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Running Up that Hill is een nummer van de Britse zangeres Kate Bush. Het nummer was de eerste single van haar album Hounds of Love uit 1985. Op 5 augustus van dat jaar werd het nummer eerst in Europa op single uitgebracht. Op 1 september volgden de VS en Canada, op 21 september Japan en op 29 september Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland.

"Running Up That Hill" (also titled "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)") is a song by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was released in the UK as the lead single from Bush's fifth studio album, Hounds of Love, on 5 August 1985 by EMI Records.

Bush wrote and produced "Running Up That Hill" using a Fairlight CMI synthesiser and a LinnDrum drum machine. The lyrics imagine a man and a woman who make "a deal with God" to exchange places. The music video features Bush performing an interpretive dance.

Bush debuted "Running Up That Hill" in a performance on the BBC1 talk show Wogan. On its first release, it reached number three on the UK singles chart, Bush's highest position since her number-one single "Wuthering Heights" in 1978. It also reached number 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was named among the year's best tracks by Melody Maker and was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 1986 Brit Awards. In 2021, Rolling Stone included it at number 60 in its updated list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

"Running Up That Hill" has been covered by acts including Placebo, Within Temptation, St Vincent, Chromatics and Meg Myers. A remix used in the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony reached number six. In 2022, after it was featured in the Netflix series Stranger Things, "Running Up That Hill" reached number one in eight countries, including the UK, and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022. In 2023, it reached a billion streams on Spotify.