Kate Bush on Stranger Things chart boost: “It’s all really exciting!”

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Kate Bush has commented on the return of her 1985 song ‘Running Up That Hill’ to the charts. The track is currently sitting at number eight in the UK singles chart and may reach number one this week, thanks to its appearance in the new series of ‘Stranger Things’.“You might’ve heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of ‘Stranger Things’ has recently been released on Netflix”, Bush wrote on her website. “It features the song ‘Running Up That Hill’, which is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show – I love it too!”“Because of this”, she adds, “‘Running Up That Hill’ is charting around the world and has entered the UK chart at number eight.

It’s all really exciting! Thanks very much to everyone who has supported the song. I wait with bated breath for the rest of the series in July”.Bush is not an artist who agrees to sync placements often, so it’s something of a coup for the show to have been given permission to use the song so heavily.

Appearing throughout the latest series, it features most prominently in episode four, as it saves the character of Max from falling into the clutches of the show’s supernatural bad guy Vecna.

From that point, Max listens to the song on repeat on her Walkman.It took some time to find the right song to fill that important place in the show, music supervisor Nora Felder tells Yahoo. ”Each of the prospective song placements in the initial scripts was tagged with the placeholder, ‘TBD Max song’”, she says.