HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/2/18

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/2/18

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 6/2/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	2	GODSMACK	“Bulletproof”	1982
2	1	SHINEDOWN	“DEVIL”	1899
3	3	BAD WOLVES	“Zombie”	1736
4	4	GHOST	“Rats”	1563
5	5	JONATHAN DAVIS	“What It Is”	1397
6	6	GUNS N’ ROSES	“Shadow Of Your Love (2018)”	1199
7	8	RED SUN RISING	“Deathwish”	1021
8	7	THREE DAYS GRACE	“The Mountain”	1018
9	10	MUSE	“Thought Contagion”	1013
10	9	FOZZY	“Painless”	953
11	11	FEVER 333	“Walking In My Shoes”	946
12	12	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Crazy”	927
13	13	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Line”	911
14	17	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Sham Pain”	709
15	14	ROYAL BLOOD	“Hole In Your Heart”	708
16	16	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Roll Me Under”	581
17	15	DOROTHY	“Flawless”	581
18	18	SEVENDUST	“Dirty”	567
19	19	PARKWAY DRIVE	“The Void”	517
20	20	UNDEROATH	“Rapture”	493
21	22	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Broken Heart”	447
22	25	IN THIS MOMENT (f. Rob Halford)	“Black Wedding”	433
23	23	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE	“Over It”	432
24	28	ALICE IN CHAINS	“The One You Know”	421
25	29	POP EVIL	“A Crime To Remember”	349
26	34	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Alone In A Room”	275
27	24	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“Straight Jacket”	255
28	30	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“The Devil In Our Wake”	246
29	35	SKINDRED	“That’s My Jam”	238
30	38	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Torn In Two”	230
31	31	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Whatever It Takes”	228
32	32	MESSER	“Make This Life”	218
33	33	STONE SOUR	“St. Marie”	204
34	27	PEARL JAM	“Can’t Deny Me”	197
35	36	TREMONTI	“Take You With Me”	187
36	0	HALESTORM	“Uncomfortable”	179
37	39	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Dream On”	177
38	42	LIKE A STORM	“The Devil Inside”	160
39	40	THE DEAD DASIES	“Rise Up”	134
40	45	SHIM	“Hallelujah”	127
41	46	LEDGER	“Not Dead Yet”	119
42	41	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Comfort You”	112
43	44	BLACK STONE CHERRY	“Bad Habit”	96
44	47	THE RECORD COMPANY	“Life To Fix”	90
45	43	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Black Smoke Rising”	89
46	49	10 YEARS	“Burnout”	83
47	51	NATHANIEL RATELIFF/NIGHTSWEATS	“You Worry Me”	74
48	53	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“No Way Out”	68
49	52	PANIC! AT THE DISCO	Say Amen (Saturday Night)	64
50	48	RED	“Gone”	59

 

 

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

HALESTORM – “Uncomfortable”

Female fronted hard rock bands have grown in popularity in recent times, as has the #MeToo movement.  While I’m a big supporter of the movement, I can’t say that a part of me doesn’t long for the debaucherous days of rock and roll.  Enter Lzzy Hale.  As (arguably) the top female vocalist in the genre today, Hale could easily use her platform to further empower women.  For better or worse, we tend to associate the empowerment of women with taking a stand and shattering the glass ceilings that have existed for far too long.  With “Uncomfortable” (Halestorm’s debut single off of the band’s upcoming July release), Hale takes the empowerment of women in a totally different direction.

Hale has never been one to shy away from her sexuality, but there is no reading between the lines with “Uncomfortable,” a song that openly talks about sex, and her reasoning for putting it out there.  It’s a refreshing change of pace, and a reminder that female empowerment and sexuality are not mutually exclusive.  While it’s easy to lump Hale in with other female rockers, the truth of the matter is that her style and swagger has always made me think of her as being in the same vein as Sebastian Bach.  Like Bach, Hale has a softer side that can be found on songs like “Here’s To Us,” but at her core, she is an intense rocker and captivating lead vocalist.  Will Halestorm’s latest single make some people “uncomfortable?”  Highly likely, but that doesn’t seem to be of any consequence to Hale.  In fact, she proudly states that it’s her intention.  It’s no surprise that this killer tune made a strong debut on this week’s chart.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, the top 2 songs are from Shinedown and Godsmack.  While it looked like there was a chance that Godsmack would peak at #2, the powers that be helped to elevate “Bulletproof” to #1, knocking off “DEVIL.”  Based on the current trends, Godsmack is a lock to still be #1 next week, even if they start to decline.  If they gain or stay flat, their run at the top is likely to extend into July.  The way things are shaping up, it looks like Ghost is going to reach the top in the coming weeks with their latest single, “Rats.”
 

 

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…

FAREWELL TO FEAR – “Underneath My Skin”

MONSTER TRUCK – “Evolution”

THE LAZYS – “Nothing But Trouble”

DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY – “No Way Out”

NO RESOLVE – “What You Deserve”

WAYLAND – “Ghost”

THE STANDSTILLS – “Wild”

STONE BROKEN – “Worth Fighting For”

 

DROP IT…

The Fever 333 – “Walking In My Shoes”

Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”

Muse – “Thought Contagion”

Pearl Jam – “Can’t Deny Me”

Theory Of A Deadman – “Straight Jacket”

Royal Blood – “Hole In Your Heart”

Panic At The Disco – “Say Amen”

Nathaniel Rateliff – “You Worry Me”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

No changes in the composition of the Top 10 for the second straight week…

No changes in the composition of the Top 20 in fact…

Asking Alexandria and Skindred both crack the Top 30, as does the latest from Breaking Benjamin, in only its second week on the chart…

The week’s highest debuting song, from Halestorm, paces a trio of new entries in the Top 40.  Like A Storm and Shim join them in that rank…

Three songs in the final ten positions of the chart weren’t there a week ago but only one is an actual debut, that being the second single from Dead Girls Academy.  The others are re-entries that back their way in on flat or declining spins.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Ghost – “Rats”
Five Finger Death Punch – “Sham Pain”
Alice In Chains – “The One You Know”

 

FALLING
Bad Wolves – “Zombie”
Theory Of A Deadman – “Straight Jacket”
Royal Blood – “Hole In Your Heart”
 

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

This is the fifth consecutive week with the same top three songs.  Listeners in most markets have to feel like they’re being beaten over the head the with same stick repeatedly at this point.