Harry Stylesβ βAs It Wasβ Keeps Atop Billboard Hot 100, Kate Bushβs βRunning Up That Hillβ Hits Top Five
Bush's 1985 classic tops the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, sparked by its "Stranger Things" sync.
By Gary Trust
06/13/2022
Harry Stylesβ βAs It Wasβ adds a sixth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. It launched at No. 1 in April.
Concurrently, Kate Bushβs 1985 classic βRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)β surges to No. 4 on the Hot 100, a week after it re-entered at No. 8 β far surpassing its prior No. 30 peak and becoming Bushβs first top 10 on the chart β sparked by its sync in the new fourth season of Netflixβs Stranger Things. The song is the top-selling and most-streamed title in the U.S., as it tops the Digital Song Sales chart for a second week and rises to No. 1 on Streaming Songs.
βHillβ also completes the longest run to the Hot 100βs top five in terms of years from a debut to the top five β 36 years, nine months, and two weeks β for a non-holiday hit in the chartβs 63-year history.
Elsewhere, Jack Harlowβs βFirst Class,β at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at the summit, takes over as the most-heard song on the radio, rising to the top of the Radio Songs chart, and Post Maloneβs βI Like You (A Happier Song),β featuring Doja Cat, debuts at No. 9 on the Hot 100.
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βAs It Was,β released on Erskine/Columbia Records, tallied 75.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%), 25 million streams (down 9%), and 6,900 downloads sold (up 6%) in the June 3-9 tracking week.
The track dips to No. 2 after four weeks atop the Radio Songs chart; slips 2-3 after two weeks atop Streaming Songs; and lifts 6-4 on Digital Song Sales, following a week in the top spot.
βAs It Wasβ concurrently crowns the Songs of the Summer chart for a second week, after the seasonal ranking, which tracks the top titles between Memorial Day and Labor Day, returned a week ago.
Jack Harlowβs βFirst Classβ keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It rises 2-1 on Radio Songs (79.3 million, up 8%), becoming the rapperβs first leader on the list. (The song that it interpolates, Fergieβs βGlamorous,β featuring Ludacris, spent two weeks atop the Hot 100 and reached No. 3 on Radio Songs in 2007.)
βFirst Classβ concurrently cruises at No. 1 for an eighth on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.
Futureβs βWait for U,β featuring Drake and Tems, is likewise steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1.
Kate Bushβs βRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)β bounds to No. 4 on the Hot 100, a week after it re-entered at No. 8 β blasting past its prior No. 30 high, reached in 1985 when it was first released β fueled by its sync in Netflixβs Stranger Things. The fourth season of the β80s-set show, which premiered May 27, incorporates the song in multiple episodes, serving as a recurring theme for the character of Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink. (Bush is a fan of the series, and, in a rare move for her music, approved the songβs usage in it.)
βHillβ drew 29 million streams (up 65%) and 2.4 million airplay impressions among Radio Songs reporters (up 519%) and sold 22,200 downloads (up 21%) in the June 3-9 tracking week. It spends a second week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales and rises to No. 1 on Streaming Songs, marking Bushβs first leader on each list, while winning top Sales and Streaming Gainer honors on the Hot 100.
Notably, βHillβ wraps the longest run to the Hot 100βs top five in terms of years from a debut on the chart to the top five β 36 years, nine months, and two weeks β for a non-holiday hit in the listβs 63-year history, and the third-longest such rise overall.
Longest Climbs to the Hot 100βs Top Five (from debut date):
61 years, two weeks: βJingle Bell Rock,β Bobby Helms, Dec. 22, 1958-Jan. 4, 2020
59 years, one week: βRockinβ Around the Christmas Tree,β Brenda Lee, Dec. 12, 1960-Dec. 21, 2019
36 years, nine months, two weeks: βRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God),β Kate Bush, Sept. 7, 1985-June 18, 2022
19 years: βAll I Want for Christmas Is You,β Mariah Carey, Jan. 8, 2000-Jan. 5, 2019
16 years, three months, two weeks: βBohemian Rhapsody,β Queen, Jan. 3, 1976-April 18, 1992
Three of the songs above are holiday tracks, spurred in recent years by the growth of streaming, while Queenβs classic, like Bushβs, benefited from its own sync, in the 1992 box office hit Wayneβs World.
βHillβ is Bushβs first top-five Hot 100 hit β having outperformed her prior No. 30 career high during the songβs original run. It was first released on her 1985 album Hounds of Love, which soars 28-12 as the Greatest Gainer on the Billboard 200 albums chart (27,000 equivalent album units, up 59%), likewise granting Bush a new personal best on the survey.
Meanwhile, as Bush solely wrote, produced, and performs βHill,β the song is the first top-five Hot 100 hit by a solo singer, writer, and producer and no accompanying credited talents since Hozierβs βTake Me to Church,β which hit No. 2 in December 2014. Before that, Pharrell Williams self-performed, -penned, and -produced βHappyβ dominated for 10 weeks beginning in March 2014. βHillβ is the first such top five hit by a female artist in nearly 18 years, since Alicia Keysβ βIf I Ainβt Got Youβ reached No. 4 in July 2004.
βHillβ concurrently climbs to No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, becoming Bushβs first leader on each ranking.
Lizzoβs βAbout Damn Timeβ backtracks to No. 5 from its No. 4 Hot 100 high, as it claims the chartβs top Airplay Gainer trophy for a second week (50.4 million in audience, up 22%). It tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a fourth week.
Glass Animalsβ βHeat Wavesβ falls 5-6 on the Hot 100, after five weeks at No. 1; Lattoβs βBig Energyβ slides 6-7, after reaching No. 3; and Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleoneβs βMe Porto Bonitoβ drops to No. 8 from its No. 7 best, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart for a fourth week.
Post Maloneβs βI Like You (A Happier Song),β featuring Doja Cat, debuts at No. 9 on the Hot 100. The song β from the formerβs new album Twelve Carat Toothache, which opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 β starts at No. 6 on Streaming Songs (18.9 million streams) and No. 10 on Digital Song Sales (4,100 sold); it also drew 5.6 million in radio reach in the tracking week.
Post Malone adds his 11th Hot 100 top 10, as well as his 22nd on Streaming Songs and his 14th on Digital Song Sales. Doja Cat ups her totals to five, seven, and seven top 10s on the respective charts.
Capping the Hot 100βs top 10, Bad Bunnyβs βTitΓ Me PreguntΓ³β rebounds 11-10, after it debuted at its No. 5 high four weeks earlier; the track, and βMe Porto Bonito,β at No. 8, are from his LP Un Verano Sin Ti, which returns for a second week atop the Billboard 200, becoming the first all-Spanish-language album ever to have reigned for multiple weeks.
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