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The Red Shoes by Kate Bush
The Red Shoes is an album by Kate Bush, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Eat The Music”, on 8 lists with a best position of #457.
The Red Shoes, Kate Bush's seventh studio album, came out on EMI in November 1993, produced by Bush herself, as every record of hers had been since The Dreaming. It arrived with her own short film, The Line, the Cross and the Curve, and then she stepped away: it was the last album she would release before a 12-year silence that ended with Aerial.
It's her brightest, most openly pop record, all bold hooks and springy rhythms, from the elastic bounce of "Rubberband Girl" to the sunny strut of "Eat the Music", with "Lily" and "Big Stripey Lie" poking into stranger corners. It reached number two in the UK and went platinum there, and it climbed to number 28 in America, at the time her best showing on the Billboard 200. "Eat the Music" later got a fresh 10-inch pressing for Record Store Day in 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Red Shoes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat The Music | 8 | #457 | – | 1999–2005 | |
| 2 | Rubberband Girl | 5 | #62 | – | 1993–2021 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.