The 17-year-old New Zealander released her debut, Pure Heroine, on September 30 - the final day to be considered for Grammy nominations. Royals has held the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for nine weeks. Lorde's latest music video Team crashed Vevo. Credit:Edwina Pickles Lorde's new music video for Team also crashed online music channel Vevo yesterday due to its popularity. Lorde joins Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the live Grammy nominations event held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Robin Thicke will be joined by T.I. and members of Earth, Wind & Fire for Blurred Lines, the year's longest running No. 1 hit. Keith Urban will take the stage with R&B singer Miguel to sing Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine.

"This is really Keith Urban's idea," Ehrlich said, who added that the country star was impressed with Miguel's performance at this year's Grammy Awards. Rapper-actor LL Cool J will host the one-hour special, which will air on CBS TV in the US. The show will also feature pre-taped performances by Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Following her standout ARIA Awards performance on Sunday, Lorde released the Team video, which was directed by renowned LA director Young Replicant. The clip shows the New Zealand singer surrounded by water-guzzling acolytes while singing in the middle of an overgrown and abandoned ruin.

Lorde took to Facebook to talk about her inspiration for the video. "This video was born from a dream I had a few months ago about teenagers in their own world, a world with hierarchies and initiations, where the boy who was second in command had acne on his face, and so did the girl who was queen. "I dreamt about this world being so different to anything anyone had ever seen, a dark world full of tropical plants and ruins and sweat. And of this world, I dreamt about tests that didn't need to be passed in order to be allowed in: sometimes the person who loses is stronger," she wrote. She then took to Twitter over the crashing of Vevo, writing to fans: "omg you crashed vevo!"

Team is the second track off her debut album Pure Heroine. The 17-year-old singer will return to Australia at the end of January next year to perform at the Laneway Festival. AP and AAP