This is so far the highest placement of Bush's work on the all-genre charts. 30 at the Billboard 200 charts, scoring a tie at No. Meanwhile, "Hounds of Love" climbed two spots higher than its initial ranking in 1985 at No. 4 of the Top Rock Albums in the same week, surpassing his personal best for "Dawn" which only charted at No. 9 while "The K Fellowship Presents: Before the Dawn" rocketed at No. In 2011, her "50 Words for Snow" peaked at No. This is not the first time that Kate Bush's album reached the Top Alternative Album charts. Luminate reported that the album has earned 17,000 equivalent album units with a surge of 2,086% - landing it atop the charts on the May 27 - Jun 2 tracking week. In a June 11-dated chart, Billboard reports that 'Hounds of Love' has ranked No. Kate Bush Scores First #1 Billboard Album With 'Hounds of Love' The now-viral song has surged up the charts a week after the show's season four debuted worldwide. This is because its lead single "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" has returned from oblivion after being used in the show. Thanks to Netflix's hit television show "Stranger Things," Kate Bush's 1985 album "Hounds of Love" finally landed atop a Billboard Album chart. 1 album - but it is not for an album she just released recently. After more than forty years, Kate Bush has finally scored her first Billboard No. This entry was posted in Music, Weimaraner and tagged album cover, Kate Bush, music, The "Hounds of Love", Weimaraner. You can read about the photo shoot in the photographer’s own words here. The dogs also featured in the artwork notes in which Bush credits them by writing, ‘Woof to Bonnie and Clyde’. The album cover features Bush posing with her friend’s two Weimaraners, “Bonnie” and “Clyde.” In an interview, Bush said it took all day to get the dogs to settle down, but when the final picture was taken, one of the dogs had actually fallen asleep on her. The lead single, ‘Running Up That Hill,’ widely regarded as one of her greatest hits, helped sell more than 1.1 million copies of the album which achieved double platinum status. “But that was really what drew me in,” added Rotten.īush had a long career and made more conventional music that was, perhaps, easier to listen to:īush’s fifth studio album was Hounds of Love which is considered by many music critics to be her best album, and it’s regularly voted one of the greatest albums of all time.
“They just thought it was too much.” One comment was that Bush was the high priestess of too much. The singer, Johnny Rotten, said in a 2014 BBC documentary about the song that a lot of his friends at the time “couldn’t bear Bush’s high-pitched, passionate warbling on Wuthering Heights and other early songs. She also pioneered the use of the Fairlight synthesizer, and produced her own albums.Īdmittedly, “Wuthering Heights,” was possibly the strangest hit single in history. Bush was the first artist to use a headset microphone onstage, something that Madonna would later adopt. Her contributions weren’t all defined by musical notes.
She was important enough in her own right to have turned down an offer to support Fleetwood Mac on their huge 1978 US Rumours tour. If you’re not familiar with Kate Bush, plenty of others are: Prince, Peter Gabriel, and Elton John all collaborated on songs with her, and she inspired younger talent including Tori Amos, Björk, Joanna Newsom, St. Bush also became the first female artist to have eight albums on the charts simultaneously in the UK. It also hit #1 in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Italy, and was a smash right across the world except in the US where we were grooving to music coming out of the movie, Saturday Night Fever. Written by Kate when she was eighteen, the single flew to the Number One spot in 1978 and stayed there for four weeks. However else you feel about the song, “Wuthering Heights,” it made its singer/songwriter, Kate Bush, the first female solo artist to top the UK charts with a self-composed song. If you’re not expecting it, her voice can be a bit of a shock (scroll down to the video):