The Resume

(January 25, 1938-January 20, 2012)
Sang 'W-O-M-A-N,' 'All I Could Do Was Cry,' 'At Last,' 'Tell Mama' and 'I'd Rather Go Blind'
Member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1993)

Why she might be annoying:

Her mother was 15 when she gave birth to her.
She was nicknamed 'Miss Peaches.'
She was heavily addicted to drugs in the 70s and 80s.
Her voice did not held up well over time.

Why she might not be annoying:

She was inducted in the Blues Hall Of Fame (2001).
She once opened for The Rolling Stones in the 1970s.
She overcame her heavy drug addiction.
She ranked #19 on VH1's Top 100 Women of Rock & Roll.

Credit: Voice of Fashion

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Belters
• Black Heavyweights
• Blues Musicians
• Burt Bacharach Wrote My Song
• Entertainment Weekly's 50 Greatest Love Songs [Performer] (Ranked: 14)
• Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album (Ranked: 2004)
• Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Ranked: 1995)
• Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album (Ranked: 2005)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 2003)
• I am an Angelino [Residents of Los Angeles]
• I Covered Arthur Hamilton's 'Cry Me a River'
• I Covered Eden Ahbez's 'Nature Boy'
• I Covered 'I'll Be Seeing You'
• I Covered 'One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)'
• I Died in 2012 (Ranked: 73)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[J-L]
• I Performed on American Bandstand [E-K]
• I Sing About Imagination
• I'm a Bastard
• I'm Buried at Inglewood Memorial Park [Calif]
• Little People [5'3 and Shorter] - Female A-K
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• MCA's 20th Century Master Artists
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• My Song is on Rhino's 'Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America'
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2008)
• New Musical Express' Top Albums [1980] (Ranked: 50)
• NPR's 50 Greatest Jazz Vocals [2013] (Ranked: 6)
• Profiles 7001-7250 (Ranked: 7092)
• Q Magazine's 100 Women Who Rock the World (Ranked: 94)
• Rick Hall Produced My Album
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Members (Ranked: 1993)
• Rock the Vote - Spokespeople
• Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Singers of All Time [1-100] (Ranked: 41)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists (Ranked: 62)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of the Rock Era [2008] (Ranked: 22)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 101-200 [2020] (Ranked: 191)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 101-200 [Performers] (Ranked: 116)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [1978]
• Sploshers [Overweight Women]
• TimeOut’s 50 Greatest Breakup Songs of All Time [2021] (Ranked: 1)
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Love Songs [Performers] (Ranked: 11)
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock [July 1999] (Ranked: 19)
• Vocalists Who Look Pained When they Sing
• Vocalists Who Spell It Out
• Voice of Fashion's Profiles

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 66 Votes: 62.12% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 74 Votes: 45.95% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 46 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 31 Votes: 45.16% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 163 Votes: 52.15% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 82 Votes: 40.24% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 57 Votes: 38.60% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 96 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 167 Votes: 45.51% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 221 Votes: 42.53% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 327 Votes: 43.12% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 521 Votes: 43.57% Annoying