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KATE BUSH

One of the most original and scintillating pop talents to ever emerge from Britain, Kate Bush's music is as un-wieldy and ever-changing as the wind. From age 19 where she became the first female to have a self-written song enter the chart at Number 1 with Wuthering Heights to her magnum opus Hounds of Love ushering in a bizarre, other-worldly slate of dreamy synth-pop, people have been playing catch up ever since. Bush's influence can be felt everywhere in pop music today, a fact only heightened by the resurgence of her sinister New Wave triumph Running Up That Hill in 2022 thanks to a feature in Netflix's Stranger Things introducing the auteur to an entirely new generation.

KATE BUSH Songs stats

UK No. 1s
2
UK Top 10s
7
UK Top 40s
25
UK Top 75s
28
Weeks in the Top 1
7
Weeks in the Top 10
36
Weeks in the Top 40
143
Weeks in the Top 75
209

KATE BUSH Albums stats

UK No. 1s
3
UK Top 10s
12
UK Top 40s
16
UK Top 75s
19
Weeks in the Top 1
6
Weeks in the Top 10
64
Weeks in the Top 40
227
Weeks in the Top 75
376

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Agnes Smythe

1

“Sinister new wave triumph”? Running Up That Hill is NOT “sinister”. I think the author [sic] of this piece is getting it confused with Stranger Things.

I’ve also seen it described as her “warped” new wave track. It wasn’t warped, either. It was Kate writing about how men and women swapping places would help them understand each other better.

It wasn’t “new wave”, either. Yes, it was a new style of music, but “new wave” in the late 70s and early 80s was a term reserved specifically for punk-rock tracks. Kate’s about as far away from punk as an artist can get.

Neither is Kate’s music “un-wieldy”, which means cumbersome and awkward. Her music and her vocals have always been ethereal, which is fundamentally opposite to “un-wieldy”. It’s one of the elements that made her stand out.

What exceptionally lazy writing. Obviously, the writers of these pieces weren’t there at the time and are making apparently definitive statements based on nothing but their own baseless assumptions.

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Dave Knight

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I didn't realise Running up that hill was number 2 in 1985.

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Tak Opidisc

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It wasn't. If you click on the "+" you'll see that it peaked at No. 3 in 1985.

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Dave Knight

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I clicked on the + but it still says number 2, where am I going wrong?

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Dan Love

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That's it's all time peak, so reflecting its number 2 peak last week.

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Tak Opidisc

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You're looking at the overall peak position. You'll notice that it's changed to 1 now. Lower down, you can see the original 1985 chart run. It shows you how its position changed week to week. In its original run, you can see that its highest position was 3.

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Dave Knight

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Thanks I found how to do that now, I found a new toy lol

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addickted2hcharlton

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Shame she was one of them brexiteers, put me off er.

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Lancashire Anglo-Saxon

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Made me like her even more - part of the club with Liz Hurley, Roger Daltrey, John Lydon, Morrissey. Michael Caine, the owner of Weaherspoons (rare to have big business represented their usually all ardent Remainers because they need their slave labour)

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Agnes Smythe

1

Musical talent has nothing to do with politics.

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Lewis Wollington

7

Some of Kate's albums have been duplicated on the album list when they charted at different times rather than being added together

JC

John Conway

1

Yes, I noticed this too .There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for it .

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Steven Crago

2

They are different Labels.

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Nu No

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If they are different labels then they are different releases of the same album with some differences bettween them including the EAN code and Label Serial Number for the album.