Hoku

About Hoku

Hoku is the eponymous debut album from the artist of the same name, released on April 18, 2000. The album attained modest commercial success, peaking at number 151 on the US Billboard 200 album chart and within the top 10 of the Heatseekers Albums chart. The album had sold more than 230,000 copies in the United States within three years of its release. The album elicited generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the album's lightheartedness and compared Hoku's music to that of Jewel and Liz Phair, although some took issue with the lyrics. The album spawned two singles. The lead single, "Another Dumb Blonde", was featured in the motion picture Snow Day and became a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single "How Do I Feel (The Burrito Song)" was less successful, failing to chart but yielding positive feedback from critics. Hoku remains Hoku's only full-length, major label album to date, and one of only two releases (the other being her 2008 EP Listen Up). more »