HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/23/19

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/23/19

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 11/23/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	3	BADFLOWER	“The Jester”	1776
2	2	PAPA ROACH	“Come Around”	1767
3	1	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“16”	1670
4	8	OZZY OSBOURNE	“Under The Graveyard”	1421
5	5	DINOSAUR PILE-UP	“Back Foot”	1397
6	6	BAD WOLVES	“Killing Me Slowly”	1355
7	9	SKILLET	“Legendary”	1146
8	4	GREEN DAY	“Father Of All…”	1090
9	11	SHINEDOWN	“ATTENTION ATTENTION”	1060
10	10	PUDDLE OF MUDD	“Uh Oh”	1058
11	12	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“History Of Violence”	1049
12	13	SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA)	“The Hunted”	974
13	14	TOOL	“Fear Inoculum”	776
14	19	VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON)	“Die To Live”	668
15	15	ICE NINE KILLS	“SAVAGES”	658
16	17	FOZZY	“Nowhere To Run”	657
17	16	STARSET	“Manifest”	646
18	20	I PREVAIL	“Hurricane”	626
19	18	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	“I Am Broken Too”	626
20	22	CROBOT	“Low Life”	604
21	21	FIRE FROM THE GODS	“Right Now”	596
22	24	THE HU (f. FATN)	“Yuve Yuve Yu”	566
23	23	WEEZER	“The End Of The Game”	516
24	25	HALESTORM	“Black Vultures”	447
25	31	DIRTY HONEY	“Rolling 7’s”	414
26	26	SLIPKNOT	“Nero Forte”	396
27	30	THROUGH FIRE	“All Animal”	334
28	32	WHISKEY MYERS	“Gasoline”	303
29	29	POST MALONE (f. OZZY OSBOURNE)	“Take What You Want”	279
30	33	BONES UK	“Pretty Waste”	229
31	34	THE BLUE STONES	“Shakin’ Off The Rust”	217
32	27	BLACK KEYS	“Go”	196
33	28	A DAY TO REMEMBER	“Degenerates”	193
34	36	OTHERWISE	“Lifted”	171
35	40	SUM 41	“Never There”	163
36	38	ANY GIVEN SIN	“Another Life”	162
37	39	RUBIKON	“Blood On My Hands”	145
38	37	NEW YEARS DAY	“Come For Me”	137
39	43	THE BLACK MOODS	“Whatcha Got”	132
40	41	ROYAL BLISS	“Paranoid”	131
41	48	CLINT LOWERY	“Kings”	115
42	42	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS	“Agree To Disagree”	114
43	47	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Ludens”	111
44	0	OZZY OSBOURNE	“Straight To Hell”	102
45	45	JASTA	“When The Contagion Is You”	102
46	44	KOBRA AND THE LOTUS	“Burn!”	95
47	62	GHOST HOUNDS	“Fire Under Water”	74
48	54	93PUNX/VIC MENSA/TRAVIS BARKER	“3 Years Sober”	67
49	61	SAUL	“Trial By Fire”	65
50	57	HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD	“Already Dead”	65

 

 

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

OZZY OSBOURNE – “Under The Graveyard”

Facing your own mortality is incredibly sobering.  During his days of debauchery (and there were many), you have to think that Ozzy never imagined what life would be like in his seventies.  The Prince of Darkness lived like rock stars did once upon a time.  It’s one of the things that made him an icon.  Beneath it all, there was always a childlike innocence though.  I actually experienced it firsthand back in 1989 when I scored an all-access pass as a production assistant for his show at the Tower Theater near Philadelphia.  Before the show, I somehow ended up in a room with Ozzy, Sharon and their three kids.  We chatted as Ozzy rode on a exercise bike while a stylist did his hair.  After the show, I continued to push my luck, and once again ended up in the room alone with Ozzy and Sharon.  Towards the end of the concert – during “Crazy Train” – Ozzy invited the entire crowd up on the stage.  I was almost trampled in the rush, working in the pit area to protect all of the wires being used to record the show for King Biscuit Television (the first and last concert that would be attempted).  When I mentioned to him that it was crazy what happened, with genuine surprise, he stated “I didn’t think that they would come.”

In 2002, the rest of the world would get to know the childlike innocence of Ozzy when The Osbournes aired on MTV.  The show made you forget that this was the same man who bit the head off of a live bat, and made you see him as a family man.  Not long after the show debuted, my son was born.  It made me appreciate Ozzy as a dad, and not just a rock and roll legend.  My son turned eight around the time that Scream was released in 2010.  I made sure to take him to see Ozzy (with Slash/Myles Kennedy opening) on that tour, because I didn’t know if he’d get the opportunity again.

Ozzy has dealt with his fair share of maladies in recent years, which undoubtedly brought his mortality to the forefront.  That, and watching so many of his peers die before their time.  I admit that I was a bit surprised to hear that he would be releasing an album after all these years, but appreciative just the same.  The darkness that has always been a part of his lyrics now feels more realistic.  “Under The Graveyard”  is a painful dose of reality about the aging process, and what it feels like when you approach the age where many rock stars have died.

“Under The Graveyard” has made a big splash since its release, and not just because it’s the first new music from Ozzy in nearly a decade.  Nor is it because of some sense of nostalgia, or fear that this could be the last album of his career.  It’s because the song is classic Ozzy, and he is among a handful of artists whose appeal crosses generational divides.  The lyrics may be sobering, but the song was well worth the wait.

 

 

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”

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.”

MORETTA – “In Need Of Better”

BONDS OF MARA – “Lights Out”

SILVERSTEIN – “Burn It Down”

BIG WRECK – “One More Chance”

MARCUS KING – “The Well”

BRITISH LION – “Lightning”

SEVEN PAST SUNSET – “Need”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

OZZY OSBOURNE – “Under The Graveyard” (+306 spins)

BADFLOWER – “The Jester” (+254 spins)

DIRTY HONEY – “Rolling 7’s” (+123 spins)

THE HU (f. FATN) – “Yuve Yuve Yu” (+117 spins)

OZZY OSBOURNE – “Straight To Hell” (+102 spins)

VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON) – “Die To Live” (+100 spins)