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Janet Jackson, Eminem, N.W.A, George Clinton, Boy George, Sheryl Crow and Sonny Curtis — an original member of Buddy Holly’s Crickets who went on to compose the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (“Love Is All Around”) — are among the 2025 nominees announced Tuesday for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. See the full list below.

Eligible Hall of Fame voting members will have until midnight Et on December 22 to turn in ballots, with their choices of up to three nominees in each of the songwriter and performing songwriter categories. The winning nominees will be inducted at the 2025 Induction & Awards Gala in New York City.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating “the exceptional work and lives of composers and lyricists who make an indelible impact creating music around the world.” A songwriter with a catalog of notable songs qualifies for induction...

Eminem, N.W.A, Janet Jackson, and Alanis Morissette are among the finalists for the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s class of 2025.

Other nominees include Mike Love of The Beach Boys, Sheryl Crow, George Clinton, Boy George, The Doobie Brothers, Steve Winwood, Bryan Adams, Tommy James, and Walter Afanasieff. The full list of nominees can be found below.

A total of six inductees will be chosen: three from the songwriters category, and three from the performing songwriters category. They’ll be honored during a ceremony held in New York City in June 2025.

Artists become eligible for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame 20 years after their first significant commercial release of a song.

Last year’s Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees included R.E.M., Steely Dan, Timbaland, and Dean Pitchford. During the induction ceremony, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry reunited for their first performance together in 15 years.

Will Jennings, the two-time Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” along with chart-topping hits by Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Whitney Houston, has died at the age of 80.

Jennings’ caretaker confirmed the songwriter’s death to The Hollywood Reporter, adding that he died Friday at his home in Tyler, Texas. No cause of death was given, but Jennings had health issues in recent years.

Former J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf, who collaborated with Jennings on a pair of solo albums, tweeted Saturday, “A sad time,...

Will Jennings, the two-time Oscar and Grammy-winning co-writer of the beloved Titanic theme, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” has died at 80 in his Texan home, according to multiple reports. Though a cause of death was not identified, those close to the composer said he had been in declining health for a number of years.

The prolific lyricist was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the tunes “People Alone” from The Competition (1980) and “Up Where We Belong” from An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the latter of which he won. In 2006, Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In addition to his two Oscars, Jennings won three Grammys: “My Heart Will Go On” and “Tears in Heaven” (Song of the Year), from 1992’s Jennifer Jason Leigh-starring cop drama Rush,...

Will Jennings, the lyricist behind hits including “My Heart Will Go On” and “Up Where We Belong,” died Friday in his home in Texas, according to media reports. He was 80 years old.

Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, 10 years after he penned the “Titanic” love theme performed by Céline Dion.

The lyricist won his first Oscar in 1983 for “Up Where We Belong” from “An Officer and a Gentleman,” which he co-wrote with Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie. He received his first nomination in 1981 for “People Alone” from “The Competition.” Jennings ultimately won two Oscars, three Grammys and two Golden Globes.

He enjoyed a prolific career in pop music in which he authored hit songs outside the film world including “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton, “Higher Love” and “Roll With It” by Steve Winwood, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” by Whitney Houston and “Looks...

Will Jennings, an Oscar winner for “My Heart Will Go On” and “Up Where We Belong” and one of the best known lyricists in the contemporary songwriting community, has died, his longtime publisher confirms to Variety. No cause of death was announced, although he had been ill for some time; he was 80.

Although the themes he co-wrote for “Titanic” (recorded by Celine Dion) and “An Officer and a Gentleman” (sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes) won him his two Academy Awards, Jennings was equally renowned for a third film song, “Tears in Heaven” (performed by Eric Clapton), from the movie “Rush,” which won him a Golden Globe for best original song as well as Grammys for record of the year and song of the year. He also won three Grammy Awards.

Jennings also had major hits with songs recorded by Whitney Houston, Steve Winwood, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Tim McGraw,...

Exclusive: Back in the summer of 1995, you were either team Oasis or team Blur. There was no sitting on the fence as the rival Brit bands clashed over which group’s single would top the charts — Blur’s Country House or the Oasis number Roll With It.

A new play heading to London’s West End in 2025 will chart the harshness of the animosity between the two enormously popular so-called Britpop bands, a rivalry so bitter that it burst into the headlines, even the TV news covered it.

News of the show, appropriately titled The Battle by humorist and writer John Niven, a former indie rocker and one-time A&r man, comes as Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel have buried their own feud to launch a huge Oasis tour in 2025 after 15 years apart.

Producer Simon Friend, of Simon Friend Entertainment, tells us that he commissioned Niven nine months ago to...

Update: Oasis has added three extra dates to their reunion tour due to “unprecedented demand.” The band will now also play Heaton Park in Manchester on July 16, Wembley Stadium in London on July 30, and Scottish Gas Murrayfield in Edinburgh on August 12.

Previous, August 27: Oasis is going to ‘Roll With It’ once again.

Mancunian rockers Liam and Noel Gallagher have patched up a 15-year feud and will embark on a 14-date stadium tour next year. Tickets go on sale on August 31 (dates below).

Oasis is calling the Oasis Live 25 reunion a world tour, but they have only announced dates in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Dublin.

In a joint statement on behalf of Oasis, the Gallagher brothers said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”

“This is it, this is happening”

Tickets on sale this Saturday...

It’s official: Noel and Liam Gallagher have decided to reform Oasis, with the band set to perform a series of massive, money-spinning reunion concerts in 2025.

The band’s official social media accounts teased a big announcement set for 8 a.m. U.K. time on Tuesday. And the reveal will excite fans, as it confirmed feverish speculation in the British press about a reunion.

“This is it, this is happening,” Oasis’ official X/Twitter account tweeted. Tickets are set to go on sale 9 a.m. U.K. time on Aug. 31. The gigs announced so far include Cardiff (Principality Stadium July 4/5), Manchester (Heaton Park, July 11/12/19/20), London (Wembley Stadium, July 25/26 and Aug. 2/3), Edinburgh (Murrayfield Stadium Aug. 8/9) and Dublin (Croke Park, Aug. 16/17).

News reports this weekend suggested that the Gallagher brothers had squashed their long-running and very public feud. Citing music industry insiders, The Times of London reported Saturday that Oasis was set...

Have the Gallagher brothers finally buried the hatchet? There is growing speculation that Liam and Noel have put aside their legendary differences to reunite Oasis and undertake what is sure to be one of the most anticipated series of gigs in the U.K. in decades.

Citing music industry insiders, The Times of London reported Saturday that Oasis is set to play a series of concerts in the summer of 2025, with “multiple vast gigs” planned for Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London. The Times reports there are even early murmurings of Oasis potentially headlining Glastonbury next year.

The Times report has been confirmed by a number of other U.K. newspapers. Liam also seemed to confirm the Times report, when he replied to the publication on X (formerly Twitter), “See you down the front.”

The speculation went into overdrive Sunday, when the official Oasis social channels posted...

Another contestant has been eliminated from The Challenge: All Stars Season 4 — but this time, it wasn’t too much of a surprise to him. Jay Mitchell (sometimes known as Jay Gotti) chose to go into the tank after winning the daily challenge in the hope that he’d qualify for T.J. Lavin‘s final. First, he had to be the fastest contestant to finish the shopping cart challenge, “Roll With It,” to even have a chance at throwing himself into the elimination. Then, he had to go up against current starholder Steve Meinke instead of Ryan Kehoe, after the latter backed out. Worse, once everyone got a look at the arena, it was clear that the odds were almost completely against him. With his lifelong color blindness reducing his ability to memorize a color pattern puzzle, and a broken nose hindering him from swimming freely in the tank, his...

Weekly music show Top of the Pops counted down the UK pop charts, jam-packed with performances from bands and solo artists whose singles had been selling well that week. It ran on the BBC from 1964 to 2006, seeing off seven prime ministers, 12 major military conflicts, and three separate Sugababes line-ups. As the decades passed, viewers watched the musical, cultural and fashion tastes of a nation shifting through the lenses of their musical heroes.

But as those things changed, so did the ways in which we experienced music. It began with MTV and VH1, and continued with the proliferation of portable entertainment tech; the evolution of the internet, downloads and streaming; and our ability to listen to or watch whatever we wanted, whenever and wherever we pleased. In this futuristic soundscape, Top of the Pops became an anachronism. The show still managed to occupy a warm niche in the public consciousness thanks...

Exclusive: Anne Heche (13 Minutes), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and McKaley Miller (Ma) will topline Full Ride, an upcoming horror-thriller from directors Jerren Lauder (The Inhabitant) and Beth Hanna (The Reappearance), which has wrapped production in Georgia. Quiver Distribution holds worldwide rights and is planning an early 2023 release.

The film centers on the straight-edge Eden (Miller), who after being waitlisted at Yale, attends a coveted ‘Heaven and Hell’ party, in the hopes of receiving a letter of recommendation from the wealthy parents of her well-connected classmate. But things aren’t what they seem and the party quickly turns into a fight for her life.

Joshua Russell, Kevin Greene, Seth Ingram, Michael Dunaway, Mark Goldberg and Gerald T. Olson are producing Full Ride. Quiver Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman exec producing alongside Larry Greenberg.

“Full Ride is a chilling critique of the politics surrounding college admissions while simultaneously providing plenty of suspense,...

Oasis will mark the 25th anniversary of their second LP (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? with a limited edition vinyl reissue.

Due out October 2nd — exactly 25 years after its original release — the remastered (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? will be available as both a picture disc and a two-lp silver colored vinyl version.

Additionally, to celebrate the album that delivered “Wonderwall,” “Champagne Supernova” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” Oasis say their website will host “both new and original content from the era… throughout September and early October.

Twenty years ago today, an already-buzzing English rock band named Oasis released their second studio album. Almost immediately, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, a more pop-friendly effort than its predecessor, completely changed the band’s trajectory: The album became the third-best-selling LP in England’s history, topped only by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Queen’s Greatest Hits, and made the band’s co-leaders and brothers Gallagher, singer Liam and guitarist-songwriter Noel, paparazzi-level famous. (That their bickering and in-fighting would grab most of the...