Disturbed - "The Sound Of Silence"

[Pat the Cat]

I need this song to do things. One of the greatest covers I've ever heard - completely transcends the original

[craziaskowboi]

I need this song to do things for the sake of proving that rock bands can still be viable if only anybody bothers to promote them for a change.

[Daryl the Beryl]

This has currently at least 318 spins on my count.

[craziaskowboi]

May 1, 2016 7:11:47 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

This has currently at least 318 spins on my count.

Looks like "The Sound Of Silence" will need at least 600 spins to chart in the top 50 of the Mediabase CHR panel. Apparently a few more CHR stations added the song last week, so hopefully it'll start to get more spins. Today is the day that the song is officially supposed to impact on CHR and Hot AC. As long as the CHR, Hot AC and Alternative spins can increase enough to offset the decrease in Active Rock spins -- "The Sound Of Silence" is no longer #1 on either the Billboard Mainstream Rock nor the Mediabase Active Rock charts -- then I'm cautiously optimistic that it can enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 once all the Prince/Beyonce chaos clears out. That's ultimately what I want for this song: to enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. Keeping my fingers crossed...

[Daryl the Beryl]

May 3, 2016 4:39:08 GMT -5 craziaskowboi said:

May 1, 2016 7:11:47 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

This has currently at least 318 spins on my count.

Looks like "The Sound Of Silence" will need at least 600 spins to chart in the top 50 of the Mediabase CHR panel. Apparently a few more CHR stations added the song last week, so hopefully it'll start to get more spins. Today is the day that the song is officially supposed to impact on CHR and Hot AC. As long as the CHR, Hot AC and Alternative spins can increase enough to offset the decrease in Active Rock spins -- "The Sound Of Silence" is no longer #1 on either the Billboard Mainstream Rock nor the Mediabase Active Rock charts -- then I'm cautiously optimistic that it can enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 once all the Prince/Beyonce chaos clears out. That's ultimately what I want for this song: to enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. Keeping my fingers crossed...

I'm cautiously optimistic they'll go top 40 with its strong sales, but it's down to #59 on the hot 100 thanks to Bey and Prince, and we need to be prepared for Drake as well once his album is on Spotify and the remainder of his album can be downloaded individually.

But anyway, I hope this can continue to move higher.

[Daryl the Beryl]

7 adds this week.

[tekkenguy]

Yeah, once Prince, Beyoncé, and Drake can stop clogging the charts, or Disturbed can pull ahead of much of the pack, then they should get Top 40. I'm really excited to see Disturbed end the historic drought of Active rock crossover hits. Never seen one like this for any major genre, whether it be pop, rock, R&B, hip-hop, soft rock, or country, like the one we've been seeing since the beginning of the decade.

[craziaskowboi]

May 3, 2016 19:09:52 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

7 adds this week.

Definitely encouraging. Even better, this song is getting Top 40 airplay in some major radio markets like Columbus, Las Vegas, Milwaukee and New Orleans. It has eight adds on Hot AC as well. Only one Alternative add, but the song is just outside the Top 20 on the Mediabase Alternative chart now. Entercom seems to have taken the lead with this song on Top 40 radio, but iHeartMedia and Royce International appear to be getting on board now too. Let's hope the Top 40, Hot AC and Alternative momentum continues to increase for at least a couple more weeks, because if it does, then Disturbed could have themselves a bona fide Top 40 (Billboard) hit once the Prince/Beyonce/Drake mess clears out. Let's also hope that Active Rock airplay doesn't decrease too fast in the interim. As long as the song is in the Top 10 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart, that means it's getting at least 1,000 Active spins.

[matteeeb]

I could see this scarping the top 25 on pop, but I think it could go all the way to #1 on HAC.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 50 on Pop:

54 50 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 447 329 118 1.901

[frashcoholic]

woohOO!!!

[craziaskowboi]

May 8, 2016 20:09:16 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Top 50 on Pop:

54 50 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 447 329 118 1.901

This is a GREAT first step! This is the first time a song that reached #1 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart has appeared in the Top 50 of the Mediabase CHR chart since the fall of 2012 ("Burn It Down" - Linkin Park). The next step is to enter the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. With all due respect to the deceased, Prince needs to get out of the way now, and take Beyonce with him!

[craziaskowboi]

Somehow it fell to #67 on the Hot 100. :(

I hope Top 40 airplay builds enough that it can make another surge, but now I'm becoming pessimistic.

[suttonplace]

absolutely love this

[Daryl the Beryl]

Back in the top 50.

50 49 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 486 447 39 2.062

[rainie]

May 15, 2016 20:11:44 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Back in the top 50.

50 49 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 486 447 39 2.062

Much weaker bullet, I hate to say it but this song may be fading. I hope it suddenly rockets up both the CHR chart and Hot 100 though.

[Daryl the Beryl]

51 49 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 496 461 35 2.147

+10 Spins
-4 Bullet
+0.085 Audience

[craziaskowboi]

Even if it doesn't enter the Top 40 of the Hot 100, being the first #1 Active Rock/Top 50 CHR song on Mediabase in four years is a decent consolation. Here's hoping this isn't just a blip, and that more Active Rock and heavier Alternative songs start crossing over to CHR again soon. I think Top 40 radio is at its best when you have everything: pop, dance, hip-hop, R&B, alternative, hard rock and country.

[Marooned@Midnight]

May 16, 2016 20:18:42 GMT -5 craziaskowboi said:

Even if it doesn't enter the Top 40 of the Hot 100, being the first #1 Active Rock/Top 50 CHR song on Mediabase in four years is a decent consolation. Here's hoping this isn't just a blip, and that more Active Rock and heavier Alternative songs start crossing over to CHR again soon. I think Top 40 radio is at its best when you have everything: pop, dance, hip-hop, R&B, alternative, hard rock and country.

I have not heard this particular song, but I have to quote this post, because I could not agree more. Pop radio NEEDS a serious infusion of active rock and country to balance what has been a serious wrong doing to those genres over the past five or more years.

[nick64]

I'm not convinced this is gonna spark some kind of Active Rock revival on Pop, even if it does turn into a decent hit. This sounds nothing like most other Active hits. The entire first half is just like any other piano ballad, and I doubt a completely new listener would even consider the possibility that this is from a metal band until about the 2:45 mark.

Plus, other active hits just simply aren't selling any better. The next highest Active song on iTunes that isn't Top 10 on Alt is currently down at #315.

This song is probably an anomaly, not a catalyst.

[craziaskowboi]

May 16, 2016 22:16:28 GMT -5 Marooned@Midnight said:

May 16, 2016 20:18:42 GMT -5 craziaskowboi said:

Even if it doesn't enter the Top 40 of the Hot 100, being the first #1 Active Rock/Top 50 CHR song on Mediabase in four years is a decent consolation. Here's hoping this isn't just a blip, and that more Active Rock and heavier Alternative songs start crossing over to CHR again soon. I think Top 40 radio is at its best when you have everything: pop, dance, hip-hop, R&B, alternative, hard rock and country.

I have not heard this particular song, but I have to quote this post, because I could not agree more. Pop radio NEEDS a serious infusion of active rock and country to balance what has been a serious wrong doing to those genres over the past five or more years.

I'm beginning to wonder if part of the Active Rock problem is demographic. Its primary demographic is middle-income white men ages 25-54, and it has a slight blue-collar bias as well. As a result, it doesn't fit the coveted Top 40 demographic, which is middle- to upper-middle-income women of all races, ages 15-34, with a heavy white-collar bias. In general, women have never listened to Active Rock in large numbers, and though the format has seen a fair amount of success with Hispanic audiences, black and Asian fans of the format are still scarce.

Even the geographic distribution of Active Rock seems to be more challenging now, because Country dominates in small cities and rural areas, but Active Rock has historically been a format for major metropolitan areas, and yet, its primary demographic is now becoming more common in small cities and rural areas, and less common in major metropolitan areas, so it seems like Active Rock has gotten lost in something of a geographic reshuffling as well.

Regardless of how the demographics ultimately shake out, I still hope to hear a little bit of heavier music on Top 40 radio in the future, because it'll make the format more diverse, which I always thought is what Top 40 consultants were aiming for in the first place. Besides, it was good enough for the format from 1965-2010, so I don't see any good reason why it must be excluded now. And I'm not talking about extra-heavy songs like "Wash It All Away" either; I'm talking about more radio-friendly Active Rock songs like "State Of My Head" and "Emotionless." Why not include them on Top 40 too?

[ilikemusic]

May 16, 2016 23:15:08 GMT -5 craziaskowboi said:

May 16, 2016 22:16:28 GMT -5 Marooned@Midnight said:

I have not heard this particular song, but I have to quote this post, because I could not agree more. Pop radio NEEDS a serious infusion of active rock and country to balance what has been a serious wrong doing to those genres over the past five or more years.

I'm beginning to wonder if part of the Active Rock problem is demographic. Its primary demographic is middle-income white men ages 25-54, and it has a slight blue-collar bias as well. As a result, it doesn't fit the coveted Top 40 demographic, which is middle- to upper-middle-income women of all races, ages 15-34, with a heavy white-collar bias. In general, women have never listened to Active Rock in large numbers, and though the format has seen a fair amount of success with Hispanic audiences, black and Asian fans of the format are still scarce.

Even the geographic distribution of Active Rock seems to be more challenging now, because Country dominates in small cities and rural areas, but Active Rock has historically been a format for major metropolitan areas, and yet, its primary demographic is now becoming more common in small cities and rural areas, and less common in major metropolitan areas, so it seems like Active Rock has gotten lost in something of a geographic reshuffling as well.

Regardless of how the demographics ultimately shake out, I still hope to hear a little bit of heavier music on Top 40 radio in the future, because it'll make the format more diverse, which I always thought is what Top 40 consultants were aiming for in the first place. Besides, it was good enough for the format from 1965-2010, so I don't see any good reason why it must be excluded now. And I'm not talking about extra-heavy songs like "Wash It All Away" either; I'm talking about more radio-friendly Active Rock songs like "State Of My Head" and "Emotionless." Why not include them on Top 40 too?

Completely agree with all of this. It's a shame that pop radio decided to completely dump rock music, in fact, any song with the inclusion of an electric guitar seems to be shunned away by pop radio. If they can play the same 10 EDM songs with the exact same beat drops, I don't see why they can't play something like this.

[Az Paynter]

POP:
51 48 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 513 460 53 2.220

+17 Spins
+18 Bullet
+0.073 Audience

HOT AC:
49 44 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 307 281 26 0.959

+1 Spin
-13 Bullet
+0.012 Audience

[missgenericnickname]

Goes back up to #60

[tekkenguy]

Pop has had a "teen" bias ever since around the beginning of the decade. Active rock is not popular with females or minorities anymore, and this is especially true in the new "youth" demo. Female audiences are nowadays far more coveted than male ones to pop radio, and minorities are an increasingly important demographic on the format. "White male" has gone from being a core CHR demo to a minor, borderline-irrelevant niche, and their "hard rock" was dumped.

[Daryl the Beryl]

2 adds this week

[Daryl the Beryl]

Pop:
51 49 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 522 465 57 2.254

+9 Spins
+4 Bullet
+0.034 Audience

HAC:
48 46 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 298 287 11 0.865

-9 Spins
-15 Bullet
-0.094 Audience

Alternative:
21 22 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 772 775 -3 2.56

-2 Spins
+5 Bullet
-0.008 Audience

[leonagwen]

Not gonna gain much when it only gets 2 adds.

[craziaskowboi]

Sad thing is, if Prince died on April 25 instead of April 21, Disturbed would have had a Top 40 hit on the Hot 100. Shit happens, though.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Pop:
51 49 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 527 471 56 2.242

+5 Spins
-1 Bullet
-0.012 Audience

HAC:
47 46 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 291 301 -10 0.78

-7 Spins
-21 Bullet
-0.085 Audience

Alternative:
22 23 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 755 769 -14 2.493

-17 Spins
-11 Bullet
-0.067 Audience