HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/25/18

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/25/18

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 8/25/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	2	HALESTORM	“Uncomfortable”	1725
2	3	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Sham Pain”	1697
3	5	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Infra-Red”	1539
4	4	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Torn In Two”	1508
5	1	GHOST	“Rats”	1461
6	10	GRETA VAN FLEET	“When The Curtain Falls”	1232
7	9	BADFLOWER	“Ghost”	1209
8	8	POP EVIL	“A Crime To Remember”	1182
9	20	DISTURBED	“Are You Ready”	1181
10	7	GODSMACK	“Bulletproof”	1115
11	11	NOTHING MORE	“Just Say When”	1000
12	12	BAD WOLVES (f. DIAMANTE)	“Hear Me Now”	940
13	13	SLASH F/MYLES KENNEDY	“Driving Rain”	878
14	14	IN THIS MOMENT (f. Rob Halford)	“Black Wedding”	826
15	15	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Alone In A Room”	704
16	16	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	“Jumpsuit”	686
17	21	GRANDSON	“Blood/Water”	485
18	26	THRICE	“The Grey”	412
19	25	10 YEARS	“Burnout”	404
20	19	SEETHER	“Against The Wall”	391
21	27	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“S.O.S.”	385
22	37	SHINEDOWN	“Get Up”	371
23	28	BEARTOOTH	“Disease”	346
24	32	FOZZY	“Burn Me Out”	321
25	22	SKINDRED	“That’s My Jam”	321
26	30	SHIM	“Hallelujah”	303
27	35	IMAGINE DRAGONS	“Natural”	292
28	29	THE RECORD COMPANY	“Life To Fix”	281
29	18	ALICE IN CHAINS	“The One You Know”	276
30	34	LEDGER	“Not Dead Yet”	274
31	17	ESCAPE THE FATE	“Broken Heart”	268
32	31	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Voices”	267
33	23	FOO FIGHTERS	“The Line”	263
34	33	KULICK	“Ghost”	253
35	24	LIKE A STORM	“The Devil Inside”	247
36	36	NONPOINT	“Chaos And Earthquakes”	219
37	38	THE STRUTS	“Body Talks”	191
38	40	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE	“Letting You Go”	169
39	39	DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY	“No Way Out”	166
40	42	LIVE	“Love Lounge”	159
41	49	JONATHAN DAVIS	“Basic Needs”	148
42	43	UNDEROATH	“ihateit”	129
43	44	ADELITAS WAY	“Still Hungry”	127
44	48	PARKWAY DRIVE	“Prey”	126
45	61	ALICE IN CHAINS	“Never Fade”	122
46	47	ROYAL BLISS	“Devil With Angel Eyes”	112
47	60	RED SUN RISING	“Veins”	98
48	50	PRETTY VICIOUS	“Move”	92
49	0	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“MANTRA”	90
50	53	WILSON	“Like A Baller”	84

 

 

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

DISTURBED – “Are You Ready”

Aside from the band’s megahit cover of “The Sound Of Silence,” whenever Disturbed comes blasting through your speakers, you need to brace yourself for an onslaught led by frontman David Draiman.  The band’s lead single (“Are You Ready”) from their forthcoming October release gets the adrenaline pumping from the outset.  Draiman aggressively belting out “Get Up, Get Up” makes it feel like the beginning of a high intensity workout video.  As the song transitions, the mood shifts from workout to a message of empowerment.  An “us against the world” anthem if you will.

Disturbed is one of the truly unique bands in rock today, so it’s no surprise that they are a dominant force on Active Rock radio.  With a three year gap since their extremely successful Immortalized album, there was undoubtedly a pent up demand for new music from the band (from both fans and programmers alike).  “Are You Ready” shot up the chart this week, gaining more spins week-over-week than most songs received it total.  It seems like it’s only a matter of time before the song tops the chart (most likely within the next month or so).

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Last week’s predictions were spot-on!  Not only was it guaranteed that Ghost would finally be knocked from the #1 position (likely in favor of Halestorm – the new #1), but it was predicted that the former chart-toppers would be leapfrogged by Halestorm, Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace.  Is it time to go out on top like George Constanza did on Seinfeld?  Nah, we’ll keep ’em coming…

Halestorm’s run on top is likely to be short-lived, as they make way for Five Finger Death Punch.  Whereas Ghost was the recipient of fortunate timing, the top 4 is now filled with format heavy hitters.  How many of them will get their turn at the top?  It would be easy to say that they’ll all get their chance, but given Disturbed’s incredible rise this week (gaining 724 spins, and vaulting into the top 10), there may not be enough time to rotate each of them in before David Draiman and company take over.
 

 

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…

GODSMACK – “When Legends Rise”

ROYAL TUSK – “Aftermath”

JUDAS PRIEST – “No Surrender”

AVATAR – “The King Welcomes You To Avatarland”

STONE HORSES – “End Of The World”

ARMORED DAWN – “Sail Away”

MONSTER TRUCK – “Evolution”

HANDS LIKE HOUSES – “Monster”

 

DROP IT…

Twenty One Pilots – “Jumpsuit”

Imagine Dragons – “Natural”

Grandson – “Blood/Water”

Kulick – “Ghost”

Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”

Foo Fighters – “The Line”

Escape The Fate – “Broken Heart”

The Struts – “Body Talks”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The format powerhouse that is Disturbed roars into the Top 10…

The new Top 20 songs this week, all with significant gains in position despite modest gains in airplay, were boosted by the sharp declines for a number of fading hits…

Four songs new to the Top 30, led by Shinedown (who nearly doubled their spins) and Fozzy (who gained eight positions)…

With all the movement above, surprisingly there’s not a single song that’s truly new to the Top 40 this week.  Live does inch back up two spots to match where they were two weeks ago…

Three debuting singles and a re-entry appear in the Top 50, including a brand new release from Bring Me The Horizon.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Shinedown – “Get Up”
Five Finger Death Punch – “Sham Pain”
Disturbed – “Are You Ready?”

 

FALLING
Ghost – “Rats”
Alice In Chains – “The One You Know”
Godsmack – “Bulletproof”

 

 TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

How fast is the Disturbed song moving up the chart?  It gained more spins (+724) week over week than all but 13 rock songs received during the entire period.