HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 11/28/20
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 11/28/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
CHART CHART ARTIST SONG TITLE RADIO POSITION POSITION SPINS THIS WEEK LAST WEEK 1 1 AC/DC Shot In The Dark 1916 2 3 FOO FIGHTERS Shame Shame 1720 3 2 I PREVAIL/DELANEY JANE Every Time You Leave 1667 4 5 DEFTONES Ohms 1550 5 6 GRETA VAN FLEET My Way, Soon 1387 6 4 BADFLOWER 30 1321 7 7 AYRON JONES Take Me Away 1315 8 8 ROYAL BLOOD Trouble’s Coming 1253 9 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Somebody That I Used To Know 1241 10 10 BAD WOLVES Learn To Walk Again 1107 11 11 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Living The Dream 1055 12 13 CLEOPATRICK Hometown 844 13 14 ASKING ALEXANDRIA They Don’t Want What We Want… 779 14 16 SMITH & MYERS Not Mad Enough 758 15 12 COREY TAYLOR Black Eyes Blue 746 16 15 CHRIS CORNELL Patience 733 17 18 AVATAR Colossus 619 18 25 MAMMOTH WVH Distance 606 19 20 IN THIS MOMENT As Above, So Below 482 20 21 DAUGHTRY World On Fire 480 21 17 EVANESCENCE Use My Voice 450 22 22 SAUL King Of Misery 410 23 23 ROYAL BLISS/SHIM Medication 400 24 26 BUSH The Kingdom 372 25 24 METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY All Within My Hands (S&M2) 336 26 28 SYSTEM OF A DOWN Protect The Land 319 27 27 BRING ME THE HORIZON Teardrops 319 28 31 FROM ASHES TO NEW Scars That I’m Hiding 316 29 34 ROB ZOMBIE The Triumph Of King Freak… 314 30 47 PAPA ROACH The Ending 267 31 29 TETRARCH I’m Not Right 256 32 33 BLACK STONE CHERRY Again 249 33 44 POP EVIL Breathe Again 243 34 37 SEVENDUST Dying To Live 239 35 35 ARCHITECTS Animals 237 36 30 ALTER BRIDGE Native Son 235 37 32 ANOTHER DAY DAWNS Forget Me Not 234 38 38 MARILYN MANSON Don’t Chase The Dead 188 39 41 WEAPONS OF ANEW Sick Boy 187 40 42 THROUGH FIRE Doubt 177 41 46 THEORY OF A DEADMAN Strangers 175 42 48 ATREYU Save Us 141 43 45 THE BLUE STONES Let It Ride 130 44 49 FOUNDRY Intoxicate 113 45 50 SYSTEM OF A DOWN Genocidal Humanoidz 79 46 53 RA Intercorrupted 78 47 51 BLACKLITE DISTRICT Falling 77 48 36 SIXX:A.M./ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY Maybe It’s Time 71 49 54 TWIZTID Rose Petal 66 50 56 REZZ & GRABBITZ Someone Else 65PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
BADFLOWER – “30”
If there is one thing that stands out most about Badflower, it’s the fact that they march to the beat of their own drum. Though they get plenty of spins on Active Rock radio, it’s not because they tailor their sound to the format. Quite the contrary! If anything, Badflower has blazed their own trail through virgin territory to carve out a niche that they solely occupy.
The view from the age of 30 is vastly different depending on your vantage point. In your early years, 30 feels like a lifetime away. As you span the decades, and 30 gets farther away in the rear view mirror, the realization of that particular milestone seems somewhat inconsequential. But in the moment, turning 30 is a pivotal point in time where you become almost instinctually reflective about your life. No longer are the carefree days of your youth on your side, but most adults still seem much older.
Badflower frontman, Josh Katz, captures the angst that comes with being at an age that can feel like an uncomfortable crossroads of youth and adulthood. One verse in particular poignantly represents this confusing feeling…
“I’m older, I’ve got wrinkles…I still complain, I get pimples…I miss when everything was simple.”
There’s a refreshing grungy, punk edge to “30” at times that would make you think that the band was British if you didn’t know any better.
Speaking as someone who vividly remembers this milestone, I can say unequivocally that there is some hyperbolic poetic license taken to drive home the libido issue addressed. If this part of the song was not vastly exaggerated for emphasis, there will literally be no time (or energy left) for Katz to write and record songs like this.
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…
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
BRKN LOVE – “Crush”
TOMMY GIBBONS – “Tonight”
DEAD DAISIES – “Bustle And Flow”
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD – “Heart Of A Champion”
NO RESOLVE – “Never Back Down”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THE JEREMY EDGE PROJECT – “Firedancer”
SONS OF FIRE – “Faded”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
GREATEST GAINERS…
MAMMOTH WVH – “Distance” (+265 spins)
PAPA ROACH – “The Ending” (+140 spins)
FOO FIGHTERS – “Shame Shame” (+130 spins)
