Hozier on Finally Making It to No. 1 With ‘Too Sweet’: ‘It’s a Very Sweet Landmark After 10 Years’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The smell of success is… well, you know what it is: too sweet. Hozier has never been about chasing the hit, but he’s got one regardless, as the Irish singer-songwriter’s “Unheard” EP quickly generated the first No.
1 Hot 100 single of his career, in the form of “Too Sweet,” a wry ballad about mismatched lovers. And no, difficult as it may be to believe, “Take Me to Church” did not hit the very top of the pops 10 years ago, having plateaued at No.
2. So the artist’s easy ascent to Billboard’s pinnacle after a decade of not having a song chart at that ranking at all is still puzzling those who didn’t see this coming… less so those who have been to one of Hozier’s plainly magnificent concerts any time in the last couple of years and experienced the undying devotion.
Whether it’s officially a “Hozier renaissance” or just a natural cresting of steady growth that happened a bit under the media radar, it’s very much a phenomenon.
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