

Bush also became the first female artist to have eight albums on the charts simultaneously in the UK.

It also hit #1 in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Italy, and was a smash right across the world except in the US where we were grooving to music coming out of the movie, Saturday Night Fever. Written by Kate when she was eighteen, the single flew to the Number One spot in 1978 and stayed there for four weeks. However else you feel about the song, “Wuthering Heights,” it made its singer/songwriter, Kate Bush, the first female solo artist to top the UK charts with a self-composed song. If you’re not expecting it, her voice can be a bit of a shock (scroll down to the video):
