While most Number 1 hits show their chart-topping potential from the off, going in high and burning bright, some songs prefer to take the slow and steady approach...
Thanks to its placement in the most recent season of Netflix's Stranger Things, Running Up That Hill (the lead single from Bush's fifth studio album Hounds of Love) managed to ride a viral wave to the top of the Official Singles Chart...37 years after its original release.
It gave Bush the record for the longest time ever a song has taken to ascend to Number 1. Charting upon the release of Ed's second album X, and not an official single straightaway, Thinking out Loud didn't leave the Top 40, hanging around while a different single was promoted – Don't, to be precise – before finally taking centre-stage after a record 19 weeks – the longest a song has spent in the Top 40 (on consecutive weeks) before reaching Number 1.
See Thinking out Loud's record-breaking chart run The definition of a slow burn, Céline's haunting, emotional ballad took a while to find the public's ear in 1994, but soon good old word of mouth and increased radio play did its job.
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