Song · Meg Myers
“Running Up That Hill” by Meg Myers
Released 2019
“Running Up That Hill” by Meg Myers appears on 12 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2019 and 2026. It was first released in 2019. Its best result is #2 on the 101X Top 25 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #10 alternative song of 2019, #5,065 alternative song of all time, #385 of the '10s and #68 of the '20s.
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Meg Myers' 2019 cover of "Running Up That Hill" takes on Kate Bush's 1985 song, the lead single from Hounds of Love, about a man and a woman who strike a bargain with God to trade places. Plenty of acts have tried it, from Placebo to St Vincent, and Myers handed nearly everything but the vocal to Christian Langdon, who produced, mixed and engineered the track and played bass, guitar, piano, synthesizer and percussion himself.
Bush built her original around a Fairlight and a LinnDrum; this version swaps the icy precision for heat. Myers sings it with a raw, pleading edge, leaning into the ache of the bargain rather than its mystery, and the arrangement swells around her like a storm rolling in.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 21 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019 | 91 |
| 2019 | 17 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 50 Songs of 2019 | 50 |
| 2019 | 43 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
| 2019 | 46 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2019 | 9 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2019 | 51 |
| 2019 | 28 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2019 | 50 |
| 2020 | 5 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 | 91 |
| 2020 | 9 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 93 Songs of 2020 | 93 |
| 2020 | 35 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2020 | 88 |
| 2020 | 2 | 101X Austin, TX | 101X Top 25 Songs of 2020 | 25 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 333 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2026 | 376 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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