The Grammy award–winning singer called out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for never inducting her despite the fact that she’s one of only two artists to have at least one No. 1 single in each of the past seven decades.
“Two of us have,” Cher said while visiting The Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday, before revealing that she and the Rolling Stones share that record. Still, she added, “It took four of them to be one of me.”
But even with all of her chart success, the music institution has failed to recognize her. “I’m not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!” Cher exclaimed as host Kelly Clarkson and the crowd voiced their collective shock over the news.
The lack of even a nomination to the Hall of Fame was particularly shocking considering the icon's numerous accomplishments and shockingly long career.
Artists are eligible to be nominated for admission into the Hall of Fame 25 years after their first recording, and the Burlesque actress has been recording since the early 1960s, though it wouldn't be until the middle of the decade that she released a song under her own name, rather than a stage name.
The songstress (born Cherilyn Sarkisian) would therefore have been eligible since at least 1990, if not earlier, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has instead snubbed her for more than 30 years.
Earlier this month she became only the second artist to score a number one hit in each of the last seven decades after her holiday single DJ Play A Christmas Song topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales.
Leaning in to the ridiculousness of being snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame even though she's more than proved her worthiness at this point, she offered them some choice words, should they ever come to their senses, saying, "You know what, I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars . . . I’m never going to change my mind. They can just go you-know-what themselves.”
To date, Cher has never been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tells FOX 8 it has no comment on the matter.
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