Nick Jonas has a hidden talent: he’s great at making drinks. Here, let him show you.

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Recently we've learned that Nick Jonas is a pro at standing still with his shirt off, but did you know he's also really good at making cocktails? Yup, add mixologist to Nick Jonas' résumé, which is already filled with endless bullet points about his musical abilities — have you heard his new solo single "Jealous"? — and apparent acting chops.

Nick stopped by the BuzzFeed office to show off his drink-making talents, which began as nothing more than just a fun party trick: "I just sort of started messing around with it, found a few things that I liked, and shared them with friends," Nick told BuzzFeed. "Then it just sort of took off."

And so we present the following super-easy (and yes, super-boozy!) cocktail recipes, made up by Nick Jonas on the fly. Each recipe makes one drink.

1. The Green-Eyed Monster

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• 3 shots tequila
• 4.5 oz. San Pellegrino Limonata
• 3 oz. Naked Green Machine juice
• 2 orange wedges (squeezed)

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The odd couple are joined by Darren Criss, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen and more in a new video promoting youth voter turnout.

What do you get when you put together the King of Crunk...

Rock The Vote.

And the Queen of Awk?

Rock The Vote.

Rock The Vote gives us the answer in its latest video promoting young voter turnout — a deft remake of Lil Jon and DJ Snake's viral hit "Turn Down For What" appropriately titled "Turn Out For What."

Rock The Vote.

The video features Dunham, Jon and other celebrities, including Orange Is The New Black's Natasha Lyonne and Glee's Darren Criss, revealing the causes that bring them to the polls, including gun control, reproductive rights, and student loans.

"We hope that the video will connect the dots between caring about an issue and turning out to make a difference — even in a year where the president isn't on the ballot," said Rock The Vote Spokesperson Audrey Gelman in an email to BuzzFeed News.

Rock The Vote.

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The cheeky Nashville duo’s most ambitious single yet. Don’t call it a love song.

This is Cherub, a laidback electro-pop duo that makes droll party jams with a Nashville twist.

Members Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber met at a dorm party while going to music business school and, well, you might say they never left.

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Their new single, "<3" (pronounced "heart"), is an anti-love song that embraces the anger and animosity of heartbreak. It's hilariously honest and unapologetic, if not exactly romantic.

"It's about all the anger you feel after a bitter breakup," Kelley said in an email to BuzzFeed News.

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"I don't think this is working out too well / I wish you would die and go to hell," Kelley sings. And those are just the first words.

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Here are the songs that defined America from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, presented by BuzzFeed and Spotify. A state’s “signature song” is not its most popular, but its most distinctive — that is to say, the one that residents of that state streamed proportionally the most as compared with the U.S. as a whole.

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For the week ending Oct. 6, Carrie Underwood surged in Oklahoma with her spiritual new power ballad "Something In The Water," Magic! continued its 5-week grip on Nevada, solo Nick Jonas made Maryland "Jealous," and Massachusetts discovered the curly-haired Aussie balladeer Vance Joy. Next Thursday, more distinctive songs from BuzzFeed and Spotify.

Alabama: Rae Sremmurd, "No Flex Zone"
Alaska: Imagine Dragons, "Warriors"
Arizona: Calvin Harris, "Summer"
Arkansas: Katy Perry, "Dark Horse"
California: Sam Smith, "Latch (Acoustic Version)"
Colorado: Milky Chance, "Stolen Dance"
Connecticut: Ella Henderson, "Ghost"
Delaware: Bobby Shmurda, "Hot Nigga"
District of Columbia: Walk The Moon, "Shut Up And Dance"
Florida: Mr. Probz, "Waves (Robin Shulz Radio Edit)"
Georgia: Rae Sremmurd, "No Type"
Hawaii: Sam Smith, "I'm Not The Only One"
Idaho: One Republic, "Love Runs Out"
Illinois: Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne, "Rather Be"
Indiana: 5 Seconds of Summer, "Amnesia"
Iowa: Kenny Chesney, "American Kids"
Kansas: AWOLNATION, "Sail"
Kentucky: Burnin' It Down, "Jason Aldean"
Louisiana: Rich Gang, "Lifestyle"
Maine: Jason Derulo, "Trumpets"
Maryland: Nick Jonas, "Jealous"
Massachusetts: Vance Joy, "Riptide"
Michigan: Fall Out Boy, "Centuries"
Minnesota: GRL, "Ugly Heart"
Mississippi: Sam Hunt, "Break Up in a Small Town"
Missouri: Lorde, "Royals"
Montana: Dierks Bentley, "Drunk On A Plane"
Nebraska: Sam Hunt, "Leave The Night On"
Nevada: Magic!, "Rude"
New Hampshire: The Chainsmokers, "Kanye"
New Jersey: Alesso, "Heroes (We could be)"
New Mexico: Enrique Iglesias, "Bailando"
New York: Lilly Wood and The Prick, "Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)"
North Carolina: Chris Brown, "New Flame"
North Dakota: Florida Georgia Line, "Dirt"
Ohio: The Script, "Superheroes"
Oklahoma: Carrie Underwood, "Something In The Water"
Oregon: Passenger, "Let Her Go"
Pennsylvania: Jeremih, "Don't Tell 'Em"
Rhode Island: Tinashe, "2 On"
South Carolina: 5 Seconds Of Summer, "She Looks So Perfect"
South Dakota: Maddie & Tae, "Girl In A Country Song"
Tennessee: Hozier, "Take Me To Church"
Texas: Schoolboy Q, "Studio"
Utah: Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive"
Vermont: Alt-J, "Left Hand Free"
Virginia: Katy Perry, "This Is How We Do"
Washington: Fences feat. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Arrows"
West Virginia: Luke Bryan, "Play It Again"
Wisconsin: Florida Georgia Line, "This Is How We Roll"
Wyoming: Pitbull, "Timber"

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*’80s babies everywhere do a collective spit-take*

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Rock 'n' roll's most prestigious and — some would say, conservative — honor, the Hall of Fame has been reinventing itself in recent years, as we move further and further away from the genre's early golden age.

Last year, Nirvana was inducted with a widely praised ceremony that featured performances by Lorde, St. Vincent, and Kim Gordon.

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The rap-metal hero returns to spar with hip-hop’s angriest revivalists. Listen to “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)” now on BuzzFeed.

Run The Jewels, the hard-hitting duo of Killer Mike and El-P, pulls exactly zero punches on "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)," a new single from their forthcoming album RTJ2 that boasts a rare cameo from Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine.

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The abuse began when she was just 18, the singer claims.

Kesha has sued super producer Dr. Luke, a longtime collaborator and founder of her record label Kemosabe Records, and accused him of sexual assault and battery, TMZ reports. The pop singer, 27, alleges Luke, born Lukasz Gottwald, 41, made her use drugs and forced himself on her sexually for years, beginning when he first signed her at age 18.

On one occasion, according to the suit obtained by TMZ, Luke gave Kesha what he called "sober pills" after forcing her to drink with him. The next afternoon, Kesha claims she woke up naked in Luke's bed, sore and with no recollection of what transpired the night before. On another occasion, Luke allegedly physically attacked her at his house in Malibu by "violently thrashing is arms at her," causing Kesha to flee barefoot into the mountains.

The suit also alleges that Luke verbally abused Kesha and repeatedly insulted her physical appearance, contributing to her struggle with an eating disorder.

The allegations are likely to ripple widely in the world of pop music, where Luke is viewed as a production god endowed with the gifts of King Midas. Along with mentor and frequent collaborator Max Martin, he is inarguably one the most powerful and prolific producers in the industry, with a resumé that reads like a history of the modern Billboard Hot 100.

For years, Luke has operated as a high-volume hit-factory for female pop stars like Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Jessie J and Kelly Clarkson. With his record label, Kemosabe records, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, he has helped launch the careers of Juicy J, Becky G and G.R.L., in addition to Kesha's.

In a statement to TMZ, Kesha's attorney Mark Geragos said the following: "This lawsuit is a wholehearted effort by Kesha to regain control of her music career and her personal freedom after suffering for ten years as a victim of mental manipulation, emotional abuse and an instance of sexual assault at the hands of Dr. Luke."

As a part of the suit, Kesha is reportedly seeking to be released from her recording contract with Luke.

Representatives for Dr. Luke have not yet responded to requests for comment.

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According to TMZ, Luke has responded to Kesha's allegations with a lawsuit of his own, claiming the singer is lying and tried to extort him. TMZ reports that Luke filed suit just hours after Kesha, claiming that she and her mother made up the abuse allegations against him in an attempt to get her out of her recording contract.

Read Kesha's lawsuit in its entirety below, care of Billboard.

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Still ~down~ 20 years later.

Let's rewind to 20 years ago, when a teenager named Brandy was popping off on the music scene and dropped "I Wanna Be Down," the lead single from her self-titled debut album. It was obvious she was on to something.

She delivered exactly the kind of music that teenaged girls everywhere needed in their lives. The type of music that soundtracked homecoming dances, soothed dorm room breakups and made you pop-lock in celebration for having finally told the hottest guy on campus that you kind of, sort of had a thing for him.

Already on her way to becoming a star, Brandy later released a remix version of "I Wanna Be Down" featuring Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Yoyo that was somehow even more flawless.

The remix gave her much-needed hip-hop street cred, elevating her from bubble gum pop singer to future reigning urban pop princess.

Now fast forward 20 years later to last night's BET Hip Hop Awards, when this happened:

There's Brandy, still clearly so... ~down~ (also: gorgeous).

BET.

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L.A.’s rock ‘n’ roll purist is leaving the garage.

You remember Hanni El Khatib, the L.A. garage rock rebel behind stylized and visceral tracks like "Family" and "You Rascal You."

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He's back with a new album, Moonlight, that promises to take his stripped-down, vintage rock 'n' roll in adventurous new directions. Listen to the title track and lead single below — a psychedelic, loop-heavy number built over an ominous guitar break.

El-Khatib says the track is equal parts RZA, Iggy Pop, and Tom Waits and, honestly, we have to agree.

Moonlight is out Jan. 20, 2015. Pre-order it here.

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Here are the songs that defined America from October 7 to October 13, presented by BuzzFeed and Spotify. A state’s “signature song” is not its most popular, but its most distinctive — that is to say, the one that residents of that state streamed proportionally the most as compared with the U.S. as a whole.

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For the week ending Oct. 13, Kiesza and "Hideaway" conquered New York, Shawn Mendes was the "Life Of The Party" in Maine, Pitbull's single "Fireball" crash-landed in Florida, and Michigan rocked with "I Don't Fuck With You," the DJ Mustard-produced club-banger from native son Big Sean. Next Thursday, more distinctive songs from BuzzFeed and Spotify.

Alabama: Jason Aldean, "Burnin' It Down"
Alaska: Imagine Dragons, "Warriors"
Arizona: Tinashe, "2 On"
Arkansas: Katy Perry, "Dark Horse"
California: Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd, "Love Me Harder"
Colorado: Milky Chance, "Stolen Dance"
Connecticut: Ella Henderson, "Ghost"
Delaware: Young The Giant, "My Body"
District of Columbia: Walk The Moon, "Shut Up And Dance"
Florida: Pitbull, "Fireball"
Georgia: Rae Sremmurd, "No Type"
Hawaii: Magic!, "Let Your Hair Down"
Idaho: The Script, "Love Runs Out"
Illinois: Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne, "Rather Be"
Indiana: Fall Out Boy, "Centuries"
Iowa: Florida Georgia Line, "Dirt"
Kansas: AWOLNATION, "Sail"
Kentucky: Iggy Azalea, "Fancy"
Louisiana: Rich Gang, "Lifestyle"
Maine: Shawn Mendes, "Life Of The Party"
Maryland: Bobby Shmurda, "Hot Nigga"
Massachusetts: Mr. Probz, "Waves (Robin Shulz Radio Edit)"
Michigan: Big Sean, "I Don't Fuck With You"
Minnesota: Fences feat. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, "Arrows"
Mississippi: Sam Hunt, "Break Up in a Small Town"
Missouri: 5 Seconds Of Summer, "Amnesia"
Montana: Blake Shelton, "Neon Light"
Nebraska: Sam Hunt, "Leave The Night On"
Nevada: Magic!, "Rude"
New Hampshire: G.R.L., "Ugly Heart"
New Jersey: Alesso, "Heroes (We could be)"
New Mexico: Enrique Iglesias, "Bailando"
New York: Kiesza, "Hideaway"
North Carolina: Chris Brown, "New Flame"
North Dakota: Florida Georgia Line, "Sippin' On Fire"
Ohio: Nick Jonas, "Jealous"
Oklahoma: Carrie Underwood, "Something In The Water"
Oregon: Capital Cities, "Safe And Sound"
Pennsylvania: Jeremih, "Don't Tell 'Em"
Rhode Island: Ed Sheeran, "Thinking Out Loud"
South Carolina: Rae Sremmurd, "No Flex Zone"
South Dakota: Dierks Bentley, "Drunk On A Plane"
Tennessee: Sam Smith, "Stay With Me"
Texas: Schoolboy Q, "Studio"
Utah: Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive"
Vermont: Hozier, "Take Me To Church"
Virginia: Ed Sheeran, "Don't"
Washington: Passenger, "Let Her Go"
West Virginia: Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood, "Somethin' Bad"
Wisconsin: Jason Derulo, "Trumpets"
Wyoming: MKTO, "American Dream"

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Nine months before her bombshell lawsuit accused super-producer Dr. Luke of date rape and other heinous acts, Kesha opened up about being abused in letters to fans discovered by BuzzFeed News.

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Long known as pop music's beglittered and giddily irreverent party girl, Kesha stunned many in the music world with allegations in a lawsuit filed earlier this week that she had been raped and physically abused by Dr. Luke, the super-producer and mogul who shepherded her career beginning when she was still in high school. But not everyone was surprised by the news. Annie Gallo, an 18-year-old college student from Virginia, is one of a handful of individuals who learned of Luke's allegedly abusive tendencies as early as January of this year, in a letter from Kesha herself.

Gallo's letter, apparently written by Kesha during her well-publicized stint in rehab for an eating disorder, goes beyond accusing Dr. Luke of spurring on the disorder — he allegedly said she "looked like a refrigerator" — to refer to untold other sins she won't allow herself to name.

"Dr. Luke has tortured me & my family… he did do what people know about + SO much more terrible shit," Kesha writes.

In another letter, this one to Kelly Mullins, a 16-year-old fan also from Virginia, Kesha references "someone [she] work[s] with" who had become a tormentor and the source of her anguish. "Someone I work with has literally driven me into this disease, tortured me and fucked with me and my family."

BuzzFeed News discovered five such letters on social media, all apparently written while Kesha was in rehab, and confirmed the authenticity of three of them with recipients who agreed to be interviewed. All of the letters reference pain and suffering caused by someone in Kesha's inner circle, with two of them, including Gallo's, referring to Dr. Luke by name. See the letters below along with a sample of Kesha's handwriting shared with iHeartRadio in 2013.

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It’s fiddle vs. guitar in a showdown for the ages.

Lindsey Stirling, the dubstep violinist who went from YouTube stardom to a No. 2 album on the Billboard 200 this year, has a reputation for taking violin to extreme places.

Eric Ryan Anderson.

For her "Crystallize" video in 2012, which now has over 105 million views, she did her thing in a glacial Colorado landscape that was as beautifully eerie as the song itself.

Lindsey Stirling.

For new single "Roundtable Rival," taken from her sophomore album Shatter Me, released in May, Stirling travels back in time apparently in search of an even more unforgiving environment: the Old West.

Lindseystomp Records.

In the big-budget, narrative video, premiering here on BuzzFeed, Stirling faces off against an up-to-no-good outlaw named Durango Black, who personifies the song's hard-charging guitar counterpart to Stirling's furious fiddle.

"I have always loved country fiddle music so I wanted to try to combine country fiddle, with rock 'n' roll and EDM and see what happens," Stirling told BuzzFeed News in an email. "Then, as I was writing this in the studio, I immediately knew that it would be a steam-punk western throw down: me battling against an outlaw with music."

Lindseystomp Records.

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GODDESS BLESS US ALL.

ICYMI, Lorde was chosen to personally curate the soundtrack for the new Hunger Games movie, "Mockingjay Part 1," and — in case there were ever any doubt — she did not fuck around. Here's the just-revealed tracklist:

1. Meltdown - Stromae ft. Lorde, Pusha T, Q-Tip & Haim
2. Dead Air - CHVRCHES
3. Scream My Name - Tove Lo
4. Kingdom - Charli XCX ft. Simon Le Bon
5. TO BE ANNOUNCED
6. Lost Souls - Raury
7. Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde
8. The Leap - Tinashe
9. Plan The Escape (Son Lux Cover) - Bat For Lashes
10. Original Beast - Grace Jones
11. Flicker (Kanye West Rework) - Lorde
12. Animal - XOV
13. This Is Not A Game - The Chemical Brothers ft. Miguel
14. Ladder Song - Lorde

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We already knew that Lorde was the effortlessly cool girl in school with ~impeccable music taste,~ but... but... Pusha T, Stromae, Q-Tip and Haim? ON ONE SONG???!!

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And is that a new track from Grace Jones?! And another featuring Charli XCX and Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran??

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Lorde, on IM with Chvrches, Tinashe, Raury, Bat For Lashes, Tove Lo and Kanye Freakin' West: "Hi! I'm working on this little soundtrack thing if you've got anything to contribute!" Everyone: "ANYTHING FOR YOU, BOO!"

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Quick: Which one of these men is an emoji addict?

Brian "BK" Kelley and Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line are two of country's biggest superstars, with an album headed toward No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and over 62 million plays on Spotify for their breakthrough single, "Cruise." But how well do you really know the men behind the duo?

Which one is more likely to, say, go on a shopping spree at Bloomingdales? Or start the day with a hit from a blunt? Which one has a phone full of selfies? On a recent trip to New York to celebrate the release of their album Anything Goes, we asked them the tough questions. (BK is on the left, and Tyler is on the right — but you already knew that.)

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Who’s more likely to have kids first?

"He has three dogs already, so it’s a pretty full house," Tyler says. "I could use a couple of young'ns running around. My dad used to order cheeseburgers with extra young'ns.”

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Who's more likely to "wake and bake?"

"Eggs?" BK asks.

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Who’s more likely to go on a juice cleanse?

BK: You actually did that.
Tyler: I have done that before. It didn’t last that long, like four days. And then I ate a whole pizza.

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A queen abroad.

Mary J. Blige, Queen of Contemporary Soul and Keeper of ~The Feels~, is having a bit of a renaissance thanks to a fruitful collaboration with London's best and brightest purveyors of modern R&B.

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Her 13th album, The London Sessions, was largely co-written with real-life cherub Sam Smith and his right-hand-man Jimmy Napes, with production help from Disclosure and Naughty Boy, among others.

Brit Award-winner Emeli Sandé co-wrote the previously released and exquisitely vulnerable "Whole Damn Year."

Disclosure-produced lead single "Right Now" — an impressively seamless blend of fizzy, deep house music and vintage, midtempo balladry — gets an appropriately slick video, premiering right here on BuzzFeed.

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In the clip, Queen Mary hits the streets of London — Land of Royals — and naturally feels at home.

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Here are the songs that defined America from October 14 to October 20, presented by BuzzFeed and Spotify. A state’s “signature song” is not its most popular, but its most distinctive — that is to say, the one that residents of that state streamed proportionally the most as compared with the U.S. as a whole.

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For the week ending Oct. 20, DJ Khaled's R&B thug roundtable "Hold You Down" — featuring Chris Brown, Jeremih, August Alsina, and Future — landed in Louisiana, I Love Makonnen and his O.V.O boss Drake caught some heat in Georgia, Misterwives' bubbling single "Reflections" took root in Kansas, and West Virginia and Arkansas double dipped on "Burnin' It Down" by Jason Aldean. Next Thursday, more distinctive songs from BuzzFeed and Spotify.

Alabama: Sam Hunt, "Leave The Night On"
Alaska: Sam Smith, "Stay With Me"
Arizona: Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive"
Arkansas: Jason Aldean, "Burnin' It Down"
California: Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd, "Love Me Harder"
Colorado: Capital Cities, "Safe And Sound"
Connecticut: Ella Henderson, "Ghost"
Delaware: The Chainsmokers, "Kanye"
District of Columbia: Walk The Moon, "Shut Up And Dance"
Florida: Rich Gang, "Lifestyle"
Georgia: Rae Sremmurd, "No Type"
Hawaii: Magic!, "Let Your Hair Down"
Idaho: OneRepublic, "Love Runs Out"
Illinois: Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne, "Rather Be"
Indiana: Fall Out Boy, "Centuries"
Iowa: Florida Georgia Line, "Anything Goes"
Kansas: Misterwives, "Reflections"
Kentucky: Blake Shelton, "Neon Light"
Louisiana: DJ Khaled, "Hold You Down"
Maine: Shawn Mendes, "Life Of The Party"
Maryland: T.I., "About The Money"
Massachusetts: Lilly Wood And The Prick, "Prayer In C (Robin Shulz Radio Edit)"
Michigan: Big Sean, "I Don't Fuck With You"
Minnesota: G.R.L., "Ugly Heart"
Mississippi: Sam Hunt, "Break Up in a Small Town"
Missouri: Lorde, "Royals"
Montana: Dierks Bentley, "Drunk On A Plane"
Nebraska: Florida Georgia Line, "Dirt"
Nevada: Magic!, "Rude"
New Hampshire: Milky Chance, "Stolen Dance"
New Jersey: Bobby Shmurda, "Hot Nigga"
New Mexico: Enrique Iglesias, "Bailando"
New York: Kiesza, "Hideaway"
North Carolina: Rae Sremmurd, "No Type"
North Dakota: Florida Georgia Line, "Like You Ain't Even Gone"
Ohio: Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda"
Oklahoma: Carrie Underwood, "Something In The Water"
Oregon: AWOLNATION, "Sail"
Pennsylvania: Jeremih, "Don't Tell 'Em"
Rhode Island: Sam Smith, "Latch (Acoustic)"
South Carolina: Rae Sremmurd, "No Flex Zone"
South Dakota: MKTO, "American Dream"
Tennessee: Sam Smith, "I'm Not The Only One"
Texas: Lil Wayne, "Believe Me"
Utah: Imagine Dragons, "Warriors"
Vermont: Hozier, "Take Me To Church"
Virginia: Chris Brown, "New Flame"
Washington: Fences feat. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Arrows"
West Virginia: Jason Aldean, "Burnin' It Down"
Wisconsin: Jason Derulo, "Trumpets"
Wyoming: Passenger, "Let Her Go"

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Listen to new single “6th Floor,” premiering here on BuzzFeed.

This is JUCE, a retro-glam girl group from London that's updating the sounds of the '90s in the best possible way.

Members Georgia, Chalin, and Cherish — who handle keys, vocals, and bass, respectively — started making waves this summer with a string of perfectly lush pop jams that felt like jumping into a pool on a sweltering day.

Watch this video for their groove-positive first single "Call You Out," which gloriously channels TLC circa "Creep."

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With a gorgeous sound, immaculate style, and an amazing logo, it wasn't long before JUCE found themselves making friends in high places, like Jessie J...

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...And Dev Hynes.

He recently recorded with the group in New York.

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From sub to dom.

You remember Niia, the velvet-voiced singer/songwriter whose romanticized take on chamber pop and R&B took her from backup singer to solo star.

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After releasing a string of strong and evocative teasers, her debut 6-track EP, Generation Blue, is out today. Produced with Robin Hannibal of Rhye, it sounds sumptuous and a little risqué, like a moonlit rendezvous with a secret lover.

Something Local.

To commemorate the release, Niia is premiering a sexy new video for lead single "Body" right here on BuzzFeed.

Something Local.

In the artfully shot black-and-white video, which could double as a Dior commercial, rabid dogs chase innocent rabbits, and a scantily clad Niia gets entangled with a chiseled lover.

Something Local.

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The business of selling albums, typically grim, is looking up this week thanks to one Taylor Alison Swift, America's BFF, whose new album 1989 has crash-landed at retailers like Christmas in October.

Early estimates pegged the album as selling ~800,000 copies in its first week. But after a better-than-expected first day on sale, Billboard updated its forecast, saying industry sources were indicating that 1989 would sell "at least one million copies."

Swift's last two albums, 2012's Red and 2010's Speak Now also sold over one million copies in their first weeks — 1.2 million and 1,047,000, respectively.

Not for the faint of heart. Happy Halloween!

Flying Lotus - "Ready Err Not"

From the deranged mind that brought you "Salad Fingers."

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - "Catchy (Was Contagious)"

A lost boy's eerie, black-and-white odyssey, with director of photography Giovanni Ribisi.

Dizzee Rascal - "Couple Of Stacks"

In which Dizzee goes after hearts and minds... literally. More gory GIFs here, and watch the full video at Noisey.

Dizzee Rascal.

Gazelle Twin - "Exorcise"

As if workout videos weren't unsettling enough already.

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