The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the list of nominees for induction at its 2025 Induction & Awards Gala in New York City.

Bryan Adams, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, The Doobie Brothers, Eminem, David Gates, Janet Jackson, Tommy James, Mike Love, Alanis Morissette, N.W.A., and Steve Winwood have been nominated in the Performing Songwriters category.

Walter Afanasieff, Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan, Mike Chapman, Sonny Curtis, Tom Douglas, Franne Golde, Ashley Gorley, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, Tony Macaulay, Roger Nichols, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and Narada Michael Walden are the nominees in this year’s Non-Performing Songwriters category.

A songwriter with a catalog of notable songs qualifies for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame 20 years after their first significant commercial release of a song.

Eligible voting members will have until midnight EST on December 22 to turn in ballots, with their choices of up to three nominees in each of the songwriter and performing songwriter categories.

Source: RTT Music News