HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/19/18

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/19/18

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 5/19/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	BAD WOLVES	“Zombie”	2028
2	2	SHINEDOWN	“DEVIL”	1950
3	3	GODSMACK	“Bulletproof”	1937
4	6	GHOST	“Rats”	1361
5	5	JONATHAN DAVIS	“What It Is”	1355
6	4	THREE DAYS GRACE	“The Mountain”	1296
7	7	FOZZY	“Painless”	1065
8	8	RED SUN RISING	“Deathwish”	1052
9	17	GUNS N’ ROSES	“Shadow Of Your Love (2018)”	1007
10	9	MUSE	“Thought Contagion”	988
11	14	FEVER 333	“Walking In My Shoes”	902
12	15	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Crazy”	869
13	12	ROYAL BLOOD	“Hole In Your Heart”	842
14	11	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Straight Jacket”	650
15	23	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Line”	648
16	10	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Gone Away”	592
17	19	DOROTHY	“Flawless”	555
18	18	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Red Cold River”	537
19	13	PEARL JAM	“Can’t Deny Me”	528
20	20	SEVENDUST	“Dirty”	524
21	24	UNDEROATH	“Rapture”	523
22	21	PARKWAY DRIVE	“The Void”	520
23	22	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Roll Me Under”	520
24	30	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Sham Pain”	463
25	25	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Broken Heart”	451
26	16	NOTHING MORE	“Do You Really Want It?”	437
27	26	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE	“Over It”	391
28	31	IN THIS MOMENT (f. Rob Halford)	“Black Wedding”	362
29	27	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“The Devil In Our Wake”	334
30	33	MESSER	“Make This Life”	286
31	32	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Whatever It Takes”	279
32	36	ALICE IN CHAINS	“The One You Know”	257
33	34	STONE SOUR	“St. Marie”	249
34	38	SKINDRED	“That’s My Jam”	232
35	37	TREMONTI	“Take You With Me”	219
36	39	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Alone In A Room”	210
37	28	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“TalkTalk”	202
38	29	RISE AGAINST	“House On Fire”	195
39	46	POP EVIL	“A Crime To Remember”	193
40	35	TRIVIUM	“Endless Night”	178
41	40	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Dream On”	148
42	41	RED	“Gone”	131
43	44	THE DEAD DAISIES	“Rise Up”	112
44	42	BLACK STONE CHERRY	“Bad Habit”	108
45	43	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Black Smoke Rising”	105
46	47	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Comfort You”	104
47	50	THE RECORD COMPANY	“Life To Fix”	80
48	45	VYCES	“Thin Luck”	80
49	55	SHIM	“Hallelujah”	75
50	48	NATHANIEL RATELIFF/NIGHTSWEATS	“You Worry Me”	73

 

 

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

SAM COFFEY & THE IRON LUNGS – “Tough”

The boys are back in town!  Ok, with Black Star Riders, the spirit of Thin Lizzy has never truly gone away, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for more music in the same vein.  Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs is a six-piece rock and roll outfit from Toronto.  These Canadian rockers released their debut album last summer.  There isn’t a lot of information available about the band on their website or social media, but piecing things together, you get the feeling that this is a band that prides themselves on tapping into the nostalgic rock and roll days of yesteryear.  This is not just because their latest single, “Tough,” has a distinct Thin Lizzy feel (although that’s a big part of it).

Bands like Steel Panther tap into the same spirit, albeit in a comedic, ironic kind of way.  I can’t say for sure, but seeing the members of Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs clad in matching denim vests seems more like a genuine homage to the ‘80s than a parody of it.  Regardless of their image, this band plays the type of gin-soaked music that makes you want to head to a pub and hoist a few with your rock and roll friends.  In a day and age where things feel increasingly serious, it’s nice to have bands like Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs to remind us that rock and roll was once about having fun and bonding with like-minded people.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Godsmack didn’t make the jump to #1 this week with “Bulletproof,” but they should leapfrog both Bad Wolves and Shinedown next week to take over the top spot.  With around a 600-spin lead over “Rats” by Ghost, Sully Erna and company looked poised for a multi-week run at the top.  Is Guns N’ Roses destined for a number one song?  Based on this week’s trend, it certainly appears so.  They have a decent amount of ground to make up to catch Godsmack, Ghost, and Jonathan Davis, but “Shadow Of Your Love” (from their upcoming box set – Locked N’ Loaded) is flying up the charts, gaining 350 spins this week, and jumping into the top 10.

 

 

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…

SAM COFFEY & THE IRON LUNGS – “Tough”

NO RESOLVE – “What You Deserve”

BOBAFLEX – “Lights Out”

WAYLAND – “Ghost”

KOBRA AND THE LOTUS – “Velvet Roses”

THE LAZYS – “Nothing But Trouble”

THE STANDSTILLS – “Wild”

STONE BROKEN – “Worth Fighting For”

 

DROP IT…

The Fever 333 – “Walking In My Shoes”

Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – “You Worry Me”

Muse – “Thought Contagion”

Pearl Jam – “Can’t Deny Me”

Red  – “Gone”

Theory Of A Deadman – “Straight Jacket”

Royal Blood – “Hole In Your Heart”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Guns N’ Roses flies into the Top 10 with over 50% increased spins…

Foo Fighters enjoy a similar “spincrease” and jump into the Top 20…

In This Moment is new to the Top 30 this week, while Messer inches back into the tier, equaling their peak position from five weeks ago…

New to the Top 40 this week is the second single from the new Pop Evil album…

Only one song debuts in the entire published chart this week, that’s the solo debut from Shim (better known to most as Shimon Moore, former frontman for Sick Puppies).
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Guns N’ Roses – “Shadow Of Your Love”
Ghost – “Rats”
Foo Fighters – “The Line”

 

FALLING
Pearl Jam – “Can’t Deny Me”
Nothing More – “Do You Really Want It?”
Three Days Grace – “The Mountain”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Third straight week with the same songs in the top 3, which creates a logjam that causes a lot of songs to plateau.  Red Sun Rising has been between #8 and #11 since early April for example, Dorothy has been stuck between #17 and #21 for nine weeks now, while Nothing More spent eight weeks at either #6 or #8 before now going through a steady descent down the chart and on their way out.