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The Official Charts Company ( previously known as the Chart Information Network ( CIN ) The Official UK Charts Company and also referred to Official Charts ) is a British inter - professional organisation that compiles various " official " ___MASK40___ charts in the ___MASK5___ , including the UK Singles Chart , the UK Albums Chart , the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK ___MASK33___ Downloads Chart , as well as genre - specific and music video charts . The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Millward Brown , and claims to cover 99 % of the singles market and 95 % of the ___MASK33___ market , and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week . Catherine " Kate " Bush , CBE ( born 30 July 1958 ) is an ___MASK60___ singer - songwriter , musician and record producer . She first came to note in 1978 when , at the age of 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 . She has since released twenty - five UK Top 40 singles , including the top ten 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 ". She has released ten studio albums , all of which reached the UK Top 10 , including the UK number - one albums " Never for Ever " ( 1980 ) and " Hounds of Love " ( 1985 ). She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at number - one . Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most - popular songs in a particular genre . When used without qualification it refers to the best - selling or most frequently broadcast popular music . The term is derived from ___MASK40___ music charts , a few of which traditionally consist of a total of 40 songs . Top 40 is also an alternative term for the radio format of such music , also known as Contemporary hit radio . Peter Brian Gabriel ( born 13 February 1950 ) is an ___MASK60___ singer - songwriter , musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis . After leaving Genesis in 1975 , Gabriel launched a solo career , with " Solsbury Hill " his first single . His 1986 album , " So ", is his best - selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U . S . The album ' s most successful single , " Sledgehammer ", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and remains the most played music video in the history of MTV . " Sat in Your Lap " ( 1981 ) is a song by the ___MASK60___ musician Kate Bush . It was the first single to be released from her fourth album " The Dreaming " ( 1982 ), though it was issued 15 months prior to the album , which was nowhere near completion at that time . The single peaked at no . 11 in the UK Singles Chart . Never for Ever is the third ___MASK94___ by the ___MASK60___ singer Kate Bush . Released in September 1980 , it was Bush ' s first no . 1 album and was also the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top the UK album chart , as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at no . 1 . It has since been certified Gold by the BPI . It features the UK Top 20 singles " Breathing ", " Army Dreamers " and " Babooshka ", which was one of Bush ' s biggest hits . Bush co - produced the album with Jon Kelly . " Running Up That Hill " is a song by the ___MASK60___ singer - songwriter Kate Bush . It was the first single from her 1985 album , " Hounds of Love ", released in the United Kingdom on 5 August 1985 . It was her first 12 " single . It was the most successful of Bush ' s 1980s releases , entering the UK chart at number 9 and eventually peaking at number 3 , her second - highest single peak . The single also had an impact in the United States , providing Bush with her first chart hit there since 1978 , where it reached the top 30 and featured prominently in the Dance Charts . Bush also performed the song with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd at the . The song ' s title for " Hounds of Love " and all subsequent releases was " Running Up That Hill ( A Deal with God )." Hounds of Love is the fifth ___MASK94___ by the ___MASK60___ singer - songwriter and musician Kate Bush , released by ___MASK20___ Records on 16 September 1985 . It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively poor sales of her previous album , " The Dreaming ". It was Bush ' s second album to top the UK Albums Chart and her best - selling ___MASK94___ , having been certified double platinum for 600 , 000 sales in the UK , and by 1998 it had sold 1 . 1 million copies worldwide . In the US , it reached the top 40 on the " Billboard " 200 . The album ' s lead single , " Running Up That Hill ", became one of Bush ' s biggest hits , and it produced three further successful singles , " Cloudbusting ", " Hounds of Love ", and " The Big Sky ", all taken from the album ' s first side . The second side , subtitled " The Ninth Wave ", forms a conceptual suite about a person drifting alone in the sea at night . `` The Dreaming '' is the title song from Kate Bush ' s fourth ___MASK94___ The Dreaming and was released a single on 26 July ___MASK10___ . Bush had n ' t released a single since `` Sat in Your Lap '' thirteen months earlier . `` The Dreaming '' made it to # 48 on the UK Singles Chart . The song is about the destruction of Aboriginal homelands by white Australians in their quest for weapons - grade uranium . Musical guest Rolf Harris plays the didgeridoo on the recording . Bird impersonator Percy Edwards provided sheep noises . The original title for the track was `` The Abo Song '' , which unwittingly made use of a racial slur ; promotional 12 `` copies were circulated before being recalled . An alternative version of '' The Dreaming `` , entitled '' Dreamtime `` , was used as the UK single b - side . It is usually referred to as an instrumental version of '' The Dreaming `` . This is not strictly true in that while the track omits all the sung lead vocal lyrics it still retains most of the backing vocals such as the stretched dreamtime harmonies heard during the chorus . It is also of note that '' Dreamtime `` contains both an extended intro and outro . It starts with approximately 4 bars of double - tracked didgeridoo drone before the original arrangement comes in and finishes with approximately 30 seconds of the same following a breakdown of the original arrangement . The ___MASK5___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK5___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the ___MASK60___ Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . " The Man with the Child in His Eyes " is a song by Kate Bush . It is the fifth track on her debut ___MASK33___ " The Kick Inside " and was released as her second single , on the ___MASK20___ label , in 1978 . The ___MASK68___ ( currently entitled Official Singles Chart ) is compiled by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ), on behalf of the British ___MASK40___ industry , listing the top - selling singles in the ___MASK5___ , based upon physical sales , paid - for downloads and streaming . To be eligible for the chart , a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ) as either a ' single bundle ' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one ___MASK39___ audio track not longer than 15 minutes with a minimum sale price of 40 pence . The rules have changed many times as technology has developed , the most notable being the inclusion of ___MASK39___ downloads in 2005 and streaming in 2014 .