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Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill makes history with one billion streams on Spotify
This is the first 80s song by a female solo artist to do so. "Each one of these streams is one of you," Kate Bush says in a statement celebrating the incredible milestone.
Running Up That Hill become a pop culture phenomenon, but 2023 will be the year it officially makes history on streaming, as Loudersound reports.
The track's inclusion in Season 4 of Netflix smash hit series Stranger Things saw it receive an unprecedented wave of fresh attention, shooting to the top of the UK singles charts and breaking three records in the process (those records: the longest gap between Number 1 singles, the longest time taken for a song to reach number one and the oldest female artist ever to ever land a UK number 1).
Now, the single is setting records once again, surpassing one billion streams on Spotify to become the first 80s song by a female artist to ever reach ten figures on the platform. In fact, when you include other platforms, Running Up That Hill had already sailed well past the one billion mark, clocking up close to an additional 200 million more streams on YouTube alone. Not bad for a song originally released in 1985.
"A billion streams!" beams Bush in a statement on her official website. "I have an image of a river that suddenly floods and becomes many, many tributaries - a billion streams - on their way to the sea. Each one of these streams is one of you.
