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  OCTANE BIG ‘UNS COUNTDOWN (FEBRUARY 2023 RECAP) The chart below shows the Top 15 Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown Songs (by HRD’s unique ranking system) for February 2023. RANK ARTIST SONG TITLE 1 MOTIONLESS IN WHITE Werewolf 2 I PREVAIL Deep End 3 BAD OMENS Just Pretend 4 DAUGHTRY/LZZY HALE Separate Ways 5 SHINEDOWN Dead Don’t Die 6 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Welcome To The Circus 7 FALLING IN REVERSE Watch The World Burn 8 STARSET/BREAKING BENJAMIN Waiting On The Sky To Change 9 POP EVIL Paranoid (Crash & Burn) 10 BLACK VEIL BRIDES Saviour II 11 FAME ON FIRE/SPENCE ..read more

On 3/1/13, Hard Rock Daddy made its debut with the intention of being a hybrid site that focused on fatherhood and hard rock music. Very quickly, the transition was made fully to music because of the audience that was built. Looking backwards, 1000 songs have been featured on the annual year-end lists of the top hard rock songs. Rather than share all 1000 songs, the decision was made on the 10-year anniversary of the site to break everything down into sections based on the featured songs and artists (582 artists have been featured).   MOST FEATURED ARTISTS All of the artists listed on th ..read more

  For years, Hard Rock Daddy provided the Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown and HRD Radio Report on a weekly basis. That stopped due to unforeseen circumstances (see Explaining Hard Rock Daddy’s Radio Silence in 2022). Rather than going back to the old way of doing things, HRD is making a change for a few reasons… The Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown and weekly Mediabase Active Rock Charts don’t change much from week to week. This made a lot of the reporting basically redundant, and quite frankly, not that interesting. It also took up a lot of time to produce each week. That time is better spent creati ..read more

TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2022 The TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2022 is a comprehensive list of songs that spans all hard rock genres around the world (Active Rock, Classic Rock, Power Metal, Prog Rock, Punk, and beyond). Our goal is to give readers the greatest possible variety of music. To do so, we limit this list to one song per artist. Closing with a well-known artist is by design, because the list is designed as much for flow as a continuous playlist as it is for rankings. This is the first post of 2023, but there will be more to come! Please read Explaining Hard Rock Daddy’s Radio Silen ..read more

By Adam Waldman (Publisher/Editor) Life has a way of throwing you curveballs, and a big one was thrown at me this year. In the beginning of the year, I had planned on being much more active on Hard Rock Daddy. The last post on the site was on 3/1/22 (the 9-year anniversary of the launch of the site). It was an open letter to Hard Rock Daddy readers. In the letter, I wrote the following… “Hard Rock Daddy has always been a labor of love. It still is, but when opportunities arose in other areas to generate income, something had to give because there are only so many hours in the day to spli ..read more

Dear Hard Rock Daddy Readers, Hard Rock Daddy was launched on this day in 2013. The original intent of the site changed rather quickly when it was embraced by the hard rock community. For most of the years since our launch, the site has been fairly active. Over the last year or so, there has been much less activity on the site. Though the change happened during the Covid pandemic, that was not the reason why there has been much less activity in recent times. Hard Rock Daddy has always been a labor of love. It still is, but when opportunities arose in other areas to generate income, something ..read more

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 9/18/21 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 9/18/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart: RANK (TW) RANK (LW) ARTIST SONG TITLE SPINS 1 2 PRETTY RECKLESS Only Love Can Save Me Now 1876 2 1 FOO FIGHTERS Making A Fire 1829 3 5 CHEVELLE ..read more

Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown – Week of 9/18/21 RANK ARTIST SONG TITLE 1 BEARTOOTH The Past Is Dead 2 KINGDOM COLLAPSE Unbreakable 3 GEMINI SYNDROME Die With Me 4 HALESTORM Back From The Dead 5 ATREYU/TRAVIS BARKER Warrior 6 STARSET Infected 7 ARCHITECTS Dead Butterflies 8 POP EVIL Survivor 9 FROM ASHES TO NEW Light Up The Sky 10 ICE NINE KILLS Rainy Day 11 SAUL Looking To Fight 12 ASKING ALEXANDRIA Alone Again 13 SUECO Paralyzed 14 BAD WOLVES Lifeline 15 PAPA ROACH Kill The Noise RELATED ARTICLES: TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2020 TOP 30 OCTANE BIG ‘UNS COUNTDOWN ..read more

Top 20 Strip Club Rock Songs – Week Ending 9/17/21 The Top 20 Strip Club Rock Songs chart is an exclusive weekly feature on Hard Rock Daddy that showcases the top rock songs played in strip clubs around the country.  This weekly chart – derived from data collected by PANDA (Professional Adult Night Club DJ Association) and the Top StripJoints DJ Download Chart – is brought to you by Concrete Marketing and StripJoints. CLICK HERE to listen to ALL charting strip club rock songs on the CONCRETE PLANET Spotify playlist. RANK ARTIST SONG TITLE 1 MANESKIN I Wanna Be Your Sla ..read more