HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/27/18

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/27/18

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 1/20/18. 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”	1892
2	2	SEETHER	“Betray And Degrade”	1606
3	6	PAPA ROACH	“Born For Greatness”	1396
4	7	POP EVIL	“Waking Lions”	1321
5	5	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Trouble”	1273
6	3	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Rx”	1258
7	11	METALLICA	“Spit Out The Bone”	1171
8	9	10 YEARS	“Novacaine”	1171
9	12	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Safari Song”	1157
10	4	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”	1154
11	13	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Meadow”	1024
12	8	MARILYN MANSON	“KILL4ME”	936
13	14	STONE SOUR	“Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb And So Am I)”	921
14	10	THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS	“Walk On Water”	879
15	16	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Into The Fire”	773
16	21	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Red Cold River”	679
17	18	I PREVAIL	“Lifelines”	587
18	19	BUSH	“This Is War”	552
19	20	IN THIS MOMENT	“Roots”	527
20	25	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	518
21	17	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“The Doomed”	491
22	15	AVENGED SEVENFOLD	“Wish You Were Here”	453
23	31	RISE AGAINST	“House On Fire”	412
24	23	THROUGH FIRE	“Where You Lie”	380
25	24	ALL THAT REMAINS	“The Thunder Rolls”	350
26	27	RED	“Still Alive”	298
27	26	TRIVIUM	“Heart From Your Hate”	288
28	29	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (f. JONATHAN DAVIS)	“Necessary Evil”	262
29	69	RED SUN RISING	“Deathwish”	251
30	33	AVATAR	“The King Wants You”	235
31	22	FALLING IN REVERSE	“Superhero”	220
32	30	BLACK LABEL SOCIETY	“Room Of Nightmares”	218
33	32	WITHIN REASON	“Invictus”	209
34	56	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Straight Jacket”	189
35	36	MYLES KENNEDY	“Year Of The Tiger”	180
36	37	FOZZY	“Painless”	165
37	47	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	159
38	28	GARY CLARK JR	“Come Together”	153
39	38	DEADSET SOCIETY	“Automatic”	142
40	35	TOM KEIFER (f. Lizzy Hale)	“Nobody’s Fool”	133
41	39	ADELITAS WAY	“Notorious”	113
42	34	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“I’ll Find A Way”	105
43	62	OF MICE & MEN	“Money”	97
44	41	CHRIS STAPLETON	“Midnight Train To Memphis”	95
45	54	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“Same About You”	90
46	55	JUDAS PRIEST	“Lightning Strike”	88
47	44	BLACKLITE DISTRICT	“Cold As Ice”	87
48	67	MESSER	“Make This Life”	86
49	42	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Light Me Up”	86
50	45	TOOTHGRINDER	“Let It Ride”	82

 

 

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

THREE DAYS GRACE – “The Mountain”

Not surprisingly, the return of Three Days Grace with new material resulted in instant traction at Active Rock radio.  They are among a handful of bands that gets automatic airplay regardless of the song.  That is not to say that the band doesn’t deserve the airplay.  They absolutely do.  “The Mountain” is a nice return for these Active Rock darlings.  It’s aggressive, powerful and highly energetic…the type of song that is ideal for working out and pushing past the pain.  Lyrically, the song also provides a healthy does of motivation and inspiration.  Although you can’t tell when you hear it on the radio, the video for the song takes the workout theme a step further.  It was filmed in a UFC octagon, and features a cameo appearance by UFC fighter, Misha Circunov.  Songs this heavy are often times accompanied by angry growls, but Three Days Grace sticks to their formula of delivering melodic, catchy vocals.  As the old saying goes…“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”  It’s safe to say that this will not be the only single that charts during the course of the year.  The band’s latest album, Outsider, drops on March 9th.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Seether’s decline last week signaled the possibility of an extended run for current leaders, Royal Blood.  Usually when a song starts to decline it doesn’t reverse course.  Seether broke the trend this week, gaining a modest amount of spins, putting them back in contention to reach the top of the chart.  At the same time, Royal Blood started to decline.  Even if Seether plateaus, they could end up with a #1 after all if Royal Blood drops significantly next week.  Otherwise, it’s likely that Papa Roach will be the next #1 as “Born For Greatness” picked up a head of steam this week.  So to did Greta Van Fleet’s “Safari Song,” but it trails Papa Roach by 250 spins.  Keep an eye on both of these to battle for the top 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…

BLACK WATER RISING – “The Payback”

SLAVES – “Patience Is A Virtue”

MACHINE HEAD – “Catharsis”

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “Call It Like It Is”

BOBAFLEX – “Long Time Coming”

KIRRA – “My Disease”

JOSH TODD & THE CONFLICT – “Story Of My Life”

RANDOM HERO – “Running”

 

DROP IT…

Adelita’s Way – “Notorious”

Marilyn Manson – “KILL4ME”

Bush – “This Is War”

Foo Fighters – “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”

Theory Of A Deadman – “Rx”

Avenged Sevenfold – “Wish You Were Here”

Through Fire – “Where You Lie”

Chris Stapleton – “Midnight Train To Memphis”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

After more than a month stuck largely in place, Stone Temple Pilots get a nice bump in spins and reach the Top 10…

Rise Against continues to climb the chart, moving into the Top 20 this week…

Five Finger Death Punch sees support shifting from one single to another, enough to push their cover of The Offspring’s “Gone Away” into the Top 30…

The week’s highest debut comes from format staple Three Days Grace, scoring them the highest position of the three songs new to the Top 40…

For the second week in a row, four other titles make their published chart premiere in the final ten spots, including a cover song from Bad Wolves, new Black Veil Brides, and the next single from Ded.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Papa Roach – “Born For Greatness”
Breaking Benjamin – “Red Cold River”
Five Finger Death Punch – “Gone Away”

 

FALLING
Five Finger Death Punch – “Trouble”
Avenged Sevenfold – “Wish You Were Here”
Marilyn Manson – “KILL4ME”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

And you get a cover song, and you get a cover song, and you get a… well, you get the idea.  Individually, there’s nothing expressly “wrong” with a band doing a cover, or even occasionally choosing one as a single.  But over the past few months, the flurry of them has a lot of (supposedly) active rock stations sounding like they’ve flipped to classic rock formats.  Surely, at some point, programmers will realize that it’s gotten out of hand … right?

 

WRAP-UP

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