HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/16/21
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 1/16/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| THIS | LAST | |||
| WEEK | WEEK | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | SPINS |
| 1 | 1 | FOO FIGHTERS | Shame Shame | 1797 |
| 2 | 4 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 1564 |
| 3 | 6 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 1526 |
| 4 | 2 | AC/DC | Shot In The Dark | 1491 |
| 5 | 5 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 1454 |
| 6 | 3 | I PREVAIL | Every Time You Leave | 1450 |
| 7 | 7 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1328 |
| 8 | 8 | MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 1290 |
| 9 | 11 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 1019 |
| 10 | 14 | PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 1000 |
| 11 | 12 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 996 |
| 12 | 13 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 952 |
| 13 | 15 | POP EVIL | Breathe Again | 703 |
| 14 | 17 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 663 |
| 15 | 16 | BUSH | The Kingdom | 635 |
| 16 | 19 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Scars That I’m Hiding | 622 |
| 17 | 20 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 562 |
| 18 | 34 | CHEVELLE | Self Destructor | 554 |
| 19 | 21 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 530 |
| 20 | 53 | PRETTY RECKLESS | And So It Went | 447 |
| 21 | 23 | SEVENDUST | Dying To Live | 438 |
| 22 | 24 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 376 |
| 23 | 22 | ROYAL BLISS (f. SHIM) | Medication | 371 |
| 24 | 26 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 345 |
| 25 | 25 | SYSTEM OF A DOWN | Protect The Land | 323 |
| 26 | 28 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | Strangers | 297 |
| 27 | 29 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 286 |
| 28 | 27 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 281 |
| 29 | 31 | RA | Intercorrupted | 238 |
| 30 | 30 | MARILYN MANSON | Don’t Chase The Dead | 235 |
| 31 | 42 | BLACK VEIL BRIDES | Scarlett Cross | 204 |
| 32 | 32 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 191 |
| 33 | 33 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 186 |
| 34 | 36 | ATREYU | Save Us | 166 |
| 35 | 35 | DES ROCS | This Is Our Life | 166 |
| 36 | 74 | AC/DC | Realize | 150 |
| 37 | 44 | FOO FIGHTERS | No Son Of Mine | 146 |
| 38 | 38 | SONS OF SILVER | Deep Division | 108 |
| 39 | 39 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 104 |
| 40 | 43 | ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR) | Monsters | 102 |
| 41 | 40 | FOUNDRY | Intoxicate | 102 |
| 42 | 46 | ZERO 9:36 | Adrenaline | 95 |
| 43 | 41 | CHRIS STAPLETON | Arkansas | 94 |
| 44 | 52 | MACHINE GUN KELLY | Bloody Valentine | 56 |
| 45 | 45 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Brick Wall | 53 |
| 46 | 147 | BLACK CROWES | Charming Mess | 42 |
| 47 | 60 | SLAVES | Talk To A Friend | 42 |
| 48 | 49 | CAPTIVES | Glass Heart | 41 |
| 49 | 48 | ARCHETYPES COLLIDE | Your Misery | 41 |
| 50 | 57 | VRSTY | Massive | 40 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “And So It Went”
I don’t envy the youth of today. For all of the technological advances that they enjoy, they have spent nearly the past decade faced with a grim reality that has robbed them of their collective innocence. Gone are the days of blissful ignorance that so many of us enjoyed in our youth. The younger generations are fully aware of how fucked up the world is, and became so a young age. How could they not realize when many of them have been participating in active shooter drills since they started school? But it’s not just the school shootings that are a regular part of their everyday lives. There is so much more.
In a recent interview, Taylor Momsen said…
“The world has been in such a state of civil unrest. ‘And So It Went’ basically comes from that vision. As a songwriter, I feel like I’m not here to preach. I use music to observe and communicate what I see around me. This song felt like the perfect storm for Tom Morello to join in and rip the sound waves apart with his guitar.”
Though this powerful song leaves enough to the imagination to not definitively take sides, the presence of one of the most politically outspoken artists of a generation in Morello tipped the scales a bit in my eyes. And that’s a good thing.
As a parent, I have been horrified by the injustices that my kids have had to experience throughout their lifetimes. Our dinner conversations in recent years have not been of the mundane variety. Often times, we are discussing the injustices of the world, more specifically, the despicable behavior that we have witnessed over the past four years as the injustices have been magnified.
Momsen’s gritty, soulful, genuine vocals from the heart make you feel the message of this song in a visceral way. Morello’s guitar adds the perfect amount of “rage” to a song that is meant to provoke thought.
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”
THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”
THEM EVILS – “Coattails”
THE ODDEVEN – “Bleed For Something”
AND NOW WE BEGIN – “Masks”
ALBORN – “Full Circle”
RIDING WITH KILLERS – “World Apart”
AMONGST LIARS – “Mind”
WITHIN TEMPTATION – “The Purge”
CORE – “Save Me”
AUTUMN KINGS – “Power”
WOLVES AT THE GATE – “Counterfeit”
ANYTHING BUT HUMAN – “Move On”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
GREATEST GAINERS…
| ARTIST | SONG TITLE | SPIN INCREASE |
| PRETTY RECKLESS | And So It Went | 407 |
| CHEVELLE | Self Destructor | 401 |
| PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 200 |
| AC/DC | Realize | 129 |
| MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 128 |
| FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 122 |
| BLACK VEIL BRIDES | Scarlett Cross | 110 |
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