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Hozier Reflects on “Take Me to Church” Surpassing 2 Billion Streams · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Hosier has made an incredible eclectic body of music over
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Speaker 2: the course of his career, but the one song that
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Speaker 2: defines him to casual music fans is his twenty thirteen
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Speaker 2: global smash Take Me to Church, which surpassed as staggering
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Speaker 2: two billion streams this year and a decade after its impact.
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Speaker 2: Hosier tells Enemy he tries not to give that milestone
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Speaker 2: too much weight, but is also appreciative of his success, saying,
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Speaker 2: you just check out trying to process numbers like that.
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Speaker 2: I try not to quantify to myself what a song
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Speaker 2: is done based on its numbers. For me, when I
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Speaker 2: wrote it, I was super proud of it, and I've
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Speaker 2: been incredibly proud that this song, of everything I've written,
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Speaker 2: was the one that became a crossover hit. It was
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Speaker 2: an unusual pop hit and radio success. It's been a
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Speaker 2: gift for me. But I think some internal janitorial work
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Speaker 2: is necessary, not cluttering your head with numbers. Hosier's new album,
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Speaker 2: Unreal on Earth is out now.
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