2022 may have been the year that saw Kate Bush's classic anthem Running Up That Hill become a pop culture phenomenon, but 2023 will be the year it officially makes history on streaming. The track's inclusion in Season 4 of Netflix smash hit series Stranger Things saw it receive an unprecedented wave of fresh attention, shooting to the top of the UK singles charts and breaking three records in the process (those records: the longest gap between Number 1 singles, the longest time taken for a song to reach number one and the oldest female artist ever to ever land a UK number 1).
Now, the single is setting records once again, surpassing one billion streams on Spotify to become the first 80s song by a female artist to ever reach ten figures on the platform. In fact, when you include other platforms, Running Up That Hill had already sailed well past the one billion mark, clocking up close to an additional 200 million more streams on YouTube alone. Not bad for a song originally released in 1985.
