Take a look below and see who the nominees for potential Rock Hall induction are for 2025:
Bad Company
Year Formed: 1973
Essential Albums: Bad Company, Straight Shooter, Desolation Angels
Essentials Songs: “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Bad Company,” “Shooting Star,” “Can’t Get Enough,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy”
The Black Crowes
Year Formed: 1984
Essential Albums: Shake Your Money Maker, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Happiness Bastards
Essential Songs: “Hard to Handle,” “She Talks to Angels,” “Remedy,” “Twice as Hard,” “Jealous Again”
Mariah Carey
Year Started: 1988
Essential Albums: Music Box, Mariah Carey, Daydream
Essential Songs: “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “We Belong Together,” “Obsessed,” “Fantasy,” “Always Be My Baby”
Chubby Checker
Year Started: 1958
Essential Albums: Twist With Chubby Checker, For Twisters Only, Let’s Twist Again
Essential Songs: “The Twist,” “Let’s Twist Again,” “Limbo Rock,” “Dancin’ Party,” “The Hucklebuck”
Joe Cocker
Year Started: 1961
Essential Albums: Joe Cocker, I Can Stand a Little Rain, With a Little Help From My Friends
Essential Songs: “You Are So Beautiful,” “Up Where We Belong,” “With a Little Help From My Friends,” “Feelin’ Alright,” “You Can Leave Your Hat On”
Billy Idol
Year Started: 1981 as a solo artist after leaving Generation X
Essential Albums: Rebel Yell, Whiplash Smile, Billy Idol
Essential Songs: “Rebel Yell,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “White Wedding,” “Dancing With Myself,” “Mony Mony”
Cyndi Lauper
Year Started: 1983 after leaving Blue Angel for a solo career.
Essential Albums: She’s So Unusual, True Colors, A Night to Remember
Essential Songs: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “True Colors,” “All Through the Night,” “I Drove All Night”
Mana
Year Formed: 1981
Essential Albums:Amar Es Combatir, Drama y Luz, Donde Jugaran Los Ninos?
Essential Songs: “Oye Mi Amor,” “Clavado en Un Bar,” “Rayando el Sol,” “En El Muelle de San Blas,” “Mariposa Traicionera”
Joe Division / New Order
Year Formed: Joy Division in 1976, New Order in 1980 after Ian Curtis’ death.
Essential Albums: Substance (Joy Division), Low-Life (New Order), Brotherhood (New Order) Republic (New Order)
Essentials Songs: “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Joy Division), “Transmission” (Joy Division), “Blue Monday” (New Order), “Bizarre Love Triangle” (New Order), “True Faith” (New Order), “Regret” (New Order)
Oasis
Year Formed: 1991
Essential Albums: Definitely, Maybe, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Essential Songs: “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” “Champagne Supernova,” “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” “Live Forever”
Outkast
Year Formed: 1992
Essential Albums: Speakerboxxx / The Love Below, Stankonia, ATLiens
Essential Songs: “Hey Ya!,” “Ms. Jackson,” “Roses,” “So Fresh, So Clean,” “The Way You Move”
Phish
Year Formed: 1983
Essential Albums: Junta, Billy Breathes, Rift
Essential Songs: “Farmhouse,” “Sample in a Jar,” “Waste,” “Heavy Things,” “Bouncing Around the Room”
Soundgarden
Year Formed: 1984
Essential Albums: Superunknown, Badmotorfinger, Down on the Upside
Essential Songs: “Black Hole Sun,” “Spoonman,” “Fell on Black Days,” “Outshined,” “Rusty Cage”
The White Stripes
Year Formed: 1997
Essential Albums: Elephant, White Blood Cells, Get Behind Me Satan
Essential Songs: “Seven Nation Army,” “Fell In Love With a Girl,” “Icky Thump,” “We’re Going to Be Friends,” “Blue Orchid”
Now that the nominees have been revealed for 2025, an international voting panel of over 1,200 of artists, historians and music industry professionals will set about deciding upon who of the 2025 nominees will ultimately be inducted for 2025.
The selection criteria takes into account the artist’s impact on music culture, the influence on other musicians that have followed and the longevity of their career and strength of their body of work.
The induction class will be revealed in late April
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