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The Rock Hall Reconsidered Project: Round 45 (Class of 2026) Results

Nick D. Bambach

After the Round 44 Results were revealed, each nomination committee member was asked to compile another list of 40 currently-eligible artists to create the Round 45 ballot. With the addition of newly-eligible artists for the Class of 2026 (who released their first record in 2000) to the mix. With 11 spots available from the last round, the committee replaced their existing nominees and generated an official ballot for Round 45:

Round 45 Nominees

  • Aphex Twin
  • Belle & Sebastian
  • Brandi Carlile*
  • Bright Eyes**
  • Common
  • Counting Crows***
  • Cypress Hill
  • Death Cab For Cutie***
  • DMX
  • Drive-By Truckers
  • Elliott Smith
  • Fatboy Slim
  • Fountains of Wayne**
  • Aimee Mann
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • John Mayer
  • Korn
  • Lil' Kim
  • Lil Wayne
  • Linkin Park*
  • Modest Mouse
  • Muse
  • NSYNC
  • Paul Weller
  • Pink*
  • Portishead
  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • Rancid**
  • Ricky Martin
  • Robyn
  • Sean Combs
  • Sia***
  • Spice Girls
  • Spoon
  • Sublime
  • Sufjan Stevens*
  • System of a Down
  • The New Pornographers*
  • The Prodigy
  • Toni Braxton

*indicates the artist is nominated in their first year of eligibility

**indicates the artist is appearing on the ballot for the first time after their first year of eligibility

***indicates the artist returned to the ballot after receiving less than 25% in a prior round

Veterans Committee Ballot

  • Boogie Down Productions

  • Celine Dion

  • Desmond Dekker & the Aces

  • George Jones

  • Guided By Voices

  • Meat Loaf

  • Richard Hell & The Voidoids

  • Rufus & Carla Thomas

  • Suzanne Vega

  • The Cramps

108 Ballots Received

Full Results

(+/- indicates how much support for the artist increased or deceased from the previous round)

67.60% (73): Pink

52.80% (57): Elliott Smith (+15.90%), Linkin Park

50.90% (55): Common (+13.10%), Cypress Hill (+21.20%), Sublime (+23.00%), Toni Braxton (+4.10%)

50.00% (54): Muse (+11.30%)

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37.00% (40): Spice Girls (+9.10%), System of a Down (-1.70%)

36.10% (39): Queens of the Stone Age (-5.50%)

35.20% (38): DMX (-0.10%), Paul Weller (-7.30%), Ricky Martin (-8.20%)

34.30% (37): Portishead (+0.10%)

32.40% (35): Counting Crows, Fatboy Slim (+2.70%), Lil Wayne (+0.90%)

31.50% (34): Modest Mouse (+4.50%), Sufjan Stevens

30.60% (33): Brandi Carlile, John Mayer (+0.90%)

28.70% (31): Jennifer Lopez (-1.00%), The Prodigy

27.80% (30): Aimee Mann (+0.80%), Korn (+1.70%), Robyn (-0.10%), Spoon (+2.60%)

26.90% (29): Aphex Twin (+0.80%), Belle & Sebastian (-1.90%), Drive-By Truckers (-1.90%), NSYNC (+0.80%)

25.90% (32): Sean Combs (-2.00%)

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21.30% (23): Lil Kim (-7.50%)

20.40% (22): Death Cab For Cutie, Rancid

18.50% (20): Fountains of Wayne

17.60% (19): Sia

11.10% (12): The New Pornographers

5.60% (6): Bright Eyes

Veterans Committee Ballot Results

60.20% (65): Meat Loaf

54.60% (59): Boogie Down Productions

51.90% (56): George Jones

50.90% (55): Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Suzanne Vega

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38.00% (41): Celine Dion

31.50% (34): Rufus & Carla Thomas

24.10% (26): The Cramps

23.10% (25): Richard Hell & The Voidoids

14.80% (16): Guided By Voices

As a result, the following artists have been inducted into the Rock Hall Reconsidered Project's Class of 2026:

  • Common
  • Cypress Hill
  • Elliott Smith
  • Linkin Park
  • Muse
  • Pink
  • Sublime
  • Toni Braxton

The following artists have been inducted via the Veterans Committee into the Rock Hall Reconsidered Project's Class of 2026:

  • Boogie Down Productions
  • Desmond Dekker & The Aces
  • George Jones
  • Meat Loaf
  • Suzanne Vega

The following artist(s) received less than 25% of the total vote this round and will need to re-nominated by the Nomination Commitee to appear on a future ballot (pending eligbility):

  • Bright Eyes
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • Fountains of Wayne
  • Lil' Kim
  • Rancid
  • Sia
  • The New Pornographers

The following artist(s) have reached the maximum number of nominations within their 10 years of eligibility and will now be considered for the veterans committee ballot:

  • Aphex Twin
  • Paul Weller
  • Ricky Martin
  • The Prodigy

The 21 artists who did not receive induction this round will automatically be nominated in Round 44. Next week, we will consider artists eligible for the Class of 2027 (artists who released their first record in 2001).

Artists Who Were Considered by the Committee but Ultimately Didn’t Receive Enough Votes to Appear on the Round 45 Ballot: 50 Cent, AFI, Against Me, Air, Backstreet Boys, Basement Jaxx, Ben Folds Five, Black Eyed Peas, Black Sheep, Blind Melon, Brandy, Brooks & Dunn, Built to Spill, Bush, Busta Rhymes, Collective Soul, Coolio, Cracker, Dashboard Confessional, David Gray, Deftones, Derek Trucks, Disturbed, DJ Shadow, Dropkick Murphys, Evanescence, Feist, Foxy Brown, Gorillaz, Government Mule, Grandaddy, Guster, Incubus, Interpol, Jamiroquai, Jewel, Joan Osborne, KRS-One, Kyuss, Lisa Loeb, Low, Ludacris, Macy Gray, Marilyn Manson, Martina McBride, Matchbox Twenty, Maxwel, lMercury Rev, Morphine, Mos Def, My Morning Jacket, Natalie Merchant, Neko Case, Nelly, Neutral Milk Hotel, OK Go, Old Crow Medicine Show, Peaches, Phoenix, R. Kelly, Raphael Saadiq, Rilo Kiley, Rob Zombie, Robbie Williams, Rocket From the Crypt, Ryan Adams, Sigur Ros, Slipknot, Sloan, Snow Patrol, Spin Doctors, Stereolab, Sunny Day Real Estate, SWV, Take That, Tegan and Sara, Temple of the Dog, The Avett Brothers, The Donnas, The Hives, The Magnetic Fields, The Shins, The Verve, Tim McGraw, Timbaland, Tricky, Trisha Yearwood, Type O Negative, Wyclef Jean

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