DJ Earworm

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" mashup features the top 25 songs of the year according to Billboard??'?s Year-End Hot 100 chart in one mix.

Roseman was born into a big family of musicians and raised in eastern Iowa and Evanston, Illinois. At the University of Illinois, Roseman started as a physics major,[4] before changing to music theory and computer science.

On December 3, 2014, Earworm released 2014's mix, "Do What You Wanna Do". He said, "The thing that has been most notable in the past two or three years is the decline of EDM. The "United State of Pop" became this dance track from '09 to '12, and then starting last year, there just wasn't enough in that genre to fully support it, so I went down-tempo. And this year, "Timber", which was popular in January, is the only popular dance track I'm dealing with. It's definitely down-tempo, so you have to decide, how is this going to go? How am I going to maintain the energy levels while being true to the sound of the year?" The instrumentals for the track were composed of the drums from Jessie J's "Bang Bang", the percussion of DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What", the horns from Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and the piano hooks from A Great Big World's "Say Something". Earworm explained, "I would love the whole thing to be perfectly blended each time, but it also has to be digestible. Some years, it's a pretty straightforward instrumental from one source, but this year is the most blended instrumental I've been able to achieve yet." His latest single is entitled, "Drone".

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