HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/16/17

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/16/17

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 12/16/17. 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	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1643
2	2	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1518
3	4	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1509
4	3	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1502
5	6	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1261
6	7	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1248
7	8	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	1168
8	5	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	1130
9	10	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	1092
10	9	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	1068
11	12	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	996
12	14	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	966
13	13	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	912
14	11	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	911
15	18	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	872
16	16	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	804
17	17	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	782
18	19	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	697
19	21	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	661
20	24	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	471
21	22	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	453
22	20	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	452
23	27	BUSH	“This Is War”	411
24	23	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	394
25	26	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	393
26	28	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	329
27	25	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	307
28	29	RED	“Still Alive”	265
29	31	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	249
30	30	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	214
31	34	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	177
32	33	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	165
33	37	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	157
34	35	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	147
35	32	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	145
36	36	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	133
37	41	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	126
38	42	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	102
39	40	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	94
40	38	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	92
41	47	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	73
42	44	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	73
43	109	MYLES KENNEDY	“Year Of The Tiger”	69
44	49	OF MICE & MEN	“Defy”	69
45	43	WHILE SHE SLEEPS	“Hurricane”	57
46	67	BLACKLITE DISTRICT	“Cold As Ice”	56
47	54	BECK	“Up All Night”	51
48	55	AWAKE AT LAST	“Purgatorium”	50
49	80	ZERO THEOREM	“Area”	47
50	63	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	47

 

 

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

ASKING ALEXANDRIA – “Alone In A Room”

There are two sides to Asking Alexandria, particularly Danny Worsnop, who runs the gamut between angry growls and melodic singing.  My personal preference is the latter because it allows for the uniqueness of his vocals to shine through.  During his fairly brief departure from Asking Alexandria, Worsnop focused more on his clean vocals with We Are Harlot.  Though the band had their shining moments, it’s understandable why he would choose to return to the band that he helped launch into the upper echelon of the Active Rock format.  Although “Alone In A Room” definitely has a bit more edge than the more subdued “Moving On,” this song has the same big hooks and melodic vocals as one of my favorite songs of  2014.  

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, the gap between Foo Fighters and Royal Blood was too much to close in one week.  However, it is a virtual lock that “I Only Lie When I Love You” is the new #1 song next week, appropriately allowing  Royal Blood ascend to the throne as the year comes to a close.  Based on the current trend, it looks like this could be a several week run at the top for Royal Blood, as they lead the charge in to 2018.
 

 

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…

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “Call It Like It Is”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

JOSH TODD & THE CONFLICT – “Rain”

VEER UNION – “Last Regret”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

RANDOM HERO – “The Impossible”

FOZZY – “Painless”

 

DROP IT…

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

Awolnation – “Passion”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

Bush – “This Is War”

The Struts – “One Night Only”

Adelita’s Way – “Notorious”

Beck – “Up All Night”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

No changes in the composition of the Top 10 this week, only small position swaps… I Prevail reaches the Top 20, while Asking Alexandria returns to the Top 20 with a song that’s been running in place for almost two months now (between #19 and #21 for the past seven weeks)… Black Label Society scores the week’s only new song among the Top 30… The success of cover* songs continues with the arrival of Tom Keifer (f. Lzzy Hale) in the Top 40, joined by the newest single from Deadset Society.   I ask…*Is it actually a cover if you’re redoing a song you originally sang in the first place?”… Six songs in the final ten spots of the published chart weren’t there a week ago.  Five are making their chart debut, one is a re-entry.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Royal Blood – “I Only Lie When I Love You”
Papa Roach – “Born For Greatness”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Meadow”
 
 

FALLING
Foo Fighters – “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”
Nothing More – “Go To War”
Gary Clark Jr. – “Come Together”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Definitely seeing the impact of narrow playlists this week, with the bottom part of the chart now requiring little more than light/medium rotation at less than a half dozen stations to have a “Top 50 single.”

 

WRAP-UP

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