HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/15/20
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 8/15/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 2 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 1866 |
| 2 | 1 | PRETTY RECKLESS | Death By Rock And Roll | 1792 |
| 3 | 4 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 1672 |
| 4 | 3 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 1651 |
| 5 | 6 | THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) | Wolf Totem | 1398 |
| 6 | 7 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1369 |
| 7 | 5 | VOLBEAT | Leviathan | 1284 |
| 8 | 8 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 1271 |
| 9 | 9 | POP EVIL | Work | 1211 |
| 10 | 11 | BUSH | Flowers On A Grave | 995 |
| 11 | 13 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 980 |
| 12 | 10 | STARSET | Trials | 977 |
| 13 | 14 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Panic | 739 |
| 14 | 12 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 737 |
| 15 | 15 | SKILLET | Save Me | 631 |
| 16 | 17 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) | Dear Agony | 589 |
| 17 | 20 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 580 |
| 18 | 18 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 565 |
| 19 | 16 | THE BLACK MOODS | Sunshine | 562 |
| 20 | 19 | WEEZER | Hero | 487 |
| 21 | 22 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 479 |
| 22 | 23 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 460 |
| 23 | 24 | CROBOT | Gasoline | 378 |
| 24 | 27 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 360 |
| 25 | 30 | 10 YEARS | The Shift | 334 |
| 26 | 26 | MARILYN MANSON | We Are Chaos | 322 |
| 27 | 28 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 317 |
| 28 | 25 | TRIVIUM | Bleed Into Me | 305 |
| 29 | 33 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 259 |
| 30 | 29 | AVATAR | Colossus | 240 |
| 31 | 35 | GREY DAZE | B12 | 213 |
| 32 | 34 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 213 |
| 33 | 31 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 205 |
| 34 | 21 | BIFFY CLYRO | Instant History | 202 |
| 35 | 32 | FAME ON FIRE | Headspace | 191 |
| 36 | 36 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 187 |
| 37 | 41 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 144 |
| 38 | 37 | SONS OF SILVER | Read ’em Their Rights | 108 |
| 39 | 42 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 101 |
| 40 | 38 | KINGDOM COLLAPSE | Uprise | 99 |
| 41 | 39 | STONE HORSES | The Day I Tried To Live | 96 |
| 42 | 40 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | Canals | 78 |
| 43 | 43 | ANY GIVEN SIN | Insidious | 55 |
| 44 | 45 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 48 |
| 45 | 62 | WHISKEY MYERS | Die Rockin | 44 |
| 46 | 47 | A KILLER’S CONFESSION | Last Chance | 44 |
| 47 | 46 | THE DIRTY NIL | Done With Drugs | 41 |
| 48 | 49 | ROLLING STONES (f. JIMMY PAGE) | Scarlet | 37 |
| 49 | 54 | ECONOLINE CRUSH | Get Out Of The Way (Gold Heart) | 36 |
| 50 | 50 | VEIO | Crux | 36 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
FAREWELL TO FEAR – “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy”
An eerie keyboard intro that sounds like a cross between ’80s New Wave and the backdrop of a horror movie from the same decade sets the tone for “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy.” Like the sudden jolt that you get from a horror movie when a psycho killer suddenly bursts onto the scene, Farewell To Fear’s latest single does the same thing when the haunting keyboards are interrupted by a sudden, menacing explosion of sound that briefly makes you tense up as your fight or flight reflex kicks in. The haunting keyboard riff remains, albeit in a more subtle way as it is buried beneath thunderous drums and a crushing rhythm. Like the calm after a storm, “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy” allows you to catch your breath in a verse that delivers a message that captures the uncertainty of the pandemic world that we’ve all been feeling to varying degrees. This is undoubtedly a fearful time for many because the situation is new and changing by the day. Fear of the virus is natural, as is fear of the unknown. However, Farewell To Fear proves that their name is also their mindset on “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy,” as they poignantly point out that fear itself is the enemy of us all. This has always been true for many aspects of life. What’s new now is that the same fear is being shared simultaneously by people from all walks of life around the world.
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…
FAREWELL TO FEAR – “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy”
JOYOUS WOLF – “Odyssey”
KIRRA – “Free”
THEM EVILS – “Where Ya Gonna Crash Tonight?”
ZERO THEOREM – “Swarm”
14 NORTH – “Break”
LAKESHORE – “Mountain View”
THE LOYAL ORDER – “Hellfire”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
JAMIE FONTAINE & THE LEVEL – “Save Your Life”
RELENT – “Low”
A KILLER’S CONFESSION – “Last Chance”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
THE OUTFIT – “Come Alive”
ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”
GREATEST GAINERS…
COREY TAYLOR – “Black Eyes Blue” (+273 spins)
CHRIS CORNELL – “Patience” (+135 spins)
SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls” (+133 spins)
BADFLOWER – “30” (+119 spins)
POP EVIL – “Work” (+118 spins)
SEETHER – “Dangerous” (+101 spins)
MARILYN MANSON – “We Are Chaos” (+101 spins)
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