In total, we kicked 100 artists out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. As you might anticipate, some of those names are going to upset a lot of fans.
Yet, one could argue the appeal of a Hall of Fame is its exclusivity. Many consider the Baseball Hall of Fame to be the gold standard for such institutions, primarily because of just how hard it is to get in.
Former baseball players are voted into the Hall of Fame by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. But it isn’t as simple as who gets the most votes like the Rock Hall. At least 75 percent of those writers must agree on a baseball candidate. There’s also a 10-year eligibility limit for someone to get elected.with unbelievably high standards that make Rock Hall induction seem like a cakewalk.
For instance, we gave inductees 10 points for every album featured on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” and “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”Acclaimed Music ’s “All-Time Top 3,000″ albums and “All-Time Top 10,000″ songs, as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s own “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.”
We also assigned hefty point totals for appearances on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” DigitalDreamDoor’s
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