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Hounds of Love by Kate Bush
Hounds of Love is an album by Kate Bush, released in 1985. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 30 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hounds of Love”, on 16 lists with a best position of #62.
Hounds of Love, Kate Bush's fifth album, came out on EMI on 16 September 1985, produced by Bush herself, with Abbey Road and Windmill Lane among the studios. After The Dreaming had stalled at the tills, she came roaring back with a record split clean down the middle. Side one is a string of singles: "Running Up That Hill", her biggest hit, plus "Cloudbusting", the title track and "The Big Sky", all thundering drums, keening vocals and synths that sound like weather rolling in.
Side two, The Ninth Wave, is something else entirely: a suite about a woman adrift alone in the sea at night, eerie and immersive, the kind of gamble few pop stars would take. The album went to the top of the UK chart and remains her best-selling studio record, and in 2022 Stranger Things sent "Running Up That Hill" around the world all over again.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Hounds of Love on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hounds of Love | 16 | #62 | – | 1999–2025 | |
| 2 | Cloudbusting | 13 | #16 | – | 1985–2026 | |
| 3 | The Big Sky | 1 | #331 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.