Who would eventually become the next ones to be honored through Excellence & Influence categories.

[u/Academic-Law-9581]

In the last few years or decades, we seen artists who were previously nominated or not being inducted through the non voting method meaning they got in through two categories: Musical Excellence & Musical (Early) Influence.

With the recent sidedoor inclusion of such performers as Kraftwerk, MC5, Judas Priest, LL Cool J, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Jimmy Buffett etc, it's no denying that the trend will continue long as possible.

Now said, here's a list of acts who would end up being contenders in these two categories.

Influence:

Patsy Cline

John Coltrane

Dick Dale

Devo

Duke Ellington

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Motorhead

New York Dolls

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Sonic Youth

Thin Lizzy

Chuck Willis

Excellence:

Bad Brains

Ronnie James Dio

Eric B. & Rakim

The J.B's

Rory Gallagher

Jane's Addiction

King Crimson

The Meters

Sinead O'Connor

John Prine

The Replacements

Neil Sedaka

Conway Twitty

War

That's all I got for now. Who do you think would be the acts in those categories in the future?

[u/AffectionateAir9411]

Great list! I would also include Herbie Hancock, the Sonics, the Wailers, the Revolution, Nick Drake, Black Flag, Suzie Quatro, Husker Du, Fanny, Sparks, Gordon Lightfoot and Emmylou Harris as potential side category picks.

[u/TeaVinylGod → u/AffectionateAir9411]

Gordon should be a regular inductee

[u/TeaVinylGod]

Lonnie Donnegan

The Four Freshmen

[u/rockandrollwizard]

Two recent inductions have broken the glass for others.

Joy Division-New Order (Devo, Sonic Youth, Jane’s Addiction, The Replacements).

Iron Maiden (Motorhead and Thin Lizzy). This was helped in part by the ballot not really having run-of-the-mill classic rock candidates like they did in the past (such as Bad Company) which kind of forced a lot of such voters to pick Maiden. However, Maiden did absolutely amazing and finished at least Top 3. The betting odds on Kalshi for Maiden/Wu-Tang Clan/Phil Collins were all high BEFORE the ballot deadline with a big influx of money for the first two which reeked of insider trading for people close to those band’s networks (whereas Collins is just simple logic). We also saw the Hall’s website add Blaze Bayley to Maiden’s lineup well before the ballot deadline which means the band had already been tipped off about the induction.

We then had an insider trader who on the day the ballots were due started running up (or down) the names that got in (or didn’t get in). Which means there was no clarity yet on the other five inductees (JD-NO, Sade, Billy Idol, Luther Vandross, Oasis) until that day.

So if a metal band like Maiden did THAT well (finishing in the Top 3), there’s no reason some of their popular/classic rock adjacent names won’t get in with ease soon. Kind of funny that Judas Priest was sidedoored when they would have likely got in with considerable ease a few years down the road.

So all of those names I just listed are now electable for 2027 and beyond. I think the ballot getting generally weaker year to year as about 9 “Performers” are either elected or side-doored (Zevon, Parsons, Latifah, etc) means far more names become “electable” pretty quick. Sinead O’Connor, for example, will have had like forty names (or more) get in since she was on the ballot last and has precedents in her favor (Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Sade, Cyndi Lauper).

[u/Jaguars4life]

Producers like Mutt Lange,Bob Ezrin,Brian Eno,Steve Lillywhite,Daniel Lanois,Butch Vig,Roy Thomas Baker,Bob Rock and Bill Szymczyk

[u/Large-Investment-381]

I think they should end these offshoots if you want me to be honest.

[u/Apprehensive-Nose646]

The Carter family