Songs Like Cherry Wine by Hozier
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Cherry Wine is among the gentlest recordings we have measured: an intensity of 20, a dynamic range of 5, 80 BPM, and a smooth surface with soft vocals that never once jumps. Mood tags: calm, contemplative, intimate.
An honest problem with this particular song
Every one of the twelve nearest songs in our catalogue measures exactly the same as Cherry Wine on all three headline figures — intensity 20, dynamic range 5, 80 BPM. Not approximately. Identically.
That means we cannot honestly tell you which is closest. Any ranking we printed would be an artefact of how the rows came back, not a real measurement. So this page does not rank them. What we can tell you is that all twelve occupy the same narrow, quiet, unstartling corner of the catalogue, and that each shares at least one mood tag with the seed.
The twelve, grouped by the mood they share
Calm: Slow Burn (Kacey Musgraves), Magic (Coldplay), El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could) (Simon & Garfunkel).
Contemplative: Why Does It Always Rain on Me? (Travis), Bored (Billie Eilish), Blueberry Hill (Louis Armstrong), Justified (Kacey Musgraves), Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington).
Intimate: Night Nurse (Gregory Isaacs), You Know That I Love You (Carlos Santana), You’ve Got a Friend (Carole King), Quiero Ser Tu Hombre (Banda MS).
What a tie like this tells you
A cluster this large sharing identical values is a sign that our scale is coarser at the quiet end than at the loud end — a great many gentle recordings compress into the same few readings. That is a real limitation of the measurement, and worth knowing when you use any of these numbers.
Cherry Wine appears on Hozier’s 2014 self-titled album. The observation about scale compression at the quiet end is our interpretation of the data, presented as such. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.