HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/30/20

  HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/30/20

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 5/30/20. 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	1766
2	3	BAD WOLVES	Sober	1559
3	2	GREY DAZE	Sickness	1494
4	4	FALLING IN REVERSE	Popular Monster	1327
5	9	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	A Little Bit Off	1200
6	7	KORN	Can You Hear Me	1199
7	6	OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN)	Ordinary Man	1147
8	8	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	Antisocialist	1133
9	5	PEARL JAM	Superblood Wolfmoon	885
10	13	VOLBEAT	Leviathan	846
11	12	HIGHLY SUSPECT	These Days	826
12	11	CORY MARKS	Outlaws & Outsiders	794
13	20	PRETTY RECKLESS	Death By Rock And Roll	747
14	16	THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX)	Wolf Totem	698
15	14	A DAY TO REMEMBER	Resentment	696
16	15	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	Another Life	662
17	18	SHINEDOWN	Atlas Falls	639
18	19	POP EVIL	Work	580
19	17	IN THIS MOMENT	The In-Between	533
20	23	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	World Keeps Spinning	501
21	22	BUSH	Flowers On A Grave	472
22	21	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	I Can’t Be The Only One	462
23	25	STARSET	Trails	422
24	26	SAINT ASONIA	Blind	403
25	24	GREEN DAY	Oh Yeah!	380
26	27	SKILLET	Save Me	377
27	28	DED	A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby)	311
28	30	THE BLACK MOODS	Sunshine	277
29	29	SCOTT STAPP	Survivor	270
30	32	THROUGH FIRE	Listen To Your Heart	259
31	31	BIFFY CLYRO	Instant History	255
32	33	TRIVIUM	Bleed Into Me	234
33	40	WEEZER	Hero	211
34	34	RED	The War We Made	200
35	37	KILLERS	Caution	157
36	42	CROBOT	Gasoline	147
37	39	AMITY AFFLICTION	Soak Me In Bleach	130
38	35	KALEO	Break My Baby	108
39	41	FIT FOR A KING	Breaking The Mirror	97
40	47	FAME ON FIRE	Headspace	82
41	45	SLEEP SIGNALS	Fireproof	79
42	43	STITCHED UP HEART	Warrior	79
43	44	ROLLING STONES	Living In A Ghost Town	75
44	46	OTHERWISE	Crossfire	61
45	51	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Level Of Concern	49
46	49	POP EVIL	Let The Chaos Reign	46
47	52	JJ WILDE	The Rush	43
48	84	10 YEARS	The Shift	42
49	48	MACHINE HEAD	Circle The Drain	38
50	50	OVTLIER	Buried Me Alive	33

 

 

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

ANY GIVEN SIN – “Insidious”

You know that an up-and-coming band is onto something when you look forward to the release of each new single with anticipation.  Given the fact that there is a plethora of new music being released constantly, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd.  But Any Given Sin is a different type of band.  Their penchant for writing songs with infectious melodies that linger in your head long after the music stops, combined with heavy, pulsating rhythms that give them a sound that feels like it is meant to echo throughout arenas (once shows start again), instantly makes them a band to put on your radar.

What drew me to Any Given Sin with the release of their first hit single (“Dynamite”) was the clear influence of Shinedown.  This time around with “Insidious” the band emerges from the Shinedown shadows with something a bit more intense.  It’s been said a number of times on Hard Rock Daddy, and will likely continue to be said going forward, producer Chris Dawson has an incredible knack for bringing out the best of what each band that he works with has to offer.  If you know his work, you can almost tell within the first 30 seconds of this song that his stamp is on it.  There is a distinct sonic intensity that harkens back to a time when songs were written with arenas in mind.

What I love about “Insidious” (especially with headphones) is the unique presence of haunting keyboards filling in the spaces between the freight train like riffs.  At times, the keyboards are subtle, while taking center stage at key moments during the song.  When Mike Conner isn’t pounding your ears with relentless riffs, he is showcasing a solo style that has a theatricality that you find more often in European metal than typical active rock songs.  It’s nuances like this that separate Any Given Sin from the pack.  While Vic Richie can make you believe that he is the second coming of Brent Smith at times (no easy feat), on “Insidious,” he shows a different side of himself.  Still passionate and bold, but more closely resembling Chris Daughtry than Smith.

I’m tempted to say that the third time will be a charm, but since Any Given Sin’s first two singles were both radio hits, I think it’s best to say that the third time will continue to prove that this band is on a clear path to becoming a household name in the rock world sooner rather than later.

 

 

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…

ANY GIVEN SIN – “Insidious”

KINGDOM COLLAPSE – “Uprise”

THE VIOLENT – “Fly On The Wall”

TENSE MACHINE – “Best Mistake”

COLD KINGDOM – “Devil In Me”

THE OUTFIT – “Come Alive”

ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”

DEAD DAISIES – “Unspoken”

THE WILD! – “King Of This Town”

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” (+284 spins)

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “A Little Bit Off” (+200 spins)

SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls” (+119 spins)

VOLBEAT – “Leviathan” (+104 spins)

POP EVIL – “Work” (+101 spins)

 

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