HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/2/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/2/17

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 12/2/17. 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	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1945
2	3	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1680
3	1	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1607
4	4	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1496
5	7	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1236
6	6	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1169
7	5	FOZZY	“Judas”	1152
8	8	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1045
9	10	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	991
10	9	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	937
11	11	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	875
12	12	STARSET	“Satellite”	817
13	16	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	800
14	15	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	772
15	19	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	759
16	17	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	759
17	13	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	724
18	14	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	702
19	18	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	685
20	21	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	651
21	20	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	576
22	25	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	561
23	22	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	430
24	24	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	387
25	23	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	370
26	27	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	300
27	26	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	291
28	36	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	258
29	29	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	243
30	32	RED	“Still Alive”	240
31	31	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	240
32	35	BUSH	“This Is War”	238
33	28	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	237
34	33	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	222
35	38	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	156
36	30	BIFFY CLYRO	“Wolves Of Winter”	153
37	37	MANAFEST	“House Of Cards”	151
38	41	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	146
39	40	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	144
40	34	DED	“Remember The Enemy”	135
41	43	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	124
42	42	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	108
43	44	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	105
44	47	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	87
45	48	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	73
46	50	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	70
47	46	POWERMAN 5000	“Sid Vicious In A Dress”	61
48	54	BECK	“Up All Night”	58
49	45	OTHERWISE	“Angry Heart”	57
50	51	U2	“You’re The Best Thing About Me”	45

 

 

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

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Gone Away”

Twenty years after The Offspring released “Gone Away,” one of the best “cover bands” in the world has released their interpretation of the song.  Yes, I realize that FFDP is not a “cover band,” but they are the masters of taking other artists’ songs and making them their own.  The band rarely disappoints in any regard, but they never seem to have a misstep when they are doing covers.  Of course, when you’re one of the biggest bands in the world, there is little chance of being compared unfavorably to the original.  Interestingly, as you listen to “Gone Away,” you’re more likely to be reminded of FFDP’s “Far From Home” than The Offspring’s original version of the song.  Like he did in “Far From Home,” Ivan Moody makes you feel anguish in what can best be described as an FFDP power ballad (of sorts).

These days, it’s not unusual for the biggest bands in the rock genre will do a full album of covers.  FFDP does them with regularity, but they sprinkle them in with their originals.  It won’t be surprising if FFDP has even greater radio success than The Offspring did with “Gone Away” in the ‘90s.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted (make that guaranteed) last week, Foo Fighters knocks off Nothing More to become the new #1 this week.  What was not expected was the precipitous drop for Nothing More that allowed a sinking Theory Of A Deadman to “back into” the #2 spot (from # 3 last week).  Given that the holidays traditionally put the Active Rock format on autopilot, it would be somewhat shocking if Foo Fighters don’t ride out the rest of 2017 on top.  They have a seemingly insurmountable 700+ spin lead over the next song with any momentum (Royal Blood’s “I Only Lie When I Love You”).  Unless there is a combination of a Seether surge and a major drop from Foo Fighters, it will be 2018 when the next #1 emerges.
 

 

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…

VEER UNION – “Last Regret”

NO RESOLVE – “Love Me To Death”

JOSH TODD & THE CONFLICT – “Rain”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

KIRRA – “My Disease”

RANDOM HERO – “The Impossible”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

ALARM FOR WAR – “Day Turned To Night”

 

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”

Beck – “Up All Night”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Papa Roach moves up one position and into the Top 20 with their latest single.  That’s the only change in composition in the top two segments of the chart since last week…

In This Moment enjoys solid growth and reaches the Top 30.  Red also climbs a couple of spots despite almost flat airplay…

Dead Girls Academy cracks the Top 40 with their debut single…

The week’s only song making its debut on the published chart is from Beck.  (U2 grabs the #50 spot, but that is it’s second re-entry onto the chart).
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

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

Metallica – “Spit Out The Bone”

Stone Temple Pilots – “Meadow”

 

FALLING

Nothing More – “Go To War”

Fozzy – “Judas”

Biffy Clyro – “Wolves Of Winter”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

With only one song debuting on the chart this week, it looks as though the December doldrums may be officially underway (especially since that lone new entry is yet another Alternative hit being crossed over by a few radio stations).

 

WRAP-UP

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