47	43	VYCES	“Nocturnal”	93
48	53	U2	“You’re The Best Thing About Me”	84
49	48	POWERMAN 5000	“Sid Vicious In A Dress”	79
50	58	SLAVES	“I’d Rather See Your Star Explode”	73

 

 

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

RANDOM HERO – “The Impossible”

Random Hero believes in positive messaging.  “The Impossible” goes beyond positive into the motivational realm, from the lyrics to the uplifting vibe.  Though they consider themselves Christian Rock, they do not believe in preaching.  If your beliefs are similar, you may glean something different from their lyrics than those with a different belief system.  In fact, if you didn’t know about who they are, you could easily interpret “The Impossible” as being written about a specific purpose, rather than a higher being.  For all I know, that is the case.  And that’s the point.  Random Hero can make you feel the song even if you have no idea what inspired it.  Although my personal preference is for melodic singing over growling, I can appreciate a growl (or scream) used for accent.  That is exactly how Random Hero uses it.  Because the song has such a powerful melody, with nice harmonies, the little bit of angst that is added through timely growls is something that you look forward to.  Depending on your age (and if you listen with headphones), you may hear some interesting nuances that remind you of music from another era and genre, which adds another layer of intrigue.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Nothing More will finally rise to #1 next week, now that “Go To War” has closed the gap on Theory Of A Deadman’s “Rx” has started to decline.  Foo Fighters have regained momentum with “The Sky Is A Neighborhood,” making them the next likely #1 after Nothing More has their run (which may not be very long).
 

 

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…

RANDOM HERO – “The Impossible”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

REVOLVE – “Days Of Grey”

JOSH TODD & THE CONFLICT – “Rain”

THE WILD – “Livin’ Free”

RISE AGAINST – “House On Fire”

P.O.D. – “Soundboy Killa”

DEADSET SOCIETY – “Automatic”

 

DROP IT…

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

Biffy Clyro – “Wolves Of Winter”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

Hellyeah – “Love Falls”

Highly Suspect – “Little One”

Fozzy – “Judas”

Bush – “This Is War”

U2 – “You’re The Best Thing About Me”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Royal Blood moves into the Top 10 with over 20% increased airplay from last week…

Four songs crack the Top 20, led by a red hot single from Five Finger Death Punch, up nearly 50% in spins in only its second week on the chart…

Three songs make their Top 30 debuts this week, including the solid performer from I Prevail that had an impressive debut a week ago…

No less than five songs crack the Top 40 for the first time, led by a strong out-of-the-box showing for the next single from Papa Roach…

There are six titles in the bottom portion of the Top 50 that weren’t there a week ago (though one is a re-entry), the highest of which is a relatively quiet debut from Metallica.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Royal Blood – “I Only Lie When I Love You”

Five Finger Death Punch – “Trouble”

Pop Evil – “Waking Lions”

 

FALLING

Hellyeah – “Love Falls”

Highly Suspect – “Little One”

Mastodon – “Steambreather”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

It’s especially nice to see both Kobra & The Lotus and Within Reason crack the published charts (for at least a week).  Airplay began for both songs in late July/early August, and each has been holding on outside the Top 50 week after week.  Both songs have been airplay worthy the entire time, only to be stuck outside the chart with spins going to other songs (in some cases) for as long as six consecutive months.

 

WRAP-UP

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