Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ Is Back At No. 1 on Top TV Songs Chart

Surprise, surprise: A new season of Stranger Things equals a strong showing on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), with multiple songs dotting the November 2025 tally, led again by Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).”

Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of November 2025.

“Running Up That Hill” previously reigned on the Top TV Songs rankings in May and June 2022, buoyed by its synch in season four of Stranger Things. That needle drop led to the 1985 track returning to multiple weekly Billboard charts that spring and summer, driving it all the way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated July 30, 2022.

With the premiere of the first four episode of Stranger Things’ fifth season, its final edition, on Nov. 26, “Running Up That Hill” makes a comeback after multiple appearances in the season so far. That drives it back to No. 1 on Top TV Songs thanks to 14.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams earned and 3,000 downloads sold in November 2025, according to Luminate.

Concurrently, “Running Up That Hill” returned to the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart dated Dec. 6 at No. 15 and rose to No. 8 the following week.

In all, Stranger Things accounts for seven of the Top TV Songs chart’s 10 positions for November. The others aren’t repeats like “Running Up That Hill,” led by Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now,” which bows at No. 2 (4.9 million streams, 1,000 downloads) 38 years after the song reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1987.

Music from Stranger Things should also figure heavily into the December 2025 tally; three more episodes air on Dec. 25, followed by the series finale on Dec. 31.

The other three songs that reach the latest Top TV Songs survey are from three different series (though two are from the same creator, Taylor Sheridan). Tulsa King is the highest non-Stranger Things entry thanks to Five Finger Death Punch’s cover of Bad Company’s “Bad Company” (4.5 million streams, 1,000 downloads), followed by Wet Leg’s “mangetout” from Heated Rivalry (No. 6; 1.5 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and Benjamin Tod’s “Wyoming” from Landman (No. 8; 364,000 streams, 1,000 downloads).

See the full top 10 below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)