HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/16/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/16/19

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 11/16/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“16”	1731
2	3	PAPA ROACH	“Come Around”	1708
3	4	BADFLOWER	“The Jester”	1522
4	2	GREEN DAY	“Father Of All…”	1507
5	6	DINOSAUR PILE-UP	“Back Foot”	1417
6	7	BAD WOLVES	“Killing Me Slowly”	1260
7	5	KORN	“You’ll Never Find Me”	1248
8	23	OZZY OSBOURNE	“Under The Graveyard”	1115
9	9	SKILLET	“Legendary”	1073
10	10	PUDDLE OF MUDD	“Uh Oh”	1024
11	12	SHINEDOWN	“ATTENTION ATTENTION”	969
12	11	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“History Of Violence”	965
13	13	SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA)	“The Hunted”	924
14	8	TOOL	“Fear Inoculum”	860
15	14	ICE NINE KILLS	“SAVAGES”	637
16	15	STARSET	“Manifest”	620
17	18	FOZZY	“Nowhere To Run”	615
18	17	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	“I Am Broken Too”	589
19	28	VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON)	“Die To Live”	568
20	21	I PREVAIL	“Hurricane”	562
21	20	FIRE FROM THE GODS	“Right Now”	561
22	19	CROBOT	“Low Life”	548
23	22	WEEZER	“The End Of The Game”	517
24	26	THE HU	“Yuve Yuve Yu (f. FATN)”	449
25	24	HALESTORM	“Black Vultures”	449
26	29	SLIPKNOT	“Nero Forte”	327
27	16	BLACK KEYS	“Go”	324
28	25	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“Degenerates”	322
29	27	POST MALONE	“Take What You Want”	320
30	30	THROUGH FIRE	“All Animal”	311
31	33	DIRTY HONEY	“Rolling 7’s”	291
32	32	WHISKEY MYERS	“Gasoline”	290
33	34	BONES UK	“Pretty Waste”	211
34	37	THE BLUE STONES	“Shakin’ Off The Rust”	196
35	31	BLACKTOP MOJO	“Can’t Sleep”	186
36	40	OTHERWISE	“Lifted”	169
37	36	NEW YEARS DAY	“Come For Me”	147
38	38	ANY GIVEN SIN	“Another Life”	142
39	39	RUBIKON	“Blood On My Hands”	139
40	43	SUM 41	“Never There”	134
41	42	ROYAL BLISS	“Paranoid”	115
42	44	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS	“Agree To Disagree”	110
43	47	THE BLACK MOODS	“Whatcha Got”	109
44	46	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Burn!”	89
45	63	JASTA	“When The Contagion Is You”	80
46	48	STURGILL SIMPSON	“Sing Along”	78
47	151	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Ludens”	72
48	83	CLINT LOWERY	“Kings”	63
49	50	CHARM CITY DEVILS	“Skipping Stone”	61
50	51	VEIO	“Flare Of Defiance”	57

 

 

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

CROWN THE EMPIRE – “BLURRY (out of place)”

It’s easy to envy the life of a touring musician.  There’s a romanticism to living your dreams while traveling and getting to explore more places than most will ever have the chance to see.  However, there is a reality to this lifestyle that isn’t quite as glamorous as people believe.  According to Crown The Empire…

“This song is about how time from our perspective on tour moves faster than everyone back at home and the anxiety that we deal with trying to fit back into society.  Every time we come back home we have to hit the restart button and discover who we are all over again.”

It’s not the story of the lyrics that drew me in, but rather the infectious hook of the chorus that I sing in my head all day long after hearing it on the radio.  Having delved deeper into the lyrics, I can appreciate the sentiment as much as the melody.  Although it’s been quite a while since I spent prolonged periods of time away from home, the message behind “BLURRY (out of place)” takes me back to the summers of my youth, where life went on as I was away for eight weeks.  And then in later years, to the summer breaks during college.  Life doesn’t happen in a vacuum.  It moves on even when you’re away.  Picking up where you left off can take some time to adjust.  This song nails that awkward feeling perfectly.

 

 

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…

CROWN THE EMPIRE – “BLURRY (out of place)”

UGLY MELON – “If You’re Wrong”

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Already Dead”

THE WILD! – “Playing With Fire”

LULLWATER – “Dark Divided”

GOODBYE JUNE – “Secrets In The Sunset”

AIRBOURNE – “Boneshaker”

THE WHO – “All This Music Must Fade”

THE WILKOFF PROJECT – “Magic”

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “H.O.M.E.”

A KILLER’S CONFESSION – “Numb”

MORETTA – “In Need Of Better”

BONDS OF MARA – “Lights Out”

SILVERSTEIN – “Burn It Down”

BIG WRECK – “One More Chance”

MARCUS KING – “The Well”

GHOST HOUNDS – “Fire Under Water”

RED – “From The Ashes”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

OZZY OSBOURNE – “Under The Graveyard” (+657 spins)

VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON) – “Die To Live” (+245 spins)

PAPA ROACH – “Come Around” (+102 spins)