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The Stranger Things Bump: Kate Bush Tops iTunes Charts
Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” topped the iTunes chart Memorial Day weekend, thanks to its prominent role in Stranger Things 4. Max loves the song, and mourns Billy with it.

The Stranger Things Bump: Kate Bush Tops iTunes Charts

Goth gatekeepers despair: Kate Bush is for normies now. The iconoclastic English singer/avant garde dance weirdo/sampling pioneer is featured prominently in Stranger Things season 4, as Max (Sadie Sink)’s favorite artist. Max’s favorite song is “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God),” and let’s just say that comes up organically in the storytelling and leave it at that. Thanks to the song’s prominence in the show, the song topped the iTunes charts, and made several more streaming breakthroughs over the weekend. The Wrap is reporting that Bush “landed on streaming charts for the first time. It currently sits at 106 on Spotify’s Top 200, with 1,099,174 plays,” while the Stranger Things 4 album is number 5 on the iTunes album charts.

Loving Kate Bush was hardly invented by the Duffer Brothers, though. Placebo covered the song in 2003, getting an Atwood Bump when it was featured in the season 4 premiere of The O.C. (No matter the version, this is apparently the only song that properly conveys the grief main characters feel when someone with blonde wavy hair dies in the season 3 finale of a show.) Former Outkast Gemini Big Boi is an avowed fan, as are the hundreds of people who have gathered on various wiley, windy moors to recreate her choreo for “Wuthering Heights.” The Great British Baking Show co-host Noel Fielding has also recreated the choreography for Bush’s breakout hit for Comic Relief. Ball’s in your court, Demogorgon.

Sources

The Wrap

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