HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/30/17

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/30/17

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 12/30/17. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION THIS WEEK	POSITION LAST WEEK			SPINS
1	1	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1695
2	2	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1576
3	3	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1499
4	4	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1409
5	7	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1296
6	6	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	1253
7	5	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1236
8	10	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	1120
9	8	SKILLET	“The Resistance”	1118
10	11	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	1113
11	9	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	1089
12	12	NOTHING MORE	“Go To War”	987
13	13	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	941
14	14	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	939
15	15	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	928
16	16	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	842
17	17	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	838
18	19	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	665
19	18	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	660
20	20	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	511
21	21	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	456
22	22	BUSH	“This Is War”	409
23	23	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	402
24	24	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	347
25	26	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	339
26	25	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	335
27	28	RED	“Still Alive”	285
28	27	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	277
29	29	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	233
30	30	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	201
31	31	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	187
32	34	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	141
33	33	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	140
34	32	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	140
35	35	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	126
36	40	MYLES KENNEDY	“Year Of The Tiger”	106
37	36	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	98
38	42	BLACKLITE DISTRICT	“Cold As Ice”	94
39	44	AVATAR	“The King Wants You”	91
40	38	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	90
41	39	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	88
42	41	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	86
43	37	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	84
44	45	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	81
45	43	FOZZY	“Painless”	76
46	47	CHRIS STAPLETON	“Midnight Train To Memphis”	59
47	54	WHILE SHE SLEEPS	“Hurricane”	58
48	51	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“Sawed Off Shotgun”	57
49	49	RISE AGAINST	“House On Fire”	56
50	46	THE STRUTS	“One Night Only”	56

 

 

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

AVATAR – “The King Wants You”

One of the more anticipated releases early in the new year is from Avatar.  These Swedish metalers consistently deliver interesting and unique amidst a landscape of sameness in Active Rock.  What makes them so appealing, aside from their outstanding songs, is the willingness to keep redefining themselves with each release.  Their increasing fan base offers proof positive that fans will embrace bands taking chances, and not just sticking to a formulaic approach to songwriting.  Of course, Avatar has the added advantage of being a theatrical marvel, with a presence that transcends the music.  “The King Wants You” has an edgy sound with staccato pacing as the main riff.  When the vocals kick in, memories of classic KISS coming rushing to mind.  Until now, the only similarity that I’ve ever seen between Avatar and KISS is the stage makeup.  This is not to say that “The King Wants You” sounds derivative at all.  Quite the contrary!  Like much of their work, this song has nuanced layers of depth that make you appreciate it more with each listen.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Royal Blood extended their modest lead over Seether (whose spins were basically flat week-over-week), allowing the royal ones to remain king of the throne to close out 2017.  Holiday weeks make it difficult to see trends, so there isn’t much to be gleaned from this week’s chart movement.  If Seether has truly plateaued, Royal Blood should be on top for several more weeks.  However, if there is another momentum shift for Seether, they can easily dethrone the current leaders as soon as next week (or anytime in the coming weeks).
 

 

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…

MACHINE HEAD – “Catharsis”

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “Call It Like It Is”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

VEER UNION – “Last Regret”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

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

Pop Evil slips past Papa Roach to claim a spot in this week’s Top 10…

The top 35 songs are exactly the same list, with only very slight changes in order, as a week ago…

Blacklite District and Avatar both break into the Top 40…

While She Sleeps returns to the published chart after a week’s absence, giving Glorious Sons the only true debut in the Top 50.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Royal Blood – “I Only Lie When I Love You”
Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”
Avatar – “The King Wants You”

 

FALLING
Foo Fighters – “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”
A Perfect Circle – “The Doomed”
Bush – “This Is War”

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Nice movement for Blacklite District, who now has their highest charting song in nearly four years (since “With Me Now” reached #32 in March 2014).
 

 

WRAP-UP

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