In the wake of the song’s resurgence, the avant-garde German pop star Kim Petras recorded and released her own version. “Running Up That Hill” is now one of the most streamed songs on all streaming platforms new versions of the song are proliferating on TikTok. As a result, Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” has achieved an unprecedented level of belated exposure, and its appearance on “Stranger Things” has produced a cascade of attention that even the cleverest of viral-marketing professionals could not have hoped to engineer. The scene that features “Running Up That Hill” represents an emotional milestone in “Stranger Things,” and it’s been screen-capped and memed and reposted to oblivion. It’s a song in which Bush longs to be able to swap perspectives with a man: “If only I could / I’d make a deal with God / and I’d get Him to swap our places,” she sings, in a register that would pique the curiosity of a birdsong expert. Originally titled “Deal with God” but re-titled because of Bush’s record label’s concerns over putting “God” in a song name, “Running Up That Hill” is a work of intense yearning. Max’s friends learn that they can release her by playing her favorite song, and proceed to power up “Running Up That Hill” on a Sony Walkman. “Running Up That Hill” arrives late in Episode 4, at a crucial plot moment, when Max, one of the show’s plucky leads, has been abducted by Vecna, a humanoid monster who preys on people with emotional trauma. The song recently appeared during a pivotal, intensely melodramatic scene in the fourth season of “ Stranger Things.” Netflix’s vibey teen sci-fi show struck a nerve with its highly stylized form of nineteen-eighties nostalgia when it first aired, in 2016, and now it has become such a cultural force that its new season broke Netflix-viewership records. Plenty of diffuse, mysterious factors contribute to any given song’s popularity, but the reason for the newfound ubiquity of “Running Up That Hill” is clear-cut. Not a cover, not a remix, not an interpolation-the original version, holding fast, in all of its booming and extraterrestrial synth glory. But, then, just below Bad Bunny’s “Me Porto Bonito” was something curious enough to look like a mistake at first glance: “Running Up That Hill,” the lead single off Kate Bush’s 1985 album, “Hounds of Love,” sitting at No. It included multiple entries from the British soft-pop sensation Harry Styles-a guy so popular that he recently sold out his forthcoming fifteen-night run at Madison Square Garden-a swaggering single from the ever-present white rapper du jour Jack Harlow, and Lizzo’s latest empowerment anthem.
Last week’s Top Ten was largely predictable. The Billboard Hot 100 chart is an imperfect bellwether of trends in American pop music, but it can often provide useful signals.
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