Hozier’s Star-Making Album Brings Him To A Special Landmark

Hozier’s biggest hit in the United Kingdom this week remains “Too Sweet,” which is quickly becoming one of the most impressive rock smashes of this decade. That track, which resuscitated his career and proved him to be a proper rock hitmaker, is the only one from the Irish musician to appear on more than one list across the pond at the moment. While it’s his newest composition that brings him to the highest positions on the singles rankings, Hozier’s debut album is his only charting title when it comes to full-lengths and EPs this frame. His self-titled affair appears on two charts this week, and it even manages to help the Grammy-nominated artist reach a special milestone.

This week, Hozier slips slightly on the U.K.’s list of the most-consumed albums, but it still manages to hold on inside the top 40. The title dips from No. 36 to No. 40, as it celebrates hitting 150 weeks somewhere on the roster, which features 100 spaces.

Hozier is the musician of the same name’s first project to make it to 150 weeks on the U.K. albums chart. Only one of his two other placements has managed about 10% as long of a stay, while his other win didn’t even hold on for even that long.

Unreal Unearth, Hozier’s 2023 album, earned the superstar his first No. 1 in the U.K. when it arrived. It managed just a single turn in first place and 16 weeks somewhere on the ranking of the most-consumed projects throughout the nation.

His 2019 sophomore effort, Wasteland, Baby!, only collected seven stays on the same roster. It ranks as both his shortest-running win and his lowest-peaking, as it stalled at No. 6.

Hozier’s self-titled breakout project launched at No. 5 on the U.K. albums chart in October 2014. It wasn’t until the following May that it climbed to its all-time high of No. 3, which stood as the musician’s loftiest position for nearly a decade.

“Too Sweet” may appear on several charts in the U.K. this time around, but it’s falling on all of them. The track holds on inside the top 40 on the Official Singles Downloads chart, dipping from No. 27 to No. 36. It manages a much less intense tumble on the main ranking of the 100 most popular songs, though it appears lower on that tally, as it descends from No. 45 to No. 48.

Hozier claims two more spaces on the songs ranking in the United Kingdom. “Do I Wanna Know? (Live at the BBC),” a live recording of Hozier covering the Arctic Monkeys’ song of the same name, steps back from No. 35 to No. 59.

At the same time, “Take Me to Church,” which powered Hozier’s self-titled album for years, is somehow still holding on after a decade. That song, which has lived on the singles chart for 117 weeks, looks like it may slip off the ranking yet again as it backtracks from No. 87 to No. 95.