--- description: DJ Earworm has been combining the 25 top songs of the year in an annual mashup for a decade. Here's the eclectic 2017 version. title: This DJ Brilliantly Mashed Up 2017's Biggest Hit Songs image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Music](/tag/music/) ## Music Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This DJ Brilliantly Mashed Up 2017's Biggest Hit Songs  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 14, 2017 8:27 PM CUT  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 14, 2017 8:27 PM CUT For a decade now, DJ Earworm [has been releasing](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/29/hes-back-dj-earworms-united-state-of-pop-2010/ "undefined") a mash-up of 25 of the year’s top _Billboard_ songs. The annual [“United State of Pop”](http://time.com/4588893/dj-earworm-united-state-of-pop-2016/ "undefined") release is a mirror on our collective musical past, a quick SparkNotes of 12 months in chart hits and radio ubiquity. This year it’s a diverse mix, starting off with the warm chords of Sam Hunt’s country hit “Body Like a Back Road” before diving into Ed Sheeran’s blockbuster “Shape of You” marimba and [Luis Fonsi](http://time.com/4913699/the-new-science-of-the-truly-unstoppable-impossible-to-resist-summer-jam/ "undefined") and Daddy Yankee’s inescapable “Despacito” riff. Right off the bat, we’ve already traversed three different regional genres and musical styles. That variety is a theme throughout the mashup: somehow, Earworm charts a path between the modern funk of Bruno Mars, the emo hip-hop of Lil Uzi Vert and the EDM-lite of The Chainsmokers and Coldplay. Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and Post Malone tie as the most-sampled artists, each with two songs making it into the four-minute mix. Give it a listen at the link, and consider adding it to your New Year’s Eve party playlist. In fact, you could just play this on repeat all night and know you’d hit all the right notes for the year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/"},"headline":"This DJ Brilliantly Mashed Up 2017's Biggest Hit Songs","datePublished":"2017-12-14T20:27:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:18.916Z","description":"DJ Earworm has been combining the 25 top songs of the year in an annual mashup for a decade. Here's the eclectic 2017 version.","url":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/","keywords":["Music","Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/music/","name":"Music"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/","name":"This DJ Brilliantly Mashed Up 2017's Biggest Hit Songs"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Here’s How a Live Orchestra Is Mashing Up Kanye and Beethoven","description":"Rap icon Kanye West and classical hero Ludwig van Beethoven are, at first glance, polar musical opposites. But one project, dubbed Yeethoven, is bringing the works of the two artists together in a bi-coastal mash-up concert event.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TIHxOWkD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-12-11T15:45:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TIHxOWkD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5064693/dj-earworm-2017/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```