Kate Bush is thrilled about using her traditional 1985 music “Working Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” within the fourth season of Stranger Issues.
In a uncommon public assertion, the British artwork rock legend shared her pleasure about renewed curiosity in “Working Up That Hill” after it was featured within the just lately premiered season of the Nineteen Eighties-set Netflix sci-fi collection.
“You may’ve heard that the primary a part of the implausible, gripping new collection of ‘Stranger Issues’ has just lately been launched on Netflix,” Bush wrote in an announcement on her web site. “It options the music, ‘Working Up That Hill’ which is being given an entire new lease of life by the younger followers who love the present — I like it too!”
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The singer-songwriter added, “Due to this, ‘Working Up That Hill’ is charting all over the world and has entered the UK chart at No. 8. It’s all actually thrilling! Thanks very a lot to everybody who has supported the music. I wait with bated breath for the remainder of the collection in July.”
“Working Up That Hill,” the lead single to Bush’s 1985 album, Hounds of Love, soundtracks the story of Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), nonetheless reeling from a household loss of life, within the fourth season of Stranger Issues, which premiered on Might 27. Max performs the observe on her Walkman within the first episode of the season, and the music serves as a recurring theme for the character main as much as a pivotal sequence within the fourth episode.
Final week, Billboard reported that “Working Up That Hill” had skilled a very overwhelming spike in streams on Spotify, with the music rising by 9,900% in U.S. performs from Thursday to Monday (Might 30). Certainly, regardless of pulling in day by day streams within the 20,000s as just lately as Might 26, “Working Up That Hill” has since netted tens of millions of U.S. streams every day, in accordance with Luminate — whereas additionally promoting hundreds of copies day by day. It ought to all add as much as the music debuting on various Billboard gross sales and streams charts (dated June 11) and probably re-entering the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Scorching 100, as properly.
Upon its 1985 launch, “Working Up That Hill” turned the highest-charting Scorching 100 single of Bush’s profession, reaching No. 30 on the tally. The music has been lined quite a few instances since its launch, together with a Placebo model in 2003 that was synched on The O.C., and a Meg Myers model in 2019 that topped Billboard’s Different Airplay chart. Per Spotify, Bush’s full catalog has seen a 1,600% uptick in world streams because the Stranger Issues premiere.
Learn Bush’s full assertion on her web site right here.
