The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has named 14 music legends as performer nominees for induction in its 2025 class.
The nominees for 2025 are Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Maná, Oasis, Outkast, Phish, Soundgarden and The White Stripes.
Eight of the 14 nominees are appearing on the ballot for the first time: Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Maná, Outkast, and Phish.
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Ballots will now be sent to an international voting panel consisting of over 1,200 artists, historians, and music industry professionals. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame selection criteria “include an artist’s impact on other musicians, the scope and longevity of their career and body of work, as well as their innovation and excellence in style and technique.”
Honorees will be announced in April, with the annual induction ceremony set for the fall in Los Angeles. At the ceremony, inductees selected via three special committee categories — Musical Influence, Musical Excellence and the Ahmet Ertegun Non-Performer Award — will also enter the Hall of Fame.
In 2024, the music-industry honor in the performer category went to Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest. Musical Excellence Award honorees included Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield; Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton received the Musical Influence Award. And Motown executive Suzanne de Passe received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
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