--- title: Daniel Kim Pop Danthology 2015 description: Canadian DJ Daniel Kim releases his 2015 mashup of the most popular songs of the year. canonical: https://time.com/4106246/daniel-kim-pop-danthology-mashup/ author: Olivia B. 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Taylor Swift performs live during the 1989 World Tour Live in Singapore on Nov. 7, 2015. Suhaimi Abdullah—Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Nov 10, 2015 7:20 PM UTC Canadian DJ Daniel Kim has released his annual mashup of popular songs from the last year. This year, it’s in two parts and features samples from hit songs like Adele’s “Hello,” Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” Taylor Swift has the most songs in it out of any other artist other than the DJ (“Style,” “Bad Blood,” and “Wildest Dreams”). Also featured are artists like Madonna, Fetty Wap, Drake, Ariana Grande, Adam Lambert, Carly Rae Jepson, Ellie Goulding, Flo Rida. There were so many songs to incorporate this year that he decided to do two mashups. As he explained in a statement released through [Collab](http://www.collabcreators.com/), a studio for people who create viral content on Vine and YouTube: “I found myself cutting down so much of the original musical pieces just to ‘jam’ in as many songs as I could.” Kim also released two versions on YouTube that have slight shorter samples of each song: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4106246/daniel-kim-pop-danthology-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4106246/daniel-kim-pop-danthology-mashup/"},"headline":"This Mashup Blends All of Your Favorite 2015 Songs","datePublished":"2015-11-10T19:20:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:58.025Z","description":"So catchy you'll be playing it on loop all day","url":"https://time.com/4106246/daniel-kim-pop-danthology-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt228c5484a4b85fbd/6988705c524fc02891df5670/taylor-swift1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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