Awards and recognition

Summer is the recipient of five Grammy Awards including a rare berth as being the first African-American act ever to win an award for rock, in the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance category for the single Hot Stuff. She has also won Grammys in the R&B and gospel categories. Her most recent Grammy win was for 1997's Carry On, the first Grammy to be given to an artist in the dance music category.
Summer placed a consecutive top forty hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in every year from 1977's I Feel Love to 1984's There Goes My Baby.
Summer has fourteen Top 10 pop singles, with four of those singles reaching number one on the pop singles chart
Summer has netted 16 number-one singles overall, in various Billboard charts.
Summer became the first female artist to score three consecutive number-one double albums and have three number-one pop singles in the same year. She's also the first to have two singles in the top three slots of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and accomplished this feat twice.
Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992.
Summer was one of the first to be inducted to the Dance Music Hall of Fame and was inducted twice; one as a recording artist and another for her influential single I Feel Love.
Summer's music career has landed her as the eighth most successful female recording artist in the history of Billboard.