__NOTOC__ 2011 (MMXI) was a common year that started on a Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 2nd of the 2010s.

The United Nations designated 2011 as the International Year of Forests and the International Year of Chemistry. It was marked by a wave of revolutions in the Arab World known as the Arab Spring, including the beginnings of several unresolved protest movements and armed conflicts.

Events

January

January 1 – Estonia officially adopts the euro currency and becomes the seventeenth eurozone country. January 4 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring. January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July. January 11 – Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903. January 14 – Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power. January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.

February

February 11 – Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held. February 22 - March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring, causing the 2011 energy crisis.

March

March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake. March 15 – Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest. March 17 – Arab Spring and the 2011 Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians. March 19 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.

April

April 11 – Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. April 29 – An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.

May

May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan. May 16 – The European Union agree to €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.

June

June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.

June 5 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi. June 12 – Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.

July

July 7 – The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells. July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.

July 20

Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.

July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program. July 22 – 77 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya.

July 31

In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion). Some areas are still six feet under water, and many factory areas remained closed at the end of the year. 815 people are killed, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.

Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000.

August

August 5

* NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.

Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

August 20–28 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

September

September 5 – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. September 10 – Zanzibar ferry sinking: The ''MV Spice Islander I'', carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people. September 12 – Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi. September 17 – Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October. September 19 – With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan.

October

October 4

2011 Mogadishu bombing: 100 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207.

October 18 – Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.

October 20

Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war.

Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.

October 23 – A magnitude 7.2 M_w earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings. October 27 – After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.

October 31

Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion.

UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed.

November

November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012.

December

December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War. December 16 – Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines with 85 people officially listed as missing. December 29 – Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners.

Deaths

January

January 2

* Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)

* Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)

* Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)

January 4

* Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b. 1966)

* Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)

January 15

* Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)

* Susannah York, British actress (b. 1939)

January 18 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat (b. 1915)

January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)

January 24 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)

January 29 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)

January 30 – John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)

February

February 3 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)

February 5 – Brian Jacques, British author (b. 1939)

February 6

* Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920)

* Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)

February 8 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)

February 14 – George Shearing, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)

February 27 – Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)

February 28 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)

March

March 4

* Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)

* Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925)

March 5 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922)

March 6 – Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (b. 1935)

March 15 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)

March 17 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)

March 18 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925)

March 21 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952)

March 23 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932)

March 26

* Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926)

* Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935)

* Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)

March 27 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)

March 29 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)

April

April 5

* Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)

* Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)

April 9 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)

April 14 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)

April 19 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953)

April 24 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)

April 30 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911)

May

May 2 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)

May 3 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)

May 7

* Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)

* Willard Boyle, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1924)

May 9 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 67th President of Bolivia (b. 1921)

May 16 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (b. 1986)

May 19 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)

May 20 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)

May 27

* Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)

* Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (b. 1949)

May 29

* Sergei Bagapsh, Georgian-born politician (b. 1949)

* Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (b. 1931)

May 30 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)

May 31 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)

June

June 3 – Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928)

June 4 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (b. 1930)

June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)

June 9 – M.F. Hussain, Indian painter (b. 1915)

June 10 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer, scholar and soldier (b. 1915)

June 18

* Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)

* Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)

June 23 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)

July

July 2 – Itamar Franco, 37th President of Brazil (b. 1930)

July 4 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1912)

July 5 – Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)

July 8 – Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1918)

July 10 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)

July 12 – Tom Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1925)

July 17 – Juan Maria Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928)

July 20 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)

July 23

* Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918)

* Nguyen Cao Ky, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1930)

* Amy Winehouse, British singer (b. 1983)

July 25 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)

July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944)

July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)

August

August 2 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American Nobel immunologist (b. 1920)

August 3 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)

August 7

* Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)

* Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter (b. 1912)

August 14 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1931)

August 16 – Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (b. 1943)

August 19 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean film director (b. 1941)

August 22 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)

August 31 – Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)

September

September 7

* Pavol Demitra, Slovakian hockey player (b. 1974)

* Stefan Liv, Polish-born Swedish hockey player (b. 1980)

* Ruslan Salei, Belarusian hockey player (b. 1974)

* Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian hockey player (b. 1974)

September 10 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)

September 11 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (b. 1972)

September 13 – Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922)

September 14 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929)

September 19 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)

September 20 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940)

September 22 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)

September 25 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940)

September 27 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)

September 30

* Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)

* Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist and cell biologist (b. 1943)

October

October 1 – Sven Tumba, Swedish hockey player (b. 1931)

October 5

* Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur (b. 1955)

* Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)

October 6 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)

October 7 – Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)

October 12 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)

October 16 – Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver (b. 1978)

October 20 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader (b. 1942)

October 22 – Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1930)

October 23

* Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917)

* Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (b. 1987)

October 24 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)

October 31 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)

November

November 4 – Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948)

November 5 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)

November 7 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)

November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)

November 21 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926)

November 22 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931)

November 25 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)

November 27

* Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)

* Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)

November 28

* Ante Marković, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924)

* Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)

December

December 1 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)

December 4 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)

December 5 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938)

December 7 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)

December 8 – Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)

December 14 – Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913)

December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949)

December 17

* Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)

* Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (b. 1941)

December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)

December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903)

December 27

* Clifford Darling, 4th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1922)

* Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry – Dan Shechtman Economics – Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent Literature – Tomas Tranströmer Peace – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman Physics – Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess, and Brian P. Schmidt Physiology or Medicine – Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Ralph M. Steinman

Major religious holidays

January 7 (6 in Armenia) – Orthodox Christmas

February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day

March 8 – Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season

March 9 – Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)

March 20 – Holi

March 21 – (Northern hemisphere) Vernal equinox, also known as Ostara & Persian New Year

April 18 – Passover begins at sundown

April 24 – Easter (''Western'' and ''Orthodox'')

May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day

June 7 – Shavuot begins

August 1

* Ramadan begins (Islam)

* Lammas, a Cross-quarter day

August 31 – Eid al-Fitr

September 1 – Ganesh Chaturthi

September 11 – Anant Chaturdashi

September 23 – (Northern hemisphere) Autumnal equinox, also known as Mabon

September 28 – Rosh Hashana begins at sundown

October 2 to October 6 – Durga Puja

October 7 – Yom Kippur begins at sundown

October 26 – Diwali, a religious holiday in Hinduism

November 6 – Eid al-Adha

November 26 – Islamic New Year

December 20 – Hanukkah begins at sundown

December 25 – Christmas

In fiction

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Jordan Roseman (aka DJ Earworm) is a San Francisco-based mashup artist who has achieved recognition for his technically sophisticated, songwriting oriented music and video mashups. His annual “United State of Pop” mashups, short mixes featuring the top 25 songs of the year according to Billboard magazine, have reached the Top 100 for national radio play.

Biography

Roseman was born into a big family of musicians and raised in eastern Iowa and Evanston, Illinois. In his early life, he played piano and produced original electronic music on a computer, later majoring in music theory and computer science at the University of Illinois. He began making mashups recreationally in 2003 using ACID. After encouragement from DJ Adrian at Club Bootie, Roseman created the moniker DJ Earworm ("earworm" referencing a song that repeats uncontrollably in one's mind) and began releasing mashups via a website.

DJ Earworm has a unique mashup style that consists of a compositional, songwriting approach. He gradually layers samples on top of one another, matching keys and subtly altering melodies. His mashups often convey an entirely new meaning than the original material, such as a political message in “No More Gas”. He has been contrasted with mashup artist Girl Talk, who has a more DJ-oriented style.

He is the author of ''Audio Mashup Construction Kit'' (Wiley, 2006), a how-to manual for creating mashups.

At the 2008 IDEA conference, he revealed that he has made mashups using Ableton Live₨, and now DJs live with the same software.

"United State of Pop" series

2007

Earworm's 2007 mashup, "United State of Pop” consisted of the top 25 songs of 2007 according to ''Billboard''. The song crossed beyond the online download market, reaching the Top 100 for national radio play in February 2008. Earworm is the first mashup artist to have a bootleg mashup enter Billboard’s charts. As of August 12, 2011, the song has surpassed 4.5 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 71 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.

Mix Includes:

"Irreplaceable" - Beyoncé

" Umbrella" - Rihanna feat. Jay-z

"The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon

"Big Girls Don't Cry" - Fergie

"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" - T-Pain feat. Young Joc

"Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood

"Hey There Delilah" - Plain White T's

" I Wanna Love You" - Akon feat. Snoop Dogg

"Say It Right" - Nelly Furtado

" Glamorous" - Fergie feat. Ludacris

"Don't Matter" - Akon

"Girlfriend" - Avril Lavigne

"Makes Me Wonder" - Maroon 5

"Party Like a Rockstar" - Shop Boyz

"Smack That" - Akon feat. Eminem

"This Is Why I'm Hot" - Mims

"It's Not Over" - Daughtry

"The Way I Are"- Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson

"Fergalicious" - Fergie

"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

"Give It to Me" - Timbaland feat. Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado

"What Goes Around... Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake

"Cupid's Chokehold" - Gym Class Heroes feat. Patrick Stump

"How to Save a Life" - The Fray

"Home" - Daughtry

2008

On December 25, 2008 he released another mashup called "United State of Pop 2008 (Viva la Pop)", prominently featuring Coldplay's song "Viva la Vida" as the backing track, and an intro by Natasha Bedingfield's Pocketful of Sunshine beat. The official YouTube video of the song had 200,000 views within the first two weeks of release. The mashup peaked at number 58 on ''Billboard'''s Pop Airplay chart, and entered the Pop 100 chart. As of December 13, 2011, the video has received over 9.5 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 81 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.

Mix Includes:

"Low" - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain

"Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis

"No One" - Alicia Keys

"Lollipop"- Lil Wayne feat. Static Major

"Apologize" - One Republic feat. Timbaland

"No Air" - Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown

"Love Song" - Sara Bareilles

"Love in This Club" - Usher feat.Young Jeezy

"With You" - Chris Brown

"Forever" - Chris Brown

"Sexy Can I" - Ray J feat. Young Berg

"Take a Bow" - Rihanna

"Viva La Vida" - Coldplay

"I Kissed a Girl" - Katy Perry

"Whatever You Like" - T.I.

"Disturbia" - Rihanna

"Don't Stop the Music" - Rihanna

"Pocketful of Sunshine" - Natasha Bedingfield

"Kiss Kiss" - Chris Brown feat. T-pain

" Closer" - Ne-Yo

"Bubbly" - Colbie Caillat

"Touch My Body" - Mariah Carey

"4 Minutes" - Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland

"So What" - Pink

"Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven

2009

On December 27, 2009 he released a third year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame it on the Pop)" Originally mixed, mastered and produced by DJ Pago, Cape Town, South Africa. The music video has reached over 40.2 million views as of December 13, 2011.

Mix Includes:

"Boom Boom Pow" - The Black Eyed Peas

"Poker Face" - Lady Gaga

"Just Dance" - Lady Gaga feat.Colby O'Donis

"I Gotta Feeling" - Black Eyed Peas

"Love Story" - Taylor Swift

"Right Round" - Flo Rida feat. Kesha

"I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz

"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" - Beyoncé

" Heartless" - Kanye West

"Gives You Hell" - All-American Rejects

"You Belong with Me" - Taylor Swift

"Dead and Gone" - T.I feat. Justin Timberlake

"You Found Me" - The Fray

"Use Somebody" - Kings of Leon

"Knock You Down" - Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo

"Blame It" - Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain

"I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" - Pitbull

"Live Your Life" - T.I feat. Rihanna

"Kiss Me Thru the Phone" - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em feat. Sammie

"Down" - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne

"The Climb" - Miley Cyrus

"Best I Ever Had" - Drake

"My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson

" Halo" - Beyoncé

"Hot n Cold" - Katy Perry

2010

On December 28, 2010 he released the fourth year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2010 (Don't Stop the Pop), which includes the top 25 singles of 2010. The music video has reached over 13.6 million views as of December 5, 2011.

Mix Includes:

"Tik Tok" - Kesha

"Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum

"Hey, Soul Sister" - Train

"California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg

" OMG" - Usher feat. Will.I.Am

"Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams

"Love the Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna

"Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga

"Dynamite" - Taio Cruz

"Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris

"Nothin' on You" - B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars

"I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull

"BedRock" - Young Money Entertainment feat. Lloyd

"In My Head" - Jason Derülo

"Rude Boy" - Rihanna

"Telephone" - Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce

"Teenage Dream" - Katy Perry

"Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars

"Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner

"Imma Be" - The Black Eyed Peas

"Empire State of Mind" - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys

"DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" - Usher feat. Pitbull

"Billionaire" - Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars

"Not Afraid" - Eminem

"Replay" - Iyaz

2011

The fifth year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)" was released on December 25 2011. This was the first time this was not based on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart, but on the weekly charts throughout the year, which "ensures that all the late-breaking hits are included in the 2011 mix". It used a combination of Rihanna's "We Found Love" , Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) , Lady Gaga's Born This Way, and Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends" as the backing track. The music video for "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)" was viewed over 1.4 million times within the first day of release on YouTube.

The mashup included the following songs:

"Rolling In The Deep" - Adele

"Someone Like You" - Adele

"Just Can't Get Enough" - Black Eyed Peas

"Grenade" - Bruno Mars

"The Lazy Song" - Bruno Mars

"Till The World Ends" - Britney Spears

"F*** You!" - Cee Lo Green

"Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" - Enrique Iglesias

"Pumped Up Kicks" - Foster the People

"On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez

"Down On Me" - Jeremih feat. 50 Cent

"Firework" - Katy Perry

"E.T." - Katy Perry

"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" - Katy Perry

"Born This Way" - Lady Gaga

"Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO

"Sexy and I Know It" - LMFAO

"The Show Goes On" - Lupe Fiasco

"Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5

"Super Bass" - Nicki Minaj

"Good Life" - OneRepublic

"Raise Your Glass" - Pink

"Give Me Everything" - Pitbull

"S&M;" - Rihanna

"We Found Love" - Rihanna

Earworm states that "It doesn't match Billboard's U.S. year-end list, since I'm basing it off of the weekly lists this year in order to more reflect what was actually popular during 2011. Because of the Billboard's early cut off date and their emphasis on chart longevity, songs that are released after August are either split between the two years tor moved to the next year. I also don't want a track appearing two years in a row just because it happened to be peaking right at the cutoff. From my perspective, a song for a aveyear-end mix belongs in the year it will be remembered from, not the year it ended its run. For instance, "We Found Love", which has been #1 for the last 8 weeks of the year, is nowhere to be seen in Billboard's Top 25, and may not make it next year either due to the bias of the cut-off date. As a bonus I am able to spend more time on the mixes and more fully realize them."

Official Mashups

While most mashup artists must rely on bootleg samples and public releases to make mashups, Earworm has been contacted by prominent musicians to make mashups from their source material. DJ Earworm was given multitracks by Annie Lennox to create a unique mashup piece called "Backwards/Forwards," which contains nine of her songs.

On September 12, 2009, Earworm released an official Sean Kingston mashup called "A Beautiful Mashup."

Like OMG, Baby

"Like OMG, Baby", released in the summer of 2010, was shown as part of a concert at Wembley Stadium in London for Capital FM's Summertime Ball, where all fifteen of the featured artists performed. The mashup is Earworm's fourth song to chart on the CHR/Top 40 ''Mediabase'' radio chart, where it peaked at number 83. As of August 8, 2011, the video has received 10.2 million views and counting on YouTube, making it by far his most popular non-United State of Pop mashup and surpassing the 2008 year-end video. In 2011 the song was honored with two Sony Radio Academy Awards. Here is the list of songs used: #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 (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) #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

Free At Night

On December 10, 2010, Earworm released a Nelly Furtado mashup titled "Free At Night", composed of 13 songs from Furtado's recent greatest hits album, The Best of Nelly Furtado. The music video has over 541,000 views as of August 8, 2011. Here is the list of songs used: #I'm Like a Bird #Turn Off the Light #Powerless (Say What You Want) #Try #Força #Promiscuous #Maneater #Say It Right #All Good Things (Come To An End) #Girlfriend in This City #Night Is Young #Stars #Manos al Aire

The Only Time is Tonight

To promote YouTube's Android app, Earworm released a mashup called "The Only Time is Tonight". The mashup heavily used Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" instrumental and vocals. It was released on May 31, 2011 on YouTube's official account. On August 22, 2011, the video reached over 1.5 million views. Recently the official video for "The Only Time is Tonight" has been made unavailable for viewing on YouTube and DJ Earworm's website, although the audio for the mashup is available for download on djearworm.com and unofficial copies of the original video are still posted on YouTube. Here is the list of songs used: #Avril Lavigne - What the Hell #Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) #Chris Brown - Yeah 3x #Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) #Kesha - We R Who We R #Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) #Willow Smith - Whip My Hair

Party on the Floor

Following up the previous year's "Like OMG, Baby", Earworm released another UK-oriented summertime mashup on June 12, 2011. It is entitled, "Party On The Floor". As of March 17, 2012, the music video has reached over 7 million views. This mash up was used at the start of the Capital FM summertime ball 2011 at Wembley Stadium. Here are the songs used: #Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On the Floor #Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude #Jessie J feat. B.o.B.- Price Tag #LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem #Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath #Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me #Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me #Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster #The Wanted - Glad You Came #Far East Movement feat. The Cataracs & Dev - Like A G6 #JLS feat. Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut #JLS - Love You More #Katy B - Katy on a Mission #Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On #Cee-Lo Green - Forget You #Cee-Lo Green feat. Wiz Khalifa - Bright Lights, Bigger City #Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It #Wretch 32 - Traktor #Mann - Buzzin'

References

External links

DJ Earworm Homepage

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