“Running Up That Hill”
Song from 1985: Kate Bush topped the UK charts
The Netflix series “Stranger Things” has helped a decades-old hit by British singer-songwriter Kate Bush into the current streaming charts. Photo: Steve Reigate/DAILY EXPRESS POOL/EPA/dpa
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A song from 1985 conquers the British charts. “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush even set a record, according to the Official Charts Company.
British singer Kate Bush topped the UK charts with her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill”. The background to the late fame is that the song appears in new episodes of the Netflix series “Stranger Things”.
The song is currently in fourth place in Germany and the USA. The Official Charts Company in the United Kingdom (UK) announced on Friday evening that Bush set a record for the time it took for a song to reach the top of the UK charts from its release – 37 years.
The previous record was held by the pop duo Wham! (consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) held with his Christmas classic «Last Christmas». When it came out in 1984, it wasn’t because of the supergroup song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure – at the end of 2020 he experienced a particularly successful revival and made it to number one after 36 years.
The very reclusive Kate Bush has now set two more chart records in the UK. On the one hand for the longest gap between two top hits at 44 years – in 1978 her song “Wuthering Heights” landed at number one in the British single charts. On the other hand, the 63-year-old Bush also replaced Cher as the oldest artist with a number one hit in Great Britain. Cher was 52 when she hit number one in 1998 with “Believe.”