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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill climbs higher than ever to No 2 in charts

Kate Bush performing in 2014.
Kate Bush performing in 2014. Photograph: Ken McKay/Shutterstock

The resurgent popularity of Kate Bush’s wondrous ballad Running Up That Hill continues as the song races yet higher up the UK charts. It reaches No 2 this week, behind Harry Styles’s As It Was, marking the highest ever position for Bush’s song.

On its original release in 1985, Running Up That Hill reached No 3 during an 11-week run in the charts. It then re-entered at No 6 in 2012 after the song was re-recorded and featured in the closing ceremony of that year’s Olympics.

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