{"id":40639,"date":"2022-06-07T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kate-bush-earns-first-ever-us-top-10-hit-with-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:17:15","slug":"kate-bush-earns-first-ever-us-top-10-hit-with-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kate-bush-earns-first-ever-us-top-10-hit-with-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bush earns first ever US Top 10 hit with Running Up That Hill |  Kate Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Kate Bush has earned her first ever US Top 10 hit with Running Up That Hill, 37 years after it was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">The song is a key plot point in the new series of Netflix&#8217;s supernatural drama Stranger Things, and has exploded in popularity since the show debuted on 27 May.  It is now at No 8 in the US, and reached the same position in the UK singles chart last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Running Up That Hill reached No 30 in the US when it was first released in 1985, her highest chart placing there until now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">It is currently the second-most played song globally on Spotify and Apple Music, behind Harry Styles&#8217;s As It Was and Future&#8217;s Wait For U respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">In the UK charts&#8217; midweek sales update on Sunday, it had risen to No 2 behind Styles to put it in strong contention for the No 1 spot this Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">In a statement on her website, Bush said the song&#8217;s resurgence is &#8220;really exciting&#8221;, adding that it &#8220;is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show &#8211; I love it too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Aside from Christmas songs which go back into the charts each year, it&#8217;s rare for an old song to re-enter the US Top 10. The last time was Queen&#8217;s Bohemian Rhapsody reaching No 2 in 1992 after it was included in Wayne&#8217;s World, though Fleetwood Mac grazed the Top 10 with Dreams in 2020 after it was used on a viral TikTok video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Bush has earned her first ever US Top 10 hit with Running Up That Hill, 37 years after it was released. The song is a key plot point in the new series of Netflix&#8217;s supernatural drama Stranger Things, and has exploded in popularity since the show debuted on 27 May. It is now at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kate-bush-earns-first-ever-us-top-10-hit-with-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kate Bush earns first ever US Top 10 hit with Running Up That Hill |  Kate Bush<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9548d6794fa09cda4802dd1d17a253e8003289f0\/0_224_2121_1272\/master\/2121.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom,left&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=073fced2eeb3e6151db6e1ee944e64d3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}