After Clarkson pointed out that Cher was the only musician to have number 1 songs over seven decades, the Grammy Award winner noted that she and the Rolling Stones actually shared the accomplishment.
“Two of us have,” Cher said. "“It took four of them to be one of me.”
Cher is savage
“Can I just say one other thing?” Cher asked. “I changed music forever with ‘Believe.'”
Yup.
I second this recommendation. Their most famous songs are also widely covered by lots of bands—not all of them good—who managed to release them as singles and b-sides like the New Dawn Fades cover by Moby or the 1998 Blue Monday cover by Orgy. Beyond that their music has been sampled by everyone from Kraftwerk to Rihanna.