Cher vehemently doesn’t need to be a member of any membership that doesn’t need her. The “Consider” legend stated so in no unsure phrases on Friday’s (Dec. 15) Kelly Clarkson Present, when the host requested how a legend who has scored No. 1 hits over seven many years is in some way not within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
With a sly smile, Cher corrected Clarkson’s declare that she’s the one act to ever have that form of chart dominance throughout the many years, noting that she’s not, technically, alone. “Two of us have,” Cher stated, with Clarkson replying, “Are you gonna say a band? Don’t say a band.”
“It’s a band,” Cher famous of her fellow chart champs the Rolling Stones, as Clarkson clarified that that doesn’t depend. “It took 4 of them to be considered one of me,” the 77-year-old icon added with a twinkle in her eye, prompting Kelly to leap out of her seat and clap. “And I’m not within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame!” Cher added.
After the studio viewers let loose a collective groan, Cher instructed them it was okay. “You realize what, I wouldn’t be in it now in the event that they gave me one million {dollars}. I’m not kidding you,” she stated, laughing that she virtually dropped an f-bomb in her reply.
“I’m by no means going to vary my thoughts. They’ll simply you-know-what themselves,” Cher stated to applause, whereas casually noting that she “modified music endlessly” together with her 1998 dance pop hit “Consider,” one of many best-selling singles of all time and the observe that’s extensively credited with introducing the world to AutoTune.
Cher’s first vacation hit, “DJ Play a Christmas Track,” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance/Digital Digital Track Gross sales chart final month (and topped the Grownup Up to date Chart this month), making her the primary feminine artist to have a prime hit for seven straight many years; that milestone put her in rarified air with the Stones, who’ve had a minimum of one new No. 1 hit on the Billboard charts in each many years between the Nineteen Sixties and 2020s.
A spokesperson for the RRHOF had not returned Billboard‘s request for remark at press time.
Cher’s first No. 1 hit was 1965’s “I Obtained You Babe” with late associate Sonny Bono and she or he has been eligible for induction into the Corridor of Fame since 1991.
Whereas Cher has not been nominated thus far, it’s price noting that final 12 months nation icon Dolly Parton was nominated fro the RRHOF and initially turned down the supply. She later accepted and was inducted in Nov. 2022 alongside Eminem, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon, Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis; she adopted up by releasing her all-star, chart-topping first rock album, Rockstar, album final month.
Watch Cher on the Kelly Clarkson Present under.
