HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/25/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/25/17

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 11/25/17. 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	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1940
2	2	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1932
3	3	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1773
4	4	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1491
5	5	FOZZY	“Judas”	1341
6	6	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1113
7	7	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1109
8	8	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1048
9	9	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	923
10	12	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	912
11	11	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	839
12	10	STARSET	“Satellite”	830
13	13	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	753
14	14	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	713
15	17	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	698
16	16	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	698
17	15	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	694
18	18	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	670
19	22	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	649
20	19	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	570
21	21	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	557
22	23	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	440
23	20	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	399
24	24	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	385
25	41	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	351
26	29	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	282
27	30	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	275
28	28	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	266
29	33	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	257
30	26	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	250
31	31	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	246
32	34	RED	“Still Alive”	233
33	27	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	229
34	25	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	224
35	39	BUSH	“This Is War”	205
36	37	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	204
37	36	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	185
38	35	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	176
39	32	MASTODON	“Steambreather”	143
40	40	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	131
41	42	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	122
42	38	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	116
43	44	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	113
44	43	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	104
45	45	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	78
46	48	POWERMAN 5000	“Sid Vicious In A Dress”	70
47	50	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	69
48	52	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	61
49	51	SIN SHAKE SIN	“Can’t Go To Hell”	60
50	62	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	57

 

 

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

SIN SHAKE SIN – “Can’t Go To Hell”

Call it what you want…boot stompin’ music, swamp rock…the bottom line is that it is entertaining, fun and uplifting.  If you just want to hoist a few and pay no attention to the lyrics, “Can’t Go To Hell” provides an ideal happy hour soundtrack.  However, if you do like to dig deeper into the lyrics (and I do), you’ll find a thought-provoking, no-holds-barred message about the state of the country.  In fact, Sin Shake Sin is billed as “a political resistance alternative rock musical project.”  You might be wondering why it’s being called a project and not a band.  As you feel the energy of “Can’t Go To Hell,” it seems like a band with incredible chemistry.  Usually the term “project” is used for a band that isn’t the primary focus for any of its members.  But here’s the thing.  Sin Shake Sin has only ONE member!  The project is the brainchild of award-winning producer/songwriter, Stacy Hogan.  The man who wrote, sang, recorded, produced and mix his own album has written for a number of major label artists across multiple genres.  With such a diverse background, it’s fair to question how this song fits on Active Rock radio.  It already cracked the Top 50 this week, and with good reason.  A year or so ago, there was no precedent for this kind of music in the format.  However, “Can’t Go To Hell” is in the same wheelhouse as Goodbye June’s “Oh No.”  I have no idea why it took so long for this song to chart, but I’m glad that it did.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Nothing More’s reign on the top is going to be short-lived.  It almost feels like it was a coordinated effort to give “Go To War” the bragging rights of being #1 before moving on to the next chart-topper in Foo Fighters.  The latter came within 8 spins of the top spot this week after Nothing More suffered a significant decline in spins.  This one is a no-brainer.  “The Sky Is A Neighborhood” will be the new #1 song next week.  With no songs within realistic striking distance, Foo Fighters could ride the rest of 2017 on top if their spins remain flat.  The next likely threat could come from Five Finger Death Punch, but they currently trail by over 1000 spins.
 

 

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”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

KIRRA – “My Disease”

RANDOM HERO – “The Impossible”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

REVOLVE – “Days Of Grey”

THE WILD – “Livin’ Free”

 

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”

The Struts – “One Night Only”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The new single from Five Finger Death Punch reaches the Top 10 in just the fourth week on the chart…

Metallica also continues to show early strength, cracking the Top 20 this week with the fifth hit single from their smash album…

Stone Temple Pilots have a fast moving hit, up sixteen spots to score the highest of two songs debuting in the Top 30…

The final three positions in the Top 50 are claimed by the week’s only published chart debuting songs, led by the latest from Deadset Society.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Five Finger Death Punch – “Trouble”

Metallica – “Spit Out The Bone”

Stone Temple Pilots – “Meadow”

 

FALLING

Nothing More – “Go To War”

DED – “Remember The Enemy”

Mastodon – “Steambreather”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Apparently, the low number of spins needed to reach the Top 50 last week was not a computer glitch.   We can only hope that this doesn’t become “the new normal,” since scarce airplay limits the impact of radio for new artists (in particular), and that’s not good for the bands or for the format.

 

WRAP-UP

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