SOURCE: variety.com 

Eminem, N.W.A, George Clinton, Janet Jackson, Bryan Adams, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Nashville hitmaker Ashley Gorley and many more are in the slate of Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees to be voted upon for induction at the organization’s 2025 gala in New York City. The complete list appears below; pictured above are Eminem and N.W.A member/ longtime producer Dr. Dre. 

A songwriter with a catalog of notable songs qualifies for induction 20 years after their first significant commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight ET on December 22, 2024, to turn in ballots with their choices of up to three nominees in each of the songwriter and performing songwriter categories. 

The 2024 inductees included: R.E.M., Steely Dan, SZA, producer Timbaland and songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Diane Warren and the late Cindy Walker. 

The complete list of is also available online at songhall.org. (*Please note that the five songs listed after each nominee are merely a representative sample of their extensive catalogs.)   

Songwriters 

Walter Afanasieff – All I Want for Christmas Is You * Hero * License To Kill * Love Will Survive * One Sweet Day 

Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan – Secret Agent Man * Eve Of Destruction * Where Were You When I Needed You * You Baby * Can I Get to Know You 

Mike Chapman – The Best * Love Is A Battlefield * Ballroom Blitz * Stumblin’ In * Kiss You All Over 

Sonny Curtis – Love Is All Around (Theme from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”) * I Fought the Law * Walk Right Back * More Than I Can Say * I’m No Stranger to the Rain 

Tom Douglas – The House That Built Me * Little Rock * I Run To You * Grown Men Don’t Cry * Love Me Anyway 

Franne Golde – Dreaming of You * Nightshift * Don’t Look Any Further * Don’t You Want Me * Stickwitu 

Ashley Gorley – I Had Some Help * Last Night * You Should Probably Leave * Play It Again * You’re Gonna Miss This 

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins – Say My Name * The Boy Is Mine * You Rock My World * Deja Vu * Telephone 

Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter – One Tin Soldier (Theme from “Billy Jack”) * Don’t Pull Your Love * Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) * It Only Takes a Minute * Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.) 

Tony Macaulay – Baby Now That I’ve Found You * Build Me Up Buttercup * Don’t Give Up On Us * (Last Night) I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All * Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 

Roger Nichols – We’ve Only Just Begun * Rainy Days and Mondays * I Won’t Last a Day Without You * Out in the Country * Times Of Your Life 

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – I’m Your Puppet * Cry Like a Baby * A Woman Left Lonely * Out of Left Field * It Tears Me Up 

Narada Michael Walden – How Will I Know * Freeway of Love * You’re a Friend of Mine * Baby Come to Me * Who’s Zoomin’ Who? 

Performing Songwriters 

Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You * Heaven * All for Love * Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? * Summer of ‘69 

George Alan O’Dowd p/k/a Boy George – Karma Chameleon * Do You Really Want to Hurt Me * Time (Clock Of The Heart) * Love Is Love * Miss Me Blind 

George Clinton – Atomic Dog * Flash Light * (Not Just) Knee Deep * I’d Rather Be With You * Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) 

Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do * Soak Up The Sun * If It Makes You Happy * A Change Would Do You Good * Everyday Is a Winding Road 

Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons p/k/a Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music * Takin’ It to the Streets * Black Water * What a Fool Believes * Long Train Runnin’ 

Marshall Mathers p/k/a Eminem – Lose Yourself * Stan * Mockingbird * Houdini * Rap God 

David Gates – Everything I Own * Make It With You * Baby I’m-A Want You * The Guitar Man * If 

Janet Jackson – Black Cat * Together Again * Again * Got ‘til It’s Gone * Rhythm Nation 

Tommy James – Mony Mony * Crimson and Clover * Crystal Blue Persuasion * Sweet Cherry Wine * Tighter, Tighter 

Mike Love – California Girls * Good Vibrations * The Warmth of the Sun * I Get Around * Fun, Fun, Fun 

Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know * Ironic * Hand in My Pocket * Thank U * Uninvited 

Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella p/k/a N.W.A – Express Yourself * Dopeman * Fuck Tha Police * Gangsta Gangsta * Straight Outta Compton 

Steve Winwood – Higher Love * Gimme Some Lovin’ * I’m a Man * Valerie * Roll With It 

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