Pitbull’s “Timber” Featured as Part of DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop” 2014

One of Pitbull’s iconic hits of 2014 is being immortalized in a special way…

The 33-year-old Cuban American rap superstar’s collaboration with Ke$ha “Timber,which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is featured in DJ Earworm’s perennially dubbed the “United State of Pop,” a mash-up of the calendar year’s 25 biggest pop songs.

United State of Pop 2014

Annually, DJ Earworm takes the year’s massive hits and combines them into an incredibly popular, masterfully constructed mash-up.

Earworm, who has been analyzing the Billboard charts since he was a kid, has titled this year’s single-length mega-mix as “Do What You Wanna Do.”

“Personally, I’ve been obsessed with the Billboard charts since I was 11 or 12,” Earworm (real name: Jordan Roseman) tells Billboard about the tradition he started in 2007. “When I was a little boy, I used to tune in to Top 40 shows on the weekends, and I’ve always been fascinated by what makes popular tastes tick … It’s great to be able to come full-circle with Billboard.”

Over the past seven years, the California producer’s “United State of Pop” series has packaged the sounds of some of the world’s most popular musicians — including Rihanna, the Black Eyed Peas, Bruno Mars and many more — into kinetic dance singles that each earn millions of hits online; his breakout mash-up came in 2009, and that year’s video currently has 44 million YouTube views.

Although Earworm’s creations typically operate at high BPMs, the DJ tells Billboard that he has to respect the ebb and flow of popular music, which is why his 2014 mash-up is a bit more contemplative.

“The thing that has been most notable in the past two or three years is the decline of EDM,” says Earworm of the 25 songs he selected for this year’s song. “The ‘United State of Pop’ became this dance track from ’09 to ’12, and then starting last year, there just wasn’t enough in that genre to fully support it, so I went down-tempo. And this year, ‘Timber,’ which was popular in January, is the only popular dance track I’m dealing with. It’s definitely down-tempo, so you have to decide, how is this going to go? How am I going to maintain the energy levels while being true to the sound of the year?”

Earworm continues that 2014 was “dominated by these slow, ponderous songs like ‘Say Something’ and ‘All Of Me,’ and then swaggering hip-hop songs like ‘Turn Down For What,’ ‘Talk Dirty,’ and ‘Black Widow.’ Then you have totally uptempo songs like ‘Happy’ and ‘Shake It Off,’ too. It’s a little bit more diverse, and definitely softer than it’s been.”

Crafting a memorable mash-up out of R&B ballads like John Legend’s “All Of Me” and offbeat pop-rock tracks like Bastille’s “Pompeii” isn’t easy, 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,” featuring Christina Aguilera, 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.”

Here’s a look at the 25 songs featured in DJ Earworm’s mash-up:

A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera – Say Something
Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea – Problem
Bastille – Pompeii
Dj Snake & Lil Jon – Turn Down For What
Hozier – Take Me to Church
Idina Menzel – Let It Go
Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX – Fancy
Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora – Black Widow
Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz – Talk Dirty
Jeremih feat. YG – Don’t Tell ‘Em
Jessie J feat. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj – Bang Bang
John Legend – All Of Me
Katy Perry feat. Juicy J – Dark Horse
Lorde – Team
Magic! – Rude
Maroon 5 – Animals
Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass
Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong
One Direction – Story of My Life
Passenger – Let Her Go
Pharrell Williams – Happy
Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – Timber
Sam Smith – Stay with Me
Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
Tove Lo – Habits

Mars Featured on DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop 2013” Mash-Up

He registered one of the most iconic songs of the year… And, now Bruno Mars’ popular track is being immortalized in a special mix.

The 28-year-old part-Puerto Rican singer’s “When I Was Your Man” is included in DJ Earworm’s just-released “United State of Pop 2013,” an  annual mashup of the year’s biggest pop songs.

Bruno Mars

Mars, whose songs were included in Earworm’s mash-up masterwork in 2011 and 2012, is the only Latino artist featured in the 2013 edition of the 25 biggest hits in the U.S.

Other artists featured in the five-minute mix include Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake.

Here’s the complete list of songs featured in the mix:

Avicii feat. Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up
Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Capital Cities – Safe & Sound
Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky
Eminem feat. Rihanna – The Monster
Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly – Cruise
Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
Imagine Dragons – Demons
Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake – Holy Grail
Justin Timberlake – Mirrors
Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z – Suit & Tie
Katy Perry – Roar
Lady Gaga – Applause
Lorde – Royals
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton – Can’t Hold Us
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz – Thrift Shop
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop
OneRepublic – Counting Stars
P!nk feat. Nate Ruess – Just Give Me A Reason
Rihanna – Stay
Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I. – Blurred Lines
Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child
Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble
Will.I.Am feat. Britney Spears – Scream And Shout

“World Go Boom” with Mars, Lopez & Pitbull, Etc.

It should come as no surprise that this year’s “United State of Pop” mashup, courtesy of DJ Earworm, features la musica of several Latino artists. After all, Bruno Mars, Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull have dominated the Billboard charts this year.

United State of Pop

The fifth installment of DJ Earworm’s annual mix of the year’s 25 hottest pop songs, which has been dubbed “World Go Boom,” features the music of Bruno Mars, Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias, as well as Fergie’s Black Eyed Peas and Christina Aguilera’s collaboration with Maroon 5.

Here are the 25 cuts in Earworm’s oh-so-awesome mix:

Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”
Adele – “Someone Like You”
Black Eyed Peas – “Just Can’t Get Enough”
Bruno Mars – “Grenade”
Bruno Mars – “The Lazy Song”
Britney Spears – “Till The World Ends”
Cee Lo Green – “F* You”
Enrique Iglesias – “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)”
Foster the People – “Pumped Up Kicks”
Jennifer Lopez – “On The Floor”
Jeremih feat. 50 cent – “Down On Me”
Katy Perry – “Firework”
Katy Perry – “E.T.”
Katy Perry – “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
Lady Gaga – “Born This Way”
LMFAO – “Party Rock Anthem”
LMFAO – “Sexy and I Know It”
Lupe Fiasco – “The Show Goes On”
Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera- “Moves Like Jagger”
Nicki Minaj – “Super Bass”
OneRepublic – “Good Life”
Pink – “Raise Your Glass”
Pitbull – “Give Me Everything”
Rihanna – “S&M”
Rihanna – “We Found Love”

Click here to download the mashup.