It is currently the most-streamed song in the world, with more than 57 million global plays last week, whilst videos featuring the #RunningUpThatHill on TikTok have been viewed more than 530 million times.ĭespite its success when Stranger Things first aired – charting at number eight when the show premiered – it had been held back due to a quirk in the way the charts are calculated, whereby older songs had to achieve 200 streams to register a “sale” compared to 100 for recent releases. It’s equally impressive, too, considering she was able to knock off Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’, which seemed like it could do no wrong after a 10-week run atop the UK charts. This places her fifth on the all-time list of oldest artists to score a UK Number 1 single. At 63 years and 11 months, she replaces Cher, who was 52 when ‘Believe’ topped the Official Singles Chart in 1998. What’s more, Kate is now the oldest female artist to score a Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. ![]() ‘Running Up That Hill’ now also claims the record for having the longest recorded time taken to reach Number 1 spot the 37 years it took to achieve this overtaking the 36 years it took Wham! to reach Number 1 with ‘Last Christmas’. In doing so, Kate has simultaneously broken three records – for each of which you’d expect a long time until their surpassed again.įirst, she boasts the longest ever gap between UK Number 1 singles, with her track the 44 years between today and 1978’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ beating Tom Jones’s 42-year gap between ‘Green Green Grass of Home’ and charity single ‘(Barry) Islands in the Stream’, released in 2009. The 1985 track’s prominence in the hit sci-fi Netflix series has given it a storming success in recent weeks, introducing the New Wave track to a legion of new fans both in the UK and around the world. ![]() Kate Bush’s track ‘Running Up That Hill’ has reached the summit of the UK charts – a remarkable 37 years since it was released – thanks to Stranger Things and a recent rule change.
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