official chart UK's Top 40 Songs Of The Summer: Running Up That Hill #1 762K

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The UK's Official Songs of the Summer 2022: Kate Bush’s record-breaking Stranger Things anthem Running Up That Hill is the Official Song of the Summer 2022 as 80s nostalgia reigns supremeIt may be 2022 but most of the UK was transported back to 1985 this summer, as Kate Bush’s record-breaking hit Running Up That Hill has been named the UK’s Official Song of the Summer 2022, the Official Charts Company can reveal today.

Nostalgia reigns supreme as Running Up That Hill – resurrected into the public consciousness thanks to the release of Stranger Things season 4 in in two parts across May and July – beats off modern-day anthems by the likes of Harry Styles, LF SYSTEM and Beyoncé.

Based on new Official Charts Company streaming and sales data from around 9,000 UK physical and digital outlets, the juddering New Wave masterpiece clocks in over 762,000 chart units over the summer period; tracked from the first week of June to the last week of August.

When it (finally) hit Number 1 this June, Running Up That Hill broke several Official Charts records in the process, including the longest time taken for a single to reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart – 37 years, and now the lead single from Bush’s magnum opus Hounds of Love tops the Official Charts’ Songs of the Summer list with the most streams of any song this summer (86.6 million) and the most digital downloads too (over 42,000).

 

The UK's Official Songs of the Summer 2022

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	PEAK
1	RUNNING UP THAT HILL	KATE BUSH	1
2	AS IT WAS	HARRY STYLES	1
3	AFRAID TO FEEL	LF SYSTEM	2
4	GREEN GREEN GRASS	GEORGE EZRA	3
5	GO	CAT BURNS	2
6	ABOUT DAMN TIME	LIZZO	3
7	CRAZY WHAT LOVE CAN DO	DAVID GUETTA/HILL/HENDERSON	5
8	BREAK MY SOUL	BEYONCE	2
9	LAST LAST	BURNA BOY	4
10	LATE NIGHT TALKING	HARRY STYLES	2
11	IFTK	TION WAYNE & LA ROUX	6
12	21 REASONS	NATHAN DAWE FT ELLA HENDERSON	9
13	BAD HABITS	ED SHEERAN	1
14	HEAT WAVES	GLASS ANIMALS	5
15	I AIN'T WORRIED	ONEREPUBLIC	4
16	WHERE DID YOU GO	JAX JONES FT MNEK	7
17	PERU	FIREBOY DML & ED SHEERAN	2
18	SHIVERS	ED SHEERAN	1
19	2STEP	ED SHEERAN	9
20	WHERE ARE YOU NOW	LOST FREQUENCIES/CALUM SCOTT	3
21	WAIT FOR U	FUTURE FT DRAKE & TEMS	8
22	MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT	HARRY STYLES	3
23	SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER	SAM FENDER	3
24	FIRST CLASS	JACK HARLOW	2
25	STAY THE NIGHT	SIGALA & TALIA MAR	11
26	SPACE MAN	SAM RYDER	1
27	MASSIVE	DRAKE	8
28	BAM BAM	CAMILA CABELLO FT ED SHEERAN	7
29	MAKE ME FEEL GOOD	BELTERS ONLY FT JAZZY	4
30	COLD HEART	ELTON JOHN & DUA LIPA	1
31	BABY	AITCH/ASHANTI	2
32	GLIMPSE OF US	JOJI	12
33	NO EXCUSES	BRU-C	14
34	JE M'APPELLE	BENZZ	17
35	STARLIGHT	DAVE	1
36	MR BRIGHTSIDE	KILLERS	10
37	POTION	CALVIN HARRIS/DUA LIPA/YOUNG	16
38	SHE'S ALL I WANNA BE	TATE MCRAE	14
39	DOJA	CENTRAL CEE	2
40	BIG ENERGY	LATTO/MARIAH CAREY/DJ KHALED	21

 

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Love to see it

[LesFleur]

 

 

Yessssssssss

 

Now we just need #1 song of the year

 

[killer_rose]

The British music industry!

RUTH is also The Song Of The Summer in the US as well.