10-12-2014 15:52 CET Hozier har årets mest populære låt Hozier's "Take Me To Church" er nå annonsert som den mest populære låten i hele 2014. Den er både den mest delte låten i Spotify i hele året som har gått, og for øyeblikket den mest streamede med over 87 millioner streams. I Norge har låten gått til gull. Se låtens fantastiske musikkvideo som er sett over 40 millioner ganger her og les full pressemelding under. Se video på YouTube her HOZIER’S TAKE ME TO CHURCH ANNOUNCED AS MOST POPULAR SONG OF 2014. - ANNOUNCED AS SPOTIFY’S MOST SHARED SONG OF THE YEAR, AND THE MOST STREAMED SONG OF THE MOMENT. - VIDEO BREAKS 40 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE. Irish star Hozier’s global hit Take Me To Church has been announced as 2014’s most streamed track of the year. This morning Spotify announced the song as their global number 1 most shared song on the service in 2014, and the biggest song in the world at this moment. It follows confirmation that Take Me To Church had already topped their global chart (with over 87 million streams to date), and further cements the young Wicklow musician as the first tangible example of a breakthrough streaming superstar. The track currently sits at 1 on the Shazam worldwide chart. At the turn of this year, the video to Take Me To Church had quickly gone viral, and now sits with over 40 million views on YouTube. Watch Take Me To Church here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw It caps a hugely successful, breakthrough year for Andrew Hozier-Byrne, having picked up his first Grammy nomination this month for Song of the Year, and debuting his critically acclaimed eponymous album at number 2 in the US Billboard chart (the second biggest debut album of the year), number 5 in the UK, and enjoying five weeks at number 1 in his native Ireland. To date, Hozier has sold-out all his headline shows across the globe and will headline two nights at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire in January, a little over one year from headlining the 100-capacity Troubadour in Earls Court back in January 2014. The debut album, ‘Hozier’, is out now through Rubyworks/Island Records. Hozier Live UK: 21st December - Belfast, Ulster Hall(Sold Out) 21st January - Oxford, O2 Academy, (Sold Out) 23rd January - Birmingham, The Institute (Sold Out) 31st January - London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (Sold Out) 1st February - London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (Sold Out) 22nd May - Newcastle, O2 Academy (New Date) 25th May - Manchester, Albert Hall (New Date) 27th May - Glasgow, Barrowlands (New Date) 28th May - Leeds, O2 Academy (New Date) 1st June - London, The Roundhouse (New Date) www.hozier.com Om Universal Music Universal Music AS er verdens og Norges største musikkselskap og representerer blant annet artister som U2, Rolling Stones, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, a-ha, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Odd Nordstoga, Bernhoft, Gabrielle mm. Universal Music Group er operative i 59 land som representerer lablene A&M/Octone, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy,Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Interscope Records, Island Records, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, MercuryNashville, Mercury Records, Polydor Records, Motown, Universal Music Latino, Universal Republic og Verve Music Group. Kontaktpersoner Margit Katharine Bøhn Pressekontakt Head of Promotion, International International Promo [email protected] +47 45478431 +47 22541444.