HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/9/18

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/9/18

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 6/9/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	GODSMACK	“Bulletproof”	2070
2	2	SHINEDOWN	“DEVIL”	1939
3	3	BAD WOLVES	“Zombie”	1722
4	4	GHOST	“Rats”	1677
5	5	JONATHAN DAVIS	“What It Is”	1420
6	6	GUNS N’ ROSES	“Shadow Of Your Love (2018)”	1261
7	12	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Crazy”	1041
8	11	FEVER 333	“Walking In My Shoes”	1023
9	9	MUSE	“Thought Contagion”	1000
10	13	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Line”	976
11	8	THREE DAYS GRACE	“The Mountain”	947
12	14	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Sham Pain”	794
13	17	DOROTHY	“Flawless”	650
14	16	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Roll Me Under”	638
15	24	ALICE IN CHAINS	“The One You Know”	573
16	19	PARKWAY DRIVE	“The Void”	567
17	18	SEVENDUST	“Dirty”	549
18	20	UNDEROATH	“Rapture”	536
19	21	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Broken Heart”	524
20	25	POP EVIL	“A Crime To Remember”	512
21	36	HALESTORM	“Uncomfortable”	498
22	22	IN THIS MOMENT (f. Rob Halford)	“Black Wedding”	473
23	23	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE	“Over It”	462
24	15	ROYAL BLOOD	“Hole In Your Heart”	461
25	30	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Torn In Two”	368
26	26	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Alone In A Room”	335
27	29	SKINDRED	“That’s My Jam”	287
28	28	SHAMAN’S HARVEST	“The Devil In Our Wake”	243
29	32	MESSER	“Make This Life”	233
30	38	LIKE A STORM	“The Devil Inside”	207
31	35	TREMONTI	“Take You With Me”	201
32	31	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Whatever It Takes”	193
33	33	STONE SOUR	“St. Marie”	188
34	37	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Dream On”	184
35	59	NOTHING MORE	“Just Say When”	158
36	39	THE DEAD DASIES	“Rise Up”	146
37	41	LEDGER	“Not Dead Yet”	131
38	40	SHIM	“Hallelujah”	131
39	44	THE RECORD COMPANY	“Life To Fix”	120
40	46	10 YEARS	“Burnout”	96
41	78	THRICE	“The Grey”	93
42	54	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Voices”	92
43	42	LETTERS FROM THE FIRE	“Comfort You”	91
44	47	NATHANIEL RATELIFF/NIGHTSWEATS	“You Worry Me”	90
45	45	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Black Smoke Rising”	90
46	48	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“No Way Out”	83
47	57	GRANDSON	“Blood/Water”	82
48	52	ROYAL BLISS	“Devil With Angel Eyes”	81
49	43	BLACK STONE CHERRY	“Bad Habit”	80
50	49	PANIC! AT THE DISCO	Say Amen (Saturday Night)	74

 

 

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

MONSTER TRUCK – “Evolution”

“Evolution” is an appropriate title for Monster Truck’s latest single.  Evolution is defined as “the gradual development of something.”  With the classic rock revival in full swing, it’s always enjoyable to listen to music that is rooted in the past, but with a current twist to keep things fresh.  Canada’s Monster Truck is an unapologetic rock and roll band, who admittedly, only writes music to please themselves.  The band cites their appreciation for hard rock, punk, and classic rock in their bio.  “Evolution” adds in a bit of a psychedelic rock to this modernized classic rock tune.  It’s interesting to hear a song that sounds current with elements that come directly from the early ’70s.  The song is fairly straightforward, but there’s beauty in the simplicity.  This is the type of track that will definitely stand out on any Active Rock playlist.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Shinedown started to decline last week after hitting #1, but they reversed course this week and started to gain again.  Still, with Godsmack continuing to rise, there was no change at the top.  Ghost continues to rise on strong spin gains, but still trails Godsmack by around 400 spins.  Either Godsmack or Shinedown will be #1 next week (even if they start to decline).  Ghost still looks destined to reach the top, but it most likely won’t come until sometime in July.
 

 

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…

MONSTER TRUCK – “Evolution”

DEE SNIDER – “Tomorrow’s No Concern”

THREE DAYS GRACE – “Infra-Red”

THE PROTEST – “What Else You Got”

NO RESOLVE – “What You Deserve”

THE STANDSTILLS – “Wild”

STONE BROKEN – “Worth Fighting For”

ONCE AROUND – “Ghost”

 

DROP IT…

The Fever 333 – “Walking In My Shoes”

Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”

Muse – “Thought Contagion”

Royal Blood – “Hole In Your Heart”

Panic At The Disco – “Say Amen”

Nathaniel Rateliff – “You Worry Me”

Messer – “Make This Life”

Grandson – “Blood/Water”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

From Ashes To New leads a trio of songs into the Top 10 this week…

Alice In Chains leads a trio of new entries into the Top 20…

No surprise to see Halestorm reach the Top 30 quickly, joined there by a relative quick moving Like A Storm…

Four songs are new to the Top 40 this week, led by the week’s highest debuting single from Nothing More.  Also climbing are Ledger, The Record Company, and 10 Years…

Four other songs make their official published chart debut this week, with Thrice providing the strongest of the lot.  Royal Bliss also cracks the list, some two months after first receiving airplay.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Ghost – “Rats”
Halestorm – “Uncomfortable”
Alice In Chains – “The One You Know”

 

FALLING
Three Days Grace – “The Mountain”
Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”
Royal Blood – “Hole In Your Heart”

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

The summer doldrums liven up a bit, although some of the movement is more attributable to songs (such as Fozzy’s “Painless”) falling to the wayside after extended runs, rather than to particular strength for some tracks that enjoyed noticeable gains in position more than spins.