HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/23/20
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 5/23/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 1 | GODSMACK | Unforgettable | 1744 |
| 2 | 3 | GREY DAZE | Sickness | 1550 |
| 3 | 4 | BAD WOLVES | Sober | 1506 |
| 4 | 2 | FALLING IN REVERSE | Popular Monster | 1486 |
| 5 | 5 | PEARL JAM | Superblood Wolfmoon | 1265 |
| 6 | 6 | OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN) | Ordinary Man | 1191 |
| 7 | 8 | KORN | Can You Hear Me | 1182 |
| 8 | 9 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | Antisocialist | 1075 |
| 9 | 12 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 1000 |
| 10 | 7 | THE BLUE STONES | Shakin’ Off The Rust | 930 |
| 11 | 10 | CORY MARKS | Outlaws & Outsiders | 919 |
| 12 | 11 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | These Days | 826 |
| 13 | 14 | VOLBEAT | Leviathan | 742 |
| 14 | 13 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Resentment | 716 |
| 15 | 15 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | Another Life | 648 |
| 16 | 18 | THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) | Wolf Totem | 625 |
| 17 | 16 | IN THIS MOMENT | The In-Between | 576 |
| 18 | 19 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 520 |
| 19 | 23 | POP EVIL | Work | 479 |
| 20 | 44 | PRETTY RECKLESS | Death By Rock And Roll | 463 |
| 21 | 22 | KILLSWITCH ENGAGE | I Can’t Be The Only One | 458 |
| 22 | 20 | BUSH | Flowers On A Grave | 455 |
| 23 | 21 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 454 |
| 24 | 17 | GREEN DAY | Oh Yeah! | 437 |
| 25 | 25 | STARSET | Trails | 402 |
| 26 | 24 | SAINT ASONIA | Blind | 397 |
| 27 | 26 | SKILLET | Save Me | 383 |
| 28 | 27 | DED | A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby) | 294 |
| 29 | 30 | SCOTT STAPP | Survivor | 266 |
| 30 | 31 | THE BLACK MOODS | Sunshine | 252 |
| 31 | 29 | BIFFY CLYRO | Instant History | 251 |
| 32 | 32 | THROUGH FIRE | Listen To Your Heart | 244 |
| 33 | 36 | TRIVIUM | Bleed Into Me | 223 |
| 34 | 33 | RED | The War We Made | 205 |
| 35 | 28 | KALEO | Break My Baby | 178 |
| 36 | 34 | TOOL | Pneuma | 166 |
| 37 | 38 | KILLERS | Caution | 157 |
| 38 | 37 | DISTURBED | Hold On To Memories | 145 |
| 39 | 40 | AMITY AFFLICTION | Soak Me In Bleach | 133 |
| 40 | 46 | WEEZER | Hero | 131 |
| 41 | 41 | FIT FOR A KING | Breaking The Mirror | 107 |
| 42 | 54 | CROBOT | Gasoline | 82 |
| 43 | 43 | STITCHED UP HEART | Warrior | 81 |
| 44 | 42 | ROLLING STONES | Living In A Ghost Town | 80 |
| 45 | 45 | SLEEP SIGNALS | Fireproof | 68 |
| 46 | 47 | OTHERWISE | Crossfire | 62 |
| 47 | 51 | FAME ON FIRE | Headspace | 60 |
| 48 | 52 | MACHINE HEAD | Circle The Drain | 50 |
| 49 | 49 | POP EVIL | Let The Chaos Reign | 48 |
| 50 | 50 | TWENTY ONE PILOTS | Level Of Concern | 40 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls”
What do you do if you have a completed album with twelve tracks and still have gas left in the tank? If you’re Shinedown in 2012, you shelve a song that very easily could have been one of the many singles off of Amaryllis and save it for a rainy day. Somehow, “Atlas Falls” – a song that didn’t make the cut in 2012 – also got bypassed in 2015 (Threat To Survival) and 2018 (Attention Attention). To be fair, the latter album tells a continuing story, but this long lost single seems to be an ideal lyrical fit for the former.
“Years ago, during the writing and recording of the Amaryllis album, there was a song that meant a great deal to me and the band titled ‘Atlas Falls.’ Although the song did not make the album, I always felt that one day the world would hear it. It has never been more clear to me than right now that the time has come for ‘Atlas Falls’ to arrive.” – Brent Smith
Maybe it was luck, or maybe it was prophetic to save this song for a single to be released in 2020 as a way to raise money for aid during a worldwide pandemic. So far, the band has raised over $300,000 for Direct Relief (an organization that provides humanitarian medical resources around the globe).
“The response to ‘Atlas Falls’ has been overwhelming. Barry, Zach, Eric and I cannot say thank you enough to Shinedown Nation and everyone around the world that has supported Direct Relief during the Covid-19 response. The faith, the love, and the showing of humanity has just been incredible. ‘Atlas Falls’ is a reminder that we are at our best when we need each other. The only way through this is together. I have always said (and believe to be true) that music can heal us all. We need music (and each other) now more than ever as we are all witnessing a global pandemic unlike anything we have ever seen in many generations.” – Brent Smith
Listening to “Atlas Falls” (even during one of the most stressful times in any of our lifetimes) helps you to escape the madness of the moment and just bask in the glow of the uplifting melody. Shinedown’s music has a way of tapping into the pleasure center of your brain to ease whatever tensions you may be feeling. There is no doubt that “Atlas Falls” would have been a hit in 2012 and made an already stellar album even better. For all of the good that it has done for others, their decision to wait until this moment to release it was a good one.
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…
KINGDOM COLLAPSE – “Uprise”
ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”
ATREYU (f. M SHADOWS) – “Super Hero”
DEAD DAISIES – “Unspoken”
THE WILD! – “King Of This Town”
FROM ASHES TO NEW – “Panic”
ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”
KIRRA – “Caving In”
TENSE MACHINE – “Best Mistake”
DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY – “This Is War”
SLAVES – “Talk To A Friend”
DISCREPANCIES – “Undertow”
PARALANDRA – “Love Will Win”
WITHIN TEMPTATION – “Entertain You”
GREATEST GAINERS…
PRETTY RECKLESS – “Death By Rock And Roll” (+386 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “A Little Bit Off” (+196 spins)
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