HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 3/2/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 3/2/19

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 3/2/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	3	RIVAL SONS	“Do Your Worst”	1759
2	2	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“When The Seasons Change”	1712
3	4	GRETA VAN FLEET	“You’re The One”	1699
4	1	GHOST	“Dance Macabre”	1541
5	6	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Right Left Wrong”	1410
6	7	DISTURBED	“A Reason To Fight”	1366
7	5	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)”	1355
8	8	HALESTORM	“Do Not Disturb”	1126
9	9	POP EVIL	“Be Legendary”	1071
10	10	BADFLOWER	“Heroin (2018)”	1000
11	11	MARK MORTON (f. CHESTER BENNINGTON)	“Cross Off”	993
12	12	NOTHING MORE	“Let Em Burn”	884
13	14	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Tourniquet”	823
14	15	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	778
15	13	METALLICA	“Halo on Fire”	743
16	16	ATREYU	“The Time Is Now”	730
17	17	DIAMANTE	“Haunted”	715
18	19	MEMPHIS MAY FIRE	“The Old Me”	633
19	20	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Ready To Let Go”	616
20	22	THRICE	“Hold Up A Light”	531
21	23	PAPA ROACH	“Elevate”	519
22	21	MUSE	“Pressure”	420
23	25	SLASH (f. MYLES KENNEDY)	“Mind Your Manners”	389
24	26	PALAYE ROYALE	“You’ll Be Fine”	388
25	24	P.O.D.	“Listening for The Silence”	343
26	28	LIKE A STORM	“Complicated (Stitches & Scars)”	322
27	27	ICE NINE KILLS	“A Grave Mistake”	312
28	30	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Vultures”	307
29	31	BRING ME THE HORIZON (f. DANI FILTH)	“Wonderful Life”	286
30	51	MOTLEY CRUE (f. M.G.K.)	“The Dirt (Est. 1981)”	285
31	29	DOROTHY	“Who Do You Love”	234
32	32	DOSE	“Vervain”	207
33	34	SHIM	“Crucified”	177
34	33	CALL ME KARIZMA	“Monster (Under My Bed)”	175
35	36	ALL THAT REMAINS	“Everything’s Wrong”	172
36	37	LIGHT THE TORCH	“The Safety Of Disbelief”	155
37	35	ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE	“Late”	135
38	42	BUCKCHERRY	“Bent”	119
39	41	SEVENDUST	“Risen”	118
40	47	SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT	“10 Feet Tall”	116
41	46	FEVER 333	“One Of Us”	99
42	52	SAUL	“Brother”	96
43	55	SHINEDOWN	“Monsters”	94
44	45	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Medicine”	74
45	0	I PREVAIL	“Breaking Down”	70
46	44	SHVPES	“Afterlife”	68
47	48	MADAME MAYHEM	“Broken”	62
48	53	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Blue On Black”	59
49	57	MESSER	“Simple Man”	54
50	43	PALISADES	“Erase The Pain”	52

 

 

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

ROYAL TUSK – “Reflection”

It’s a little bit punk, a little bit moody, a little bit bluesy, dynamic, and powerfully energetic.  In some ways, it feels like Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters and Nirvana worlds colliding.  In other ways it feels like a blending of styles that I’ve never heard before.  That’s what makes Royal Tusk’s “Reflection” so captivating.  By infusing elements of stoner, blues, and punk rock with grunge, this Canadian powerhouse has proven that niches and labels are much less relevant than passion and execution.  Could Royal Tusk write songs that would be a natural fit for Active Rock radio?  There is no doubt in my mind.  This is a modern band that possesses the type of old school talent that used to separate the wheat from the chaff when the barriers to entry were much greater.  Rather than taking the common approach and delivering songs that fit in the sweet spot of Active Rock, Royal Tusk is blazing their own trail and letting the chips fall where they may.  They already had success with this approach on “Aftermath,” so there’s no reason why they can’t do the same with “Reflection.”

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week, Five Finger Death Punch, Greta Van Fleet, and Rival Sons all surpassed Ghost to create an interesting Top 3.  Rival Sons leapfrogged FFDP to take over the #1 position this week, but they shouldn’t get too comfortable.  The difference between #1 and #3 is only 60 spins, which means that any of the three can easily be on top next week.  Three Days Grace and Disturbed will join the fray next week in a Top 5 that is all but guaranteed.  These five should remain at the top for the rest of March, and quite likely, beyond.
 

 

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…

ROYAL TUSK – “Reflection”

BLACKTOP MOJO – “Prodigal”

TAKE THE DAY – “Song For The Broken”

DEMON HUNTER – “On My Side”

TREMONTI – “Throw Them To The Lions”

EMPTY TRAIL – “My World”

DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY – “Everything”

HINDER – “Halo”

 

DROP IT…

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

Cage The Elephant – “Ready To Let Go”

Muse – “Pressure”

Palaye Royale – “You’ll Be Fine”

Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”

Asking Alexandria – “Vultures”

Thrice – “Hold Up A Light”

Bring Me The Horizon – “Medicine”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The past few weeks of chart movement come to a sudden halt with no new songs in the Top 10 this week and only one new member (Thrice) of the Top 20…

Only one truly new member of the Top 30 as well, and that’s the week’s highest debuting song in the published chart as Motley Crue returns to the airwaves…

The Top 40 does have three new arrivals, with Buckcherry, Sevendust, and Savage After Midnight all hitting a new benchmark with their latest releases…

Five more songs debut in the final section of the Top 50, including the debut of Saul, new I Prevail and a (thus far) album cut from Five Finger Death Punch…
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Rival Sons – “Do Your Worst”
Breaking Benjamin – “Tourniquet”
Papa Roach – “Elevate”

 

FALLING
Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”
Metallica – “Halo On Fire”
Ghost – “Dance Macabre”
 

 

TRENDS & OBSERVATIONS

Even tougher sledding than usual for bands trying to get airplay for their singles as album cuts / alternate singles take up 2-3 slots in this week’s chart.