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Kate Bush

1958 - Today

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Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and record producer. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. Bush has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and "King of the Mountain". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kate Bush has received more than 8,117,288 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Kate Bush is the 107th most popular singer (down from 79th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 392nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Singer.

Kate Bush is a British singer-songwriter and musician. She is most famous for her song "Wuthering Heights" which was released in 1978.

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  • 8.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Gunge, flan-flinging and... Kate Bush?
Watch as an incredibly sensible 20 year old Kate Bush is interviewed on TV's maddest show
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calendar Sunday, June 19, 2022
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Other songs by Kate Bush that should be #1
Off Topic Sunday is here, and the off topic today is Kate Bush. You may have already heard the good news: 37 years after its release, Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill has hit number one in the UK charts after being featured on the 80s-centric Netflix show Str…
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calendar Sunday, June 19, 2022
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Cher praises Kate Bush for breaking her record as oldest woman to hit No1 with Running Up That Hill
Cher has congratulated Kate Bush for breaking her record as the oldest woman to reach number one in the UK Official Singles Chart amid the renewed success of song Running Up That Hill.
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calendar Saturday, June 18, 2022
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Kate Bush thanks Stranger Things as she celebrates record-breaking success
Kate Bush has thanked Stranger Things after her 1985 classic “Running Up That Hill” broke multiple records decades after its first release.
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calendar Sunday, June 19, 2022

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Kate Bush ranks 107 out of 3,541. Before her are Rihanna, Robin Gibb, John Lee Hooker, Alla Pugacheva, Françoise Hardy, and Harry Belafonte. After her are Peter Gabriel, Klaus Meine, Gloria Gaynor, Georges Moustaki, Teresa Teng, and Enya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Kate Bush ranks 14. Before her are Sharon Stone, Viggo Mortensen, Michelle Pfeiffer, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Prince, and Mehmet Ali Ağca. After her are Ice-T, Alec Baldwin, Marie Fredriksson, Quique Setién, Tim Robbins, and Bruce Dickinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kate Bush ranks 501 out of 6,924. Before her are Arthur Balfour (1848), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Nicholas Winton (1909), Banksy (1970), Benjamin Graham (1894), and Eadwig (940). After her are Eadred (923), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Christopher Nolan (1970), and George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859).

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Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Kate Bush ranks 14. Before her are Rod Stewart (1945), George Michael (1963), Ian Gillan (1945), Bonnie Tyler (1951), Robert Plant (1948), and Morrissey (1959). After her are Peter Gabriel (1950), Annie Lennox (1954), Bruce Dickinson (1958), Tom Jones (1940), Eric Burdon (1941), and Susan Boyle (1961).

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