Mashup

Mashups are routines that consist of choreography from both previous titles and those from the current game integrated into a single routine, first appeared in . Until its latest appearance in , the feature underwent a lot of updates. Mashups were planned to be in but were removed for unknown reasons. As of July 7, 2023, previously-released Mashups have returned in , where they are referred to as "Mashup Versions" () and treated similar to Alternate Routines.
==Description==
Dance Mashups are routines that consist of dancers from previous titles and the current game is all joined into one single routine, but not every dancer. There are two types of Mashups: regular and sweat. The original dancer from the song usually appears at the beginning and end of the routine, sometimes even during the middle of the song, if the song is Solo. Before , if the Classic routine was a Duet or Dance Crew, a random Solo dancer takes the Duets/Dance Crew’s place; or sometimes nothing replaced the dancers. This was changed in , with the reintroduction of Duet Mashups, which were only in before, and the introduction of Dance Crew Mashups. Also, introduced themed Mashups, in which the dancer selection would be determined by a specific category, such as Pink Hair. In , some mashups exclusive for 8-gen consoles and Wii only. Also, on 8th-gen consoles, there are Mashups with no theme that can be unlocked depending on which month it is unlockable for. Additionally, Sweat Mashups are absent from . Mashups return one last time in . However, only Solo and Duet Mashups are available. They are only exclusive to 8th-gen consoles, PC, and Wii. Also, Sweat Mashups return.
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 is the first game to have this mode. There were three kinds of Mashups in the game, Solo Mashups, Duet Mashups, and Sweat Mashups, which are always Solo.
===Icon===
The icon has a random color which usually corresponds to its background color, unlike Barbra Streisand (Mashup), which uses its own album background. There are five coaches seen on the icon that are in between black lines that are cropped if they are too big to fit in the lines. Usually, the order of the coaches goes like this. The first coach appears in the middle, the second coach appears in the second row, the third coach appears on the last row, the fourth coach appears on the first row, and the last coach appears on the fourth row.
===Background===
====Solo Mashups (Wii/PS3)====
The background is kaleidoscopic with a random background color.
====Solo Mashups (Xbox 360)====
In the Xbox 360 version, the reflections of the coaches are not visible and the background is slightly darker.
====Duet Mashups (Wii/PS3)====
Duet Mashups have two reflections at once due to having two coaches shown at once.
====Duet Mashups (Xbox 360)====
In the Xbox 360, the kaleidoscope has reflections of roses, not the coaches, and the background is slightly darker.
====Sweat Mashups (Wii/PS3)====
Sweat Mashups reuse the background of I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat Version).
====Sweat Mashups (Xbox 360)====
On the Xbox 360, the background appears how it is on the Xbox 360 version of I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat Version).
===Songs===
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
*Apache (Jump On It)
*Are You Gonna Go My Way (Sweat Mashup)
*Baby One More Time
*Baby Zouk (Duet Mashup)
*Barbra Streisand
*Da Funk (Sweat Mashup)
*Dynamite
*I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
*Jamaican Dance
*Jump (For My Love) (Sweat Mashup)
*No Limit (Sweat Mashup)
*Party Rock Anthem
*Promiscuous (Duet Mashup)
*Pump It (Xbox 360 Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii and PS3 Mojo Unlockable)
*She’s Got Me Dancing
*Take On Me
*What You Waiting For? (Sweat Mashup)
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In , Duet Mashups and Sweat Mashups were absent in this game. It is also the only game that omits the Gold Moves.
===Icon===
The icon is the same one as its classic routine, with its logo appearing on the right.
===Background===
The background has lots of rainbow lights with multiple reflections of the dancer and rainbow smoke at the back.
====Songs====
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
*Beauty And A Beat (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
*Beware of the Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke)
*Call Me Maybe
*Disturbia
*Good Feeling (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
*Moves Like Jagger
*Oh No!
*Oops!...I Did It Again
*Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
*Rock Lobster
*What Makes You Beautiful
*You’re the First, the Last, My Everything
===PS3 & Wii U Exclusive Mashups===
*(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life
*Crucified
*Jailhouse Rock
*Livin’ la Vida Loca
*Love You Like A Love Song
*Maneater
*Mas Que Nada
*Run the Show
*So What
*Super Bass
*Tribal Dance
*Wild Wild West
===Wii U Exclusive Mashups===
*Ain’t No Other Man
*Aserejé (The Ketchup Song)
*Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
*Hit ’Em Up Style (Oops!)
*I Like It
*Mr. Saxobeat
*Never Gonna Give You Up
*The Final Countdown
*We No Speak Americano
JD4MUBG.jpg|A Mashup’s background
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In , Sweat Mashups are back, and some Mashups are unlocked in a specific month with internet connection.
===Icon===
The icon is a black background with a yellow or green disco ball in the middle that glows in the form of a spotlight. In the front is the starting coach for the Mashup. If the starting coach is a Duet, Dance Crew, or if the Alternate Routine coach is not it, then P1 will be the coach shown on the icon and the coach selection screen.
===Background===
The background is a colored room with floating squares corresponding to the background color. There is a disco ball in the middle that sparkles and the color corresponds to the background color. There are lines surrounding the disco ball which are not the same as the corresponding background color. They also flash to the beat of the song. When the background color is orange, the lines are green. When the background color is purple, the lines are blue. When the background color is blue, the lines are purple. When the background color is green, the lines are orange. There are also coaches on the walls that are blurry doing poses from their original choreography. The following coaches that appear on the wall are:
*Step by Step
*I Will Survive
*Forget You
*California Gurls
*She’s Got Me Dancing
*Le Freak
*Love You Like A Love Song
*Never Gonna Give You Up
*The Power
*A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix)
*She’s Got Me Dancing
*Beauty And A Beat
*Barbra Streisand
*Let’s Go To The Mall
*Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate Version)
*Firework
*Funhouse
*Hot N Cold
The room then moves to the right and switches the coach with the coach that appears in the background, just not the same coach that appeared in the background.
===Songs===
The Mashups in this game are:
*#thatPOWER (Unlocked from start)
*Blame It on the Boogie (Sweat Mashup)
*Blurred Lines
*C’Mon (Sweat Mashup)
*Candy (Sweat Mashup)
*Could You Be Loved (March Mashup)
*Feel So Right
*Fine China (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
*Flashdance... What A Feeling
*Follow The Leader (September Mashup)
*Gentleman
*Ghostbusters (February Mashup)
*Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Sweat Mashup)
*I Kissed a Girl (December Mashup)
*I Will Survive
*It’s You (Sweat Mashup)
*Just A Gigolo
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*Limbo (January Mashup)
*Love Boat (August Mashup)
*Miss Understood (Sweat Mashup)
*Moskau
*Pound The Alarm (July Mashup)
*Prince Ali
*Rich Girl (November Mashup)
*She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) (October Mashup)
*Starships (Sweat Mashup)
*Troublemaker (May Mashup)
*Turn Up the Love (Sweat Mashup)
*Where Have You Been (April Mashup)
*Wild
*Y.M.C.A. (June Mashup)
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In Just Dance 2015, Duet Mashups are back with the addition of Dance Crew Mashups. Mashups also now have themes. Less Mashups needed to be unlocked through specific months. On the Wii and Wii U, there is a code that allows you to unlock Monthly Mashups even nowadays. The code is "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, B".
===Icon===
The icon has two diamonds. One in the corners, which is brighter, and the other one in the middle, which is darker. The color of the diamonds corresponds to the first background color that appears in the Mashup. Unlike Never Can Say Goodbye's Mashup, the coach in the middle is the starting coach, but unlike Summer's Mashup, the starting coach does not appear on the icon if they are the coach of the Classic routine. All future games use this type of icon.
===Background===
The background is a bunch of triangles zooming out. As seen on the icon, the one in the middle is darker and the one on the corners is brighter.
===Songs===
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
*4x4 (Best of JD4)
*Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Funky) (December Mashup)
*Addicted To You (Black Light) (November Mashup)
*Bad Romance (Monsters) (October Mashup)
*Bailando (Let's Rock!)
*Best Song Ever (Fitness) (Sweat Mashup)
*Birthday (Best of Katy)
*Built For This (Robots)
*Dark Horse (Mystic Princesses)
*Fatima (World Music) (March Mashup)
*The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) (Shamans)
*Holding Out for a Hero (Cray Cray Duet) (Duet Mashup)
*I Love It (Best of JD 2014)
*It’s My Birthday (Suit Up!)
*Love Is All (Sisters Duet) (Duet Mashup)
*Love Me Again (Ex-Girlfriends) (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
*Macarena (Gentleman) (February Mashup)
*Maps (Best of JD 3)
*Never Can Say Goodbye (Best of JD 2)
*Papaoutai (Ultra Violet) (PAL exclusive)
*Problem (Lovers Duet) (Duet Mashup)
*Summer (Girl Power)
*Till I Find You (Duet) (NTSC exclusive Duet Mashup)
*Walk This Way (Ladies Only)
*You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Funny Guys) (January Mashup)
*You’re On My Mind (Quatro Mashup)
JD2015MU.jpeg|A Mashup
JD2015SMU.jpeg|A Sweat Mashup
JD2015DMU.jpeg|A Duet Mashup
JD2015QMU.jpeg|A Dance Crew Mashup
Green mashup background.png|A Mashup background
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In Just Dance 2016, Trio Mashups are added to the game. On 8th-generation consoles, each Mashups cost 2000 Mojo coins, while it costs 20 for 7th-generation consoles.
===Icon===
The icon is the same as Just Dance 2015.
===Background===
The background has been kept the same, with the reflections being invisible. All future games use this kind of background.
===Songs===
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
*Born This Way (Triplets) (Trio Mashup)
*Circus (Show-Off)
*Drop the Mambo (Don't Touch)
*Fancy (Retro Men)
*I Gotta Feeling (Hops & Jumps)
*Ievan Polkka (B.F.F.) (Duet Mashup)
*Rabiosa (Bring your Friends) (Dance Crew Mashup)
*Stadium Flow (High Energy Girls) (PAL exclusive)
*Teacher (Costume Party)
*Uptown Funk (Behind the Scenes)
===8th Gen & Wii Exclusive Mashups===
*All About That Bass (Divas)
*Animals (Club)
*Blame (Sunglasses)
*Boys (Summertime Love) (Best of )
*Chiwawa (Geeks)
*Hangover (BaBaBa) (High Energy)
*I’m An Albatraoz (Merry Go Round)
*Let’s Groove (Just Shine)
*Lights (Pink Hair)
*Stuck On A Feeling (Suit Up!)
=== Mashups (8th-gen Exclusive)===
*Balkan Blast Remix (May Mashup)
*Copacabana (July Mashup)
*Fun (June Mashup)
*Irish Meadow Dance (April Mashup)
*No Control (January Mashup)
*Same Old Love (February Mashup)
*This Is How We Do (December Mashup)
*Want To Want Me (November Mashup)
===Ubisoft Club Mashups (8th-gen Exclusive)===
*You’re On My Mind (Quatro) (Dance Crew Mashup)
Jd2016 mashups in the menu.png|A Mashup on the menu (8th-generation consoles)
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In Just Dance 2017, Mashups are only available via Just Dance Unlimited on 8th-generation consoles. For the Wii, you unlock them with 20 Mojo coins. Mashups are unavailable for the PS3 (Playstation 3) and Xbox 360. 
The Mashups available in this game are:
*Cheap Thrills (Sunglasses)
*DADDY (K-Pop)
*Ghost In The Keys (Swag)
*Hips Don’t Lie (Caliente)
*Lean On (World)
*RADICAL (Back in the days)
*Scream & Shout (American dream)
*September (Sweatember) (Sweat Mashup)
*What Is Love (Icebreaker) (Duet Mashup)
*Worth It (Tease me) (Duet Mashup)
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Mashups were first introduced to the service via Season 30 of , where Mashups from past games were added to the service. They are treated as normal Alternate routines, under the label "". All Mashups are with Medium difficulty and Moderate effort. Currently, some Mashups from to are available in the service.
The Mashups available in this service are:
*Cheap Thrills
*Daddy
*Ghost In The Keys
*Lean On
*No Control
*Scream & Shout
*September
*What Is Love
*Worth It
*You’re On My Mind
==Trivia==
===General===
*Party Rock Anthem and Apache (Jump On It) both have the most appearances in Mashups, with 21.
**However, this is only the case for Apache (Jump On It) if the unused Mashups the coach appears in are counted; otherwise, he appears in 19 Mashups.
*Crazy Christmas is the only coach to appear in at least one Mashup in every game since .
*Da Funk (Sweat Mashup) is the only Mashup in the series that does not repeat any dancers, except for starting and ending with the same dancer.
**Besides, Da Funk (Sweat Mashup) and You’re On My Mind are the only two Mashups where no moves are repeated.
*Baby Zouk’s Mashup has the least number of routines, with only four being featured.
**All post- Mashups except Lean On’s feature at least six routines.
*Just A Gigolo (Mashup) has the highest number of unique dancers, with 22.
* is the only game where no Mashup features an unused coach.
*In and Mashups are pieced together in-game, with each dancer being its own video in the game files rather than the Mashup being one long video of all the dancers, with the exception of You’re On My Mind. All other games in the series use one long video.
*Due to the shutdown of the and servers for all consoles, monthly Mashups for both games are no longer available to unlock.
**However, monthly Mashups that have already been unlocked remain playable.
*In , the score screens for Mashups show the album coach for the Classic routine of the respective song (for example, on the score screen for the Mashup of Papaoutai, the Classic album coach appears). On and for 7th-generation consoles, instead, the Mashup album coach from the 8th-generation versions of the games is shown instead.
*In December 2016, the Mashup sections from and were removed for the Xbox One, Wii U, PS4, and PC. Mashups from are still accessible through the "Favorites" section. They were added back to the menu at a later point.
*In the Wii version of and , the background may glitch: when this happens, the moving hexagons at the sides have a rounded effect, as if the screen was seen from a sphere.
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*’s Mashup background was also used for the Extreme routines of Good Feeling and Run the Show, as well as in Puppet Master Mode.
**However, Puppet Master mode applies different animations and light effects, and the coaches’ reflections are not kaleidoscopic.
***Good Feeling and Run the Shows’ Extreme Versions also use the original background in a slightly dissimilar way.
*In Mashups, the dancers’ reflections sometimes exceed the boundaries.
**This is not the case with the Xbox 360 version of the game, where coaches are not reflected on the background.
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*Mashups in only use the following coaches:
**#thatPOWER (Extreme Version)
**A Little Less Conversation
**Apache (Jump On It)
**Barbra Streisand
**Barbra Streisand (Extreme Version)
**Beat Match Until I’m Blue
**Beauty And A Beat
**Boomsday
**California Gurls
**Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate Version)
**Crazy Christmas
**Crazy in Love
**D.A.N.C.E.
**Dare
**Disco Ball Head Dancer
**Disturbia
**Dun N’ Dusted
**Fame
**Feel So Right
**Fine China
**Fine China (Extreme Version)
**Firework
**Follow The Leader
**Follow The Leader (Sweat Version)
**Forget You
**Funhouse
**Funkytown
**Funplex (CSS Remix)
**Gentleman
**Gentleman (Sweat Version)
**Ghostbusters (Sweat Version)
**Good Feeling
**Hey Boy Hey Girl
**Hot N Cold
**I Kissed a Girl
**I Kissed a Girl (Sweat)
**I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat Version)
**I Will Survive
**Idealistic
**It’s You
**It’s You (Sweat)
**Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
**Le Freak
**Let’s Go To The Mall
**Limbo (Sweat)
**Love Boat
**Love You Like A Love Song
**María (Sweat)
**Move Your Feet
**Moves Like Jagger
**Never Gonna Give You Up
**On the Floor
**Only Girl (In The World)
**Party Rock Anthem
**Rasputin
**Rich Girl
**Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
**She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
**She’s Got Me Dancing
**So What
**Starships
**Step by Step
**Superstition
**U Can’t Touch This
**The Power
**Troublemaker
**Troublemaker (Sweat)
**Walk Like an Egyptian
**Wannabe
**We No Speak Americano
**What You Waiting For?
**Where Have You Been
**Where Have You Been (Extreme Version)
**Wild Wild West (Extreme Version)
*If the Classic routine for the song is a multiplayer map, the Mashup uses the multiplayer pictogram bar (which is longer than the one used for Solo maps), despite all Mashups in being Solos.
*On the Xbox 360 version, some coaches in some mashups get frozen for a while when they appear.
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*Due to a glitch, some Monthly Mashups may have to be unlocked at a cost of 20 Mojo Coins, which is the cost of a Mojo Coin-unlockable Mashup.
**In addition, by accessing the Mashup via the JD Wall, the game will freeze after a few minutes.
*The background of Mashups was supposed to change color each time a different dancer appears. However, this could not happen due to technical limitations, and this only happened on You’re On My Mind.
**Despite this, the background color will change each time a Mashup is being replayed.
*On the Wii version of the game, after playing a Mashup, the screen will flash light blue for a split second before switching to the scoring screen.
**This is due to the game unloading the background, as the game will always place a blue screen behind routines.
*Some Mashups have a bug with the Gold Moves, where the sound effect that plays before performing the move is delayed, but not the one that sounds after performing it. As a result, both sounds are played at the same time.https://youtu.be/bUS6_B7k7wI?t=181https://youtu.be/5wZauOT6D9M?t=44https://youtu.be/8uBGZWklhmE?t=69https://youtu.be/-8u1StX4R7I?t=144
**However, only the visual effect for the latter can be seen.
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*Starting with , Mashups no longer began and/or ended with the original dancer, even if he or she fit the theme.
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*In , Mashups are only available on the 8th-Gen consoles, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Wii. Xbox 360 and PS3 have no Mashups available.
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*Some unused background textures can be found in the files.
==Gallery==
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====Game Files====
Jdc blue mashup mapbkg.png|Blue Mashup map background
Jdc green mashup mapbkg.png|Green Mashup map background
Jdc purple mashup mapbkg.png|Purple Mashup map background
===Others===
masup glitch bg.png|Glitch on 7th-gen()
MashupMU.png|Logo from 
==Videos==
===Backgrounds===
Just Dance 4 Mashup Background
Just Dance 2015-16-17 Official Mashup Background
==References==
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