Kate Bush has shared one other message thanking followers after ‘Working Up That Hill’ continues its resurgence all the way in which to 1 billion streams.
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There’s been an enormous renewed curiosity within the 1975 single after it featured prominently within the fourth season of Stranger Issues, which was launched on Netflix as two volumes final summer time.
Since then, its second wind of recognition has grown and grown, and now hit a billion streams on Spotify.
Posting a uncommon message on her web site, Bush wrote: “A billion streams! I’ve a picture of a river that all of a sudden floods and turns into many, many tributaries – a billion streams – on their approach to the ocean. Every one in every of these streams is one in every of you…
“Thanks! Thanks a lot for sending this music on such an impossibly astonishing journey. I’m blown away.”
Final 12 months, it was reported that Bush had earned an estimated $2.3million (£1.9million) in streaming income with ”Working Up That Hill’ after it featured in Stranger Issues 4.
Whereas giving a uncommon interview to BBC Radio 4’s Girl’s Hour this summer time, Bush known as the rise of her music “extraordinary” and stated it was “very particular” that youthful audiences have been listening to it.
‘Working Up That Hill’ was among the many most streamed songs within the UK final 12 months, additionally rating quantity six within the High 10 hottest songs within the UK on TikTok for 2022.
Elsewhere, final month Bush shared an emotional tribute to her former bassist John Giblin, who just lately died on the age of 71.
The musician’s longstanding partnership with Bush started when he performed bass on the legendary artist’s 1980 singles ‘Babooshka’ and ‘Respiratory’, each of which seem on her third album ‘By no means For Ever’.
“I cherished John so very a lot,” Bush wrote in a press release. “He was one in every of my very dearest and closest associates for over forty years. We have been all the time there for one another. He was very particular. I cherished working with him, not simply because he was such a unprecedented musician however as a result of he was all the time big quantities of enjoyable.”
