"Stranger Things" Season 5 Vol. 1 soundtrack includes Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," Diana Ross' "Upside Down," Michael Jackson's "Rockin' Robin."

This week's Trending Up looks at the big gains for new synchs in the Netflix smash's much-anticipated fifth season, as well as some very different new viral TikTok hits.

In Hawkins, monsters may take kids, but nothing survives an ’80s power ballad. Four episodes into Stranger Things Season 5, and Volume 1 is already blasting nostalgia.

Here’s all the music featured so far in Stranger Things Season 5: Squawk Radio DJ Song 3, montage, repeats, end credits. Discussion about being worried about Eleven. Used during the Demogorgon attack as it targets Holly. The group realises Vecna may have taken another victim. The team further pieces together that Vecna has captured someone else.

Below are three songs that would have been great inclusions in Stranger Things' first four seasons, but didn't make the cut.

This post contains major spoilers for Stranger Things 5, Volume 1 and Max’s fate in it. If you don’t want to see them before you running up that hill, go watch and then come back down.

Deadline spoke with Sadie Sink and Caleb McLaughlin about what's going on with Max since she nearly succumbed to Vecna, which is revealed in Season 5

The twist reframes the rules of Vecna’s power, transforms Holly Wheeler ( Nell Fisher) into an unexpected linchpin, and creates a direct bridge between the trauma of Season 4 and the psychological battleground of the final chapter.

The good news for "Stranger Things" fans upon the release of Season 5's first batch of episodes: Sadie Sink's comatose Max Mayfield is still with us.

Sadie Sink's "Stranger Things" character Max Mayfield's fate is in limbo - and Season 5 gives us some answers.