HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/2/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/2/19

Each week 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 2/2/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)”	2007
2	2	GHOST	“Dance Macabre”	1902
3	4	PAPA ROACH	“Who Do You Trust?”	1699
4	3	GODSMACK	“When Legends Rise”	1539
5	5	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“When The Seasons Change”	1375
6	7	GRETA VAN FLEET	“You’re The One”	1281
7	9	RIVAL SONS	“Do Your Worst”	1213
8	10	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Right Left Wrong”	1138
9	8	SHINEDOWN	“GET UP”	1046
10	6	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“MANTRA”	1034
11	11	HALESTORM	“Do Not Disturb”	1005
12	13	DISTURBED	“A Reason To Fight”	934
13	14	POP EVIL	“Be Legendary”	836
14	15	METALLICA	“Halo on Fire”	794
15	16	NOTHING MORE	“Let Em Burn”	710
16	17	ATREYU	“The Time Is Now”	680
17	12	FROM ASHES TO NEW	“Broken”	670
18	18	MUSE	“Pressure”	666
19	19	BADFLOWER	“Heroin (2018)”	648
20	23	MARK MORTON (f. CHESTER BENNINGTON)	“Cross Off”	626
21	25	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Tourniquet”	546
22	22	DIAMANTE	“Haunted”	510
23	21	MEMPHIS MAY FIRE	“The Old Me”	502
24	20	SLIPKNOT	“All Out Life”	416
25	27	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	415
26	26	P.O.D.	“Listening for The Silence”	379
27	24	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”	274
28	29	CHEVELLE	“Sleep Walking Elite”	265
29	32	PALAYE ROYALE	“You’ll Be Fine”	252
30	36	THRICE	“Hold Up A Light”	250
31	30	DOROTHY	“Who Do You Love”	231
32	31	LIKE A STORM	“Complicated (Stitches & Scars)”	226
33	34	ROYAL TUSK	“Aftermath”	217
34	33	ICE NINE KILLS	“A Grave Mistake”	210
35	35	DOSE	“Vervain”	181
36	39	SUNFLOWER DEAD	“Victim”	148
37	48	BRING ME THE HORIZON (f. DANI FILTH)	“Wonderful Life”	140
38	49	ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE	“Late”	134
39	42	SLASH (f. MYLES KENNEDY)	“Mind Your Manners”	133
40	43	ROYAL BLISS	“Hard And Loud”	129
41	40	SHIM	“Crucified”	116
42	45	LIGHT THE TORCH	“The Safety Of Disbelief”	114
43	0	CALL ME KARIZMA	“Monster (Under My Bed)”	113
44	0	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Ready To Let Go”	93
45	59	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Vultures”	78
46	46	SHVPES	“Afterlife”	69
47	53	RACONTEURS	“Sunday Driver”	64
48	51	BOSTON MANOR	“Halo”	62
49	61	BUCKCHERRY	“Bent”	57
50	50	DEMON HUNTER	“On My Side”	52

 

TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2018

 

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

TAKE THE DAY – “Song For The Broken”

Like a scene from a horror movie, “Song For The Broken” creates a palpable tension with haunting keyboards and distant vocals before jolting the listener as the band kicks in with unified force.  Rather than dialing up the adrenaline throughout, Take The Day uses heavy accents to bring a dynamic presence and a sparseness that lets the song breathe.  This approach was used with regularity in the early days of hard rock, but less so with current active rock bands.  Though there are elements of decades past, at its core, “Song For The Broken” fits perfectly into the active rock format.  With infectious hooks and passionate vocals featuring just the right amount of angst, this track takes you back in time to the Adam Gontier days of Three Days Grace.

“Song For The Broken” was co-written, produced, and engineered by Chris Dawson and Jimmy Beattie of Seasons After.  Like Seasons After, Take The Day also hails from Kansas.  Both bands have a sound that stands out from the crowd, so it’s no surprise that I was drawn to this song from the first listen.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

The only group in the Top 5 that is still on the rise is Ghost.  That leaves smooth sailing for “Dance Macabre” to take over the #1 position next week, ending the run for The Glorious Sons.  Unless Papa Roach reverses course and begins to increase in spins again, there will be no immediate challengers to Ghost once they take over the top spot.
 

 

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…

TAKE THE DAY – “Song For The Broken”

EVE TO ADAM – “No Easy Way Out”

MESSER – “Simple Man”

DEVOUR THE DAY – “Faithless”

IN FLAMES – “(This Is Our) House”

KOBRA AND THE LOTUS – “Let Me Love You”

AFTERLIFE – “Throat”

WITHIN TEMPTATION – “The Reckoning”

 

DROP IT…

Call Me Karizma – “Monster (Under My Bed)”

Cage The Elephant – “Ready To Let Go”

Raconteurs – “Sunday Driver”

Muse – “Pressure”

A Perfect Circle – “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish”

Bring Me The Horizon – “Mantra”

Palaye Royale – “You’ll Be Fine”

Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

No changes in the composition of the Top 10 this week…

Mark Morton claims the only new entry into the Top 20…

Two songs enter the Top 30 for the first time (though I can’t fathom why either is on an chart that’s supposedly tracking songs played by allegedly ROCK stations)…

Bring Me The Horizon, Altitudes & Attitude, Slash, and Royal Bliss all climb into the Top 40 this week…

No less than six songs debut in the Top 50, though more lowlights than highlights aside from Boston Manor and Buckcherry.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Ghost – “Dance Macabre”
Disturbed – “A Reason To Fight”
Mark Morton (f. Chester Bennington) – “Cross Off”
 
FALLING
Godsmack – “When Legends Rise”
Bring Me The Horizon – “MANTRA”
From Ashes To New – “Broken”
 

 

TRENDS & OBSERVATIONS

With six songs making their Top 50 debut, it would be tempting to be encouraged (if not downright excited).  And then you hear what is being passed off as “rock” by stations in 2019, and it’s hard to wonder how much longer the word “rock” will even be included in the chart name, or will exist as a recognizable radio format.  In many markets, if not most, I’m not sure the latter is even the case already.