The anger for the work of the songwriter Kate Bushpushed by season 4 of the Netflix series strange thingsdoes not stop.

Now, his latest record has surpassed the 100 million YouTube views with his success Run up that hill.

From before Unknown things 4video views of Run up that hill have doubled. Although the theme is from 1985, it was only uploaded to the video platform in 201 and has since added around 50 million views, which have now doubled in a matter of months.

The song is pivotal in the history of strange thingsas it allows one of the characters to stay safe from the villain if he listens to the theme with a Walkman and headphones. It appears in several scenes and even in the trailer for the Episode 2.

Additionally, the song became Bush’s first Top 10 hit in the US career, 37 years after its release.

It all started in 1985

The song Run up that hill was the first single from the album love dogs and was released in England on August 5, 1985. The video clip was directed by David Garfath and is based on a choreography by Kate Bush with dancer Michael Hervieu.

The video was only uploaded to YouTube for the first time in January 2011 and the day before the premiere of Unknown things 4 had a total of 48.2 million views.

While the 100 million views sounds impressive, it still has a long way to go to join the exclusive billion-view song club, the so-called “Billion Views Club”.

In total it is estimated that there are around 300 songs with such a level of popularity, including Baby Shark Dance, Despacito (Luis Fonsi), shape of you (Ed Sheeran), Uptown funk (Mark Ronson) e in gangham style (Psy).

Other records and silver

According to the latest issues of sales and reproductions of the theme Running up the hillsinger and songwriter Kate Bush has already earned more than $ 2.3 million from using her theme in the series Unknown things 4.

An important fact is that she owns the copyrights of the recordings, which is why most of the profits go directly to her account, without losing the percentage in the hands of a record company.

In the past month, the singer has broken three records, according to the Guinness Book of Records: the longest time it took for a song to reach # 1 on the UK singles chart, the oldest singer to reach # 1 on the UK chart , and the longer space of time between the two times in which the subject was the first.

As for age, the record was held by Cher, who was 52 when she was her subject Consider she was number 1 in 1998, and so he tweeted her to congratulate her.

From Running up the hill appeared in May in the new season of the hit series strange thingsthe song broke three other Guinness Guide records: it was number one in Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland, as well as being the most streamed song in the world at one point.

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