HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/27/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/27/19

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 4/27/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

HRD Rock Report – April 2019 (features recap of March charts)

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	THREE DAYS GRACE	“Right Left Wrong”	1654
2	4	POP EVIL	“Be Legendary”	1651
3	3	BLACK KEYS	“Lo/Hi”	1649
4	5	BADFLOWER	“Heroin (2018)”	1589
5	2	DISTURBED	“A Reason To Fight”	1478
6	6	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	1412
7	9	SHINEDOWN	“Monsters”	1280
8	8	BREAKING BENJAMIN	“Tourniquet”	1236
9	10	MOTLEY CRUE (f. M.G.K.)	“The Dirt (Est. 1981)”	1184
10	11	PAPA ROACH	“Elevate”	1139
11	7	MARK MORTON (f. CHESTER BENNINGTON)	“Cross Off”	1011
12	12	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	“Ready To Let Go”	1002
13	16	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Blue On Black”	988
14	13	I PREVAIL	“Breaking Down”	889
15	17	GODSMACK	“Under Your Scars”	736
16	15	SLASH (f. MYLES KENNEDY)	“Mind Your Manners”	695
17	18	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	“Vultures”	613
18	19	BRING ME THE HORIZON (f. DANI FILTH)	“Wonderful Life”	538
19	20	ICE NINE KILLS	“A Grave Mistake”	474
20	22	ALICE IN CHAINS	“Rainer Fog”	452
21	21	NEW YEARS DAY	“Shut Up”	448
22	23	FEVER 333	“One Of Us”	420
23	14	THRICE	“Hold Up A Light”	414
24	24	GRANDSON	“Apologize”	393
25	29	HALESTORM	“Vicious”	331
26	25	ALL THAT REMAINS	“Everything’s Wrong”	277
27	26	SHIM	“Crucified”	276
28	28	MESSER	“Simple Man”	236
29	30	SAUL	“Brother”	226
30	27	PALAYE ROYALE	“You’ll Be Fine”	196
31	34	BEARTOOTH	“You Never Know”	188
32	40	GARY CLARK JR	“What About Us”	181
33	32	BUCKCHERRY	“Bent”	176
34	37	THE BLACK MOODS	“Bad News”	165
35	36	HANDS LIKE HOUSES	“Sick”	163
36	31	SEVENDUST	“Risen”	143
37	39	BASEMENT	“Be Here Now”	137
38	35	LIGHT THE TORCH	“The Safety Of Disbelief”	127
39	41	AMITY AFFLICTION	“Drag The Lake”	125
40	43	SCOTT STAPP	“Purpose For Pain”	121
41	69	RIVAL SONS	“Too Bad”	115
42	58	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Brand New Numb”	103
43	45	ROYAL BLISS	“Pain”	102
44	44	PALISADES	“Erase The Pain”	101
45	48	SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT	“10 Feet Tall”	85
46	0	SUM 41	“Out For Blood”	73
47	50	DIRTY HONEY	“When I’m Gone”	73
48	46	BOSTON MANOR	“Halo”	70
49	76	NINE SHRINES	“Nimrod”	68
50	49	ADELITAS WAY	“What It Takes”	64

 

 

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

DREAM THEATER – “Paralyzed”

With the exception of 1992’s “Pull Me Under” (off of Images And Words), Dream Theater has built a career that spans three decades without being accessible to mainstream audiences.  Often times referred to as “musicians’ musicians” due to their complex brand of progressive rock, the band (whose roots can be traced back to Berklee College Of Music) is as well known as you can be without having songs known by the masses.

Though there are some elements of today’s modern rock, “Paralyzed” clearly delineates itself  from virtually anything that you’ll hear on Active Rock radio (in a good way).  At just over four minutes long, “Paralyzed” doesn’t feature the numerous time signature changes that you expect from a Dream Theater song, but there are enough prog elements to satiate the band’s existing fanbase while being accessible to a much wider audience.  The undeniable darkness of the bottom-heavy groove is brightened by some more contemplative bittersweet moments.

In today’s rock climate, it’s hard to imagine “Paralyzed” making the same kind of splash that “Pull Me Under” made in ’92, but it is certainly worthy of garnering radio airplay.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Three Days Grace will be replaced as the #1 song next week.  They were only had a 5-spin advantage over the #3 song this week, and a 3-spin advantage over the #2 song.  The battle for #1 next week will take place between Pop Evil and Black Keys, and quite possibly, Badflower (who is well within striking distance if either of the top 2 slip).

 

 

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

The following is a list of songs that we feel deserve to be added to Active Rock playlists…

DREAM THEATER – “Paralyzed”

SHALLOW SIDE – “Sound The Alarm”

BOBAFLEX – “I Am A Nightmare”

BIG WRECK – “Locomotive”

MEYTAL – “Armalite”

SYLAR – “Shook”

FROM ASHES TO NEW – “My Name”

ROYAL TUSK – “First Time”

VEER UNION – “Save Yourself”

ONCE AROUND – “I Will Ascend”

AWAKE AT LAST (f. SPENCER CHARNAS) – “The Change”

DEADLAND RITUAL – “Down In Flames”

SHVPES – “Undertones”

TWIZTID – “Magic Spells”

THE CRINGE – “I Can’t Take It No More”

DAMN NATION – “Set Me Off”

TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN – “On To The Next”

TANTRIC – “Angry”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Blue On black” (+354 spins)

GODSMACK – “Under Your Scars” (+142 spins)

BAD WOLVES – “Remember When” (+120 spins)

SHINEDOWN – “Monsters” (+107 spins)

HALESTORM – “Vicious” (+104 spins)

POP EVIL – “Be Legendary” (+102 spins)