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"It feels like a combination of my birthday, Christmas and washing my hair after a month of not doing so," Lorde beamed to Billboard exclusively upon learning of her coronation.

Lauren Mayberry's vocals drive the music of CHVRCHES, whose debut album "The Bones of What You Believe" contains some of the best pop music you'll hear this year. But Mayberry is also turning out to be one of the most socially conscious voices in music right now, even if her band is just beginning to be heard on a larger scale.

"Believe" it: Cher has earned her highest-charting solo album ever on the Billboard 200.

Find out what other artists (Lil Wayne, Nine Inch Nails, and more) have released albums less than 12 months apart of each other and how they did.

U.K. singer VV Brown details the journey to making the album with collaborators like Okumu and Pascal Gabriel in an exclusive behind-the-scenes video.