HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/6/18

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/6/18

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 1/6/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	ROYAL BLOOD	“I Only Lie When I Love You”	1743
2	2	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1599
3	3	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1502
4	4	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1411
5	5	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	1252
6	6	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	1240
7	7	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	1222
8	11	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	1163
9	10	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	1134
10	8	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	1131
11	13	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	1002
12	14	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	1000
13	15	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	983
14	17	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	844
15	16	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	836
16	18	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	684
17	19	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	648
18	20	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	532
19	21	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	440
20	23	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	439
21	22	BUSH	“This Is War”	435
22	25	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	358
23	26	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	337
24	24	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	326
25	27	RED	“Still Alive”	280
26	28	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	276
27	29	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	247
28	30	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	210
29	31	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	192
30	33	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	155
31	34	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	154
32	35	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	133
33	37	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	132
34	32	AWOLNATION	“Passion”	124
35	36	MYLES KENNEDY	“Year Of The Tiger”	114
36	39	AVATAR	“The King Wants You”	109
37	45	FOZZY	“Painless”	106
38	44	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	106
39	42	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Thunder”	102
40	49	RISE AGAINST	“House On Fire”	99
41	38	BLACKLITE DISTRICT	“Cold As Ice”	96
42	41	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	94
43	40	STONE HORSES	“Reckless Ways”	94
44	0	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Red Cold River”	87
45	46	CHRIS STAPLETON	“Midnight Train To Memphis”	78
46	54	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	72
47	48	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“Sawed Off Shotgun”	66
48	43	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	64
49	55	BECK	“Up All Night”	61
50	52	ZERO THEOREM	“Area”	61

 

 

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

MYLES KENNEDY – “The Year Of The Tiger”

Fans of Myles Kennedy have been blessed with his tireless effort that produces new music regularly, pulling double duty between Alter Bridge and Slash.  While many were elated with the Guns N’ Roses reunion, others (like me) were left disappointed by having less of Kennedy’s brilliant vocals bringing incredible songs to life.  The disappointment was short-lived when Kennedy released “Year Of The Tiger,” the title track off of his upcoming solo release.

Is “Year Of The Tiger” a fit on Active Rock?  Some may not think so, but personally speaking, I am glad to see the song climbing up the chart.  The song does not sound like Kennedy’s work with either Alter Bridge or Slash, but that doesn’t matter.  To borrow a cliché, Kennedy could sing the phone book and it would be worthy of radio airplay.

These days, Active Rock bands being influenced by Led Zeppelin have managed to gain traction on radio, so why not Kennedy?  If Greta Van Fleet can take radio by storm with a Zeppelin-esque sound, “Year Of The Tiger” deserves the same treatment.  This is not to say that Kennedy is doing a Robert Plant imitation.  His vocals on the song as distinct as ever.  However, the underlying acoustic riff conjures up memories of “The Battle Of Evermore.”

SiriusXM’s Octane has a feature called “Unleaded” (acoustic performances of songs played regularly on the station).  The only difference with this song is that the acoustic version is the original.  In my opinion, neither Alter Bridge not Slash get as much attention as they deserve at Active Rock radio.  Both should be in heavy rotation as much as possible.  The same holds true for Kennedy’s first solo release!

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

With radio still seemingly in “holiday mode,” the movement at the top has been fairly stagnant.  For the moment, Royal Blood remains on top, but any meaningful decrease in spins will leave them vulnerable to being overtaken by Seether, Theory Of A Deadman, or even Foo Fighters.  That being said, all songs in the top 4 are basically treading water at this point.  If this trend continues, it could be awhile before Royal Blood is dethroned.  However, if things start to move once we get back to business as usual, their reign could end at any time because of the relatively small lead that they hold over the competition.
 

 

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…

JUDAS PRIEST – “Lightning Strike”

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “Call It Like It Is”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

RACHEL LORIN – “Revolution”

MACHINE HEAD – “Catharsis”

VEER UNION – “Last Regret”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Freak Flag”

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”

Beck – “Up All Night”

Marilyn Manson – “KILL4ME”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Papa Roach regains some momentum and returns to the Top 10 after slipping a bit last week…

Falling In Reverse and In This Moment are both new to the Top 20 this week, the former rising two spots despite losing a few spins versus the previous week…

Within Reason leads a pair of new arrivals to the Top 30…

Fozzy has another hit, leading a trio of songs new to the Top 40…

Four songs are in the Top 50 that were absent a week ago, but only one is actually debuting (the other three are re-entries).   Breaking Benjamin arrives with a fairly strong showing out of the box.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Royal Blood – “I Only Lie When I Love You”
Rise Against – “House On Fire”
Breaking Benjamin – “Red Cold River”

 

FALLING
Thirty Seconds To Mars – “Walk On Water”
Gary Clark Jr.– “Come Together”
Five Finger Death Punch – “Gone Away”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

More often than not, radio returns from the long holiday slowdown with a decent amount of movement.  Not true in 2018 (at least not yet).  Several songs linger on despite five months or longer on the chart, and there is only one actual debut in the first “normal” week for adds of the year.

 

WRAP-UP

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