HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 7/18/20
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 7/18/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 1 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 1826 |
| 2 | 2 | PRETTY RECKLESS | Death By Rock And Roll | 1776 |
| 3 | 3 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | Antisocialist | 1568 |
| 4 | 7 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 1363 |
| 5 | 6 | VOLBEAT | Leviathan | 1333 |
| 6 | 4 | BAD WOLVES | Sober | 1308 |
| 7 | 8 | THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) | Wolf Totem | 1241 |
| 8 | 5 | KORN | Can You Hear Me | 1091 |
| 9 | 11 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1017 |
| 10 | 10 | POP EVIL | Work | 1000 |
| 11 | 12 | BUSH | Flowers On A Grave | 860 |
| 12 | 13 | STARSET | Trails | 839 |
| 13 | 14 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | Another Life | 767 |
| 14 | 0 | METALLICA | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 750 |
| 15 | 15 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 721 |
| 16 | 16 | KILLSWITCH ENGAGE | I Can’t Be The Only One | 663 |
| 17 | 19 | SKILLET | Save Me | 559 |
| 18 | 18 | THE BLACK MOODS | Sunshine | 531 |
| 19 | 20 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Panic | 516 |
| 20 | 22 | BIFFY CLYRO | Instant History | 491 |
| 21 | 21 | WEEZER | Hero | 473 |
| 22 | 23 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) | Dear Agony | 444 |
| 23 | 29 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 365 |
| 24 | 26 | CROBOT | Gasoline | 343 |
| 25 | 24 | SCOTT STAPP | Survivor | 303 |
| 26 | 30 | 10 YEARS | The Shift | 300 |
| 27 | 25 | DED | A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby) | 299 |
| 28 | 28 | TRIVIUM | Bleed Into Me | 282 |
| 29 | 34 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 250 |
| 30 | 38 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 245 |
| 31 | 27 | SAINT ASONIA | Blind | 204 |
| 32 | 32 | FAME ON FIRE | Headspace | 193 |
| 33 | 35 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 191 |
| 34 | 33 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 170 |
| 35 | 55 | AVATAR | Colossus | 133 |
| 36 | 36 | KINGDOM COLLAPSE | Uprise | 132 |
| 37 | 39 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 128 |
| 38 | 37 | SONS OF SILVER | Read ’em Their Rights | 127 |
| 39 | 43 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | Canals | 110 |
| 40 | 40 | DREAMERS (f. GRANDSON) | Heat Seeker | 104 |
| 41 | 42 | STITCHED UP HEART | Warrior | 102 |
| 42 | 41 | ADELITAS WAY | Shine On | 97 |
| 43 | 44 | STONE HORSES | The Day I Tried To Live | 84 |
| 44 | 45 | TWENTY ONE PILOTS | Level Of Concern | 60 |
| 45 | 46 | TENSE MACHINE | Best Mistake | 58 |
| 46 | 54 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 54 |
| 47 | 0 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 47 |
| 48 | 184 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 43 |
| 49 | 47 | JJ WILDE | The Rush | 43 |
| 50 | 48 | IN THIS MOMENT | We Will Rock You | 40 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
STARSET – “Trials”
The prophecy of Starset may seem like a page ripped out of a science fiction novel. If you just discovered “Trials,” you would think that it was written during the global pandemic that sometimes feels like the beginning of a post- apocalyptic world. The song, like their third album (Divisions), tackles the potential impact that science and technology continues to have on our lives. Ironically, the technology that is consuming us became a necessary evil as Covid-19 mandated physical separation. Technology was the way that we have all stayed somewhat connected. But that doesn’t mean that our lives haven’t been drastically changed. If ever there was a trial to test our collective resolve, it is this once-in-a-lifetime global event. Beyond the threat of the virus lies a serious problem that likely still hasn’t been fully realized because we’re all consumed with finding some semblance of normal again. But what about those who were struggling in life before this pandemic hit? What is their mental state like? How have they handled this life-altering trial?
One of the things that has helped make this period of isolation somewhat tolerable for me has been leaning on music to take me away to a better place in my mind. Starset used this as an opportunity to connect with fans and let them know that they are not alone in this trial. Fans were encouraged to share their particular trials on social media by using the hashtag #STARSETTRIALS. The collection of fans trials can be found here. Now more than ever, I am grateful for bands like Starset for writing songs like “Trials” to offer solace during times of adversity.
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”
JOYOUS WOLF – “Odyssey”
FAREWELL TO FEAR – “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”
RELENT – “Low”
THE LONELY ONES – “Eternal Sadness”
LOYAL ORDER – “Ready For Dead”
OXYMORRONS – “Justice”
A KILLER’S CONFESSION – “Last Chance”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
THE WILD! – “King Of This Town”
DEAD DAISIES – “Unspoken”
THE MANY COLORED DEATH – “Drown”
ANOTHER DAY DAWNS – “Forget Me Not”
RIDING WITH KILLERS – “Self Destruct”
BLACK HEART SAINTS – “Misery”
THE OUTFIT – “Come Alive”
ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”
THIRTEEN STARS – “Mint Jelly”
DISCREPANCIES – “Undertow”
GREATEST GAINERS…
METALLICA – “All Within My Hands (S&M 2)” (+750 spins)
SEETHER – “Dangerous” (+139 spins)
I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) – “Every Time You Leave” (+133 spins)
AVATAR – “Colossus” (+103 spins)
BRING ME THE HORIZON – “Parasite Eve” (+100 spins)
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