HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 7/6/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 7/6/19

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 7/6/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	2	BAD WOLVES	“Remember When”	1951
2	1	SHINEDOWN	“Monsters”	1869
3	3	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Blue On Black”	1802
4	4	GODSMACK	“Under Your Scars”	1759
5	6	I PREVAIL	“Breaking Down”	1367
6	7	VOLBEAT	“Last Day Under The Sun”	1346
7	5	PAPA ROACH	“Elevate”	1292
8	8	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Lover, Leaver”	1254
9	12	HELLYEAH	“Welcome Home”	956
10	10	GHOST	“Faith”	952
11	11	SLIPKNOT	“Unsainted”	928
12	14	DISTURBED	“No More”	903
13	17	DIRTY HONEY	“When I’m Gone”	777
14	16	RIVAL SONS	“Too Bad”	732
15	15	HALESTORM	“Vicious”	692
16	13	BLACK KEYS	“Lo/Hi”	645
17	18	SUM 41	“Out For Blood”	615
18	20	BUSH	“Bullet Holes”	602
19	22	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“Panic Attack”	592
20	21	BEARTOOTH	“You Never Know”	519
21	30	KORN	“You’ll Never Find Me”	497
22	23	SKILLET	“Legendary”	479
23	26	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Brand New Numb”	403
24	28	DINOSAUR PILE-UP	“Back Foot”	376
25	24	GARY CLARK JR	“What About Us”	371
26	19	NEW YEARS DAY	“Shut Up”	352
27	25	MESSER	“Simple Man”	332
28	27	SCOTT STAPP	“Purpose For Pain”	326
29	33	THE BLACK MOODS	“Bad News”	285
30	31	BLINK-182	“Blame It On My Youth”	233
31	34	ATREYU	“House Of Gold”	217
32	32	SAUL	“Brother”	212
33	36	ROYAL BLISS	“Pain”	168
34	53	ALTER BRIDGE	“Wouldn’t You Rather”	160
35	35	RACONTEURS	“Help Me Stranger”	157
36	38	MEMPHIS MAY FIRE (f. A. MINEO)	“Heavy Is The Weight”	156
37	37	PERRY FARRELL	“Pirate Punk Politician”	144
38	39	COLLECTIVE SOUL	“Right As Rain”	135
39	40	P.O.D.	“Rockin’ With The Best”	131
40	29	GRANDSON	“Apologize”	111
41	42	THROUGH FIRE	“All Animal”	97
42	41	COHEED AND CAMBRIA	“The Gutter”	94
43	44	BUCKCHERRY	“Right Now”	90
44	43	NONPOINT	“Fix This”	78
45	45	BLACK KEYS	“Go”	75
46	48	BRKN LOVE	“Shot Down”	73
47	46	STITCHED UP HEART (f. SULLY ERNA)	“Lost”	68
48	49	DANGEROUS SUMMER	“Way Down”	56
49	50	ADELITAS WAY	“What It Takes”	49
50	54	ANY GIVEN SIN	“Dynamite”	45

 

 

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

ALTER BRIDGE – “Wouldn’t You Rather”

Over the course of the past 15 years, Alter Bridge has been remarkably consistent (releasing albums every three years like clockwork), while also evolving as time passes.  This evolution can be heard in both the band’s sound and their lyrics.

Myles Kennedy has always had an uplifting quality to his voice, but his lyrics have often times been heart wrenching (in a good way).  Life changes for each of us as we enter different stages.  Ideally, wisdom goes hand-in-hand with aging.  As the sands of time continue to fall, you start to appreciate things that you might not have earlier on.

“Wouldn’t You Rather” – the lead single off of the band’s upcoming sixth studio release (Walk The Sky) – features the dark edginess of the Fortress album, and combines it with the uplifting lyrics of “My Champion.”  It’s the perfect blend of dark and light.

It’s easy to get caught up in the rat race and focus primarily on the all-mighty dollar, but as the saying goes…“money isn’t everything.”  This life lesson becomes clearer when you’re faced with more yesterdays than tomorrows.  “Wouldn’t You Rather” tackles this subject head-on with a poignant message that living from the heart and following your passion is more meaningful when all is said and done.  Money can always be replaced…time cannot.

The Alter Bridge formula of working on separate projects in between three-year album cycles continues to pay enormous dividends.  Each album has a fresh, energetic sound.  Based on this lead single, you have to imagine that this streak will continue this time around.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted last week,  Bad Wolves knocked Shinedown from the top spot this week.  Well, sort of…  Although there is a new #1 this week, “Remember When” rose to the top despite a slight decline in spins.  This does not inspired confidence that this run will have any legs.  With a less than 200-spin lead over Godsmack, there is a decent chance that there will be another new #1 next week.  If not, then it’s a near certainty that the change at the top will come the following week.

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…

SUNFLOWER DEAD – “Turn Away”

GRANNY 4 BARREL – “Nitro Sexy”

EVE TO ADAM – “Day Drinkin'”

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – “Unleashed”

ROYAL TUSK – “First Time”

FROM ASHES TO NEW – “My Name”

BOBAFLEX – “I Am A Nightmare”

TRIVIUM – “Drowning In The Sound”

PARKWAY DRIVE – “Shadow Boxing”

NINE SHRINES – “Nimrod”

SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT – “Unleash”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

KORN – “You’ll Never Find Me” (+217 spins)

VOLBEAT – “Last Day Under The Sun” (+140 spins)

ALTER BRIDGE – “Wouldn’t You Rather” (+123 spins)

GODSMACK – “Under Your Scars” (+115 spins)

THE GLORIOUS SONS – “Panic Attack” (+106 spins)

GRETA VAN FLEET – “Lover, Leaver” (+107 spins)