Catch Up On All Of 2013’s Biggest Hits With These Mashups

With only 25 days of 2013 left, the musical retrospectives of the last 12 months are beginning to roll in thick and fast.

There’s already been our own looks at the year’s best album artwork, top live concerts, and great albums of 2013 that you may have missed, while a contingent of Aussie artists has cracked international best-of lists and Triple J once again opens up the polls on the Hottest 100.

With so much music, it can be a little overwhelming to catch everything, especially in this modern day era of ‘click fast, think later’. So what better way to play catch-up on the year’s most popular songs than with that most modern of internet genres: the mashup.

Thankfully, two international producers have already done the legwork, providing two separate but similarly conceived mash-ups of 2013’s biggest hits.

So if you want a snappy overview of the year’s hits and enjoy hearing all your faves in one serving (or maybe just emerged from that cryogenic chamber), these cross-pollinations provide a year-spanning look; not just of the songs, but also the accompanying music videos and all the big budget, highly stylised shenanigans they have to offer.

The first comes from Daniel Kim and the fourth entry in his annual Pop Danthology series. The 2013 edition manages to squeeze 68 tracks into a very slick five-and-a-half-ish minutes of kinetic hooks, pop choruses, and sleekly produced chart-bothering stars.

There’s everything from über-hits like Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’, Lorde’s ‘Royals’, and the ‘Harlem Shake’, through to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Calvin Harris, and the self-ranking Jay Z, all arriving in a recognisable (and at at times annoyingly familiar) rush.

“I search all over the internet like a determined chef searches different markets and grocery stores for his ingredients,” explains Kim on his personal blog, appropriately titled The Gift Of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Pop Disorder).

Going into detail (graphs, charts, and all), Kim explains the Pop Danthology 2013 took 180 hours for the mashup chef to whisk up, and though “there was a shortage of high quality audio parts compared to previous years,” he writes, “I was able to compile a ready-to-mix list of 179 (73 vocal, 41 instrumental, 65 complete with both) music files.” (You can view Daniel Kim’s proverbial shopping list – the full list of artists in the Pop Danthology mix – at the bottom.)

The second 2013 megamix comes from DJ Earworm, the alias of San Francisco producer Jordan Roseman, who has his own long-running mashup series – The United States Of Pop, which has attracted nearly 125 million YouTube views total since 2008.

DJ Earworm’s latest instalment, his seventh, is dubbed ‘Living The Fantasy’, and while it only splices 25 tracks compared to Kim’s 68, it’s no less dazzling in its own five-and-a-half genre-jam based on the biggest songs of the year, according to the US Billboard charts.

So yes, that does obviously include overlap with the Pop Danthology, including ‘Get Lucky’, ‘Royals’, along with chart-busting hip hop (Eminem, Pharrell Williams), pop rock (Imagine Dragons, OneRepublic), and bouts of twerk from Miley Cyrus.

Daniel Kim – Pop Danthology 2013

Anna Kendrick – “Cups (When I’m Gone)”
Armin van Buuren feat. Trevor Guthrie – “This Is What It Feels Like”
A$AP Rocky feat. Skrillex, Birdy Nam Nam – “Wild For The Night”
Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
Avril Lavigne – “Here’s To Never Growing Up”
Bastille – “Pompeii”
Bauuer – “Harlem Shake”
Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement – “Get Up (Rattle)”
Britney Spears – “Ooh La La”
Britney Spears – “Work B**tch”
Bruno Mars – “Locked Out Of Heaven”
Bruno Mars – “Treasure”
Bruno Mars – “When I Was Your Man”
Calvin Harris feat. Ayah Marar – “Thinking About You”
Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding – “I Need Your Love”
Capital Cities – “Safe And Sound”
Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky”
Demi Lovato – “Heart Attack”
Drake feat. Majid Jordan – “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
Drake – “Started From The Bottom”
Ellie Goulding – “Burn”
Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX – “I Love It (I Don’t Care)”
Imagine Dragons – Demons
Jason Derulo – “The Other Side”
Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake – “Holy Grail”
Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”
Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z – “Suit & Tie”
Katy Perry – “Roar”
Kelly Clarkson – “Catch My Breath”
Ke$ha – “C’mon”
Ke$ha feat. will.i.am – “Crazy Kids”
Krewella – “Alive”
Lady Gaga – “Applause”
Lana Del Rey – “Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)”
Lorde – “Royals”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton – “Can’t Hold Us”
Maroon 5 – “Daylight”
Maroon 5 – “Love Somebody”
Martin Garrix – “Animals”
Martin Solveig & The Cataracs feat. Kyle – “Hey Now”
Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith – “La La La”
One Direction – “Best Song Ever”
One Direction – “Story Of My Life”
OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
OneRepublic – “If I Lose Myself”
Passenger – “Let Her Go”
P!nk feat. Nate Ruess – “Just Give Me A Reason”
Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera – “Feel This Moment”
Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – “Timber”
Pitbull feat. TJR – “Don’t Stop The Party”
PSY – “Gentleman”
Rihanna – “Pour It Up”
Rihanna feat. David Guetta – “Right Now”
Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko – “Stay”
Robin Thicke feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Give It 2 U”
Robin Thicke feat. T.I., Pharrell Williams – “Blurred Lines”
Selena Gomez – “Come & Get It”
Selena Gomez – “Slow Down”
Taylor Swift – “22”
Taylor Swift – “I Knew You Were Trouble”
will.i.am feat. Britney Spears – “Scream & Shout”
will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber – “#thatPOWER”
Ylvis – “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)”
Zedd feat. Foxes – “Clarity”
Zedd feat. Hayley Williams – “Stay The Night”

DJ Earworm – United States Of Pop 2013: Living The Fantasy

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

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