19 ASCAP Members Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame

Whether you’re looking for beach pop, classic rap, folk heroes, country hitmakers or rock legends, you’ll find them here: ASCAP’s nominees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame class of 2025 cover every inch of the genre spectrum.

In total 19 ASCAP members and affiliates were shortlisted this year across the performing and non-performing songwriter categories. A songwriter qualifies for induction 20 years after the first significant commercial release of a song.

Congratulations to all of our nominated songwriting legends, listed below along with a small sample of their most celebrated songs. 

If you’re a voting member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, turn in your ballot by midnight ET on December 22, 2024!

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NON-PERFORMING 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 Better"

Mike Chapman

"The Best," "Love Is A Battlefield," "Ballroom Blitz," "Stumblin’ In," "Kiss You All Over"

Ashley Gorley

"I Had Some Help," "Last Night," "You Should Probably Leave," "Play It Again," "You’re Gonna Miss This"

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"

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

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"

Michael McDonald & Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers)

“Listen to the Music,” “Long Train Runnin’,” “What a Fool Believes,” “China Grove,” “Black Water”

David Gates (Bread)

“Everything I Own,” “Make It with You,” “Baby I’m-a Want You,” “The Guitar Man,” “If”

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 (N.W.A)

"Express Yourself," "Dopeman," "Fuck Tha Police," "Gangsta Gangsta," "Straight Outta Compton"

Read the full list of SHOF nominees here.