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Hounds of love is het 5e album van singer-songwriter Kate Bush en dateert uit 1985.

Het was het tweede album van Kate Bush dat de nummer 1-positie behaalde in de Britse hitlijsten en het is haar best verkopende studioalbum aldaar.

In Nederland behaalde het album eveneens de nummer 1-positie in de Album Top 100 en stond het in de top 40 van de Verenigde Staten.

Het album bevat een aantal van haar grootste hits. Running up that hill, Cloudbusting, Hounds of love en The big sky veroverden alle een plek in de top 40 van de UK Singles Chart. In de Nederlandse Top 40 verschenen de singles Running up that hill op no. 6 en Cloudbusting op no. 11.

Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by the English musician Kate Bush, released on 16 September 1985 by EMI Records. It was a commercial and artistic success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively low sales of her previous album, 1982's The Dreaming. The album's lead single, "Running Up That Hill", became one of Bush's biggest hits, giving Bush her second UK number-one single in June 2022. The album's first side produced three further singles, "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love", and "The Big Sky". The second side, subtitled The Ninth Wave, forms a conceptual suite about a woman drifting alone in the sea at night.

Hounds of Love received critical acclaim in both contemporary and retrospective reviews. It is considered by many fans and music critics to be Bush's best album, and has been regularly voted one of the greatest albums of all time. It was Bush's second album to top the UK Albums Chart, and in the US it reached the top 40 on the Billboard 200. Hounds of Love is Bush's best-selling studio album, having been certified double platinum for 600,000 sales in the UK, and by 1998 it had sold 1.1 million copies worldwide. The album was nominated at the 1986 Brit Awards for Best British Album, at which Bush was also nominated for Best British Female and Best British Single for "Running Up That Hill". In 2022, the album re-entered various charts, including reaching number one on the Billboard Top Alternative Albums, due to the appearance of "Running Up That Hill" in the Netflix series Stranger Things.