{"id":802057,"date":"2026-07-15T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802057\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:09:23","slug":"hoziers-work-song-joins-spotifys-billions-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802057\/","title":{"rendered":"Hozier\u2019s \u2018Work Song\u2019 Joins Spotify\u2019s Billions Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hozier<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWork Song,\u201d which was included on his 2014 self-titled LP, has officially reached the billion streams threshold on Spotify, joining the platform\u2019s Billions Club.<\/p>\n

The milestone marks Hozier\u2019s third song to reach one billion streams on Spotify, following \u201cTake Me To Church\u201d and \u201cToo Sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music video for \u201cWork Song\u201d remains a particularly fond memory for Hozier, who struggled through the filmmaking process, though for all the right reasons. He recalled a story to a journalist for Hot Press in 2019, explaining how partying with Annie Lennox led to a rough video shoot. \u201cI forgot to tell you about the Grammy\u2019s after-party where Annie and myself really enjoyed ourselves. We woke up the next day with outrageous hangovers and had to do the video shoot for \u2018Work Song.\u2019 If I look pale, it\u2019s not the lighting or the color grading!\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The lore of Hozier, too, has grown in stature as the songwriter\u2019s career has reached astronomical heights. In a 2015 interview with Nylon, he spoke about the songwriting process and how the album began to take shape, touching on a break-up that many associate with the album\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe breakup really had very little to do with it, except for the fact that I had more time on my hands to write. I guess I was also able to use the writing and recording as a way to distract myself. I was living back at home with my parents in Ireland at the time, and I was basically demoing all of the songs for the album up in the attic. A lot of the songs were recorded up there first and then I took it all to producer Rob Kirwan. But yeah, the attic is\u2014in my head at least\u2014where the album really first started taking shape.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In other Hozier news, last year, the songwriter celebrated the 10th anniversary of his multi-platinum debut with a special edition vinyl release. The reissue was available on a selection of vinyl variants and on cassette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hozier\u2019s \u201cWork Song,\u201d which was included on his 2014 self-titled LP, has officially reached the billion streams threshold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,99887,237233,136,11255,1771,376017,376018],"class_list":["post-802057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-hozier","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock","tag-spotify-billions-club","tag-work-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}