HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/18/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/18/17

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 11/18/17. 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	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	2080
2	3	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1877
3	1	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1875
4	4	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1450
5	5	FOZZY	“Judas”	1362
6	6	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1050
7	9	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1010
8	7	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	983
9	12	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	828
10	11	STARSET	“Satellite”	815
11	13	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	810
12	15	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	775
13	16	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	735
14	14	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	707
15	18	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	647
16	21	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	616
17	19	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	607
18	17	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	601
19	20	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	513
20	24	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	440
21	32	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	424
22	41	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	412
23	26	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	399
24	25	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	387
25	22	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	369
26	27	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	329
27	36	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	279
28	28	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	259
29	29	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	255
30	30	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	245
31	33	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	239
32	23	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	238
33	31	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	233
34	34	RED	“Still Alive”	223
35	35	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	194
36	38	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	185
37	39	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	174
38	37	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	162
39	42	BUSH	“This Is War”	149
40	43	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	137
41	0	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	134
42	40	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	127
43	45	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	116
44	46	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	111
45	44	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	95
46	50	SLAVES	“I’d Rather See Your Star Explode”	92
47	48	U2	“You’re The Best Thing About Me”	75
48	49	POWERMAN 5000	“Sid Vicious In A Dress”	65
49	47	VYCES	“Nocturnal”	56
50	54	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	53

 

 

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

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – “Meadow”

After an exhaustive search that felt like forever, Stone Temple Pilots finally revealed Jeff Gutt as the new lead singer.  The announcement was made in coordination with the release of the band’s first single together, “Meadow.”  The song has already made its debut on the Top 50 of the Active Rock chart.  With all of the anticipation for new music from the band, it’s understandable why radio has jumped on this one early.  The song itself sounds like classic STP.  Gutt has a similar vibe to Scott Weiland, with just a hint of Josh Todd (Buckcherry).  While there was a lot of anticipation to finally hear new music from the band, what they delivered was not a big diversion from what we’ve come to expect from STP.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  The formula for their sound wasn’t broken; their previous lead singers both were.  After dealing with the roller coaster ride that was Weiland, and the departure of Chester Bennington (before he committed suicide), you have to imagine that what the band is hoping for at this point is “normal.”  Based on the comfort of the sound of “Meadow,” it seems that they may be on the right track, provided that Gutt provides the complementary vocals without the drama and demons that came with STP’s two previous frontmen.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Nothing More takes over the #1 position on this week’s chart.  Although “Go To War” had a moderate spin increase, this rise to the top was due mostly to the decline in spins by Theory Of A Deadman.  Because of that, it may not take too long for Foo Fighters to make this a short reign for Nothing More.  With less than 250 spins separating the top two songs, it won’t take much to have a new #1.  It could happen as early as next week if Nothing More starts to decline at all and Foo Fighters keep their momentum going.  If Nothing More’s spin totals remain relatively flat, then it could take a few weeks for Foo Fighters to pass them.  However, if Nothing More starts to decline next week, this could be a one-week stint at the top.
 

 

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…

JOSH TODD & THE CONFLICT – “Rain”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

REVOLVE – “Days Of Grey”

THE WILD – “Livin’ Free”

DEADSET SOCIETY – “Automatic”

RISE AGAINST – “House On Fire”

P.O.D. – “Soundboy Killa”

 

DROP IT…

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

Awolnation – “Passion”

Biffy Clyro – “Wolves Of Winter”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

Fozzy – “Judas”

Bush – “This Is War”

U2 – “You’re The Best Thing About Me”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Starset and Skillet both slip into the Top 10, a pair of songs that debuted in the same week back in July and have been separated by no more than two spots for fifteen weeks in a row…

New to the Top 20 this week are Pop Evil and Trivium, the former arriving in just three short weeks on the chart (just like Five Finger Death Punch)…

Metallica leaps nearly twenty positions into the Top 30, not missing the next tier up by very much in fact, the highest of three new arrivals in the first thirty songs….

There’s a decidedly alternative flavor to the pair of songs cracking the Top 40, where Bush and Awolnation show up…

The final portion of the chart finds two debuts that might have people checking their calendar. The first chart single for Stone Temple Pilots in five years premieres, as does the biggest radio hit for Tom Keifer (Cinderella) in over two decades.
 

 

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

Rather disturbing to see how few spins – less than half than needed in a typical week – were required to crack the Top 50 here.  It’s such a dramatically low number, abruptly, that I’m inclined to wonder if it isn’t the product of some sort of computer error.  Those are disturbingly frequent with the published chart lately, but usually not to this degree or in this fashion.  Time will tell, soon enough,

 

WRAP-UP

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