Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hozier’s profile has been growing recently, and 2024 showed he was ...

Victory was sweet — definitely not too sweet — when it came to Hozier staking out a place at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year. Not everyone would have seen it coming, to say the least. The ...

In 2013, a young Irishman born Andrew Hozier-Byrne released a gospel-drenched rock song called “Take Me to Church” that also appeared on an EP of the same name. It was a heartsick confession of the ...

Hozier has never played a full U.S. arena tour, but that’s now changing. The “Too Sweet” singer will play more than 40 North American shows by mid-October during a 2025 extension of his Unreal Unearth ...

Andrew Hozier-Byrne has undoubtedly had a phenomenal twelve months. Two EPs, one album, numerous festivals and live dates, TV soundtracking, an appearance on Letterman (among many others) and a world ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of “Take Me To Church,” the crossover hit single that made Hozier a worldwide star and established the native of Wicklow County in Ireland as a new artist to watch ...

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier has set an Aug. 18 release date for Unreal Unearth, his first album in four years. The project has already spawned the tracks “All Things End” and “Eat Your Young,” ...

A lot can change in the music industry in five years. An artist’s outlook and creative process can be completely different — as can their degree of mainstream success. La Roux’s album “Trouble in ...

Since 2013, the world has known Hozier as the tall Irish singer who wrote "Take Me to Church". That song became an overnight success, propelling Andrew Hozier-Byrne to stardom, and to this day, it's a ...