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After the Kiwi pop wunderkind was tapped to create the end-credits song for the third film in the Hunger Games franchise, director Francis Lawrence, "immediately struck" with how she "innately understood" what he was trying to accomplish, handed over the keys to the castle and offered her the opportunity to "curate" the entire soundtrack. Just 18 at the time, she accepted and began to enlist up-and-comers like Charli XCX, Tove Lo and Tinashe as well as heavy-hitters like Grace Jones, The Chemical Brothers, Pusha T, Q-Tip and Kanye West for a 14-track album that just about blew everyone away. While the album only ever peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200, it was named to several critic's year-end lists, with Rolling Stone proclaiming it the ninth-best pop album of 2014.