Congratulations to this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees! 🤩 - American Idol

Finally after ALL these years…Foreigner! 🎸Congrats to all. 🎉

A Tribe Called Quest, Mary J Blige, and Kool and the Gang?! YES! 🎉😀

Big Mama Thornton, long overdue! Cher, Foreigner, Ozzy...I mean about time Congrats everyone!

Some of these inductees are just crazy considering all those who are not yet in the hall of fame. Like: Jim Croce, Sting, Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, Motley Crue, INXS, Billy Idol, Don Henley, Queensryche, Ratt, Megadeth, Tool, The Cranberries, Mana, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Alanis Morissette, Korn, Kid Rock, Slaughter, Mike and the Mechanics, Starship, Pantera, Dokken, Tears For Fears, Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister, Eddie Money, Quiet Riot, Motorhead, Boston, Styx, Ted Nugent, The J. Geils band, The Commodores, and on and on.

Congratulations DMB!!!! I know how much it meant to them after the last few years! Well deserved!

Foreigner is especially overdue!!😊

Foreigner!! Hell Yeah!

So glad foreigner is in finally! 😊

A Tribe Called Quest indeed ❗

❤ Foreigner!!!!!! They have been waiting forever!!!!!

At 8:29 I just heard the new inductees of the rock and roll people and bands were ....every last one of them deserve this honor ..foreigner I thought our group was already there .,..and I'm glad they are doing something fur Jimmy Buffet😅

They should change the name to all genres hall of fame. Literally theres hiphop and R&B added to the group. They might aswell add country, classical and opera to the mix too! So many rock groups from the 70s and 80s havent been inducted yet and it seems like they only make the cut if they're really old or have passed away. Really sad

The only one that really matters. The Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne 🤘🤘

MC5: "and right now it's time to...."

This woman shaped my style. Congrats to the incomparable MJB .

Still waiting for Weird Al to join Hall of Fame.

It seems like Cher is long overdue because at first glance, she’s this pop culture icon who’s been famous since the 60s. In the 60s, however, she was famous for her variety show. Additionally, “Sonny and Cher” is considered a separate entity than “Cher” as a solo artist. The fame she achieved as a member of Sonny & Cher (and her variety show) can’t have any influence in her indictment as a solo artist. The qualification to be inducted is a minimum of 25 years has to pass from the first album. And In that time, the artist(s) must have a social and cultural impact, success, and no long periods of inactivity. While she did technically release her first solo album in 1966, it didn’t take off and was more of a side project. By the 70s, she was relatively gone from the public eye. I’d say she found her way as a solo artist in the late 80s during the “I Found Someone/If I Could Turn Back Time” era. Cher’s biggest hit is “Believe” which was released in 1998. It’s unusual for an artist who’s been around since the 60s to have their most successful song be 3 decades later. This supports the notion that she started getting serious about her solo career in the late 80s when she signed with Geffen. Then, there’s always a longer waiting period for artists who are not clear-cut rock n’ roll. For example, the Backstreet Boys achieved fame in the late 90s being the first boy band since NKoTB and started a chain that led to One Direction, 98 Degrees, Nsync. They wouldn’t get in their first year eligible since their not clearly defined rock music. Add 20 years to the 25. Cher waned toward being bubblegum pop and soft rock. So, if we start the clock at 1987, then 2012 would be 25 years. Add a few years to that for not being clearly defined rock n’ roll. So, her inducement now seems about right.

So why is Mary J Blige in this early? Also, Cher should have been in a long time ago...now I want to check who is in and who's not

Sad that Mariah Carey is not inducted to the hall of fame this year, maybe next year

Cher🎉