HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/14/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/14/19

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 9/14/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	DISTURBED	“No More”	1846
2	2	VOLBEAT	“Last Day Under The Sun”	1709
3	3	DIRTY HONEY	“When I’m Gone”	1539
4	6	THE GLORIOUS SONS	“Panic Attack”	1394
5	5	HELLYEAH	“Welcome Home”	1391
6	8	TOOL	“Fear Inoculum”	1274
7	7	GHOST	“Faith”	1258
8	9	KORN	“You’ll Never Find Me”	1088
9	11	DINOSAUR PILE-UP	“Back Foot”	1086
10	13	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“16”	1022
11	14	BADFLOWER	“The Jester”	897
12	4	GRETA VAN FLEET	“Lover, Leaver”	892
13	15	PAPA ROACH	“Come Around”	839
14	12	RIVAL SONS	“Too Bad”	828
15	0	GREEN DAY	“Father Of All…”	740
16	16	SKILLET	“Legendary”	685
17	17	BEARTOOTH	“You Never Know”	643
18	21	BLACK KEYS	“Go”	552
19	20	ALTER BRIDGE	“Wouldn’t You Rather”	549
20	18	E. SHEERAN/C. STAPLETON/B. MARS	“BLOW”	519
21	23	PUDDLE OF MUDD	“Uh Oh”	504
22	22	BRKN LOVE	“Shot Down”	503
23	19	SUM 41	“Out For Blood”	399
24	29	BAD WOLVES	“Killing Me Slowly”	394
25	26	STARSET	“Manifest”	354
26	28	SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA)	“The Hunted”	350
27	27	ICE NINE KILLS	“SAVAGES”	315
28	24	ATREYU	“House Of Gold”	310
29	25	SLIPKNOT	“Unsainted”	302
30	30	CROBOT	“Low Life”	297
31	31	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	“I Am Broken Too”	273
32	0	WEEZER	“The End Of The Game”	263
33	33	THROUGH FIRE	“All Animal”	251
34	32	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Can’t Sleep”	245
35	36	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“Degenerates”	208
36	38	HALESTORM	“Black Vultures”	190
37	34	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Sugar Honey Ice & Tea”	181
38	41	NEW YEARS DAY	“Come For Me”	127
39	49	FOZZY	“Nowhere To Run”	121
40	42	SUNFLOWER DEAD	“Turn Away”	119
41	47	BONES UK	“Pretty Waste”	116
42	43	NONPOINT	“Fix This”	111
43	48	WHISKEY MYERS	“Gasoline”	108
44	46	RUBIKON	“Blood On My Hands”	100
45	45	STITCHED UP HEART (f. SULLY ERNA)	“Lost”	90
46	50	SCOTT STAPP	“Name”	84
47	0	FALLOUT BOY	“Dear Future Self (Hands Up)”	83
48	55	THE RAVEN AGE	“Fleur De Lis”	82
49	52	FIT FOR A KING	“When Everything Means Nothing”	64
50	57	FIRE FROM THE GODS	“Right Now”	58

 

 

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

SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA) – “The Hunted”

Saint Asonia is a blended family that features cousins Adam and Cale Gontier with half of Staind (Mike Mushok and Sal Giancarelli).  Four years after their self-titled debut album, and a few lineup changes, this supergroup is back with their latest album, Flawed Design.   There was certainly no flaw in their design for “The Hunted.”  Bringing Sully Erna in as a guest vocalist to play off of Adam Gontier was an inspired decision.  The song itself is fairly straightforward Active Rock, but when it is played by seasoned professionals, it comes across as bigger, bolder, and more energetic.  If you scan the charts lately, it wouldn’t sound hyperbolic to say that 2019 is the year of Sully Erna.  In addition to having “The Hunted” on the chart, Godsmack’s “Under My Scars” has been one of the hottest songs of the year, and he also lends guest vocals on “Lost” by Stitched Up Heart.  It’s understandable why he would be in high demand.  Aside from having an instantly recognizable, unique sound, Erna’s delivery brings out the emotions of a song in the same manner that salt brings out the flavor of food.  The spice that he adds to “The Hunted” makes an already good song even better.

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As mentioned last week, Disturbed is in an enviable position of remaining on top while declining in spins because they have such a large lead.  With a 300+ spin lead over newcomers Dirty Honey, it looks like there won’t be a change at the top for at least a few more weeks.
 

 

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”

SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT – “Unleash”

TRIVIUM – “Drowning In The Sound”

KOBRA & THE LOTUS – “Burn”

ALL THAT REMAINS – “Just Tell Me Something”

REDLIGHT KING – “Lift The Curse”

BONDS OF MARA – “Lights Out”

THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT – “Holy Water”

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS – “Agree To Disagree”

WAGE WAR – “Prison”

THE MOTORLEAGUE – “Like You Were Alive”

CROWN THE EMPIRE – “Blurry”

SILVERSTEIN – “Burn It Down”

THE CHAMPAGNE – “Medicine”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

GREEN DAY – “Father Of All…” (+740 spins)

WEEZER – “The End Of The Game” (+263 spins)

HIGHLY SUSPECT – “16” (+170 spins)

BADWOLVES – “Killing Me Slowly” (+121 spins)

TOOL – “Fear Inoculum” (+117 spins)