Old music returning to the charts after a soundtrack feature is not exactly a new phenomenon.
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Vote for the best summer movie year in the latest Trial By Content ! In Trial By Content, Dave, Joanna, and Neil will debate pressing questions in pop culture and you-the listener-will decide who’s right. “ is the biggest song in the country right now, if you ask me,” says Charlie Harding, the cohost of Switched on Pop, a podcast about pop music. 30 in the U.S.-the song is by some metrics doing better than contemporary smash hits by the likes of Harry Styles, Lizzo, and Bad Bunny. Thirty-seven years after its initial release-when it reached no.
Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100 (Bush’s first time ever on the top 10 of the latter chart). Her song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” the lead single from Hounds of Love, has stormed back onto the charts after its central inclusion in the fourth season of Stranger Things, topping recent daily streaming lists in the U.S. It was par for the course, then, that the latest unexpected rebirth of Kate Bush’s career arrived this past week not with an album drop but with a music sync. 1 album with something as out there as The Dreaming, Bush’s 1982 LP that at one point features her impression of a donkey.) Waiting to see how the next chapter will unfold is part of the appeal of being one of her fans-and part of the challenge. (Imagine, if you can, a top young musician of today following up their first no. 1 in her native U.K., Bush has pushed back against traditions as much as any major pop star, with every new album a departure, every new sound a twist. A star since she was 19, when her 1978 debut single “Wuthering Heights” hit no.
Rebirth has always been central to Bush’s music. “D’you know what?” she sings on “The Morning Fog,” newly appreciative of the people in her life after going through such a harrowing experience.
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Close to death, the castaway experiences a Christmas Carol–like series of past, present, and future hallucinations before being rescued (or appearing to be, at least). It’s the last song of her 1985 masterpiece Hounds of Love-the finale of a seven-song suite titled The Ninth Wave, which tells the story of a castaway in a life jacket drifting through the open ocean.