01/09/2025
On this day in 1985, the original release of the Kate Bush single “Running Up That Hill” peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #3 (August 31)
The song was originally released as the lead single from Bush's album “Hounds of Love”, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart and #30 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first US Top 40 hit.
Decades later in 2022, the song enjoyed a new lease of life after featuring in the Netflix sci-fi show “Stranger Things”, this time going all the way to #1.
With 44 years between her 1978 #1
“Wuthering Heights” and her 2022 #1 “Running Up That Hill”, Kate Bush claimed the record of the longest time taken for a single to reach the top of the charts, the longest-ever gap between #1 singles in UK chart history, and she became the oldest female artist to score a #1 on the UK Singles Chart, beating fellow icon Cher who was 52 when her hit 'Believe' topped the charts in 1998.
The song also reached #1 in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Kate Bush also became the first female artist to have Top 12 hits across 6 separate decades:
the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s…
Truly amazing stuff…
Click on the link below to watch:
https://youtu.be/wp43OdtAAkM
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