Spectrum Pulse - Billboard BREAKDOWN - April 20, 2024
Mar 28, 2018 20:42:27 GMT -5
Post by Spectrum Pulse on Mar 28, 2018 20:42:27 GMT -5
So time to revive things here a bit... and to provide a significant explanation where I've been the past four and a half years...
So hi, I'm Mark, the host of the web series Spectrum Pulse where I talk about music, movies, art and culture. I originally started posting here for publicity... and for some reason decided to keep posting on other forums rather than here, which really did miss the mark considering said forums were not heavily driven towards music at all. But given that said forums are falling apart as we speak (and I'd prefer to chronicle my work somewhere), I figured I'd resume updating this with my reviews, with this thread specifically for my Billboard BREAKDOWN videos (and hopefully for everyone to call me on it when I miss some obvious detail - thanks in advance for that
). So without further ado, here's where we left off...
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 1 - 2015
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 2 - 2016
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 3 - 2017
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 4 - 2018
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 5 - 2019
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 6 - 2020
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 7 - 2021
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 8 - 2022
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 9 - 2023
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - October 28, 2023 - where Taylor Swift finally takes 'Cruel Summer' to #1 as Bad Bunny unleashes his next album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 4, 2023 - where I have many words with Billboard screwing with their tracking year as we get Kid LAROI teaming up with Jungkook and Central Cee and Troye Sivan making a contentious return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 11, 2023 - where Taylor Swift crushes all competition with her '1989 (Taylor's Version)' album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 18, 2023 - where we get a remarkably strong week featuring the return of Megan Thee Stallion, a strong collab between Carly Pearce and Chris Stapleton, and even The Beatles' final song.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 25, 2023 - where we get something close to an ordinary week with Dua Lipa's welcome return juxtaposed with Jack Harlow's shocking misfire.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 2, 2023 - where we get a muted and frustrating mini album bomb from Drake as Tate McRae disappoints, Luke Combs comes through, and Andre 3000 makes a perplexing return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 9, 2023 - where we get one of the slowest weeks in recent memory as Brenda Lee ascends to #1 (!), Karol G teams up with Kali Uchis, and Taylor Swift delivers an utterly heartbreaking vault cut.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 16, 2023 - where we get another slow week as Sabrina Carpenter courts controversy, Noah Kahan teams up with Gracie Abrams, and Beyonce wants everyone out of her house.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 23, 2023 - where we finally get the Nicki Minaj album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 30, 2023 - where we get a weird and messy transitional week post-album bomb in the midst of the holidays.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 6, 2024 - where we get the dead zone between Christmas and New Years and a few historical curiosities on a very short episode.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 13, 2024 - where the chart returns to 'normal' with a spread of country and a surprising throwback hit from the UK!
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 20, 2024 - where we get an odd week with plenty of new faces and mixed quality.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 27, 2024 - where Ariana Grande returns to #1 amidst Lil Nas X's flailing attempt at provocation and 21 Savage's album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 3, 2024 - where we get a cooldown week with a few truly abysmal comebacks.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 10, 2024 - where we get an utter mess spanning a comeback from Justin Timberlake, the unwelcome presence of Ben Shapiro, some truly off the wall songs, and of course, the beef between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, with the latter going to #1.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 17, 2024 - where we get a quieter week featuring a surprising return from Billy Joel amidst a lot of trap.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 24, 2024 - where amidst a boost for Noah Kahan, a return for GloRilla, and Beyonce going country, I take a... well, unorthodox approach to addressing the album bomb from Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign with 'VULTURES 1'.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 2, 2024 - where we get a return for Bryson Tiller, an underpowered Yeat breakthrough, more Dua Lipa, and Beyonce taking the number one... all amidst my investigation of the tension between UMG and TikTok that impacts the entire Hot 100.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 9, 2024 - where the UMG/TikTok feud continues to wreak havoc as SZA makes a gorgeous return, Lil Durk tries to find peace, mgk gets vulnerable, LE SSERAFIM breaks through, and Selena Gomez fails at nu-disco.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 16, 2024 - where I finally have to deal with Kanye West taking 'Carnival' to #1 as Pharrell teams up with Miley Cyrus and Cardi B and twenty one pilots return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 23, 2024 - where Ariana Grande delivers her newest album bomb and takes the #1.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 30, 2024 - where we get a transitional week where Cardi B delivers a proper album rollout single, and Sexyy Red and Kacey Musgraves return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 6, 2024 - where we get the biggest episode of this show's ten year history featuring a Future and Metro Boomin album bomb with a new #1, plus breakthroughs for Hozier and Olivia Rodrigo, plus more!
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 13, 2024 - where we get Beyonce's genre-breaking album bomb, and Camila Cabello and Playboi Carti teaming up for something just as genre-breaking but a hell of a lot worse.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 20, 2024 - where J. Cole delivers an album bomb amidst big debuts from Chappell Roan, ILLIT, Bakar, GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion... and we finally get some clarity to who J. Cole really is.
So hi, I'm Mark, the host of the web series Spectrum Pulse where I talk about music, movies, art and culture. I originally started posting here for publicity... and for some reason decided to keep posting on other forums rather than here, which really did miss the mark considering said forums were not heavily driven towards music at all. But given that said forums are falling apart as we speak (and I'd prefer to chronicle my work somewhere), I figured I'd resume updating this with my reviews, with this thread specifically for my Billboard BREAKDOWN videos (and hopefully for everyone to call me on it when I miss some obvious detail - thanks in advance for that
). So without further ado, here's where we left off...Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 1 - 2015
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 2 - 2016
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 3 - 2017
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 4 - 2018
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 5 - 2019
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 6 - 2020
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 7 - 2021
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 8 - 2022
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Season 9 - 2023
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - October 28, 2023 - where Taylor Swift finally takes 'Cruel Summer' to #1 as Bad Bunny unleashes his next album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 4, 2023 - where I have many words with Billboard screwing with their tracking year as we get Kid LAROI teaming up with Jungkook and Central Cee and Troye Sivan making a contentious return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 11, 2023 - where Taylor Swift crushes all competition with her '1989 (Taylor's Version)' album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 18, 2023 - where we get a remarkably strong week featuring the return of Megan Thee Stallion, a strong collab between Carly Pearce and Chris Stapleton, and even The Beatles' final song.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - November 25, 2023 - where we get something close to an ordinary week with Dua Lipa's welcome return juxtaposed with Jack Harlow's shocking misfire.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 2, 2023 - where we get a muted and frustrating mini album bomb from Drake as Tate McRae disappoints, Luke Combs comes through, and Andre 3000 makes a perplexing return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 9, 2023 - where we get one of the slowest weeks in recent memory as Brenda Lee ascends to #1 (!), Karol G teams up with Kali Uchis, and Taylor Swift delivers an utterly heartbreaking vault cut.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 16, 2023 - where we get another slow week as Sabrina Carpenter courts controversy, Noah Kahan teams up with Gracie Abrams, and Beyonce wants everyone out of her house.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 23, 2023 - where we finally get the Nicki Minaj album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - December 30, 2023 - where we get a weird and messy transitional week post-album bomb in the midst of the holidays.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 6, 2024 - where we get the dead zone between Christmas and New Years and a few historical curiosities on a very short episode.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 13, 2024 - where the chart returns to 'normal' with a spread of country and a surprising throwback hit from the UK!
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 20, 2024 - where we get an odd week with plenty of new faces and mixed quality.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - January 27, 2024 - where Ariana Grande returns to #1 amidst Lil Nas X's flailing attempt at provocation and 21 Savage's album bomb.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 3, 2024 - where we get a cooldown week with a few truly abysmal comebacks.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 10, 2024 - where we get an utter mess spanning a comeback from Justin Timberlake, the unwelcome presence of Ben Shapiro, some truly off the wall songs, and of course, the beef between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, with the latter going to #1.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 17, 2024 - where we get a quieter week featuring a surprising return from Billy Joel amidst a lot of trap.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - February 24, 2024 - where amidst a boost for Noah Kahan, a return for GloRilla, and Beyonce going country, I take a... well, unorthodox approach to addressing the album bomb from Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign with 'VULTURES 1'.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 2, 2024 - where we get a return for Bryson Tiller, an underpowered Yeat breakthrough, more Dua Lipa, and Beyonce taking the number one... all amidst my investigation of the tension between UMG and TikTok that impacts the entire Hot 100.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 9, 2024 - where the UMG/TikTok feud continues to wreak havoc as SZA makes a gorgeous return, Lil Durk tries to find peace, mgk gets vulnerable, LE SSERAFIM breaks through, and Selena Gomez fails at nu-disco.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 16, 2024 - where I finally have to deal with Kanye West taking 'Carnival' to #1 as Pharrell teams up with Miley Cyrus and Cardi B and twenty one pilots return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 23, 2024 - where Ariana Grande delivers her newest album bomb and takes the #1.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - March 30, 2024 - where we get a transitional week where Cardi B delivers a proper album rollout single, and Sexyy Red and Kacey Musgraves return.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 6, 2024 - where we get the biggest episode of this show's ten year history featuring a Future and Metro Boomin album bomb with a new #1, plus breakthroughs for Hozier and Olivia Rodrigo, plus more!
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 13, 2024 - where we get Beyonce's genre-breaking album bomb, and Camila Cabello and Playboi Carti teaming up for something just as genre-breaking but a hell of a lot worse.
Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - April 20, 2024 - where J. Cole delivers an album bomb amidst big debuts from Chappell Roan, ILLIT, Bakar, GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion... and we finally get some clarity to who J. Cole really is.
