It’s been awhile since I last wrote about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class — the class of 2013 in February, to be exact. My plan with the Hall of Fame series is to cover all of the inductee classes back to the first one in 1983.

Before I move on to the class of 2012, however, I need to acknowledge the newest Rock Hall inductees from 2022 and 2023. Over the next three weeks, I’ll feature the most recent 14 artists inducted into the Hall in the Performers category.

Starting alphabetically with the 2023 class, we kick things off with English art pop singer-songwriter Kate Bush. Bush has been eligible for the Hall since 2004 and was first nominated in 2018. She was nominated three more times in ’21, ’22, and ’23 before finally making the cut.

It seems likely Bush was aided by the profile boost she received from her classic ‘Running Up That Hill’ being included in Season Four of Stranger Things. The song made it to #3 on the Hot 100 nearly 40 years after its initial release, giving Bush the biggest hit of her career.

Given her eclectic style, Bush has been more commercially successful than I would have guessed, especially in the UK. Almost every one of her releases has gone gold or platinum in multiple countries. Even absent that level of popularity, she is worthy of Hall of Fame inclusion for the influence she has had on a laundry list of performers. Those include obvious ones like Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bjork, and Annie Lennox, as well as artists such as Prince, Metallica, and The Weeknd.

While I’ve never really gotten into Bush’s music, I do find the Hounds of Love album excellent from start to finish. That record alone should put her in the Hall of Fame.