Hozier continued to be idolized and received the VH1 Artist of the Year award based on fan votes, at Big Music 2015, outrunning fellow nominees – Tori Kelly and James Bay.
Around that same time Sergei Polunin, a Ukrainian-born ballet dancer and a former Royal Ballet’s principal dancer released an emotional video to Take Me to Church, directed by the master of kitsch pop surrealism David LaChapelle. It gained over 3.5 million views in 3 days. Aside from this, Hozier presented a new music video for his single Someone New, starring daring and gorgeous