The Kate Bush phenomenon Suddenly an age-old hit makes it to the top again

Thanks to the Netflix series "Stranger Things", the song "Running Up That Hill" by singer Kate Bush is celebrating a comeback. It's not the first song to celebrate a rebirth thanks to a movie.

In 1985, Kate Bush released her single "Running Up That Hill". The song was a foretaste of her album "Hounds Of Love", which became the most successful record of her career to date.

But now, almost four decades after the release of the ballad, which is about men and women not being able to understand each other, the artist can rejoice once again - with her first ever top ten single in the US Billboard charts . The song is currently at number 3.

In the American iTunes charts, "Running Up That Hill" even made it to the top. On Spotify, Bush's song was streamed six times more often than usual worldwide within three days.

And in her home country of Great Britain, Bush is now number 2 in the charts. The song has never been so high there.

More successful than when it was first released

Why is the song "Running Up That Hill" so popular again?

The Netflix series "Stranger Things" is to blame.

The mystery story is set in the 1980s and is also reminiscent of films from that decade that we watched and loved as children, such as "E.T.", "Gremlins" and "The Goonies".

Of course, the right soundtrack is a must. For the recently launched fourth season , the makers of "Stranger Things" chose "Running Up That Hill".

And the former hit is even more successful today than it was in the mid-1980s.

The 63-year-old singer, whose last album ("50 Words for Snow") was released in 2011, is delighted about this and thanked her fans in an online statement a few days ago: "This is all very exciting."

Rebirth thanks to a movie

"Running Up That Hill" is by no means the only song to have experienced a successful rebirth thanks to a TV series or a movie.

Thefollowing well-known songs have also become popular again:

In the latest "Batman" film, the hero appears broken and angry. So what could be more obvious than to use the song "Something In The Way" by Nirvana? The song can be found on the album "Nevermind", which was released in 1991.

With its slow, menacing mood, it was not worthy of being released as a single at the time. Instead, the song is now enjoying great success thanks to its friendly support on the big screen. In the first four days after the release of "The Batman" , streaming figures rose by a staggering 734 percent.

The first season of the Netflix series about the eponymous gang from Birmingham and the Shelby family premiered in 2013. The story, set in the 1920s and 1930s, quickly won many fans thanks to its dark look and matching music, especially "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

The song was released as a single on the album "Let Love In" on October 24, 1994. The song was also used for the first three films in the "Scream" trilogy and has been covered by the Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop and Snoop Dogg, among others.

The song "How To Save A Life" by The Fray became the signature song of "Grey's Anatomy" after the TV series' music supervisor saw a performance by the band The Fray.

The song was later used for the trailer and advertising for the third season. As a result, the track is now associated with the TV series and its popularity soared.

"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is an 80s rock classic. It is considered the band's best-known song. The song was part of the TV series "Glee " from the very beginning and appears in the first episode of the first season.

The song was later played repeatedly in the series, with the Glee version climbing higher in the charts than the original by Journey.

In 1996, the film "Trainspotting" by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor, was released in cinemas. Also included: the song "Perfect Day"by Lou Reed, the former frontman of the legendary rock band "Velvet Underground", from 1972.

Two decades after the release of the single, produced by David Bowie among others, "Trainspotting" helped it to new popularity in the 1990s.

With "Pulp Fiction", US director Quentin Tarantino not only created a film with cult status. The movie also gave the song "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry a revival.

The 1964 hit is played in a scene in which Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) compete against each other in a twist dance competition.

Richard Gere and Julia Roberts turned moviegoers' heads as lovers in the 1990 film "Pretty Woman". The movie also helped the song of the same name to new fame.

In 1964, US-American Roy Orbison released the single "Oh, Pretty Woman", which topped both the British and US charts for weeks.

In "Good Morning Vietnam", Hollywood actor Robin Williams plays an American soldier working as a radio presenter in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Louis Armstrong's soulful song "What A Wonderful World" from 1967 offers a stark contrast to the horrific images of war. It returned to the charts in 1988.