I made this music video mashup to be shown as part of a concert at Wembley Stadium in London for Capital FM’s Summertime Ball, where all fifteen of these artists performed.

There’s a mix of artists from the UK and the America’s, and the track list is here:

• Alexandra Burke - All Night Long
• Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love
• Chipmunk feat. Esmee Denters - Until You Were Gone
• Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
• Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
• Jason Derulo - In My Head
• JLS - One Shot
• Justin Bieber - Baby
• Ke$ha - Tik Tok
• Pixie Lott - Mama Do
• Rihanna - Rude Boy
• Scouting For Girls - This Ain’t a Love Song
• Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
• Usher feat. Will.I.Am - OMG
• The Wanted - All Time Low

And here’s the video

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.

Another year, another year-end mashup, once again consisting of the top 25 most popular hit songs of 2009, according to Billboard Magazine.

This is a follow-up to last year’s
United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop)
and the original United State of Pop from 2007.

This year in the charts, so many of the pop songs this year seem to tell the same story: Yeah, we’ve been through a lot, but right now we’re gonna celebrate with music and dance, and it’s gonna be ok. With that spirit in mind, I invite you to…BLAME IT ON THE POP

• The Black Eyed Peas - BOOM BOOM POW
• Lady Gaga - POKER FACE
• Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis - JUST DANCE
• The Black Eyed Peas - I GOTTA FEELING
• Taylor Swift - LOVE STORY
• Flo Rida - RIGHT ROUND
• Jason Mraz - I’M YOURS
• Beyonce - SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT)
• Kanye West - HEARTLESS
• The All-American Rejects - GIVES YOU HELL
• Taylor Swift - YOU BELONG WITH ME
• T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake - DEAD AND GONE
• The Fray - YOU FOUND ME
• Kings Of Leon - USE SOMEBODY
• Keri Hilson Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - KNOCK YOU DOWN
• Jamie Foxx Featuring T-Pain - BLAME IT
• Pitbull - I KNOW YOU WANT ME (CALLE OCHO)
• T.I. Featuring Rihanna - LIVE YOUR LIFE
• Soulja Boy Tell ‘em Featuring Sammie - KISS ME THRU THE PHONE
• Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne - DOWN
• Miley Cyrus - THE CLIMB
• Drake - BEST I EVER HAD
• Kelly Clarkson - MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU
• Beyonce - HALO
• Katy Perry - HOT N COLD

And here’s the video

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.

The complete lyrics are HERE, along with a guide to which song all of the words and music came from.

In a brief but impressive career, Sean Kingston has always had a knack for creating amazing hooks. At 17, he released the Ben-E.-King-inspired “Beautiful Girls”, somehow managing to sing about suicidal thoughts without losing his trademark smile. This was followed up with “Me Love”, a twist on Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Maker”, and “Take You There”, which pointed towards a more electronic futuristic sound. By the time he released this summer’s inescapable euro-flavored infectious dance hit “Fire Burning”, the sound had gone fully electronic, while remaining as catchy as ever.

So when his label approached me about mashing up his greatest hits, I knew I had all the raw material I would need to make an ultra hook-y mashup. And finding the actual words “mash up” in “Beautiful Girls” was just icing on the cake.

I mixed up these four hits, along with “I Can Feel It” from his last album “Sean Kingston”, and bits of “Tomorrow” and “Face Drop” from his upcoming album “Tomorrow”.

And I made a video for it as well!

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.

Download the full version here.

I’ve always held a deep respect for Annie Lennox and her music, so when she gave me her multi-track masters to mash up, I was thrilled. The task was to tie together all of her solo career into single song and video, and I could deconstruct it as much as I wanted! Woohoo!

Her music expresses much hardship and sadness, but also defiance, joy and triumph, and I wanted the mashup to reflect that journey. Here’s the tracklist:

To listen to the streaming audio (sorry, no downloads on this one), click HERE

And here’s the video for it:

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.

Coldplay’s “In My Place” reveals the power ballad lurking within Kelly’s recent hit.

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.

Kanye West’s latest album was a real change of pace for him, veering more towards moody pop than hip-hop. Recently, I did a mashup of his “Love Lockdown” with Radiohead’s “Reckoner”.

When I heard The Fray performing this beautiful cover of Kanye’s “Heartless” on BBC’s Radio 1, it really seemed to capture the song’s melancholy feeling. The Police’s “Message in a Bottle” also fit the mood, and for the beat I used a sloooowwwed down “Boom Boom Pow”, the Black Eyed Peas’ inescapable hit.

Kanye based his original “Heartless” on a sample by the Alan Parsons Project, “Ammonia Avenue”, so I grabbed that sample, and also added a little bit of 2Pac’s “Dear Mama”, where he talks about being “heartless”.

And here’s the video for it:

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.
An even higher quality version can be seen on Facebook HERE.

Maroon 5 recently released a remix album entitled Call and Response, where they got various of remixers to radically re-interpret their greatest hits. I commend them on their spirit of experimentation, especially since they opened up their entire archive for me to destroy interpret! I basically had the Pro Tools digital recording sessions for all their songs, so I could go in and grab whatever instrument or vocal I wanted. This is the first time I’ve gotten such a depth of data to work with.

As I picked apart the recording sessions, the thing that really stood out to me was the level of musicianship buried in the many layers. What sounded like a simple guitar riff was actually made up of many guitars, carefully layered and ordered to get just the right tone. Background vocals revealed themselves to be beautiful melodies in their own right.

This version has an electro house club feel.. I added some guitars from “Goodnight Goodnight”, “This Love”, and “Makes Me Wonder”, and brought in the piano from “She Will be Loved”. Other little bits from other M5 songs are found scattered in there. Click on the buttons to the right for a radio/ipod-friendly version, and for the DJs, here’s an extended version.

Well it’s that time of the year again and I thought I’d do another year-end mashup. Here are bits of the Top 25 hits of the year, according to Billboard Magazine, arranged into a four and a half minute song. This is a follow-up to last year’s mashup of the Top 25 hits of 2007.

This year in the charts, we’ve gone all soft. The songs are sexy and defiant, less macho than in previous years. Accordingly, I’ve selected Coldplay as the instrumental track, giving the whole year a sort of symphonic feel. This edit is called “Viva La Pop”, and I hope to post more edits soon.

• Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain - Low
• Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
• Alicia Keys - No One
• Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major - Lollipop
• Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic - Apologize
• Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown - No Air
• Sara Bareilles - Love Song
• Usher Featuring Young Jeezy - Love in This Club
• Chris Brown - With You
• Chris Brown - Forever
• Ray J & Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
• Rihanna - Take a Bow
• Coldplay - Viva La Vida
• Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
• T.I. - Whatever You Like
• Rihanna - Disturbia
• Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music
• Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine
• Chris Brown Featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
• Ne-Yo - Closer
• Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
• Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
• Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
• Pink - So What
• Finger Eleven - Paralyzer

I made a video for it, in YouTube’s fancy wide screen format

To view the video in full screen, click HERE.
You can also view a very high quality version HERE on Facebook.

If you liked this mashup, make sure to check out No More Gas, which mashes up a bunch of recent hits.

As a bonus, here is the edit that’s on the radio, with Beyonce starting it off cold. To Download, right click HERE and save as (If you have a Mac, ctrl-click)