HRD RADIO REPORT
The HRD Radio Report showcases the weekly Active Rock Mediabase Charts (compiled by AllAccess.com), and appears every Tuesday 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.
Many of the artists featured on the Active Rock charts have already been reviewed on HardRockDaddy.com.
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2016 Active Rock Radio / Octane Quarterly Report: Q2
The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 7/30/16. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
CHART
CHART
ARTIST
SONG TITLE
RADIO
POSITION
POSITION
SPINS
THIS WEEK
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
1
2
CHEVELLE
“Joyride”
1958
2
1
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
“Dark Necessities”
1864
3
3
SHINEDOWN
“Asking For It”
1828
4
4
VOLBEAT
“The Devil’s Bleeding Crown”
1566
5
5
POP EVIL
“Take It All”
1360
6
6
BLINK 182
“Bored To Death”
1301
7
8
A DAY TO REMEMBER
“Paranoia”
1170
8
13
PRETTY RECKLESS
“Take Me Down”
1111
9
9
3 DOORS DOWN
“Still Alive”
957
10
11
HOLY WHITE HOUNDS
“Switchblade”
859
11
10
KALEO
“No Good”
849
12
14
DEFTONES
“Phantom Bride”
811
13
15
ROB ZOMBIE
“Get High”
770
14
17
SKILLET
“Feel Invincible”
703
15
16
AVATAR
“The Eagle Has Landed”
687
16
24
PROPHETS OF RAGE
“Prophets Of Rage”
660
17
19
BREAKING BENJAMIN
“Ashes Of Eden”
643
18
18
HELLYEAH
“I Don’t Care Anymore”
623
19
12
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
“Here I Am”
584
20
44
KORN
“Rotting In The Vain”
560
21
20
THRICE
“Black Honey”
551
22
25
DISTURBED
“Open Your Eyes”
521
23
21
ZAKK WYLDE (f. COREY TAYLOR)
“Sleeping Dogs”
485
24
28
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
“Heathens”
370
25
22
FROM ASHES TO NEW
“Lost And Alone”
363
26
27
STITCHED UP HEART
“Monster”
360
27
23
TRIVIUM
“Dead And Gone”
338
28
26
SICK PUPPIES
“Stick To Your Guns”
290
29
29
THROUGH FIRE
“Stronger”
267
30
30
CITIZEN ZERO
“Go (Let Me Save You)”
265
31
32
SIXX: A.M.
“Prayers For The Damned”
253
32
34
KALEO
“Way Down We Go”
236
33
31
BEARTOOTH
“Aggressive”
214
34
36
MEGADETH
“Post-American World”
188
35
33
DOROTHY
“Raise Hell”
188
36
41
NOTHING BUT THIEVES
“Wake Up Call”
175
37
40
FAILURE ANTHEM
“First World Problems”
163
38
38
NONPOINT
“Generation Idiot”
162
39
47
THE RECORD COMPANY
“Off The Ground”
136
40
42
CAGE THE ELEPHANT
“Trouble”
135
41
49
FOALS
“What Went Down”
130
42
45
BRING ME THE HORIZON
“Avalanche”
126
43
43
PIERCE THE VEIL
“Circles”
124
44
46
MACHINE HEAD
“Is There Anybody Out There?”
121
45
50
ISLANDER
“Bad Guy”
109
46
51
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH
“Push”
106
47
56
LETTERS FROM THE FIRE
“Give In To Me”
103
48
53
TRAPT
“Human (Like The Rest Of Us)”
94
49
48
PUSCIFIER
“The Arsonist”
93
50
54
SEPTEMBER MOURNING
“Eye Of The Storm”
89
SIXX: A.M. – “Prayers For The Damned”
What do you do when one of the biggest farewell tours in recent memory comes to an end after a run that lasted for over three decades? For many, the answer to that question is to assume a life of comparative obscurity. After all, lightning barely strikes once for most musicians. But in the case of Nikki Sixx, you move right back to the head of the line with another band that promises to have remarkable staying power. Sixx:A.M. may have started out as a side project to create the soundtrack to Sixx’s autobiography – The Heroine Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star – but they have become a force to be reckoned with now that each member is solely focused on the band.
“Prayers For The Damned” – the title track to the band’s fourth studio album and follow-up single to “Rise” – is yet another example of what places Sixx: A.M. in the upper echelon of hard rock artists today. Like Sixx, this song has a larger-than-life, theatrical quality to it, something that isn’t all that common these days (especially in the Active Rock format). DJ Ashba may currently be more well-known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, but his playing will undoubtedly become more widely recognized for much more than that as Sixx: A.M. continues to grow. Look no further than this killer track to see just how good he is. It’s also high time that James Michael gets his due as one of the best, most charismatic voices in rock today. His ability to bring meaningful lyrics to life with an impassioned delivery helps to set Sixx: A.M. apart from most.
PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (by Adam Waldman)
As predicted last week, Red Hot Chili Peppers were dethroned this week, being replaced by Chevelle. The next predicted #1 (Pretty Reckless) jumped from #13 to #8 this week. It won’t be long before they top the chart. Their eventual challenge is likely to come from supergroup Prophets Of Rage, (who jumped 8 spots into the #16 position).
HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)
Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist.
SPIN IT…
ALTER BRIDGE – “Show Me A Leader”
PARKWAY DRIVE – “Devil’s Calling”
GEMINI SYNDROME – “Remember We Die”
SHAMAN’S HARVEST – “Here It Comes”
YOUNG GUNS – “Bulletproof”
SONS OF TEXAS – “Blameshift”
BRIDGE TO GRACE – “Left Inside”
HUDSON – “Cast Out”
DROP IT…
Kaleo – “No Good“
Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
Holy White Hounds – “Switchblade”
Twenty One Pilots – “Heathens”
Cage The Elephant – “Trouble”
Foals – “What Went Down”
Nothing But Thieves – “Wake Up Call”
Blink 182 – “Bored To Death”
THE BREAKDOWN by Jon Loveless
KING OF THE HILL
As expected, there’s a new #1 song on the Mediabase Active Rock Airplay chart, as Chevelle unseats Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Joyride” is the only song in the top four spots that’s gaining spins; the others are all declining. Shinedown remains at #3, for the eighth consecutive week, but their decline in spins made for a less-than-dramatic showdown for #1 this week.
NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT
Pretty Reckless and Holy White Hounds both enter the Top 10 this week…
Both Prophets of Rage and Korn quickly break into the Top 20. The rapid ascent of “Rotting In Vain” allows it to bypass the 30s entirely, leaving no newcomers in that tier this week…
Three songs enter the Top 40, but two are making a return trip. The lone true debut is from The Record Company, jumping up eight spots on only +17 spins…
Three debuts and one re-entry enter the bottom tier of the published chart, with two of the four songs entering actually doing so despite fewer spins than the week before.
THREE UP & THREE DOWN
MOVING UP
Pretty Reckless – “Take Me Down”
Prophets Of Rage – “Prophets Of Rage”
Korn – “Rotting In Vain”
DROPPING DOWN
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
Volbeat – “The Devil’s Bleeding Crown”
Asking Alexandria – “Here I Am”
TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS
Timing can sometimes be everything. Such is the case for Shinedown’s “Asking For It.” The song has spent eight consecutive weeks in the #3 spot, stuck behind Volbeat’s massive hit, “The Devil’s Bleeding Crown,” and a seemingly inevitable chart-topping run for Red Hot Chili Peppers with “Dark Necessities.” Now, the song has been leapfrogged by “Joyride,” the lead single from Chevelle. Certainly no shame in the run that “Asking For It” has had – and there’s a slim chance it could reverse its trend and still ascend – but it feels like a song that had #1 potential if the timing was better.
WRAP-UP
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