HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/7/20
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 11/7/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 2 | AC/DC | Shot In the Dark | 1969 |
| 2 | 1 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 1712 |
| 3 | 4 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 1634 |
| 4 | 5 | DEFTONES | Ohms | 1519 |
| 5 | 6 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 1458 |
| 6 | 3 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1395 |
| 7 | 10 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 1191 |
| 8 | 12 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 1170 |
| 9 | 8 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 1149 |
| 10 | 11 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1140 |
| 11 | 14 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 989 |
| 12 | 9 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 943 |
| 13 | 13 | SIXX:A.M. / ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY | Maybe It’s Time | 854 |
| 14 | 16 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 807 |
| 15 | 15 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 786 |
| 16 | 7 | MARILYN MANSON | We Are Chaos | 765 |
| 17 | 17 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 723 |
| 18 | 18 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 714 |
| 19 | 21 | AVATAR | Colossus | 590 |
| 20 | 22 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 589 |
| 21 | 19 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 510 |
| 22 | 23 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 490 |
| 23 | 24 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 449 |
| 24 | 25 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 407 |
| 25 | 27 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 389 |
| 26 | 20 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 381 |
| 27 | 28 | ROYAL BLISS (f. SHIM) | Medication | 377 |
| 28 | 30 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 265 |
| 29 | 29 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 230 |
| 30 | 32 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 219 |
| 31 | 31 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 219 |
| 32 | 44 | BUSH | The Kingdom | 218 |
| 33 | 33 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | Somebody Told Me | 209 |
| 34 | 42 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 206 |
| 35 | 34 | EGO KILL TALENT | The Call | 204 |
| 36 | 36 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 198 |
| 37 | 43 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 177 |
| 38 | 37 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 174 |
| 39 | 38 | SOUTH OF EDEN | The Talk | 165 |
| 40 | 40 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 158 |
| 41 | 47 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 142 |
| 42 | 41 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 142 |
| 43 | 59 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 123 |
| 44 | 46 | ATREYU | Save Us | 114 |
| 45 | 39 | BIFFY CLYRO | Tiny Indoor Fireworks | 113 |
| 46 | 45 | BLACKLITE DISTRICT | Falling | 101 |
| 47 | 52 | FOUNDRY | Intoxicate | 97 |
| 48 | 58 | MARILYN MANSON | Don’t Chase the Dead | 95 |
| 49 | 51 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 79 |
| 50 | 0 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Protect The Land | 69 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
AC/DC – “Shot In The Dark”
Dropping your first album in six years on Friday the 13th of 2020 seems like a risky proposition if you are the superstitious type, but when your return is an event in and of itself, superstition be damned. If Brian Johnson never left the band due to hearing issues, and if Malcolm Young was still alive, perhaps new AC/DC wouldn’t be so noteworthy. But those challenges made a legendary act into something of an underdog with a comeback story.
In a year where the world has been decimated and frozen in time by a pandemic, new AC/DC might be just what the doctor ordered. If there is one band that you can count on to deliver the sound that is simultaneously current and nostalgic, it’s AC/DC. In some ways, they are like your favorite t-shirt that you just can’t bear to part with. Time may have frayed the edges a bit, but the joy that it brings you is deep-rooted.
While many legacy acts have either given up on recording new music altogether, or tried too hard to change with the times, AC/DC has remained steadfast in their efforts. This is not to say that all of their albums sound the same, but rather to say that their floor is higher than the ceiling of many other bands. That being said, “Shot In The Dark” is on another level (in a good way). It may sound like sacrilege to say this because of the revered status of the band’s Back In Black album, but this song feels like it could have been a lost track from Johnson’s debut 40 years ago. That is no small feat. And these sentiments are not because of this being a great comeback story. It’s just an outstanding, timeless rock and roll song that would have been as relevant four decades ago as it is today (on the day that AC/DC’s latest album, Power Up, dropped).
It’s serendipitous that “Shot In The Dark” sits in the #1 position on the Active Rock charts on the day that the album dropped. Suffice it to say that AC/DC’s new music was well worth the six-year wait!
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…
RA – “Intercorrupted”
FROM ASHES TO NEW – “Scars The I’m Hiding”
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
AUTUMN KINGS – “Power”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
DEAD DAISIES – “Bustle And Flow”
BUSH – “The Kingdom”
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Heart Of A Champion”
NO RESOLVE – “Never Back Down”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
SONS OF FIRE – “Faded”
SMASH INTO PIECES – “Big Bang”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
GREATEST GAINERS…
GRETA VAN FLEET– “My Way, Soon” (+166 spins)
I PREVAIL/DELANEY JANE – “Every Time You Leave” (+157 spins)
AC/DC – “Shot In The Dark” (+151 spins)
BUSH – “The Kingdom” (+134 spins)
ROYAL BLOOD – “Trouble’s Coming” (+132 spins)
AYRON JONES – “Take Me Away” (+130 spins)
DEFTONES – “Ohms” (+115 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Living The Dream” (+111 spins)
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