After her 1985 song Running Up That Hill was used in Netflix’s Stranger Things, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush experienced tremendous success this month.
The 63-year-old was well-known in the 1980s, but owing to the sci-fi series, she has a tonne of new youthful followers who adore her.
The song currently receives over a million Spotify streams each day, and experts tell The Sun that she makes over £250,000 per week from it.
The vocalist of Running Up That Hill recently earned its second week at the top of the UK charts and dubbed the entire experience “amazing” and “exciting.”
THE NET WORTH OF KATE BUSH
Kate Bush, one of the biggest musicians of the 1980s, is estimated to have a net worth of £60 million in 2022 by Celebrity Net Worth. This wealth has been collected throughout the course of her very successful music career.
Although she no longer performs, she has nevertheless produced 10 studio albums and 36 singles, 25 of which reached the Top 40.
With her debut track Wuthering Heights, which topped the UK Singles Charts for four weeks in 1978 when she was just 19 years old, she became the first female musician to earn a UK Number 1.
Additionally, she was the first female musician from Britain to enter the UK album chart at number one and became the top-charting female solo artist.
In addition to being recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music and being named a CBE in 2013, Kate has been nominated for 13 Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.
ESTIMATED weekly musician earnings are £250,000.
The musician is reportedly making more than £250,000 per week as a result of the song’s revival, a music insider told The Sun.
“Due to its recovery, Kate is on track to deposit a seven-figure sum. Since she wrote it and owns all publishing and licencing rights, almost all of the money goes to her, according to the source.
Given the song’s popularity, Kate will likely be making £250,000 every week, and if things continue as they are, she’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Kate Bush is the only owner of all rights to the song, including the whole recording copyright. Since the song is unlicensed, she is entitled to all royalties and earnings.
MUSICIAN REACTS TO THE SUCCESS OF STRANGER THINGS
The 63-year-old actor, who no longer gives interviews, made an exception to talk about her triumph on Stranger Things.
It’s really incredible, she stated on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. It really is a fantastic series. I anticipated that the track would receive some attention, but I never anticipated anything this intense.
It’s really thrilling. Really, it’s very shocking, isn’t it? Before thanking everyone for listening to the song, she stated, “The whole world’s gone wild.
The most “amazing” aspect, according to Kate, is that “this is a whole new audience who in many cases haven’t heard of me, and I adore that,” she continued.
“I think it’s incredibly amazing to think about all these young people hearing this music for the first time and discovering it.”
Before stating that she had “already watched the series,” she said that she like the song’s placement and the way it was “utilised in such a nice way.”