What was the first album release for Kate Bush in the 80's?

The first album Kate Bush released in the 1980s was Never for Ever. Issued by EMI on 8 September 1980, it was her third studio album, following The Kick Inside and Lionheart in the late 1970s.

Never for Ever marked a major creative step for Bush. She co-produced it with engineer Jon Kelly and expanded her sound with synthesizers, drum machines and the Fairlight CMI, while still combining art rock, pop, orchestral writing and theatrical storytelling. Its songs included “Babooshka,” “Breathing” and “Army Dreamers.”

The album was also a landmark commercially. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, making Bush the first British female solo artist to top that chart and the first female solo artist to enter it at number one with a studio album.

A frequent confusion is with The Dreaming, released in 1982. That was Bush's next album and the first she produced entirely by herself. Never for Ever is the correct answer for her first album release of the 1980s.