This year’s list of nominees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame has a good beat and you can dance to it. It also features a diverse mix of genres from rock, pop and R&B to country, hip hop and funk.
The hall on Thursday revealed the dozens of songsmiths up for induction in 2027. Among them are Lady Gaga, Boy George, Grandmaster Melle Mel, P!nk, Jack White, Shakira, Vince Gill, Ne-Yo, Sia, will.i.am and the writers behind the hitmaking groups Blondie, War, ZZ Top and America. See the full list below, along with photos and a sampling of five songs penned by each.
Also up for consideration are about a dozen writers who aren’t known for performing such as Pete Bellotte, who penned several of Donna Summers hits; “No Scrubs” writer Kandi Burress; Andreas Carlsson, known for Backstreet Boys hits; and the “My Boyfriend’s Back” and “I Want Candy” team of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer.
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Inductees will be revealed early next year.
Established in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the lives and legacies of the songwriters behind the world’s most enduring songs. Writers with a catalog of notable songs are eligible for induction 20 years after their first commercial release of a song.
Here is the full list of nominees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Class of 2027:
Gerry Beckley & Dewey Bunnell of America
A Horse with No Name, Ventura Highway, Sister Golden Hair, I Need You* Tin Man
Debbie Harry & Chris Stein of Blondie
Call Me, Heart of Glass, Rapture, One Way or Another, Dreaming
Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd)
Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Time (Clock of the Heart), It’s A Miracle, Victims
Vince Gill
Go Rest High On That Mountain, Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away, I Still Believe In You, One More Last Chance, When I Call Your Name
Grandmaster Melle Mel (Melvin Glover)
The Message, Freedom, New York New York, Scorpio, White Lines (Don’t Do It)
Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta)
Poker Face, Bad Romance, Born This Way, Shallow, Die With A Smile
Ne-Yo (Shaffer Smith)
Irreplaceable, Let Me Love You, Give Me Everything, So Sick, Take A Bow
P!nk (Alecia B. Moore)
So What, Raise Your Glass, Who Knew, U + Ur Hand, What About Us
Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll)
Hips Don’t Lie, Dai Dai, Whenever, Wherever, La Tortura, Inevitable
Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler)
Cheap Thrills, Diamonds, Titanium, Chandelier, Unstoppable
Thomas Sylvester Allen, Harold Ray Brown, Morris “B.B.” Dickerson, Jerry Goldstein, LeRoy L. Jordan, Lee Oskar Levitin, Charles William Miller & Howard E. Scott of War
Low Rider, Why Can’t We Be Friends, The Cisco Kid, The World Is a Ghetto, Spill the Wine
Jack White
Fell in Love With a Girl, We’re Going to Be Friends, Love Interruption, Seven Nation Army, Steady As She Goes
Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
Legs, Sharp Dressed Man, I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide, La Grange, Tush
Pete Bellotte
Hot Stuff, I Feel Love, Love To Love You Baby, Heaven Knows, Push It to the Limit
Boy Meets Girl (George Merrill & Shannon Rubicam)
How Will I Know, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), Waiting For a Star to Fall, I Know You by Heart, Bring Down the Moon
Kandi Burruss
No Scrubs; Bills, Bills, Bills; It Makes Me Ill; There You Go; Don’t Think I’m Not
Andreas Carlsson
I Want It That Way, Bye Bye Bye, It’s Gonna Be Me, That’s The Way It Is, I’m Alive
Tom Douglas
The House That Built Me, Grown Men Don’t Cry, I Run to You, Little Rock, Meanwhile Back at Mama’s
Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer
My Boyfriend’s Back, I Want Candy, Sorrow, Night Time, What Time Is It
Bob McDill
Amanda, Good Ole Boys Like Me, Gone Country, Don’t Close Your Eyes, Song of the South
Stargate (Mikkel Eriksen & Tor Hermansen)
Irreplaceable, Diamonds, Firework, So Sick, Take a Bow
Maurice Starr
Candy Girl, I’ll Be Loving You Forever, Is This the End, Step by Step, Popcorn Love
Mike Stock, Matt Aitken & Pete Waterman
Never Gonna Give You Up, I Should Be So Lucky, Together Forever, This Time I Know It’s for Real, Especially for You
will.i.am (William Adams)
Where Is the Love, I Gotta Feeling, Scream and Shout, OMG, Ordinary People
Dan Wilson
Closing Time, Someone Like You, Not Ready to Make Nice, White Horse, Treacherous
Toni Wine
A Groovy Kind of Love, Candida, Black Pearl, Your Husband, My Wife, You Came You Saw You Conquered