R59 your troll game is weak
Madonna is not only the biggest selling female artist of all time but also the highest grossing in terms of her tours, although two of her highest grossing tours happened AFTER she was inducted, she also came from a rock background and played placed like Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club, CBGB'S etc
Also she's, despite not having a great voice which is inconsequential to the HOF as most male rockers in there have full on shit voices, the most critically acclaimed female artist of all time of all genres, she may be a bit of a joke now, but she has at least two bonafide classic albums that occupy every Greatest Albums of All Time list
Amd thats not including the critical acclaim she's received through her music videos, generally regarded as THE greatest if not one of music video artists of all time and her concert tours, again her Blond Ambition World Tour was even selected by Rolling Stone magazine as the best tour of the entire 90s decade
Whitney, Mariah, Janet, Celine, etc don't have that type of critical acclaim for their body of work, name one iconic Whitney Houston tour that's critically acclaimed and that's changed performance? See...
Also Madonna DID NOT want to go in as she felt she wasn't ready yet, there were reports after she was inducted that she was being bitchy at being inducted and wasn't even gonna show up at all, she didn't even perform but got Iggy Pop to sing for her , Madonna is notorious for turning down special awards and honors, their just not her thing, she's not an "awards" type person at all
Madonna was only the second woman to be inducted on their first year of eligibility after Aretha Franklin
Just to put her commercial success into perspective, Madonna outsold the ENTIRE roster of Sire records acts, about 100 different artists through the years, COMBINED
