Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2025 inductees to be revealed on this week’s ‘American Idol’

The inductees to this year’s Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame will be announced during a live episode of American Idol this week – while the winners of the fan vote were announced earlier today (April 22).

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American Idol host, Ryan Seacrest, will reveal this year’s inductees on Sunday April 27 while James Taylor, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000, will appear as a mentor during the episode. Contestants on the show, meanwhile, will perform songs from previous Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees. 

The names being considered for this year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Class Of 2025 were shared back in February, with Oasis and New Order among those on the 14-strong short list.

Elsewhere on the list are pop icons Cyndi Lauper and Mariah Carey, as well as US alt-rock duo The White Stripes. As highlighted by BBC News, half of those nominated this year are looking at their first nod from the Rock Hall. This includes punk pioneer Billy Idol, late singer Joe Cocker, and rock veteran Chubby Checker.

Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after their first commercial recording was released, and other names on the longlist for 2025 include Grunge icons Soundgarden, hip-hop heavyweights OutKast, and rock groups Phish, Bad Company and The Black Crowes.

Roughly half of those artists will be inducted into the institution later this year, and winners are chosen by an international panel of 1,200 musicians, industry professionals and historians. Fans were also available to vote for their favourites online, and their Top Five choices will be counted as one vote from the “fans ballot”.

Earlier today, the results of this ballot were unveiled, with Phish winning this with 50,000 more votes than their nearest rival, Bad Company. Phish earned over 329,000 votes in total while Bad Company had 280,725.

Making up the top five were Billy Idol with 260,000 votes, Cyndi Lauper with 237,000 and Joe Cocker with 233,000 (as per Billboard).

One of the greatest songwriters ever joins us on Sunday! @JamesTaylor_com will be mentoring our #AmericanIdol finalists for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night!

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— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) April 22, 2025

The nod for Oasis comes after frontman Liam Gallagher took aim at the event last year, when the Britpop icons were nominated for the first time.

“Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS,” he wrote on X/Twitter, going on to tell a fan who was planning on voting to not “waste your time”, adding that “as much as it’s appreciated it’s all a load of bollox”.

Last year saw Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Kool & The Gang, Peter Frampton, Foreigner and Dave Matthews Band, Mary J Blige and A Tribe Called Quest inducted.

In November, Mariah Carey – who was also on the longlist in 2024 – reflected on her snub when it came to the inductees chosen. 

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, she said: “My thoughts are, I didn’t get in. Everybody was calling me, going, ‘I think you’re getting in!’ and so I was excited about it. But then it didn’t happen. My lawyer got into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before me.”

Her lawyer, Allen Grubman – a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – was inducted in 2022. Grubman has long been a lawyer to the stars, representing several big names in the entertainment industry including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Sting, Madonna, Elton John and Lady Gaga among others.

In other news about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the chairman of the Rock Hall of has previously said the institution will not be renamed, despite pressure from some artists.

It comes as recent years has seen discussion about whether the Hall should still use the ‘Rock and Roll’ moniker after inducting a number of artists from outside traditional rock music, including Eminem, A Tribe Called Quest, Mary J. Blige, Dolly Parton and Missy Elliott.

“I think it’s because some people don’t understand the meaning of rock and roll,” John Sykes explained. “If you go back to the original sound in the ’50s, it was everything. As Missy Elliott calls it, it was a gumbo. It just became known as rock and roll. So when I hear people say, ‘You should just change it to the Music Hall of Fame,’ rock and roll has pretty much covered all of that territory.”

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello made similar statements about the Rock Hall name too, saying: “I will say that one thing that people get wrong is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be just for rock ’n’ roll bands… That’s not what it’s for. Public Enemy is more rock ’n’ roll than 95 per cent of all the hair metal bands that ever picked up an instrument, you know?”

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