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In the title of her song

,

added the expression

it was published

.

As if she already sensed what was going to end up happening a few decades later.

As if in the mid-1980s that pact that has become effective today had been signed.

Because the British, without activity since 2011,

You have to rewind to 1978 and people with their vinyl and cassettes to find the only time that the British had hit number 1 in sales in her country for several weeks.

Gloria Gaynor's

, Village People's

De Ella.

And that never happened again.

Until today.

Because four decades later, the fourth installment of

has caused Kate Bush to detonate the music industry and almost any record imaginable with

, which in its debut in 1985 had not managed to go beyond the top 3 in the islands and not even it had entered the top 10 in America.

it has been placed among the five most listened to songs on platforms in the US and has made Bush the oldest woman to reach a top 1, the one with the greatest distance of years between the song's release and number 1 and the one with the longest time topping the chart.

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To translate it into figures.

Since the fourth season of the Netflix series premiered on May 27, and the theme was played in Max's headphones as an antidote to Vecna,

, it exceeds 1.8 million videos on Tik Tok as a soundtrack and has reported to its composer, who has the full rights, just over 2.3 million dollars, according to data from the Luminate analytics website.

Who wants to continue making music if a song written in a house in the Kent countryside in 1983 gives you these joys?

And even more so if he does it among generations that, beyond having some nostalgic parents of his eighties youth or his interest in the music of that time, had barely approached Kate Bush.

Until the Duffer Brothers have taken it upon themselves to do so.

As it happened, with less success, in previous seasons with

Toto's

, the creators

acknowledged in an interview in

And among all those hours there was a 63-year-old lady named Kate Bush who, at the age of 20, decided to stop touring to start composing and who, suddenly, reappeared on stage for 22 concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.

.

One more sample of the inexplicable career that the British has always followed, that already in 2012 with the inclusion of

as one of the themes of the closing ceremony of the London Olympic Games, threatened to return and that in 2022 has written her name next to that of a queen of pop like Cher.

She had held since 1998, with the release of her mega-hit

, the position as the oldest woman to lead the charts at 52 years old.

In January 2021, Wham!

managed to place at the top of the chart in the United Kingdom,

.

36 years and 23 days had passed, coinciding with the Christmas dates of 1984, of its publication and thus it became the latest song to reach that position in history.

And he still had the third thing.

.

Until, of course, Kate Bush got it.

If that's not having a covenant with God, let him come down here and see it.

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