About
Writer, radio personality, and lifelong chart watcher.
Mark Menard has spent his career around a microphone and a keyboard. On the air, he's covered the stories that matter to listeners; on the page, he writes about the two subjects he can't stop thinking about — sports and music.
His sports writing runs from team coverage to league-wide analysis, the kind of work that takes the long view rather than chasing the hot take. His music writing is where a lifelong obsession shows: Mark has tracked the Billboard Modern Rock and Alternative charts for decades, and every year he publishes his own countdown of the songs that defined it.
This site collects that work in one place — written pieces, on-air clips, podcasts, and the chart project that started as a hobby and never quite stopped.