HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/24/19

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/24/19

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 8/24/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	VOLBEAT	“Last Day Under The Sun”	1969
2	2	DISTURBED	“No More”	1773
3	5	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Lover, Leaver”	1511
4	6	HELLYEAH	“Welcome Home”	1377
5	3	I PREVAIL	“Breaking Down”	1371
6	4	GODSMACK	“Under Your Scars”	1370
7	7	DIRTY HONEY	“When I’m Gone”	1325
8	8	GHOST	“Faith”	1240
9	9	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“Panic Attack”	1224
10	10	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Blue On Black”	1045
11	11	KORN	“You’ll Never Find Me”	977
12	12	RIVAL SONS	“Too Bad”	966
13	14	TOOL	“Fear Inoculum”	937
14	13	DINOSAUR PILE-UP	“Back Foot”	901
15	15	SUM 41	“Out For Blood”	697
16	20	BADFLOWER	“The Jester”	686
17	16	SKILLET	“Legendary”	667
18	18	BEARTOOTH	“You Never Know”	641
19	17	E. SHEERAN/C. STAPLETON/B. MARS	“BLOW”	635
20	25	PAPA ROACH	“Come Around”	522
21	23	ALTER BRIDGE	“Wouldn’t You Rather”	480
22	24	BLACK KEYS	“Go”	467
23	19	BUSH	“Bullet Holes”	456
24	26	BRKN LOVE	“Shot Down”	420
25	21	SLIPKNOT	“Unsainted”	397
26	42	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“16”	396
27	22	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	“Brand New Numb”	381
28	28	PUDDLE OF MUDD	“Uh Oh”	368
29	27	ATREYU	“House Of Gold”	355
30	31	ROYAL BLISS	“Pain”	220
31	32	THROUGH FIRE	“All Animal”	219
32	33	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Can’t Sleep”	216
33	39	ICE NINE KILLS	“SAVAGES”	210
34	34	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	“I Am Broken Too”	208
35	35	SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA)	“The Hunted”	203
36	28	CROBOT	“Low Life”	182
37	52	STARSET	“Manifest”	178
38	30	SCOTT STAPP	“Purpose For Pain”	177
39	44	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Sugar Honey Ice & Tea”	173
40	36	COHEED AND CAMBRIA	“The Gutter”	173
41	37	COLLECTIVE SOUL	“Right As Rain”	169
42	43	NONPOINT	“Fix This”	112
43	47	SUNFLOWER DEAD	“Turn Away”	106
44	46	STITCHED UP HEART (f. SULLY ERNA)	“Lost”	99
45	53	HALESTORM	“Black Vultures”	95
46	45	LIVE	“Hold Me Up”	76
47	55	NEW YEARS DAY	“Come For Me”	75
48	51	FIT FOR A KING	“When Everything Means Nothing”	72
49	50	BONES UK	“Pretty Waste”	66
50	48	BUCKCHERRY	“Right Now”	60

 

 

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

EMPTY TRAIL – “Lost”

The eerie, atmospheric melancholy of Highly Suspect meets the angst of Nirvana on Empty Trail’s latest single, “Lost.”  You don’t need to watch the video to experience theater of the mind on this tension-filled tune that keeps you on the edge of your seat.  Somehow, amidst the darkness, Rick Lambert taps into Sebastian Bach-like melodic aggression as “Lost” builds to a crescendo.  Just when you think there is no escape from the psychedelic chaos of Lambert’s mind-bending dissonant riff, the madness comes to an abrupt halt to reveal a softer, more soulful side of his voice.  It’s like a beam of sunlight piercing through an ominous cloud.  It’s hard to think of another band that  melds ’80s hard rock sensibilities with ’90s grunge to form a sound that feels fresh and current.  “Lost” is the type of song that you need to let wash over you multiple times to appreciate its complexities.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Volbeat remains in a virtual holding pattern, but that was good enough to hold onto the top spot.  Disturbed continued to close the gap, but still trail by around 200 spins.  Greta Van Fleet may have peaked, showing a bit of a decline this week.  However, in recent months, a one-week drop was not a guarantee that the run was over.  If they drop again next week, then Disturbed should easily reach the top without being challenged with the next week or so.
 

 

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…

EMPTY TRAIL – “Lost”

EVE TO ADAM – “Day Drinkin'”

PHIL CAMPBELL (f. DEE SNIDER, MICK MARS) – “These Old Boots”

SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT – “Unleash”

THE RAVEN AGE – “Fleur de Lis”

TRIVIUM – “Drowning In The Sound”

WHISKY MYERS – “Gasoline”

THE DIRTY NIL – “Pain Of Infinity”

REDLIGHT KING – “Lift The Curse”

RUBIKON – “Blood On My Hands”

BONDS OF MARA – “Lights Out”

THE MOTORLEAGUE – “Like You Were Alive”

THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT – “Holy Water”

THOUSAND BELOW – “Chemical”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

HIGHLY SUSPECT – “16” (+268 spins)

TOOL – “Fear Inoculum” (+224 spins)

BADFLOWER – “The Jester” (+162 spins)

STARSET – “Manifest” (+121 spins)

DISTURBED – “No More” (+112 spins)

PAPA ROACH – “Come Around” (+105 spins)