Stranger Things 4, the success and the song by Kate Bush that became Number 1

Netflix premiere Stranger Things, Season 4and the impressive success of the series had a collateral effect on one of the songs on its soundtrack.

The truth is that the issue in question is very important -important, never better said- for one of the characters with the biggest impact in the series, Max.

Without further ado, Kate Bush’s song Running on That Mountain (Deal With God) topped the music charts… for the first time today, 37 years after their debut.

The song originally recorded in 1985 rose to #1 on iTunes and went to the airplay charts for the first time. It has already occupied the 106th position in Spotify’s Top 200, with 1,099,174 reproductions. The soundtrack of Stranger Things 4which also includes Talking Heads, Kiss and Beach Boys, among others, was ranked #5 on iTunes’ Top 200 Albums.

When will it appear?

Max (Sadie Sink) walks down a school hallway in Hawkins, the small town where most of the series ’plot takes place. Max listens to his waklkman (we’re in 1986) the Bush song, which will be heard again later, when (SPOILERS ALERT) Max mourns the death of his brother Billy (in episode 4, precisely titled dear billy), and the way he finds his friends so he won’t be attacked by the evil creature on duty.

Running on That Mountain It’s not just Max’s favorite song, but, in real life, Winona Ryder, who in the series plays Joyce Byers, the mother of the first child who went on the other side, in Upside Down. the actress of Generation X led, at the premiere of Volume I of Season 4 of strange things a Kate Bush brooch, and even considered the English singer-songwriter “one of my heroines.”

“I’ve been obsessed with her since I was a little girl,” she said USAToday. “For the last seven years, I’ve also been putting hints on set on my Kate Bush T-shirts. I don’t know if you did it, but at my school you have to dress for PE and sometimes you don’t. I just sit while on earphones and listening to him. He’s a hero of mine. “

Originally released in 1985, Running on That Mountain is the release single from Bush’s fifth album, dogs of love. In the UK it peaked at number 3 in singles, and topped number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2012 Bush released a remix, which reached number 6 on the UK singles chart.

Who is Kate Bush

Born Catherine Bush on July 30, 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent, this British singer-songwriter made her debut in 1978 with the single Wuthering Heightsnumber one on the UK music chart in four weeks.

This pioneer of experimental pop, as a child he studied violin and piano, and at the age of 16 he was discovered by David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd. Thanks to multi-instrumentalist Pink Floyd, he recorded some of his songs, and the EMI label became interested in his compositions.