Kylie Minogue should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Netflix documentary series “Kylie” provides compelling evidence that Australian pop music superstar Kylie Minogue needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The fact that she has never been nominated is a disgrace. The longevity of her career, her reinventions, her chart-topping hits and sold-out concerts to this day are all factors in her favor. The three-part Netflix series also shows the personal and professional challenges she has faced and overcome.
Australia has been a noticeable blind spot for the Rock Hall. The only Aussie acts in the hall are AC/DC and the Bee Gees.
Aussie snubs include Minogue, INXS (nominated for the first time this year), Midnight Oil, Crowded House and Nick Cave.
Next year would be a perfect time to induct Minogue as she reportedly will be on another world tour.
Kylie is an icon who deserves to be in the Rock Hall before a raft of other female solo artists.
The 2026 Netflix docuseries “Kylie” and concert film from her Tension tour “Kylie: Tension Tour Live” hopefully will give Minogue an exposure lift to hall voters.
Put her name on the nomination ballot and she will lead the fan poll. I’m sure of it.

Related articles:

Kylie Minogue and the Art of Staying a Mega-Famous Pop Star Forever (Rolling Stone; June 5, 2026)

Kylie Minogue Confirms 40th Anniversary Tour Plans: ‘I’m Probably Not Meant to Say This, But Yes’ (Billboard; May 17, 2026)

Photos: “Kylie” docuseries poster and photos from the premiere. (Netflix)

AI summaries are taking oxygen from news publishers

Artificial intelligence summaries from the likes of Google Gemini are very enticing. Who needs to scour an article for a fact or information when Google can just pull it out and present it to you?
But fewer visits to news publishers’ websites mean less advertising revenue for those companies. That threatens their business and the journalism they create.
"The open web is on its way out. With AI, Google is reducing everyone to raw data providers,” Richard Kramer, a financial analyst with Arete Research, said in a New York Times article.
Google announced its latest search changes on May 19 at its Google I/O conference. It called the changes its “biggest upgrade in over 25 years.”
“Google’s AI search tools may genuinely improve usability, but they also fundamentally reshape the web ecosystem Google originally helped build,” Techradar contributing writer Eric Hal Schwartz said in a news post. “Publishers, creators, and websites increasingly worry that conversational AI answers reduce incentives for users to click through to original sources.”
TechCrunch writer Sarah Perez summed it up by writing, “The era of the ‘ten blue links’ is officially over.”
She added, “The links, to clarify, have not entirely disappeared; they are just no longer the priority for many types of searches.”
The big news publishers have been able to extract licensing fees from Google and other AI firms for scraping their content, but the little guys are largely on the outs.

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Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked (Press Gazette)

New York Times chief: How and why publishers should fight AI ‘tsunami’ (Press Gazette; June 2, 2026)

New York Times Publisher Warns That AI Companies Are Making Choices That ‘Violate Settled Law’ and Could Cause a ‘Great Deal of Unnecessary Harm’ (Variety; June 1, 2026)

News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI companies scraping without paying: ‘We’re coming for you’ (Press Gazette; March 4, 2026)

News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year (Wall Street Journal; March 3, 2026)