Spectrum Pulse

Mark Grondin (born: ), better known online as Spectrum Pulse, is a Canadian YouTuber with a focus on music reviews. He is known for his Billboard Breakdown series, where he reviews the nationwide record chart named the Billboard Hot 100.
In addition to the Billboard Breakdown he also does album reviews, year-end reviews, and, sparingly, movie reviews. He is also a member of the Rock Coliseum crew, mainly consisting of himself, host/moderator Luke from Rocked, Crash Thompson and Jon from ARTV.
==Series==
===Album Reviews/On the Pulse===
Album reviews are Spectrum Pulse's main focus, as he is a music reviewer. His reviews are generally divided into five categories, which include;
*Pop/R&B/Soul reviews
*Metal/Rock/Punk/Noise reviews
*Hip-hop/Rap reviews
*Country/Folk/Singer-songwriter reviews
*Electronic reviews
Albums are rated from a scale of 1-10, and are included with short selections of the best/worst songs on the album.
In 2020, alongside a Patreon scheduling revamp, full-length album reviews were scaled back to special occasions in favor of a weekly review series named On the Pulse, utilizing a "saying more with less" approach with reviewing multiple albums per video in shorter, more condensed segments once a week.
====Traling Edge/Vacation Reviews====
This sub-series includes Spectrum Pulse reviewing multiple albums at one time, whether he missed out on them or he was on vacation when the albums were released. Videos of the Trailing Edge series were released monthly before they were discontinued at the end of 2019 before the On the Pulse series debuted.
====Resonators====
In this sub-series, Spectrum Pulse reviewed more obscure albums, such as albums with atypical genres or classic albums. These albums were voted for him to be reviewed by Patrons. The series was put on hold indefinitely at the end of 2019.
===Billboard Breakdown===
Billboard Breakdown is a weekly in-depth look at that week in Billboard's Hot 100 by covering the Top 10, the movers and shakers, and reviewing new chart entries. This series migrated to its own side channel of the same name in 2019.
===Year End Lists===
Year End lists are usually released at the end of their respective years, however, Spectrum Pulse has done lists for years in the past before.
====Best Album of the Year====
Year	Artist 	Album
2013	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 	Push the Sky Away
2014	Run the Jewels 	Run the Jewels 2
2015	Marianas Trench 	Astoria
2016	Dave Cobb & Various Artists 	Southern Family
2017	The Mountain Goats 	Goths
2018	Dessa 	Chime
2019	Emily Scott Robinson 	Traveling Mercies
2020	Spanish Love Songs 	Brave Faces Everyone
2021	McKinley Dixon 	For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
2022	Gang of Youths 	Angel in Realtime
2023	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Weathervanes
====Best Song of the Year====
Year	Artist 	Song
2013	Barenaked Ladies 	"Odds Are"
2014	Hozier 	"Jackie and Wilson"
2015	James McMurtry 	"Long Island Sound"
2016	Charles Kelley 	"Leaving Nashville"
2017	The Mountain Goats	"Rain in Soho"
2018	Deaf Havana 	"Sinner"
2019	PUP 	"Morbid Stuff"
2020	Brett Eldredge 	"Sunday Drive"
2021	Torres 	"Thirstier"
2022	Gang of Youths 	"The Kingdom Is Within You"
2023	The National 	"Tropic Morning News"
====Best Hit Song of the Year====
Year	Artist 	Song
1967	The Who 	"I Can See for Miles"
1993	Ice Cube 	"It Was a Good Day"
2004	Usher 	"Yeah!" (ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris)
2009	Kelly Clarkson 	"My Life Would Suck Without You"
2010	Lady Antebellum 	"Need You Now"
2011	Zac Brown Band 	"Colder Weather"
2012	B.o.B. 	"So Good"
2013	Of Monsters and Men 	"Little Talks"
2014	KONGOS 	"Come with Me Now"
2015	Demi Lovato 	"Cool for the Summer"
2016	Adele 	"When We Were Young"
2017	Kesha 	"Praying"
2018	Justin Timberlake 	"Say Something" (ft. Chris Stapleton)
2019	Billie Eilish 	"When the Party's Over"
2020	The Weeknd 	"Blinding Lights"
2021	Polo G 	"Rapstar"
2022	Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)	"Smokin Out the Window"
2023	Noah Kahan 	"Dial Drunk" (ft. Post Malone)
====Worst Hit Song of the Year====
Year	Artist 	Song
2010	Chris Brown 	"Deuces" (ft. Tyga & Kevin McCall)
2011	Bad Meets Evil 	"Lighters" (ft. Bruno Mars)
2012	Rihanna 	"Birthday Cake (Remix)" (ft. Chris Brown)
2013	Rocko 	"U.O.E.N.O." (ft. Rick Ross & Future)
2014	Brantley Gilbert 	"Bottoms Up"
2015	Meghan Trainor 	"Dear Future Husband"
2016	Shawn Mendes 	"Treat You Better"
2017	Sam Hunt 	"Body Like a Back Road"
2018	Lil Dicky 	"Freaky Friday" (ft. Chris Brown)
2019	Panic! at the Disco	"Hey Look Ma, I Made It"
2020	Surfaces 	"Sunday Best"
2021	Gabby Barrett 	"The Good Ones"
2022	Lil Durk 	"Broadway Girls" (ft. Morgan Wallen)
2023	Jason Aldean 	"Try That in a Small Town"
====Best Album of the Decade (2010-2019)====
Year	Artist 	Album
2016	Dave Cobb & Various Artists	Southern Family
====Best Hit Song of the Decade (2010-2019)====
Year	Artist	Song
2017	Kesha 	"Praying"
====Worst Hit Song of the Decade (2010-2019)====
Year	Artist	Song
2013	Rocko 	"U.O.E.N.O." (ft. Rick Ross & Future)
===Collaborations===
Spectrum Pulse has collaborated with other music reviewers before, who include, but are not limited to theneedledrop, ARTV, Rocked, TheDoubleAgent, and The LP Club.
==Trivia==
*The Pokémon Voltorb is a prominent presence in Spectrum Pulse's content. A plush version of it accompanies Spectrum Pulse, it appears in his YouTube icon, and it "provides the subtitles".
*Spectrum Pulse is a published author, writing a full-length novel called To Kill a Dragon.https://books.google.com/books/about/To_Kill_a_Dragon.html?id=g5a4twEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
*Mark has mentioned both on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/830629901812240384 and in his videoshttps://www.youtube.com/live/eUA3rR2sns0?si=OYr_ensVgJCgWep8&t=377 that he is autistic.
*Spectrum Pulse has done a charity stream for Autism Canada.https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1175768603498622976
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