HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/12/20
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 12/12/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 2 | FOO FIGHTERS | Shame Shame | 1897 |
| 2 | 1 | AC/DC | Shot In The Dark | 1838 |
| 3 | 3 | I PREVAIL f. DELANEY JANE | Every Time You Leave | 1732 |
| 4 | 6 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 1517 |
| 5 | 5 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 1474 |
| 6 | 7 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 1457 |
| 7 | 4 | DEFTONES | Ohms | 1433 |
| 8 | 9 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 1285 |
| 9 | 8 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1274 |
| 10 | 10 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 1133 |
| 11 | 15 | MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 984 |
| 12 | 12 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 915 |
| 13 | 13 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 871 |
| 14 | 14 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 855 |
| 15 | 17 | AVATAR | Colussus | 627 |
| 16 | 20 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 588 |
| 17 | 24 | PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 548 |
| 18 | 19 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 545 |
| 19 | 22 | BUSH | The Kingdom | 511 |
| 20 | 21 | ROYAL BLISS f. SHIM | Medication | 488 |
| 21 | 27 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 476 |
| 22 | 26 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Scars That I’m Hiding | 465 |
| 23 | 18 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 450 |
| 24 | 23 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 432 |
| 25 | 30 | POP EVIL | Breathe Again | 417 |
| 26 | 25 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 382 |
| 27 | 28 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Protect The Land | 356 |
| 28 | 31 | SEVENDUST | Dying To Live | 343 |
| 29 | 32 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 335 |
| 30 | 33 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 326 |
| 31 | 34 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 262 |
| 32 | 35 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 252 |
| 33 | 36 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 243 |
| 34 | 37 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | Strangers | 234 |
| 35 | 38 | MARILYN MANSON | Don’t Chase The Dead | 226 |
| 36 | 29 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 199 |
| 37 | 42 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 147 |
| 38 | 41 | ATREYU | Save Us | 137 |
| 39 | 43 | FOUNDRY | Intoxicate | 134 |
| 40 | 44 | RA | Intercorrupted | 132 |
| 41 | 46 | SONS OF SILVER | Deep Division | 93 |
| 42 | 45 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 91 |
| 43 | 49 | ALL TIME LOW f. BLACKBEAR | Monsters | 63 |
| 44 | 48 | DES ROCS | This Is Our Life | 62 |
| 45 | 60 | CHRIS STAPLETON | Arkansas | 60 |
| 46 | 55 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Brick Wall | 59 |
| 47 | 47 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Genocidal Humanoidz | 56 |
| 48 | 50 | ZERO 9:36 | Adrenaline | 53 |
| 49 | 51 | VRSTY | Massive | 49 |
| 50 | 56 | LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES | Killing What’s Underneath | 48 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
BLACK VEIL BRIDES – “Scarlet Cross”
Listening to “Scarlet Cross” for the first time without realizing that it is part of a concept album, the nuances of the song reminded me of Queensryche infused with the bright, melodic riffs that defined Dokken in their heyday.
Concept albums are few and far between these days, at least when it comes to artists that get played on Active Rock radio. Black Veil Brides has never conformed to the trends of the moment, so it’s not surprising that they are taking things in a direction that other modern rock artists don’t venture towards.
Like Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime album, Black Veil Brides’ forthcoming concept album tells a story inspired by real life society through the lens of fictional characters. The other similarity to Mindcrime is the political undertone that is woven throughout the story.
In an interview with Alternative Press, Andy Biersack shared the following thoughts about the concept of the album…
“There are so many instances historically—and just on an emotional level for everybody—where the truth being malleable becomes a tool for good. But then inversely, we live in a world where the truth being malleable has become the ultimate tool for derision and the degradation of our democracy.”
Even out of the context of the story told on the concept album, “Scarlet Cross” stands out as an uplifting rocker with a modern twist that harkens back to the glory days of hard rock.
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…
REID HENRY – “The Blind”
BLACK VEIL BRIDES – “Scarlet Cross”
W3EAPONS – “Broken Promises”
THE HU – “Sad But True”
AUTUMN KINGS – “Power”
DISCREPANCIES – “Blame Me”
WOLVES AT THE GATE – “Counterfeit”
ANYTHING BUT HUMAN – “Move On”
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Heart Of A Champion”
NO RESOLVE – “Never Back Down”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
GREATEST GAINERS…
MAMMOTH WVH – “Distance” (+231 spins)
PAPA ROACH – “The Ending” (+161 spins)
AYRON JONES – “Take Me Away” (+132 spins)
THREE DAYS GRACE – “Somebody That I Used To Know” (+128 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Living The Dream” (+126 spins)
POP EVIL – “Breathe Again” (+102 spins)
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