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'Such a great feeling!' Kate Bush is ecstatic about success of 'Running Up That Hill' after 'Stranger Things'

After being featured in the show, the track topped the charts in the UK and Australia, went to number three on the Billboard Hot 100

BY HANIKA KASHYAP

PUBLISHED DEC 26, 2022

Kate Bush is still reeling from the success of her '80s single 'Running Up the HIll' (Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: Kate Bush revealed in a message on her website that she has had a "crazy roller coaster year." The 64-year-old singer reflected on the ups and downs of 2022, including Russia's "horrific" invasion of Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth and the revival of her career after her 1985 single 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' was featured in the series 'Stranger Things.'

"I don’t think any of us have ever known a year like this one. Life became incredibly frightening in the pandemic, but just as we think it might be over soon, it seems to keep going," she wrote in the message titled 'Merry Christmas'. "It's a bombardment - the horrific war in Ukraine, the famines, the droughts, the floods… and we lost our Queen. It's been a crazy, rollercoaster year for me. I still reel from the success of ['Running Up That Hill'], being the No 1 track of this summer. What an honour (sic)!"

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The feature on sci-fi the show was evidently a career-changing moment for the English singer as the track topped the charts in the UK and Australia. Moreover, it ranked at No 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and restored its position in the top 10 of the Alternative Airplay chart after a 28-year absence.

English singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush, 21st February 1978. (Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) — The feature in 'Stranger Things' was obviously a career-changing moment for Kate Bush, as the song reached the top of the charts in the United Kingdom and Australia (Chris Moorhouse-Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kate further shared that it was a “great feeling" to be introduced to a whole new audience. She said, "It was such a great feeling to see so many of the younger generation enjoying the song. It seems that quite a lot of them thought I was a new artist! I love that! Again, thank you so much to everyone who supported the track and made it a hit."

English singer–songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer Kate Bush holding her two awards for 'Best British Female Singer' and 'Best British Newcomer' at the Capital Radio Music Awards ceremony held at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, UK, 6th March 1979. (Photo by Stuart Nicol/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) — Kate Bush, became the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Stuart Nicol-Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kate, who became the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song, ‘Wuthering Heights,’ concluded her note, hoping that the “war will end”. She further wrote, "I used a little robin in some of my Christmas gifts to friends this year. I felt that this humble little bird, which symbolises Christmas could also symbolise hope in the context of Emily Dickinson's beautiful words, Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. I'd like to think that this Christmas when joy is so hard to find, hope will perch in all our souls. Merry Christmas!"