HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/4/21

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HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/4/21

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 9/4/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

RANK (TW) RANK (LW) ARTIST SONG TITLE SPINS
1 2 MAMMOTH WVH Don’t Back Down 1774
2 3 FOO FIGHTERS Making A Fire 1706
3 1 VOLBEAT Wait A Minute My Girl 1667
4 4 PRETTY RECKLESS Only Love Can Save Me Now 1581
5 7 CHEVELLE Mars Simula 1262
6 9 DAUGHTRY Heavy Is The Crown 1191
7 8 EVANESCENCE Better Without You 1164
8 10 POP EVIL Survivor 1114
9 12 SEETHER Wasteland 1029
10 11 ATREYU f. TRAVIS BARKER Warrior 1027
11 6 ALL GOOD THINGS For The Glory 979
12 22 HALESTORM Back From The Dead 838
13 14 BEARTOOTH The Past Is Dead 836
14 15 FOZZY Sane 816
15 13 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Darkness Settles In 815
16 17 AYRON JONES Supercharged 767
17 20 GRETA VAN FLEET Built By Nations 600
18 18 DEAD POET SOCIETY .CoDA. 598
19 19 IRON MAIDEN The Writing On The Wall 588
20 21 ARCHITECTS Dead Butterflies 517
21 29 ASKING ALEXANDRIA Alone Again 514
22 24 COHEED AND CAMBRIA Shoulders 499
23 26 BADFLOWER Don’t Hate Me 497
24 25 FUEL Hard 458
25 16 L.A. RATS I’ve Been Everywhere 425
26 27 THRICE Scavengers 401
27 28 STARSET Infected 382
28 23 NONPOINT Ruthless 311
29 30 DIRTY HONEY The Wire 265
30 32 LILITH CZAR Anarchy 237
31 39 TRIVIUM Feast Of Fire 217
32 33 TWIZTID f. ICE NINE KILLS Envy 212
33 37 BLACK STONE CHERRY Give Me One Reason 199
34 38 JOYOUS WOLF Fearless 191
35 36 DROPOUT KINGS f. SHAYLEY BOURGET Virus 190
36 35 GREEN DAY Pollyanna 186
37 44 DED Kill Beautiful Things 160
38 31 ANY GIVEN SIN The Way I Say Goodbye 140
39 41 KINGDOM COLLAPSE Unbreakable 114
40 45 DOROTHY What’s Coming To Me 113
41 43 TREMONTI If Not For You 110
42 42 PAPA ROACH/JASON A. BUTLER/SUECO Swerve 99
43 52 DEAD SARA Heroes 85
44 49 SAUL Looking To Fight 85
45 47 WEEZER f. AJR All My Favorite Songs 84
46 46 THE RECORD COMPANY How High 81
47 51 MANESKIN I Wanna Be Your Slave 80
48 50 BLIND CHANNEL Dark Side 77
49 0 AVATAR Going Hunting 69
50 57 LOVE AND DEATH Let Me Love You 64

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

HALESTORM – “Back From The Dead”

When you’ve been on hiatus for nearly four months, choosing one song to feature for the long overdue return was a bit daunting.  There is so much music to choose from since HRD Radio Report last published at the end of May.  However, one song stood above all others, not just for the lyrics that seem apropos, but also because it is a kick-ass, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners type of  anthem that harkens back to the glory days of hard rock.  All the while, “Back From The Dead” remains as current and relevant as anything else that has come out during this unintended break.

What hasn’t changed since HRD Radio Report last published is the fact that Lzzy Hale remains my favorite female vocalist on the scene today (and is right up there with my all-time favorites).  Hale has proven herself time and again since Halestorm burst onto the scene that she is a force to be reckoned with (regardless of gender).  “Back From The Dead” has a primal rawness to it that makes you want to turn up the dial to 11 and lose yourself in the moment.  Whereas many hard rock bands today will resort to growling and screaming to show intensity and emotion, Hale does it with the same kind of swagger that Sebastian Bach exhibited during Skid Row’s prime.  I can think of no better song to bring HRD Radio Report “back from the dead” than this killer tune!

HRD SPIN CONTROL 

ARTIST SONG TITLE
ICE NINE KILLS/JACOBY SHADDIX Hip To Be Scared
FROM ASHES TO NEW Light Up The Sky
ROLLING STONES Living In The Heart Of Love
SUECO Paralyzed
LOVE THE HATE Solid Ground
BIG WRECK (f. CHAD KROEGER) Middle Of Nowhere
PSYCHO HILL Dying Day

GREATEST GAINERS…

ARTIST SONG TITLE spINcrease
HALESTORM Back From The Dead 330
ASKING ALEXANDRIA Alone Again 221
BADFLOWER Don’t Hate Me 102

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