Kate Bush‘s ‘Running Up That Hill’ has entered its third week at Number One on the Official UK Singles Chart, with Bush describing it as “a bit surreal”.Originally released in 1985, Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ regained relevance in a big way when it appeared in the fourth season of Stranger Things in May.
Since then, the song has broken three Guinness World Records, reached Number One in Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland, and was, at one point, the most-streamed song on the planet.“I just can’t believe it – No.
1 for the third week. We’re all so excited! In fact it’s all starting to feel a bit surreal,” Bush shared on her website over the weekend, adding that she’d finished Stranger Things 4.“I’d only seen the scenes that directly involved the use of the track and so I didn’t know how the story would evolve or build.
I was so delighted that the Duffer Brothers wanted to use RUTH for Max’s totem but now having seen the whole of this last series, I feel deeply honoured that the song was chosen to become a part of their roller coaster journey,” she wrote.“I can’t imagine the amount of hard work that’s gone into making something on this scale.
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