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Billie Eilish, The Kooks, Oliver Heldens and more

Big anthems and tunes you haven't heard in ages.

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Music Played

  • Girls Aloud

    Love Machine

    • Love Machine.
    • Polydor.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Like I Love You (feat. Clipse)

    • Like I Love You.
    • Jive.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • Columbia.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

    • I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.
    • Domino.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Shake It Out

  • Bastille

    Pompeii

    • Virgin.

  • Alesso

    Heroes (We Could Be) (feat. Tove Lo)

    • Def Jam Recordings/Virgin EMI.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • Interscope.

  • Eminem & Dr. Dre

    My Name Is

    • Interscope.

  • Snoop Dogg

    Drop It Like It's Hot (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • Drop It Like It's Hot.
    • Geffen.

  • Drake

    In My Feelings

    • Scorpion.
    • Island.

  • Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa

    Scared to Be Lonely

    • Sony.

  • Marshmello

    Silence (feat. Khalid)

    • JOYTIME COLLECTIVE / MINISTRY OF SOUND.

  • David Guetta

    2U (feat. Justin Bieber)

    • Parlophone.

  • Britney Spears

    Gimme More

    • JIVE.

  • Usher

    Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris)

    • Yeah.
    • BMG.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Spotlight

    • Spotlight.
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • Fall Out Boy

    Centuries

    • Virgin EMI.

  • TWENTY ØNE PILØTS

    Heathens

  • Muse

    Knights Of Cydonia

    • Knights Of Cydonia.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Atlantic.

  • Ariana Grande

    Break Free (feat. Zedd)

    • Island.

  • Calvin Harris

    Blame (feat. John Newman)

    • Columbia.

  • Declan McKenna

    Brazil

    • High Quality Popular Music.

  • The 1975

    Chocolate

    • Dirty Hit.

  • The Kooks

    Naïve

    • Naive.
    • Virgin.

  • Katy Perry

    E.T.

    • Teenage Dream.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 8.

  • Jessie J

    Price Tag (feat. B.o.B)

    • Island.

  • Beyoncé

    Best Thing I Never Had

    • RCA.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • Tears Dry On Their Own.
    • Island.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

    • Polydor.

  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Nelly Furtado

    Promiscuous (feat. Timbaland)

    • Promiscuous (Axwell remix).
    • Geffen.

  • Gwen Stefani

    Hollaback Girl

    • Love. Angel. Music. Baby..
    • Interscope.
    • 3.

  • Missy Elliott

    That Dutch

    • The Dutch.
    • East West.

  • Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill

    Gecko (Overdrive)

    • FFRR.

  • Swedish House Mafia vs Tinie Tempah

    Miami 2 Ibiza

    • Virgin Records.

  • Otto Knows

    Million Voices

    • Refune/ Mercury.

  • Billie Eilish

    Happier Than Ever

    • Darkroom/Interscope Records.

  • Taylor Swift

    All Too Well (Taylor's Version)

    • Red (Taylor's Version).
    • Taylor Swift.

  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • Columbia.

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Mercury.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Parlophone.

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