HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/21/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/21/19

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 12/21/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	OZZY OSBOURNE	“Under The Graveyard”	1768
2	2	BAD WOLVES	“Killing Me Slowly”	1601
3	5	SHINEDOWN	“ATTENTION ATTENTION”	1429
4	6	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	“History Of Violence”	1423
5	4	HIGHLY SUSPECT	“16”	1349
6	9	SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA)	“The Hunted”	1258
7	3	PAPA ROACH	“Come Around”	1233
8	7	SKILLET	“Legendary”	1210
9	11	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	“Inside Out”	1147
10	10	VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON)	“Die To Live”	1118
11	8	BADFLOWER	“The Jester”	914
12	12	I PREVAIL	“Hurricane”	898
13	16	THE HU (f. FATN)	“Yuve Yuve Yu”	782
14	13	FOZZY	“Nowhere To Run”	767
15	15	FIRE FROM THE GODS	“Right Now”	742
16	14	STARSET	“Manifest”	716
17	17	CROBOT	“Low Life”	694
18	19	DIRTY HONEY	“Rolling 7’s”	634
19	18	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	“I Am Broken Too”	599
20	23	WEEZER	“The End Of The Game”	517
21	24	SLIPKNOT	“Nero Forte”	500
22	20	TOOL	“Fear Inoculum”	495
23	25	OZZY OSBOURNE	“Straight To Hell”	464
24	26	WHISKEY MYERS	“Gasonline”	424
25	27	THE BLUE STONES	“Shakin’ Off The Rust”	387
26	21	PUDDLE OF MUDD	“Uh Oh”	357
27	22	GREEN DAY	“Father Of All…”	351
28	36	BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. Scooter Ward)	“Far Away”	326
29	33	BRING ME THE HORIZON	“Ludens”	317
30	28	HALESTORM	“Black Vultures”	275
31	35	RIVAL SONS	“Shooting Stars”	248
32	30	BONES UK	“Pretty Waste”	235
33	31	OTHERWISE	“Lifted”	233
34	29	ICE NINE KILLS	“SAVAGES”	212
35	34	ROYAL BLISS	“Paranoid”	211
36	32	POST MALONE (f. OZZY OSBOURNE)	“Take What You Want”	211
37	38	SUM 41	“Never There”	185
38	39	THE BLACK MOODS	“Whatcha Got”	173
39	41	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS	“Agree To Disagree”	170
40	45	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	“Fare Thee Well”	168
41	40	RUBIKON	“Blood On My Hands”	166
42	37	EVANESCENCE	“The Chain (From Gears 5)”	164
43	44	SAUL	“Trial By Fire”	160
44	42	CLINT LOWERY	“Kings”	150
45	43	ANY GIVEN SIN	“Another Life”	142
46	46	JASTA	“When The Contagion Is You”	124
47	47	GHOST HOUNDS	“Fire Under Water”	96
48	56	DISTURBED	“Hold On To Memories”	94
49	50	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	“The Hype”	92
50	54	TOOL	“Pneuma”	89

 

 

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

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Inside Out”

Five Finger Death Punch doesn’t usually make you wait very long before they grab you by the throat with their brand of intense aggression.  They did with “Inside Out,” which doesn’t reach a fever pitch until a suspenseful intro builds to a crescendo.  There’s something else different this time around.  According to guitarist Zoltan Bathory, “it was a focused sober group recording, and our most important album to date.  The album represents rebirth, progression, transcendence both personally and musically.”

Ivan Moody has always had a Jekyll and Hyde-esque vocal style, intimidating you one minute with angst-ridden growls, and serenading you the next with sweet melodies.  Regardless of the approach, the one consistency is his ability to tap into raw emotions in a way that no one else does.  The band’s tumultuous times are well documented, but they’ve made it through to the other side with flying colors.

“This record to me is ‘absolution’ – everything that I’ve done in my life has led up to this moment” (Ivan Moody).

 

 

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…

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE – “Another Life”

GOODBYE JUNE – “Secrets In The Sunset”

CORY MARKS (f. Moody/Tritt/Mars) – “Outlaws & Outsiders”

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

LULLWATER – “Dark Divided”

ANOTHER LOST YEAR – “H.O.M.E.”

THE WILKOFF PROJECT – “Magic”

SEVEN PAST SUNSET – “Need”

THE WILD! – “Playing With Fire”

LIGHT THE TORCH – “The Great Divide”

BRITISH LION – “Lightning”

FAME ON FIRE – “Her Eyes”

WOLFMOTHER – “Chase The Feeling”

MARCUS KING – “The Well”

BIG WRECK – “One More Chance”

WAGE WAR – “Grave”

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Already Dead”

BEARTOOTH – “Afterall”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Inside Out” (+162 spins)

BREAKING DOWN – “Far Away” (+145 spins)

THEORY OF A DEADMAN – “History Of Violence” (+139 spins)

BRING ME THE HORIZON – “Ludens” (+102 spins)