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Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill claims new Official Singles Chart peak as Harry Styles reigns with As It Was
Kate Bush proves unlikely competition for Harry Styles, but As It Was reigns atop the Official Singles Chart for a tenth consecutive week
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Following its unprecedented viral success after featuring heavily in the latest series of Netflix show Stranger Things, Kate Bush’s 1985 track Running Up That Hill jumps six places to Number 2 this week.
Originally released some 37 years ago, the song achieves a new UK Official Singles Chart best, having previously peaked at Number 3. Read more about Kate’s viral chart success here.
MORE: Kate Bush's full Official Charts history
Harry Styles makes it a mammoth ten weeks at Number 1 with As It Was continuing its reign. With both the single and its parent album, Harry’s House, sitting atop their respective charts this week, Harry scores the UK Official Chart Double once again.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Sam Ryder’s anthemic single SPACE MAN returns to the Top 3 thanks to his performance at last weekend’s Platinum Party at the Palace and a new Platinum Jubilee Edit (3).
Tion Wayne & La Roux continue their ascent with IFTK (6). Could the track climb further next week and provide La Roux their first Top 5 hit since 2009’s Bulletproof?
Another Platinum Party at the Palace performer, George Ezra, enjoys a boost this week as Green Green Grass lands a new peak (9) climbing all the way into the Top 10 for the first time.
Highest climber of the week comes courtesy of Scottish dance duo LF System whose viral TikTok success transcends the app to land themselves their first UK Top 20 single. Afraid to Feel vaults an incredible 56 places to Number 13. Meanwhile, Nathan Dawe and Ella Henderson’s catchy dance track 21 Reasons continues its steady rise to a new peak of Number 17.
In the week his album Twelve Carat Toothache goes Top 5, Post Malone boasts three singles in the Top 40. Cooped Up featuring Roddy Ricch hits a new high of Number 18, while Doja Cat collaboration I Like You (A Happier Song) is new at Number 19, and Lemon Tree debuts at Number 40 – marking Post Malone’s 18th and 19th Top 40 singles respectively.
Tom Grennan’s summer slow burner Remind Me reaches a new peak this week (27), while Burna Boy’s Last Last (29) enters the Top 40 for the first time, climbing 15 places to become his sixth Top 40 hit.
Finally, Diplo & Miguel reach a new peak of 35 with Don’t Forget My Love, and Leah Kate rebounds four to Number 37 with 10 Things I Hate About You.
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de Sascha
So funny actally Kate Bush is the real #1 not Harry it's quite obvious this time -ACR- or else we could call it "stranger things".
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RyanT
come on kate! get that #1
David Eve
Harry is declining so there's a slim chance next week if Kate can keep her momentum up (though spotify streaming data suggests no). In two weeks Harry will probably be on ACR so again there's a chance Kate could make it then, if nothing else comes along. Or the week including/week after 1st July when the last 2 episodes of the season of Stranger Things air.
So "Running Up That Hill" joins the small club of songs kept from reaching no.1 because of ACR along with "Last Christmas" and "All I Want for Christmas Is You". The latter two made it at a later date/chart run so fingers crossed.... Note that this refers to reaching no.1 and so it excludes the 20 or so other records that were knocked off no.1 or prevented from climbing back to no.1 (the biggest oddity in this group being "I don't care" which failed to return to no.1 and was actually knocked off the chart as it became Ed's 4th biggest seller of the week, re-entering at no.2 the following week (without being on ACR due to the 25% [or was it 50%] increase that reset the ACR for the week it would've been no.1).
SoulInSparks
From KBN: Writing in Music Week, Alan Jones mentions the impact on Kate’s UK chart placing of a relatively new rule in the UK charts called the ACR or “Accelerated Chart Ratio” designed to keep the chart fresh. He writes: “Despite
its continuing presence at the top of the chart, As It Was wasn’t No.1
on digital downloads or streams this week, trailing some distance behind
Kate Bush’s resurgent Running Up That Hill on both metrics. In fact,
the only measurement on which As It Was was more popular was CD sales,
where its one trumps Bush’s zero – and yet, there it sits, No.1 again.
Back on the chart for the first time since 1985, when it peaked at No.3,
Running Up That Hill’s current popularity is fuelled by its prominent
and frequent use in Season 4 of the Netflix sci-fi/drama series Stranger
Things. No.8 last week, Running Up That Hill now surges to No.2 (a new
peak), with consumption of 44,739 units, made up of 5,863 digital
downloads, 38,875 sales-equivalent streams and one 10-inch picture disc
dating from 2013. It is, of course, encumbered with ACR, otherwise its
combination of 7,470,792 premium audio streams, 1,029,666 ad-funded
audio streams and 657,694 premium video streams, when added to its
digital sales, would give it a total of 83,613 sales, relegating Styles
to No.2 and providing Bush with a richly-deserved second No.1, more than
44 years after her first single, Wuthering Heights, topped the list
Joshua Sombra
Was Kate Bush supposed to be No.1 this week?
Joshua Sombra
New No.1 next week hopefully.
Laurence Sully
At least Kate Bush could sing ...
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JK
Hahaha she couldn't sing, she fake to be so alternative and special and it was just a simple sell out who manipulated the easily impressed zombies hahaha, that's not a good singing voice at all
Laurence Sully
So who's got a good singing voice then?
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JK
She doesn't, no doubt about it
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Bob
I love how painfully obvious it is by the way you write that you're an 8 year old girl. Might wanna ask your parents to write your next comments for you so it's at least a little more understandable.
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JK
Hahaha is that your way to deal with the truth?, hahaha poor Bob the bully of 8 year olds hahaha. Go look at yourself in the mirror, see your own 60 years old of immaturity and how you get so salty for simply been told a fact
Hahaha go ask yourself to check on you and how you get
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TimisD
Oh please! Shut up! You know nothing about music! You're obviously a kid that likes to play around here. Pathetic! Don't you have parents? Internet is not allowed for kids. Go study!
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JK
Yes Four, shut up, hahaha pathetic person obsessed with a has been hahaha enjoy your bad taste
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TimisD
Thank you for proving what I said! Have a great night kid! And learn to have some manners on the internet. Just saying!
Laurence Sully
That's not really an answer is it ? - come on who do you think can sing ?
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JK
Hahaha a lot of talented people, unlike her and you’re not someone to demand anything from me hahaha poor obsessed fan get over it
Laurence Sully
Since you can't answer a simple question proves your lack of intelligence and maturity - go and cry somewhere else child.
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JK
Hahaha no it proves that you are as dumb as possible that you can’t think on your own and came out with millions of examples, and a cry child fan who thinks that the bad singer lady will reward you for your vacuous defense of her hahaha, you’re really an immature fan, but don’t worry the song will be number one next week, just because of a show not for its own merits hahaha people like you is so easily manipulated and so lack of intelligence that think that you can demand me to answer you, hahaha poor thing, go to your mirror and make those demands hahaha
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Cheyanne Moore
There should be an asterisk next to the number 1 placement this week, it is clearly not the number 1 song. Number 1 shouldn't be obtained merely through creative accounting. What's worse is that the OCC is not making it clear how this placement was obtained. Very shady.
Joshua Sombra
Again I wouldn't call Harry Style's reign as 'mammoth'. There is nothing special with As It Was, it is just some , mediocre rubbish. Ten weeks at the top spot is torture. Please can someone get a new song on No.1 next week I am begging you.
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JK
well it's certainly mammoth your hissyfit about the most popular song in the world still being number one hahaha you love those ACR rules when they played on your favor but when it doesn't you just played a drama queen, get over it, he's successful even if you don't like him, it will do you harm to your stomach to be so mad hahaha
David Eve
I think you'll find the most popular song in the world is currently Running Up That Hill....
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JK
I think you’ll find that Spotify is not the whole world and adding all the streamers and sales, your obsession is not the most popular.
Guess you got hit by the same mammoth hissyfit hahaha poor things so obsessed hahaha 🤣
David Eve
Wait and see. I know Kate Bush is no.1 in Australia and the UK (in real terms rather than the fake OCC) this week and there's a chance it may possibly make it in America. So the egg could be on you.
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JK
Hahaha are you still mad with your obsession?, hahahaha poor thing, yes the whole world is Australia and the UK hahaha enjoy your delirium, yes she’s number one in Saturn also hahaha 🤣
David Eve
Just the response I'd expect from a baby. Keep on proving how juvenile you are. Anyway this is a UK chart report you're posting on so its irrelevant what's happening in the rest of world, so i'm afraid you'll have to it up yourself that Kate outsold Harry this week in the UK and f it wasn't for the chart manipulation of ACR would've been no.1
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JK
Hahahaha you talked about Australia hahaha so hypocrite hahaha don’t be salty because the rules were put on place, get over it, your life will go on if that bad singer lady or the former boyband dude is number one.
It’s so juvenile to see someone talking about maturity and been so mad for something so irrelevant, it’s exactly the response you can expect from a grown up baby
Hahahah she’s still number two and you’re still mad, end of story hahaha in the meantime she’s having her best life and I’m laughing at you hahaha
Velvet Android
Aside from the debacle over the Number One, what's up with this sentence?
"Elsewhere in the Top 10, Sam Ryder’s anthemic single SPACE MAN returns to the Top 3 thanks to his performance at last weekend’s Platinum Party at the Palace and a new Platinum Jubilee Edit (3)."
Erm, no it doesn't. It's at #5.
Velvet Android
Good to see the editors rushing to correct such basic factual errors, then.....
Olive Boar
I thought the whole point of ACR was to keep the chart fresh and exciting? Yet it blocks Kate Bush from getting to number 1 with RUTH for the first time (I believe RUTH going to number 1 would have also broken several records) in favour of a song spending it's 10th week at number 1? What nonsense!
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TimisD
Which is not true cause Running Up That Hill has sold more than As It Was. RUTH should be at number one! ACR rule and nonsense!
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Mark
Kate Bush sold more and was streamed more than Harry Styles this week and is the actual number 1 single. What a shambles.
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Bob
Well actually Running Up That Will DID have enough points this week to reach number 1 but because of your nonsense ACR rule it couldn't. You should've explained that in your post, be more transparent about how manipulated the charts actually are
David Eve
You know the OCC are not going to publically admit that they periodically fake the chart with ACR manipulation and other rules.
Piran
‘Running Up The Hill’ would’ve got to #1 this week without ACR. :/
Hopefully the rule doesn’t stop it from spending even one week at the top! 🤞