HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/9/21
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 1/9/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| THIS | LAST | |||
| WEEK | WEEK | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | SPINS |
| 1 | 1 | FOO FIGHTERS | Shame Shame | 1831 |
| 2 | 2 | AC/DC | Shot In The Dark | 1537 |
| 3 | 4 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 1526 |
| 4 | 3 | I PREVAIL | Every Time You Leave | 1475 |
| 5 | 6 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 1473 |
| 6 | 5 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 1457 |
| 7 | 7 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1334 |
| 8 | 9 | MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 1205 |
| 9 | 13 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 986 |
| 10 | 11 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 960 |
| 11 | 14 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 929 |
| 12 | 15 | PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 921 |
| 13 | 8 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 906 |
| 14 | 10 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 898 |
| 15 | 17 | POP EVIL | Breathe Again | 648 |
| 16 | 19 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 626 |
| 17 | 18 | BUSH | The Kingdom | 623 |
| 18 | 20 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Scars That I’m Hiding | 591 |
| 19 | 16 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 550 |
| 20 | 21 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 545 |
| 21 | 24 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 488 |
| 22 | 25 | SEVENDUST | Dying To Live | 434 |
| 23 | 0 | CHEVELLE | Self Destructor | 406 |
| 24 | 23 | ROYAL BLISS (f. SHIM) | Medication | 403 |
| 25 | 26 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 383 |
| 26 | 28 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Protect The Land | 347 |
| 27 | 27 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 340 |
| 28 | 30 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | Strangers | 294 |
| 29 | 29 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 283 |
| 30 | 31 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 269 |
| 31 | 32 | MARILYN MANSON | Don’t Chase The Dead | 247 |
| 32 | 0 | PRETTY RECKLESS | And So It Went | 243 |
| 33 | 34 | RA | Intercorrupted | 233 |
| 34 | 33 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 213 |
| 35 | 35 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 180 |
| 36 | 36 | ATREYU | Save Us | 161 |
| 37 | 37 | DES ROCS | This Is Our Life | 159 |
| 38 | 44 | BLACK VEIL BRIDES | Scarlett Cross | 150 |
| 39 | 42 | SONS OF SILVER | Deep Division | 116 |
| 40 | 38 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 114 |
| 41 | 67 | FOO FIGHTERS | No Son Of Mine | 113 |
| 42 | 40 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 107 |
| 43 | 39 | FOUNDRY | Intoxicate | 104 |
| 44 | 41 | CHRIS STAPLETON | Arkansas | 98 |
| 45 | 43 | ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR) | Monsters | 82 |
| 46 | 100 | AC/DC | Realize | 80 |
| 47 | 54 | ZERO 9:36 | Adrenaline | 72 |
| 48 | 45 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Brick Wall | 58 |
| 49 | 49 | MACHINE GUN KELLY | Bloody Valentine | 50 |
| 50 | 48 | ARCHETYPES COLLIDE | Your Misery | 45 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
VEER – “Red Tide”
With all of the competition in hard rock these days, artists have to do whatever they can to rise above the din and get noticed. For some, that involves swinging for the fences to carve out their piece of a shrinking pie on radio. Others, like Veer, take a more grassroots approach by building a regional following and marketing themselves in creative way. You may think that having a common word as a band name would make that more challenging, but they have a logo that is so recognizable, that you would think that they took the Nike approach to marketing, rather than following the herd.Of course, all of the marketing in the world won’t mean a thing unless you can back it up with a quality product. Veer has delivered that since their inception, and continue with their evolution to today’s sound.
“Red Tide” was written during the pandemic that stopped the world, and live music, in its tracks. Frontman Ron Malfi shared the background for the song in a recent interview…
“We recorded this song during a worldwide viral pandemic, so it’s hard to ignore that. Something that profound works its way into the music, whether you want it to or not. We knew that going in, and we just owned it. For us, ‘Red Tide’ is practically an anthem for our place in time. It’s a snapshot of what’s going on in the world.”
Veer has always leaned into their grunge influences, but “Red Tide” takes a deeper dive into the dark side with an underlying eeriness that captures the essence of the toll that this pandemic has taken on so many of us. Through the darkness, the melodic chorus offers ray of hope that feels like the light at the end of the tunnel. Sonically, this is Veer’s best work yet.
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…
VEER– “Red Tide
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
REID HENRY – “The Blind”
W3EAPONS – “Broken Promises”
THE HU – “Sad But True”
AUTUMN KINGS – “Power”
DISCREPANCIES – “Blame Me”
WOLVES AT THE GATE – “Counterfeit”
ANYTHING BUT HUMAN – “Move On”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
NO RESOLVE – “Never Back Down”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
GREATEST GAINERS…
CHEVELLE – “Self Destructor” (+406 spins)
THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “And So It Went” (+243 spins)
PAPA ROACH – “The Ending” (+202 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Living The Dream” (+104 spins)
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