HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 3/30/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 3/30/19

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 3/30/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	2	DISTURBED	“A Reason To Fight”	1795
2	4	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Right Left Wrong”	1621
3	6	POP EVIL	“Be Legendary”	1404
4	1	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“When The Seasons Change”	1394
5	5	BADFLOWER	“Heroin (2018)”	1385
6	3	GRETA VAN FLEET	“You’re The One”	1381
7	8	MARK MORTON (f. CHESTER BENNINGTON)	“Cross Off”	1166
8	12	BLACK KEYS	“Lo/Hi”	1130
9	9	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Tourniquet”	1110
10	11	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	1031
11	13	MOTLEY CRUE (f. M.G.K.)	“The Dirt (Est. 1981)”	984
12	15	PAPA ROACH	“Elevate”	896
13	14	DIAMANTE	“Haunted”	879
14	17	SHINEDOWN	“MONSTERS”	868
15	16	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Ready To Let Go”	858
16	18	THRICE	“Hold Up A Light”	755
17	19	SLASH (f. MYLES KENNEDY)	“Mind Your Manners”	573
18	21	I PREVAIL	“Breaking Down”	545
19	20	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Vultures”	507
20	23	BRING ME THE HORIZON (f. DANI FILTH)	“Wonderful Life”	430
21	22	PALAYE ROYALE	“You’ll Be Fine”	408
22	24	ICE NINE KILLS	“A Grave Mistake”	397
23	26	LIKE A STORM	“Complicated (Stitches & Scars)”	369
24	28	ALL THAT REMAINS	“Everything’s Wrong”	291
25	30	FEVER 333	“One Of Us”	280
26	44	NEW YEARS DAY	“Shut Up”	235
27	29	SHIM	“Crucified”	233
28	37	ALICE IN CHAINS	“Rainer Fog”	221
29	31	LIGHT THE TORCH	“The Safety Of Disbelief”	221
30	34	GRANDSON	“Apologize”	214
31	32	SAUL	“Brother”	213
32	25	NOTHING MORE	“Let Em Burn”	206
33	35	BUCKCHERRY	“Bent”	192
34	38	SEVENDUST	“Risen”	186
35	27	MEMPHIS MAY FIRE	“The Old Me”	184
36	36	MESSER	“Simple Man”	178
37	33	CALL ME KARIZMA	“Monster (Under My Bed)”	136
38	41	ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE	“Late”	121
39	42	HANDS LIKE HOUSES	“Sick”	118
40	43	THE BLACK MOODS	“Bad News”	102
41	46	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Blue On Black”	99
42	45	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Medicine”	94
43	50	PALISADES	“Erase The Pain”	86
44	55	GODSMACK	“Under Your Scars”	83
45	47	AMITY AFFLICTION	“Drag The Lake”	76
46	49	MADAME MAYHEM	“Broken”	72
47	52	SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT	“10 Feet”	62
48	48	HELLYEAH	“333”	60
49	77	BASEMENT	“Be Here Now”	56
50	51	BOSTON MANOR	“Halo”	56

 

 

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

GODSMACK – “Under Your Scars”

Remember the days when hard rock artists were able to release a ballad without having to justify their inclusion on an album?  With the power of social media, everyone can be a critic, and fans are not shy about questioning their favorite bands for expanding their horizons.  As I read Sully Erna’s interview stating that he can’t spend time worrying about the reaction from metal fans for including “Under Your Scars” on the band’s most recent release, it made me wish that there was  greater barrier to entry for fans to share their opinions.  It’s not only unfair, but totally unrealistic to expect artists to remain inside some preconceived box as their sound evolves with maturity.  Any fans who can’t appreciate “Under Your Scars” because it isn’t heavy enough, are too closed-minded to fully appreciate an artist.

Like Aerosmith’s “Dream On” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain,” “Under Your Scars” opens with a beautiful piano and touching vocals.  The underlying strings provide a depth that helps bring out the emotion of the song.  Godsmack and Erna may be known for their intensity, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t shine when they pull things back a bit.  The band doesn’t usually dabble in the love song arena, after listening to “Under Your Scars” several times over, I couldn’t help but think that they should do more of these.  The meaning behind the song is one that everyone with any kind of life experience can appreciate.  As life progresses, we all accumulate our fair share of baggage.  This song acknowledges that baggage, while delivering the sage advice that the weight of the past should not diminish happiness in the future.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted, Five Finger Death Punch holds the #1 position for only one week.  Looking at this week’s movement, it looks like there was a coordinated effort to give these format favorites bragging rights, but nothing more.  After limping to the top, “When The Seasons Change” plummeted this week by 350 spins, dropping them from #1 to #4.  The drop looks precipitous from here.  Disturbed showed strength this week in taking over the #1 position.  Three Days Grace seems poised to be the next #1, the question is how long it will take.  If Disturbed drops in the same way as FFDP, it could be as soon as next week.  However, it looks like it has a few weeks to run before Three Days Grace and Pop Evil pose a real threat.
 

 

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 BLISS – “Pain”

BOBAFLEX – “I Am A Nightmare”

TREMONTI – “Throw Them To The Lions”

BIG WRECK – “Locomotive”

DEMON HUNTER – “On My Side”

MEYTAL – “Armalite”

SYLAR – “Shook”

IN FLAMES – “Call My Name”

ATILLA – “Subhuman”

BRKN LOVE – “Shot Down”

 

DROP IT…

Black Keys – “Lo/Hi”

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

Cage The Elephant – “Ready To Let Go”

Palaye Royale – “You’ll Be Fine”

Asking Alexandria – “Vultures”

Thrice – “Hold Up A Light”

Bring Me The Horizon – “Medicine”

Grandson – “Apologize”

Greta Van Fleet – “You’re The One”

 

 

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

New Top 10s for Black Keys and Bad Wolves…

I Prevail and Bring Me The Horizon both reach the Top 20…

Four songs reach the Top 30, including the latest from New Year’s Day which enjoyed more than double the spins from the week prior…

Hands Like Houses and Black Moods are new to the Top 40, Altitudes & Attitude returns…

Two songs officially debut in the Top 50 – the next single from Godsmack and a new single from Shvpes – while Savage After Midnight returns to the published chart after a two week absence.
 

 

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING
Shinedown – “MONSTERS”
Disturbed – “A Reason To Fight”
Pop Evil – “Be Legendary”

 
FALLING
Nothing More – “Let Em Burn”
Greta Van Fleet – “You’re The One”
Five Finger Death Punch – “When The Seasons Change”
 

 

TRENDS & OBSERVATIONS

Three songs lost spins week-to-week, but gained chart positions anyway.   Another indication of how difficult it is for half (or more) of the chart to gain anything resembling a critical mass of support in this narrow playlist environment.