HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/4/20

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/4/20

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 1/4/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

JUST PUBLISHED! TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2019

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	OZZY OSBOURNE	Under The Graveyard	1707
2	2	BAD WOLVES	Killing Me Slowly	1656
3	3	SHINEDOWN	Attention Attention	1508
4	4	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	History Of Violence	1435
5	5	HIGHLY SUSPECT	16	1305
6	6	SAINT ASONIA	The Hunted	1236
7	7	PAPA ROACH	Come Around	1191
8	8	SKILLET	Legendary	1171
9	9	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	Inside Out	1164
10	10	VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON)	Die To Live	1115
11	11	I PREVAIL	Hurricane	926
12	13	THE HU (f. FATN)	Yuve Yuve Yu	830
13	14	FOZZY	Nowhere To Run	793
14	15	FIRE FROM THE GODS	Right Now	748
15	17	CROBOT	Low Life	711
16	16	STARSET	Manifest	690
17	18	DIRTY HONEY	Rolling 7’s	668
18	20	WEEZER	The End Of The Game	521
19	23	OZZY OSBOURNE	Straight To Hell	490
20	22	SLIPKNOT	Nero Forte	457
21	26	BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. SCOOTER WARD)	Far Away	419
22	24	WHISKEY MYERS	Gasoline	376
23	25	THE BLUE STONES	Shakin’ Off The Rust	370
24	27	BRING ME THE HORIZON	Ludens	344
25	29	GREEN DAY	Father Of All	313
26	31	RIVAL SONS	Shooting Stars	277
27	30	BONES UK	Pretty Waste	249
28	32	POST MALONE	Take What You Want	229
29	33	OTHERWISE	Lifted	228
30	35	ROYAL BLISS	Paranoid	210
31	34	HALESTORM	Black Vultures	195
32	36	SUM 41	Never There	193
33	40	THE BLACK MOODS	Whatcha Got	183
34	42	SAUL	Trial By Fire	178
35	38	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS	Agree To Disagree	168
36	39	RUBIKON	Blood On My Hands	162
37	44	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	Fare Thee Well	159
38	41	EVANESCENCE	The Chain (From Gears 5)	158
39	43	ANY GIVEN SIN	Another Life	135
40	45	CLINT LOWERY	Kings	123
41	47	TOOL	Pneuma	106
42	46	JASTA	When The Contagion Is You	104
43	52	VEIO	Flare Of Defiance	96
44	49	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	The Hype	91
45	50	GHOST HOUNDS	Fire Under Water	89
46	51	93PUNX/VIC MENSA/TRAVIS BARKER	3 Years Sober	87
47	48	DISTURBED	Hold On To Memories	87
48	53	HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD	Already Dead	81
49	66	THE GLORIOUS SONS	Closer To The Sky	75
50	55	FALLING IN REVERSE	Popular Monster	75

 

 

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

THROUGH FIRE – “Listen To Your Heart”

The similarities between Through Fire’s “Listen To Your Heart” and “Zombie” by Bad Wolves goes beyond both being cover songs of well-known songs with female vocalists.  Unfortunately, the other similarity is kind of eerie.  Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries died on the day that she was scheduled to record on the Bad Wolves cover of “Zombie.”  Roxette’s Marie Fredriksson died on the same day that Through Fire released their cover of “Listen To Your Heart.”  On a more positive note, the other similarity is that both bands did inspired covers of songs in a way that brought something new to the table while remaining true to the original.

In 1988, MTV was still going strong.  As much as “Listen To Your Heart” was played on radio, the memories of most of a generation of fans goes directly to the video of Fredriksson standing barefoot on the stage.  Her perfectly messy, striking blond hair as much a defining characteristic as her sweet vocals with just a hint of a Swedish accent.

On Through Fire’s cover of “Listen To Your Heart,” the 1980s saccharine keyboards have been replaced by ominous, moody keyboards, pulsating beats, and the wail of the electric guitar accenting chugging riffs.  The lower-register vocals in the opening verse is a bit more somber, with a hint of darkness.  As the song progresses, the higher-register vocal harmonies capture some of the sweetness of the original, albeit with significantly more intensity.

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…

THROUGH FIRE – “Listen To Your Heart”

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”

ARMORED DAWN – “Animal Uncaged” 

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”

WAGE WAR – “Grave”

BEARTOOTH – “Afterall”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

Nothing to report due to holiday limbo.  Greatest gainer had only 43 spins.