HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/23/17

 

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/23/17

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	3	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1638
2	4	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1567
3	2	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1517
4	1	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1505
5	5	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1242
6	7	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	1239
7	6	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1233
8	10	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	1132
9	12	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	1108
10	9	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	1095
11	11	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	1091
12	8	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	998
13	13	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	975
14	14	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	949
15	15	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	933
16	16	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	859
17	17	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	835
18	18	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	707
19	19	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	683
20	20	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	519
21	21	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	473
22	23	BUSH	“This Is War”	446
23	25	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	414
24	22	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	365
25	24	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	349
26	26	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	346
27	27	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	291
28	28	RED	“Still Alive”	278
29	29	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	233
30	30	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	221
31	31	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	186
32	34	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	139
33	37	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	135
34	33	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	135
35	36	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	122
36	38	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	110
37	41	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	97
38	40	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	91
39	39	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	90
40	43	MYLES KENNEDY	“Year Of The Tiger”	88
41	35	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	84
42	46	BLACKLITE DISTRICT	“Cold As Ice”	76
43	71	FOZZY	“Painless”	69
44	55	AVATAR	“The King Wants You”	66
45	50	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	65
46	32	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	64
47	53	CHRIS STAPLETON	“Midnight Train To Memphis”	54
48	49	ZERO THEOREM	“Area”	53
49	59	RISE AGAINST	“House On Fire”	52
50	42	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	52

 

 

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

FOZZY – “Painless”

Fozzy has already had nice success this year with the title track off of their latest album, Judas.  If it feels like it’s been a long time since the band last released a single, it has.  “Judas” was the pick of the week on the HRD Radio Report in May.  The song proceeded to have a nice run at both Active Rock radio and on the Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown.  In fact, the song finished at #7 on the Top 30 Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown Songs of 2017.    Although “Judas” (the single) has been around for a good part of the year, the album was actually released in October, so there should be plenty of opportunities for more singles.

“Painless” – the band’s most recent single – made a strong debut on this week’s chart.  Once again, Chris Jericho’s vocals conjure up thoughts of Ozzy’s distinct style, and the band delivers the type of energy that straddles the fence between classic rock and modern, Active Rock.  Whether “Painless” has a run as strong as “Judas” remains to be seen, but it’s off to a good start so far.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Royal Blood jumped up to #1 this week with “I Only Lie When I Love You.”  Though their lead is less than a hundred spins over Seether’s “Betray And Degrade” (which jumped up to #2), it would be surprising to see their run at the top end quickly based on the total spins.  It seems that there is still room to run.  However, it wouldn’t be a total shock if Seether takes over quickly, given the recent trend of songs gaining fast momentum seemingly out of nowhere.
 

 

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”

VEER UNION – “Last Regret”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

MACHINE HEAD – “Catharsis”

JIBE – “Release”

KIRRA – “My Disease”

 

DROP IT…

Awolnation – “Passion”

Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”

Bush – “This Is War”

The Struts – “One Night Only”

Adelita’s Way – “Notorious”

Gary Clark Jr. – “Come Together”

Marilyn Manson – “KILL4ME”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Papa Roach reaches the Top 10 with the biggest growth of any song this week…

The composition of the Top 30 remains unchanged with no notable movement within the tier…

Five Finger Death Punch gets into the Top 40 with another song, even while the current single continues to show growth.   Myles Kennedy also reaches the Top 40, this time as a solo artist…

The long-awaited second single from Fozzy’s latest album is the highest of four songs debuting in the Top 50.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Royal Blood – “I Only Lie When I Love You”
Papa Roach – “Born For Greatness”
Pop Evil – “Waking Lions”

 

FALLING
Foo Fighters – “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”
Nothing More – “Go To War”
The Struts – “One Night Only”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Holiday slowdown is no surprise this week, nor really any reason for concern in the bigger picture.  It’s been an unsettling year for many fans of the Active Rock format, most likely for the artists as well.  What 2018 will bring is anyone’s guess, but my hope would be that the format will refocus itself on being true to its rock name, and spend less time trying to be everything but rock.  My thanks to you all for letting me be part of your 2017.

 

WRAP-UP

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