HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/27/21

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/27/21

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 2/27/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2020

THIS LAST WEEK WEEK ARTIST SONG TITLE SPINS 1 2 MAMMOTH WVH Distance 1762 2 3 PAPA ROACH The Ending 1642 3 1 ROYAL BLOOD Trouble’s Coming 1578 4 6 CHEVELLE Self Destructor 1572 5 5 CLEOPATRICK Hometown 1459 6 4 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Living The Dream 1424 7 8 PRETTY RECKLESS And So It Went 1352 8 10 FOO FIGHTERS Waiting On A War 1195 9 7 ASKING ALEXANDRIA They Don’t Want What We Want… 1181 10 9 POP EVIL Breathe Again 1167 11 11 BRING ME THE HORIZON Teardrops 1003 12 13 AC/DC Realize 967 13 14 ARCHITECTS Animals 897 14 16 COREY TAYLOR Samantha’s Gone 833 15 15 FROM ASHES TO NEW Scars That I’m Hiding 814 16 19 SEETHER Bruised And Bloodied 797 17 18 FOO FIGHTERS Shame Shame 669 18 20 ROB ZOMBIE The Triumph Of King Freak… 597 19 24 AYRON JONES Mercy 561 20 21 BLACK STONE CHERRY Again 524 21 22 THEORY OF A DEADMAN Strangers 477 22 25 BLACK VEIL BRIDES Scarlet Cross 422 23 26 DEFTONES Ceremony 421 24 27 ZERO 9:36 Adrenaline 413 25 29 ESCAPE THE FATE (f. LINDSEY STIRLING) Invincible 403 26 23 SEVENDUST Dying To Live 402 27 31 A DAY TO REMEMBER Everything We Need 350 28 30 RA Intercorrupted 326 29 32 DES ROCS This Is Our Life 314 30 28 THROUGH FIRE Doubt 303 31 33 LOVE AND DEATH Down 298 32 38 GRETA VAN FLEET Heat Above 262 33 34 BLACK CROWES Charming Mess 207 34 35 TWIZTID Rose Petal 172 35 36 ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR) Monsters 151 36 37 MACHINE GUN KELLY Bloody Valentine 139 37 0 THE OFFSPRING Let The Bad Times Roll 136 38 40 KEITH WALLEN Dream Away 130 39 42 SERJ TANKIAN Elasticity 115 40 44 10 YEARS The Unknown 112 41 41 TETRARCH You Never Listen 109 42 51 3 DOORS DOWN The Better Life (2021) 106 43 70 MYLES KENNEDY In Stride 91 44 46 A KILLER’S CONFESSION Remember 77 45 49 FOO FIGHTERS No Son Of Mine 68 46 48 WEEZER All My Favorite Things 63 47 47 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit 63 48 43 LIKE A STORM Empire Of Ashes 57 49 45 CORE Save Me 56 50 50 CAPTIVES Glass Heart 52

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

DIRTY HONEY – “California Dreamin'”

With the cover song trend going strong these days with rock artists, I assumed that Dirty Honey’s “California Dreamin'” was going to be a cover of the hit song by The Mamas & The Papas of the same name, but I was wrong. Not only is it an original song, but the lyrics are not nearly as happy and breezy as the song that people associate with the title. That is by design. Frontman Mark LaBelle shared the inspiration for the song with Rolling Stone…

“I knew there already was a song called ‘California Dreaming’, but I wanted to do a different take on it. The dream isn’t always realized when you come out here, a lot of people end up moving back to where they came from because they didn’t achieve the fame and fortune that they were dreaming of. It can be a pretty dark place, and that’s where I wanted to take the lyrics. It’s kind of a dark song and it came from a place that’s autobiographical, but fortunately, at least now, things feel like they’re looking up.”

“California Dreamin'” is a soulful, bluesy rocker that is firmly rooted in the classic rock sound that instantly launched these newcomers onto the radar of hard rock fans and radio programmers. The foundation of the song is built upon the ’70s blues rock sound of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Deep Purple, but there is an upbeat quality to the melody that has subtle reminders of 1980s Whitesnake. Though the influences are obvious, Dirty Honey puts things together in an interesting and fresh way that makes it feel current and relevant.

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…

DIRTY HONEY – “California Dreamin'”

GEMINI SYNDROME – “IDK”

THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”

CRASH MIDNIGHT – “Killing Time”

THEM EVILS – “Coattails”

EMPTY TRAIL – “Somewhere”

THE LOYAL ORDER – “Fuck Or Fight”

AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “The Curse”

OH! THE HORROR – “Tears Of Gold”

LOVE AND DEATH – “Down”

THE ODDEVEN – “Bleed For Something”

RIDING WITH KILLERS – “World Apart”

VEER– “Red Tide”

WOLVES AT THE GATE – “Counterfeit”

SAM COFFEY & THE IRON LUNGS – “Back With The Gang”

FOOLPROOF – “Violet”

TEENAGE WRIST – “Earth Is A Black Hole”

GREATEST GAINERS…

ARTIST SONG TITLE SPIN INCREASE FOO FIGHTERS Waiting On A War 174 AYRON JONES Mercy 163 PRETTY RECKLESS And So It Went 149 OFFSPRING Let The Bad Times Roll 136 GRETA VAN FLEET Heat Above 134 CHEVELLE Self Destructor 124 SEETHER Bruised And Bloodied 114

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