HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/11/20
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 4/11/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 2 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. SCOOTER WARD) | Far Away | 1700 |
| 2 | 1 | GREEN DAY | Oh Yeah! | 1656 |
| 3 | 5 | FALLING IN REVERSE | Popular Monster | 1384 |
| 4 | 6 | DISTURBED | Hold On To Memories | 1307 |
| 5 | 8 | GREY DAZE | Sickness | 1294 |
| 6 | 4 | DIRTY HONEY | Rolling 7’s | 1262 |
| 7 | 7 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Inside Out | 1113 |
| 8 | 9 | PEARL JAM | Superblood Wolfmoon | 1072 |
| 9 | 10 | THE BLUE STONES | Shakin’ Off The Rust | 1068 |
| 10 | 3 | I PREVAIL | Hurricane | 1068 |
| 11 | 16 | OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN) | Ordinary Man | 916 |
| 12 | 11 | GODSMACK | Unforgettable | 895 |
| 13 | 13 | BAD WOLVES | Sober | 878 |
| 14 | 12 | KORN | Can You Hear Me | 870 |
| 15 | 14 | TOOL | Pneuma | 824 |
| 16 | 15 | RIVAL SONS | Shooting Stars | 756 |
| 17 | 18 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | Antisocialist | 646 |
| 18 | 19 | CORY MARKS | Outlaws & Outsiders | 606 |
| 19 | 20 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | These Days | 571 |
| 20 | 17 | THE GLORIOUS SONS | Closer To The Sky | 560 |
| 21 | 21 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | Another Life | 495 |
| 22 | 23 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Resentment | 464 |
| 23 | 22 | ROYAL BLISS | Paranoid | 436 |
| 24 | 25 | IN THIS MOMENT | The In-Between | 373 |
| 25 | 24 | ALTER BRIDGE | Godspeed | 371 |
| 26 | 26 | BLACK KEYS | Shine A Little Light | 363 |
| 27 | 27 | KILLSWITCH ENGAGE | I Can’t Be The Only One | 322 |
| 28 | 28 | BUSH | Flowers On A Grave | 265 |
| 29 | 38 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 249 |
| 30 | 29 | KALEO | Break My Baby | 230 |
| 31 | 34 | DED | A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby) | 213 |
| 32 | 30 | THE USED | Paradise Lost, A Poem | 209 |
| 33 | 33 | SAINT ASONIA | Blind | 202 |
| 34 | 31 | DINOSAUR PILE-UP | Round The Bend | 200 |
| 35 | 35 | SKILLET | Save Me | 196 |
| 36 | 32 | THROUGH FIRE | Listen To Your Heart | 194 |
| 37 | 41 | STARSET | Trails | 168 |
| 38 | 39 | SCOTT STAPP | Survivor | 153 |
| 39 | 36 | BIFFY CLYRO | Instant History | 139 |
| 40 | 40 | AMITY AFFLICTION | Soak Me In Bleach | 110 |
| 41 | 44 | RED | The War We Made | 104 |
| 42 | 73 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 84 |
| 43 | 45 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Taste Of Heaven | 81 |
| 44 | 42 | MACHINE HEAD | Circle The Drain | 78 |
| 45 | 43 | WHITE REAPER | Might Be Right | 76 |
| 46 | 48 | TOM KEIFER | Hype | 71 |
| 47 | 46 | TRIVIUM | Catastrophist | 59 |
| 48 | 52 | FIT FOR A KING | Breaking The Mirror | 57 |
| 49 | 47 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 56 |
| 50 | 51 | KILLERS | Caution | 51 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
DROPKICK MURPHYS – “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding”
Most fans of any artist would jump at the opportunity to meet their heroes, but sometimes, it can be disappointing when they fail to live up to the lofty vision that you have of them in your mind. I won’t name names, but it has happened to me on a few occasions. It can change the way that you feel about their music afterwards. The would-be hero in this song is Mick Jones of The Clash. What’s interesting is that this song was written based on a real-life story of a friend of Dropkick Murphys. In what seems like a story from an elementary school, Tedd Hutt (Flogging Molly) actually had his pudding stolen by Jones. Hutt wasn’t likely as traumatized as a grade school child by the event, but this hero’s fall from grace story did inspire a fun punk song with a healthy dose of mockery towards Jones. Fun is what Dropkick Murphys are all about. With the world at large in varying degrees of quarantine, these Celtic punks from Boston put on a show for the ages on St. Patrick’s Day. Rather than feeding off of the energy of a raucous crowd though, Dropkick Murphys dialed up the energy on their own with a virtual concert (with no crowd) that was streamed by over 10 million people. “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding” was performed in that setting before it was even recorded. This high energy rocker will put a smile on your face and help you forget about the socially distant world that we’re living in, if only for a few glorious minutes.
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…
DROPKICK MURPHYS – “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding”
ATREYU (f. M SHADOWS) – “Super Hero”
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Brighter Side Of Grey”
BLACKTOP MOJO – “It Won’t Last”
NEW MESSIAH – “Dream On”
ARANDA – “Invisible”
14 NORTH – “Break”
SOLENCE – “Animal In Me”
ROYAL TUSK – “Die Knowing”
SILVERSTEIN – “Infinite”
OTHERWISE – “Crossfire”
FAME ON FIRE – “Her Eyes”
THE HU (f. Jacoby Shaddix) – “Wolf Totem”
IN THIS MOMENT – “We Will Rock You”
SLAVES – “Talk To A Friend”
STITCHED UP HEART – “Warrior”
BEARTOOTH – “Afterall”
ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”
SLEEP SIGNALS – “Fireproof”
STATIC CYCLES – “Boxes”
BLACK HEART SAINTS – “Lines”
GREATEST GAINERS…
OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN) – “Ordinary Man” (+186 spins)
SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls” (+134 spins)
ASKING ALEXANDRIA – “Antisocialist” (+128 spins)
THE BLUE STONES – “Shakin’ Off The Rust” (+125 spins)
FALLING IN REVERSE – “Popular Monster” (+117 spins)
BAD WOLVES – “Sober” (+101 spins)
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