As the cameras clicked and flashed about her in the lobby of her Starstruck Entertainment building on Music Row Monday, Reba McEntire jokingly sang a couple lines from Lady Gaga's recent chart-topping single "Paparazzi."

Wrong genre. Wrong artist. But right sentiment. Reba was the center attraction in a No. 1 party that honored her success with "Consider Me Gone," which spent four weeks atop the Billboard country singles chart to become the best-charting release in her career. Dating back to her first No. 1 single, the 1982 release "Can't Even Get The Blues," it also gives her at least one No. 1 in four different decades. A cursory glance suggests the only other acts to have done that are Dolly Parton (`70s, `80s, `90s and 2000s), Johnny Cash (`50s, `60s, `70s and `80s) and George Jones (`50s, `60s, `70s and `80s).

"It's really hard to put it into words how much it means to me for me to be able to have a career chart-topping song after being in the business for 34 years," Reba said. "It's pretty overwhelming. I give total credit to the songwriters and to [the] Valory [Music Co.] and to radio and to the fans. I'm doin' the same thing I've always done. I get up, I sing and I have a great time and thank the Lord for havin' a great job. So it's timing , it's being with great people. As my great friend Barbara [presumably Mandrell] would say, `The stars are lined up.' And maybe Mercury's not in retrograde — or is, I don't know the difference. But we're all really thrilled."

The performing rights organizations BMI and ASCAP were on hand to make presentations to songwriters Marv Green and Steve Diamond, their music publishing companies and producer Mark Bright. Also lining up to offer congratulations and memorabilia were the Country Music Association, Country Radio Broadcasters, Music Row magazine, Billboard and Country Weekly.

The two songwriters are old pros at writing hits. Steve Diamond's authored such titles as Faith Hill's "Let Me Let Go," John Michael Montgomery's "I Can Love You Like That" and Lee Greenwood's "Don't Underestimate My Love For You." His song "I've Got A Rock `N' Roll Heart" is currently featured in an Eric Clapton T-Mobile commercial, and he wrote the current Top 10 pop hit "According To You" by Orianthi. Marv Green has amassed such credits as Lonestar's "Amazed," George Strait's "It Just Comes Natural," Carrie Underwood's "Wasted" and Brooks & Dunn's "Proud Of The House We Built."

Despite their history, they're not completely jaded about the business. An artist can still impress them, and Reba did that with her interpretation of "Consider Me Gone."

"There've been times when I felt like an artist was just singing [one of my songs] mechanically," Steve conceded. "But as soon as I heard Reba do it, just the first couple notes, I knew she owned it and related to it and totally made it her own. And she really elevated it."

Reba kicked off her latest tour with George Strait and Lee Ann Womack this past weekend. And she'll be doing a video in about three weeks for her new single, "Keep On Loving You," hoping she can push it as well to No. 1.