As pop radio stations continues to ditch year-end programming and resort to more conventional playlists, Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is gaining a considerably greater presence in the spotlight.<\/p>\n
According to Mediabase’s January 9 rolling update, it is now one of the pop format’s five most-played songs.<\/p>\n
Hozier’s breakthrough alternative crossover commanded 11,253 spins during the week between January 2 and 8. Up 1,312 from the prior week’s total, it ranks as the pop format’s 5th-greatest spin count. Only Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” (17,667), Nick Jonas’ “Jealous” (15,369), Ariana Grande & The Weeknd’s “Love Me Harder” (14,862) and Sam Smith’s “I’m Not the Only One” (13,616) commanded more weekly airplay.<\/p>\n
With Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars)” hot on its heels (10,998), “Take Me to Church” is not a lock to retain its top five spot through the official airplay update on Sunday evening. It is, however, undoubtedly resonating with pop programmers.<\/p>\n
The multi-format hit remains the #2 song at alternative radio, the #4 track at hot adult contemporary and the #17 recording at adult contemporary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[2505,2506],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n