Phil Collins, Billy Idol and Wu-Tang Clan lead 2026 Rock Hall inductees

Phil Collins, Luther Vandross, Oasis, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Sade, Wu-Tang Clan, Joy Division and New Order volition articulation the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this twelvemonth astatine its yearly induction ceremony, the enactment announced Monday evening. The quality was revealed connected “American Idol” by Lionel Richie, a justice connected the TV endowment amusement who was himself inducted into the hallway successful 2022.

The 2026 people of inductees — acceptable to beryllium welcomed Nov. 14 successful a ceremonial astatine the Peacock Theatre successful downtown Los Angeles — represents a wide array of styles and genres, including hip-hop, R&B, Britpop, dense metallic and post-punk. Yet the radical contains lone 2 women: the Nigerian-British psyche vocalist Sade and New Order’s Gillian Gilbert; that effect is apt to pull disapproval aft years successful which organizers person sought to diversify the hall’s ranks on contention and sex lines.

Three of the caller members — voted successful by a radical of much than 1,200 musicians, executives, historians and journalists — are joining the hallway aft being nominated for the archetypal time: Vandross, the R&B prima whose dependable was prominently sampled successful Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning “Luther”; Wu-Tang Clan, the boisterous rap radical that precocious undertook what it called a farewell tour; and Collins, who’s getting successful arsenic a solo enactment aft being inducted arsenic a subordinate of Genesis successful 2010. (An enactment becomes eligible for induction 25 years aft the merchandise of its archetypal commercialized recording.) The remaining inductees had each been antecedently nominated.

Artists nominated for the 2026 people who didn’t marque the chopped see Mariah Carey, Shakira, Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge, INXS, New Edition, Pink, the Black Crowes and the precocious Jeff Buckley.

Several different musicians volition beryllium honored astatine November’s ceremony. Celia Cruz, Fela Kuti, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte and Gram Parsons volition person the hall’s Early Influence Award, portion the Musical Excellence Award volition spell to Linda Creed, Arif Mardin, Jimmy Miller and Rick Rubin. The tv impresario Ed Sullivan is to beryllium honored with the Ahmet Ertegun Award, a commendation for non-performers named aft the precocious Atlantic Records co-founder who started the Rock Hall with Rolling Stone magazine’s Jann Wenner successful the mid-1980s. These are posthumous honors for a fig of recipients, including Vandross, Cruz, Kuti, Parsons, Creed, Mardin, Miller and Sullivan.

The 2026 ceremonial successful L.A. volition beryllium filmed and shown successful December connected ABC and Disney+. Organizers said 2027’s lawsuit volition instrumentality spot astatine the hall’s location successful Cleveland.