Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the nominees for the Rock Hall Class of 2020, including soundgarden, WhitneyHouston & more RockHall2020
After the 2019 induction ceremony in Brooklyn, the RRHOF returns to its homebase in Cleveland, Ohio for its 35th annual induction ceremony on May 2, 2020.
The RRHOF Class of 2020 is decided by an international body of more than 1,000 voting members, but fans can impact the vote: Starting Oct. 15 and running through 11:59pm ET on Jan. 10, 2020, fans can go to Google and search “Rock Hall Fan Vote” or any nominee’s name plus “vote” to cast a ballot with Google, vote at or at the Museum itself in Cleveland.
To be eligible for the Rock Hall, an artist’s first commercial recording must have been released 25 years prior to the year of induction. Detroit proto-punks MC5 have been eligible the longest of this shortlist , while late hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. -- frequently cited as one of, if not the, greatest rapper in history -- receives a nomination in his first year of eligibility.
Six of this year's 16 nominees have never won a Grammy Award: Depeche Mode, MC5, the Notorious B.I.G., Todd Rundgren, T. Rex and Thin Lizzy. Just three of the nominees -- Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. and the Doobie Brothers -- have topped the Billboard Hot 100, while pioneering U.K. metal band Motörhead never cracked the chart.Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Battlefield' and "We Belong," No. 5 in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
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