DJ Earworm has delivered his annual mashup of the past year’s biggest pop hits, skillfully blended into one memorable song. Yes, some of your favorites might be missing, because this is based on the top 25 songs according to Billboard's weekly Hot 100 charts. In an interview at Billboard, we learn that
Fashioning a pop song out of R&B ballads like John Legend’s “All Of Me” and offbeat pop-rock tracks like Bastille’s “Pompeii” is no easy task, and Earworm says that crafting the 2014 “United State of Pop” was a more challenging process than usual. He relied on the drums from Jessie J’s “Bang Bang,” the percussion of DJ Snake & Lil Jon’s “Turn Down For What,” the horns from Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty” and the piano hooks from A Great Big World’s “Say Something” to help create an instrumental bed that was “much more complex” than in previous years.
“I would love the whole thing to be perfectly blended each time, but it also has to be digestible,” Earworm explains. “Some years, it’s a pretty straightforward instrumental from one source, but this year is the most blended instrumental I’ve been able to achieve yet.”
The songs are listed at the YouTube page. -via Uproxx
See also: DJ Earworm’s mashups from 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008, and 2007.