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).

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