HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/28/20
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 11/28/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 1 | AC/DC | Shot In The Dark | 1916 |
| 2 | 3 | FOO FIGHTERS | Shame Shame | 1720 |
| 3 | 2 | I PREVAIL/DELANEY JANE | Every Time You Leave | 1667 |
| 4 | 5 | DEFTONES | Ohms | 1550 |
| 5 | 6 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 1387 |
| 6 | 4 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 1321 |
| 7 | 7 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 1315 |
| 8 | 8 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1253 |
| 9 | 9 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 1241 |
| 10 | 10 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 1107 |
| 11 | 11 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 1055 |
| 12 | 13 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 844 |
| 13 | 14 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 779 |
| 14 | 16 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 758 |
| 15 | 12 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 746 |
| 16 | 15 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 733 |
| 17 | 18 | AVATAR | Colossus | 619 |
| 18 | 25 | MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 606 |
| 19 | 20 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 482 |
| 20 | 21 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 480 |
| 21 | 17 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 450 |
| 22 | 22 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 410 |
| 23 | 23 | ROYAL BLISS/SHIM | Medication | 400 |
| 24 | 26 | BUSH | The Kingdom | 372 |
| 25 | 24 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 336 |
| 26 | 28 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Protect The Land | 319 |
| 27 | 27 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 319 |
| 28 | 31 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Scars That I’m Hiding | 316 |
| 29 | 34 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 314 |
| 30 | 47 | PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 267 |
| 31 | 29 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 256 |
| 32 | 33 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 249 |
| 33 | 44 | POP EVIL | Breathe Again | 243 |
| 34 | 37 | SEVENDUST | Dying To Live | 239 |
| 35 | 35 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 237 |
| 36 | 30 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 235 |
| 37 | 32 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 234 |
| 38 | 38 | MARILYN MANSON | Don’t Chase The Dead | 188 |
| 39 | 41 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 187 |
| 40 | 42 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 177 |
| 41 | 46 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | Strangers | 175 |
| 42 | 48 | ATREYU | Save Us | 141 |
| 43 | 45 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 130 |
| 44 | 49 | FOUNDRY | Intoxicate | 113 |
| 45 | 50 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Genocidal Humanoidz | 79 |
| 46 | 53 | RA | Intercorrupted | 78 |
| 47 | 51 | BLACKLITE DISTRICT | Falling | 77 |
| 48 | 36 | SIXX:A.M./ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY | Maybe It’s Time | 71 |
| 49 | 54 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 66 |
| 50 | 56 | REZZ & GRABBITZ | Someone Else | 65 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
BADFLOWER – “30”
If there is one thing that stands out most about Badflower, it’s the fact that they march to the beat of their own drum. Though they get plenty of spins on Active Rock radio, it’s not because they tailor their sound to the format. Quite the contrary! If anything, Badflower has blazed their own trail through virgin territory to carve out a niche that they solely occupy.
The view from the age of 30 is vastly different depending on your vantage point. In your early years, 30 feels like a lifetime away. As you span the decades, and 30 gets farther away in the rear view mirror, the realization of that particular milestone seems somewhat inconsequential. But in the moment, turning 30 is a pivotal point in time where you become almost instinctually reflective about your life. No longer are the carefree days of your youth on your side, but most adults still seem much older.
Badflower frontman, Josh Katz, captures the angst that comes with being at an age that can feel like an uncomfortable crossroads of youth and adulthood. One verse in particular poignantly represents this confusing feeling…
“I’m older, I’ve got wrinkles…I still complain, I get pimples…I miss when everything was simple.”
There’s a refreshing grungy, punk edge to “30” at times that would make you think that the band was British if you didn’t know any better.
Speaking as someone who vividly remembers this milestone, I can say unequivocally that there is some hyperbolic poetic license taken to drive home the libido issue addressed. If this part of the song was not vastly exaggerated for emphasis, there will literally be no time (or energy left) for Katz to write and record songs like this.
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…
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
DEAD DAISIES – “Bustle And Flow”
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Heart Of A Champion”
NO RESOLVE – “Never Back Down”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
SONS OF FIRE – “Faded”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
GREATEST GAINERS…
MAMMOTH WVH – “Distance” (+265 spins)
PAPA ROACH – “The Ending” (+140 spins)
FOO FIGHTERS – “Shame Shame” (+130 spins)
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