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Yearly, the Songwriters Corridor of Fame honors songwriters throughout genres who’ve made important contributions to the cultural cloth of music, recognizing their creativity, impression, and affect on the business. This 12 months’s nominees mirror a various mix of types and eras—from pop and rock to hip-hop, nation, and R&B—underscoring the evolution and breadth of songwriting. To qualify for induction, a songwriter’s first important business track launch have to be no less than 20 years outdated.

Solely six can be elected – three from 13 nominees within the performing songwriters class and three from 13 nominees within the songwriters class, which is reserved for non-performing songwriters.

The nominees can be voted upon by eligible members (who’re both aside of a Performing Rights Group or are employed as a music business skilled). The six inductees can be celebrated on the SHOF’s 2025 Induction & Awards Gala, which can be held on June 12 in New York Metropolis (Billboard).

2025 Songwriters Corridor of Fame Nominees

Word: The songs listed after every title are “merely a consultant pattern of their in depth catalogs” (as acknowledged by Songhall.org).

SONGWRITERS

Walter Afanasieff – “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” “Hero,” “License to Kill,” “Love Will Survive,” “One Candy Day”

Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan – “Secret Agent Man,” “Eve Of Destruction,” “The place Have been You After I Wanted You,” “You Child,” “Can I Get to Know You”

Mike Chapman – “The Greatest,” “Love Is a Battlefield,” “Ballroom Blitz,” “Stumblin’ In,” “Kiss You All Over”

Sonny Curtis – “Love Is All Round (Theme from “The Mary Tyler Moore Present”),” “I Fought the Regulation,” “Stroll Proper Again,” “Extra Than I Can Say,” “I’m No Stranger to the Rain”

Tom Douglas – “The Home That Constructed Me,” “Little Rock,” “I Run to You,” “Grown Males Don’t Cry,” “Love Me Anyway”

Franne Golde – “Dreaming of You,” “Nightshift,” “Don’t Look Any Additional,” “Don’t You Need Me,” “Stickwitu”

Ashley Gorley – “I Had Some Assist,” “Final Evening,” “You Ought to In all probability Depart,” “Play It Once more,” “You’re Gonna Miss This”

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins – “Say My Title,” “The Boy Is Mine,” “You Rock My World,” “Déjà vu,” “Phone”

Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter – “One Tin Soldier (Theme from “Billy Jack”),” “Don’t Pull Your Love,” “Ain’t No Lady (Just like the One I’ve Received),” “It Solely Takes a Minute,” “Nation Boy (You Received Your Toes In L.A.)”

Tony Macaulay – “Child Now That I’ve Discovered You,” “Construct Me Up Buttercup,” “Don’t Give Up On Us,” “(Final Evening) I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All,” “Love Grows (The place My Rosemary Goes)”

Roger Nichols – “We’ve Solely Simply Begun,” “Wet Days and Mondays,” “I Received’t Final a Day With out You,” “Out within the Nation,” “Occasions of Your Life”

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – “I’m Your Puppet,” “Cry Like a Child,” “A Lady Left Lonely,” “Out of Left Subject,” “It Tears Me Up”

Narada Michael Walden – “How Will I Know,” “Freeway of Love,” “You’re a Buddy of Mine,” “Child Come to Me,” “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?”

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PERFORMING SONGWRITERS

Bryan Adams – “(The whole lot I Do) I Do It For You,” “Heaven,” “All for Love,” “Have You Ever Actually Liked a Lady?,” “Summer time of ‘69”

George Alan O’Dowd p/ok/a Boy George – “Karma Chameleon,” “Do You Actually Wish to Damage Me,” “Time (Clock Of The Coronary heart), “Love Is Love,” “Miss Me Blind”

George Clinton – “Atomic Canine,” “Flash Mild,” “(Not Simply) Knee Deep,” “I’d Fairly Be With You,” “Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)”

Sheryl Crow – “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up The Solar,” “If It Makes You Comfortable,” “A Change Would Do You Good,” “On a regular basis Is a Winding Highway”

Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons p/ok/a Doobie Brothers – “Hearken to the Music,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “Black Water,” “What a Idiot Believes,” “Lengthy Practice Runnin’”

Marshall Mathers p/ok/a Eminem – “Lose Your self,” “Stan,” “Mockingbird,” “Houdini,” “Rap God”

David Gates – “The whole lot I Personal,” “Make It With You,” “Child I’m-A Need You,” “The Guitar Man,” “If”

Janet Jackson – “Black Cat,” “Collectively Once more,” “Once more,” “Received ‘til It’s Gone,” “Rhythm Nation”

Tommy James – “Mony Mony,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” “Candy Cherry Wine,” “Tighter, Tighter”

Mike Love – “California Ladies,” “Good Vibrations,” “The Heat of the Solar,” “I Get Round,” “Enjoyable, Enjoyable, Enjoyable”

Alanis Morissette – “You Oughta Know,” “Ironic,” “Hand in My Pocket,” “Thank U,” “Uninvited”

Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Dice, MC Ren and DJ Yella p/ok/a N.W.A – “Specific Your self,” “Dopeman,” “Fu*ok Tha Police,” “Gangsta Gangsta,” “Straight Outta Compton”

Steve Winwood – “Increased Love,” “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “I’m a Man,” “Valerie,” “Roll With It”

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