HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/8/20

 

 HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/8/20

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 2/8/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2019

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	Inside Out	1836
2	2	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	History Of Violence	1833
3	3	SHINEDOWN	ATTENTION ATTENTION	1409
4	6	VOLBEAT (f. NEIL FALLON)	Die To Live	1376
5	7	I PREVAIL	Hurricane	1362
6	9	OZZY OSBOURNE	Under The Graveyard	1325
7	5	THE HU (f. FATN)	Yuve Yuve Yu	1176
8	8	BAD WOLVES	Killing Me Slowly	1172
9	4	FIRE FROM THE GODS	Right Now	1100
10	9	FOZZY	Nowhere To Run	959
11	10	DIRTY HONEY	Rolling 7’s	899
12	12	CROBOT	Low Life	882
13	11	BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. SCOOTER WARD)	Far Away	861
14	13	DISTURBED	Hold On To Memories	859
15	14	GREEN DAY	Oh Yeah!	736
16	19	OZZY OSBOURNE	Straight To Hell	715
17	15	PEARL JAM	Dance Of The Clairvoyants	609
18	21	RIVAL SONS	Shooting Stars	608
19	17	THE BLUE STONES	Shakin’ Off The Rust	607
20	16	TOOL	Pneuma	534
21	23	SLIPKNOT	Nero Forte	522
22	18	FALLING IN REVERSE	Popular Monster	451
23	26	WHISKEY MYERS	Gasoline	450
24	20	BRING ME THE HORIZON	Ludens	422
25	22	ROYAL BLISS	Paranoid	389
26	24	THE GLORIOUS SONS	Closer To The Sky	341
27	25	BONES UK	Pretty Waste	335
28	28	OTHERWISE	Lifted	267
29	38	GODSMACK	Unforgettable	259
30	31	BLACK KEYS	Shine A Little Light	241
31	30	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	Another Life	241
32	29	THE BLACK MOODS	Whatcha Got	219
33	32	ALTER BRIDGE	Godspeed	204
34	33	SAUL	Trial By Fire	199
35	39	IN THIS MOMENT	The In-Between	186
36	64	KORN	Can You Hear Me	182
37	36	EVANESCENCE	The Chain (From Gears 5)	174
38	35	STONE TEMPLE PILOTS	Fare Thee Well	157
39	34	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS	Agree To Disagree	153
40	37	CLINT LOWERY	Kings	148
41	40	GHOST HOUNDS	Fire Under Water	142
42	42	VEIO	Flare Of Defiance	125
43	45	KALEO	Break My Baby	109
44	43	WHITE REAPER	Might Be Right	105
45	49	A DAY TO REMEMBER	Resentment	99
46	41	JASTA	When The Contagion Is You	91
47	47	THROUGH FIRE	Listen To Your Heart	85
48	46	GREY DAZE	What’s In The Eye	81
49	56	PALAYE ROYALE	Hang On To Yourself	73
50	48	OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN)	Ordinary Man	56

 

 

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

SAUL – “Trial By Fire”

Life experiences, particularly trials and tribulations, create the foundation upon which our lives are built.  Perhaps our most valuable lessons come from a loss that is so great that it makes us see life through a lens of imminent mortality.  Once we appreciate the fragility of life, we tend to proceed with more purpose than before.  When Saul emerged onto the scene, they did so with a powerful, personal story of anguish.  Inspired by the loss of the older brother of Blake and Zach Bedsaul, the band’s song “Brother” dealt with the pain and frustration of loss.  Their brother was the first case of H1N1 (Swine Flu) in Iowa.  Aside from being the song that put Saul on the map, in a way, “Brother” feels like the first chapter of the story.

Mortality has a way of making people seize the moment like no other force in the world.  “Trial By Fire” feels like the continuation of the story that began with loss, and resulted in the motivation to squeeze every ounce of juice that life has to offer…

“We do what we have to…to be who we want to…let them all doubt you…walkin’ the wire…trial by fire”

Listening to the impassioned delivery of the lyrics above, I was reminded of Teddy Roosevelt’s famous 1910 speech – The Man In The Arena.  The message in the speech is that those who dare to take chances in spite of any obstacles are more important than the critics who sit in judgment of the doers.  “Trial By Fire” is an inspirational message of hope born out of the realization that life is too short to be deterred by the doubts of others.  Like “Brother,” “Trial By Fire” is raw, fierce, in-your-face hard rock, albeit with some unexpected grooves to keep you off balance.  The follow-up single to Saul’s smash hit offers further proof that this is rising band has staying power.

 

 

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…

ARANDA – “Invisible”

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

THE AMITY AFFLICTION – “Soak Me In Bleach”

FAME ON FIRE – “Her Eyes”

BEARTOOTH – “Afterall”

BRITISH LION – “Lightning”

ROYAL TUSK – “Die Knowing”

VEER UNION – “Nightmare”

ANOTHER DAY DAWNS – “Taste Of Heaven”

SILVERSTEIN – “Infinite”

ARMORED DAWN – “Animal Uncaged”

PSYCHO HILL – “June”

DEEPFALL – “Cancer”

GRAVITY FALLS – “Before The Silence”

SONS OF APOLLO – “Fall To Ascend”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

GREEN DAY – “Oh Yeah!” (+281 spins)

PEARL JAM – “Dance Of The Clairvoyants” (+177 spins)

I PREVAIL – “Hurricane” (+167 spins)

KORN – “Can You Hear Me” (+152 spins)

FALLING IN REVERSE – “Popular Monster” (+128 spins)

DISTURBED – “Hold On To Memories” (+116 spins)

GODSMACK – “Unforgettable” (+110 spins)

TOOL – “Pneuma” (+107 spins)