HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/9/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/9/19

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 2/9/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	2	GHOST	“Dance Macabre”	1939
2	1	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)”	1892
3	5	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“When The Seasons Change”	1441
4	3	PAPA ROACH	“Who Do You Trust?”	1401
5	6	GRETA VAN FLEET	“You’re The One”	1391
6	7	RIVAL SONS	“Do Your Worst”	1389
7	8	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Right Left Wrong”	1243
8	4	GODSMACK	“When Legends Rise”	1240
9	12	DISTURBED	“A Reason To Fight”	1120
10	11	HALESTORM	“Do Not Disturb”	1043
11	13	POP EVIL	“Be Legendary”	918
12	20	MARK MORTON (f. CHESTER BENNINGTON)	“Cross Off”	844
13	15	NOTHING MORE	“Let Em Burn”	820
14	14	METALLICA	“Halo on Fire”	802
15	19	BADFLOWER	“Heroin (2018)”	766
16	16	ATREYU	“The Time Is Now”	737
17	21	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Tourniquet”	666
18	18	MUSE	“Pressure”	653
19	22	DIAMANTE	“Haunted”	571
20	23	MEMPHIS MAY FIRE	“The Old Me”	549
21	25	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	519
22	26	P.O.D.	“Listening for The Silence”	363
23	30	THRICE	“Hold Up A Light”	352
24	29	PALAYE ROYALE	“You’ll Be Fine”	295
25	32	LIKE A STORM	“Complicated (Stitches & Scars)”	274
26	24	SLIPKNOT	“All Out Life”	265
27	28	CHEVELLE	“Sleep Walking Elite”	257
28	31	DOROTHY	“Who Do You Love”	248
29	37	BRING ME THE HORIZON (f. DANI FILTH)	“Wonderful Life”	233
30	34	ICE NINE KILLS	“A Grave Mistake”	232
31	39	SLASH (f. MYLES KENNEDY)	“Mind Your Manners”	212
32	44	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Ready To Let Go”	208
33	33	ROYAL TUSK	“Aftermath”	193
34	35	DOSE	“Vervain”	192
35	53	PAPA ROACH	“Elevate”	186
36	43	CALL ME KARIZMA	“Monster (Under My Bed)”	176
37	27	A PERFECT CIRCLE	“So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”	163
38	36	SUNFLOWER DEAD	“Victim”	154
39	45	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Vultures”	153
40	42	LIGHT THE TORCH	“The Safety Of Disbelief”	139
41	41	SHIM	“Crucified”	119
42	38	ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE	“Late”	117
43	49	BUCKCHERRY	“Bent”	73
44	46	SHVPES	“Afterlife”	71
45	47	RACONTEURS	“Sunday Driver”	67
46	56	SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT	“10 Feet Tall”	66
47	40	ROYAL BLISS	“Hard And Loud”	60
48	48	BOSTON MANOR	“Halo”	55
49	57	ALL THAT REMAINS	“Everything’s Wrong”	52
50	59	FOALS	“Exits”	51

 

TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2018

 

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

BUCKCHERRY – “Bent”

It was around this time in 1999 that Buckcherry burst onto the scene with “Lit Up.”  Their sound was raw and bluesy with just the right amount of rock and roll sleaze.  Aerosmith in the ’70s.  Guns N’ Roses in the ’80s.  Buckcherry in the ’90s and beyond is what I expected after seeing the band perform in a small NYC club before their debut album dropped.  They were just the jolt in the arm that a stagnant hard rock scene needed.  By all rights, Buckcherry should have been the next band to take the world by storm.  As the saying goes…”timing is everything.”  A few months after their debut album was released, the industry was rocked by the creation of Napster.  Suddenly, file sharing was all the rage.  The industry was slow to react to the seismic shift in the way that people consumed music, and things would never be the same.

Fast forward 20 years.  Buckcherry is still going strong with their eighth studio album, Warpaint (dropping 3/8/19).  They headline shows, but not the arenas that I figured they would.  They get radio play, but not as much as they should.  Had they made their debut a decade earlier, history would probably tell a different story about Josh Todd and company.  Still, the band continues to deliver a rock and roll swagger that is virtually unrivaled.

“Bent” is mixture of swagger, angst, and rage, but it’s not about binging on drugs or debaucherous sex; it’s about battling inner demons.  This kind of self-actualization only comes after experiencing the highs and lows of life, and having the maturity to realize that power comes from within.  At face value, “Bent” is a powerful song that doesn’t stray too far from the foundation that Buckcherry has laid over the past two decades. However, if you peel back the layers of the meaning behind the song, that power is magnified in an inspirational way.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted,  Ghost dethroned The Glorious Sons this week, but the margin was much closer than anticipated.  If not for a significant drop in spins for the former chart-toppers, they may very well have held on for another week.  Ghost had nice momentum coming into this week, but only had a marginal increase in spins.  Still, they have around a 500-spin lead over Five Finger Death Punch, so their run should last for at least the rest of the month, and possibly into March.  The Top 10 this week has some movers, so the battle at the top in the coming weeks should be interesting.
 

 

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”

DEMON HUNTER – “On My Side”

MESSER – “Simple Man”

TREMONTI – “Throw Them To The Lions”

SAUL – “Brother”

DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY – “Everything”

AFTERLIFE – “Throat”

 

DROP IT…

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

Foals – “Exits”

Cage The Elephant – “Ready To Let Go”

Raconteurs – “Sunday Driver”

Muse – “Pressure”

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

Palaye Royale – “You’ll Be Fine”

Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Format favorites Disturbed and Halestorm both reach the Top 10…

Breaking Benjamin leads three songs into the Top 20…

Four new arrivals in the Top 30 this week, including the latest from Bring Me The Horizon and Ice Nine Kills…

There are five new songs in the Top 40, led by the highest debuting single of the week from Papa Roach…

Three other songs also make their debut in the published Top 50, including efforts from Savage After Midnight and All That Remains.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Rival Sons – “Do Your Worst”
Disturbed – “A Reason To Fight”
Mark Morton (f. Chester Bennington) – “Cross Off”

 

FALLING
Godsmack – “When Legends Rise”
Papa Roach – “Who Do You Trust?”
Slipknot – “All Out Life”
 

 

TRENDS & OBSERVATIONS

The chart debut of “Ten Feet Tall” by Savage After Midnight comes a decade after the band was formed.  The band’s social media describes the journey along the way as being “sidetracked by an obligatory name change, a studio fire, scrapped recordings from major producers, a crippling lawsuit they had nothing to do with and an 11th hour record label change.”  Yep, that all sounds pretty normal these days. 😊