Running Up That Hill’s three week run atop the chart - inspired by its use in multiple episodes of the fourth season of Netflix’s hugely popular Stranger Things sci-fi/horror series – is over as it returns to ACR. It is, however, No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart, where ACR and primary artist rules don’t apply, for the fifth straight week with unadjusted consumption of 66,332 units (3,848 digital downloads, the rest from sales-equivalent streams) – an increase of 2.03% week-on-week thanks to renewed interest after the last two episodes of the current series of Stranger Things dropped. Its digital era consumption, since it was made available in that medium in January 2005 – climbs to 1,059,371 (1,796 copies of a 2013 10-inch picture disc, 258,917 digital downloads, the rest from streaming). The original release of Running Up That Hill was certified silver – then for 250,000 sales – in November 1985, and if these are added to its digital era consumption it has a tally well in excess of 1.2m, making it double platinum.
Still, keep those streams and doolars coming in Kate.
