The inductees listing for the 2025 Songwriters Corridor of Fame has been revealed – and doesn’t embrace nominated acts like Eminem, Janet Jackson and extra.
Final night time (January 22), the Songwriters Corridor of Fame unveiled the inductees for its Class of 2025 after saying the nominees in November. Being inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame this 12 months are George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney Jerkins, Mike Love and Tony Macaulay.
Among the many artists who have been nominated again in November however didn’t make the minimize are Eminem, Janet Jackson, Boy George, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A., Bryan Adams and extra. A complete of 26 artists have been nominated, with solely six being chosen for induction.
The six inductees will likely be honoured on the 2025 Induction & Awards Gala in New York Metropolis in June.
2024’s inductees have been R.E.M., Timbaland, Steely Dan, Hillary Lindsey and Dean Pitchford, with Cindy Walker and Prince receiving posthumous inductions. SZA and Diane Warren additionally obtained particular awards.
In 2023, Jade, Snoop Dogg and Electrical Gentle Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne led that 12 months’s class of Songwriters Corridor Of Fame inductees, alongside Gloria Estefan, Teddy Riley, Glen Ballard and Liz Rose.
In a three-star assessment of Eminem’s newest album ‘The Demise of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’, NME wrote: “Rather more highly effective is ‘Non permanent’, a genuinely transferring ode to his daughter, Hailie, which proves Marshall Mathers can say one thing that issues when he desires to.
“So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him again to the sunshine and displaying him up as irrelevant, maybe Eminem’s finished his previous pal in for good. OK, we get it – Shady was a surprising character. Now that he’s lifeless, how about getting some new materials?”
In different Eminem-related information, the rapper – who’s nominated for Greatest Rap Efficiency on the upcoming Grammys – has shared that he thinks Kendrick Lamar will seemingly take house all the seven awards that he’s nominated for: “Kendrick is gonna sweep that shit. He’s going to, and he ought to.”
