Running up that hill: A 1985 classic is topping the streaming charts

6/2/22 8:00PM

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Kate Bush's song Running Up That Hill (Make a Deal with God) soared to the top of the streaming charts this week after featuring in the latest series of Stranger Things, Netflix's hit show about a group of teenagers who stumble across the supernatural.

After the show dropped on May 27th, it took only a day for the song to break into the Spotify Top 200 in the US, and by yesterday it had hit 2.3 million streams, good enough to dislodge As It Was by Harry Styles at the top of the charts. Last week the song was racking up just ~20,000 plays a day.

In the global charts, Running Up That Hill was at second place on Spotify's Top 200, clocking up more than 8 million streams (just on Spotify, which we found data for).

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JetBlue will reportedly hike its bag fees, as the cost of jet fuel continues to climb amid the war in Iran. It’s the latest example of carriers finding ways to push rising costs onto travelers.

Last week, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said that if fuel prices remain elevated, fares would need to rise another 20% for his airline to break even this year.

As CNBC reported, when one airline raises fees, others tend to follow.

Earlier this month, JetBlue hiked its first-quarter outlook for operating revenue per seat mile to between 5% and 7%, saying that strong Q1 demand helped “partially offset additional expenses realized from operational disruptions and rising fuel costs.” Now, the carrier appears to be making moves to further boost revenue to offset those costs.

Earlier on Monday, JetBlue rival Alaska Air lowered its Q1 profit forecast. The refining margins for the carrier’s cheapest fuel option — sourced from Singapore and representing about 20% of Alaska’s overall supply — have spiked 400% since February.

JetBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment.