HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/11/20
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 1/11/20. 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 | 1766 |
2 | 2 | BAD WOLVES | Killing Me Slowly | 1703 |
3 | 3 | SHINEDOWN | Attention Attention | 1620 |
4 | 4 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | History Of Violence | 1487 |
5 | 9 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Inside Out | 1277 |
6 | 5 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | 16 | 1239 |
7 | 10 | VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON) | Die To Live | 1172 |
8 | 6 | SAINT ASONIA (f. SULLY ERNA) | The Hunted | 1145 |
9 | 7 | PAPA ROACH | Come Around | 1133 |
10 | 8 | SKILLET | Legendary | 1056 |
11 | 11 | I PREVAIL | Hurricane | 966 |
12 | 12 | THE HU (f. FATN) | Yuve Yuve Yu | 866 |
13 | 13 | FOZZY | Nowhere To Run | 858 |
14 | 14 | FIRE FROM THE GODS | Right Now | 804 |
15 | 15 | CROBOT | Low Life | 748 |
16 | 17 | DIRTY HONEY | Rolling 7’s | 724 |
17 | 19 | OZZY OSBOURNE | Straight To Hell | 523 |
18 | 18 | WEEZER | The End Of The Game | 497 |
19 | 21 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. SCOOTER WARD) | Far Away | 496 |
20 | 20 | SLIPKNOT | Nero Forte | 464 |
21 | 23 | THE BLUE STONES | Shakin’ Off The Rust | 433 |
22 | 22 | WHISKEY MYERS | Gasoline | 408 |
23 | 24 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Ludens | 354 |
24 | 26 | RIVAL SONS | Shooting Stars | 310 |
25 | 29 | OTHERWISE | Lifted | 269 |
26 | 25 | GREEN DAY | Father Of All | 268 |
27 | 27 | BONKES UK | Pretty Waste | 262 |
28 | 30 | ROYAL BLISS | Paranoid | 255 |
29 | 47 | DISTURBED | Hold On To Memories | 250 |
30 | 28 | POST MALONE | Take What You Want | 207 |
31 | 32 | SUM 41 | Never There | 201 |
32 | 34 | SAUL | Trial By Fire | 200 |
33 | 33 | THE BLACK MOODS | Whatcha Got | 192 |
34 | 31 | HALESTORM | Black Vultures | 192 |
35 | 37 | STONE TEMPLE PILOTS | Fare Thee Well | 190 |
36 | 35 | SLEEPING WITH SIRENS | Agree To Disagree | 182 |
37 | 41 | TOOL | Pneuma | 167 |
38 | 38 | EVANESCENCE | The Chain (From Gears 5) | 159 |
39 | 39 | ANY GIVEN SIN | Another Life | 149 |
40 | 40 | CLINT LOWERY | Kings | 143 |
41 | 36 | RUBIKON | Blood On My Hands | 122 |
42 | 42 | JASTA | When The Contagion Is You | 120 |
43 | 50 | FALLING IN REVERSE | Popular Monster | 117 |
44 | 43 | VEIO | Flare Of Defiance | 104 |
45 | 45 | GHOST HOUNDS | Fire Under Water | 99 |
46 | 48 | HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD | Already Dead | 93 |
47 | 44 | TWENTY ONE PILOTS | The Hype | 92 |
48 | 49 | THE GLORIOUS SONS | Closer To The Sky | 82 |
49 | 70 | ALTER BRIDGE | Godspeed | 79 |
50 | 46 | 93PUNX/VIC MENSA/TRAVIS BARKER | 3 Years Sober | 79 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
ALTER BRIDGE – “Godspeed”
Though their sound is continuously evolving, there is a certain expectation that you have when it comes to Alter Bridge’s music. Aside from their more introspective, brooding songs, Alter Bridge tends to hit you with adrenalized rhythms, and in-your-face guitars. “Godspeed” is different. The song opens with ominous keys that set a tone of darkness before taking a surprising turn into a retro synth sound that takes you back to the carefree early days of MTV. Unlike many AB songs where the guitar is front and center, the guitars on “Godspeed” blend with the underlying synth loop, creating a cinematic sound that you would expect to hear during a pivotal scene in a classic ’80s movie. That is not to say that “Godspeed” feels like a throwback to another era. The influences may be there, but the truth is that no band was making music like this back then. Quite frankly, no band is making music like this today either. It’s one of the things that makes Alter Bridge unique and beloved by fans around the world.
Mark Tremonti has an obvious moment in “Godspeed” that shows why he was recently named the guitarist of the decade by Guitar World magazine, but it’s the subtlety and nuance in this song that really shines. The fact that Tremonti has stated that this is his favorite song off of Walk The Sky speaks volumes about him as an individual, and this tight-knit unit as a band. The music is more important that any individual recognition that they get, as is the desire to mix things up a bit, and pay homage to those who inspired them.
As always, Myles Kennedy’s emotive delivery makes you feel the bittersweet message of the song in a visceral way. It’s not quite the darkness of ABIII, but it’s probably closer to it than any of the music released in recent years. No matter what direction they take, Alter Bridge never seems to disappoint. “Godspeed” is no exception.
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”
CORY MARKS (f. Moody/Tritt/Mars) – “Outlaws & Outsiders”
CROWN THE EMPIRE – “BLURRY (out of place)”
LULLWATER – “Dark Divided”
THE WILKOFF PROJECT – “Magic”
BLACK VEIL BRIDES – “The Vengeance”
SMALL TOWN TITANS – “The Man”
ARMORED DAWN – “Animal Uncaged”
FAME ON FIRE – “Her Eyes”
WOLFMOTHER – “Chase The Feeling”
WAGE WAR – “Grave”
BEARTOOTH – “Afterall”
GREATEST GAINERS…
DISTURBED – “Hold On To Memories” (+163 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Inside Out” (+113 spins)
SHINEDOWN – “ATTENTION ATTENTION” (+112 spins)
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