Phish topped the fan vote for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2025 class, however sadly, the jam band nonetheless didn’t make the ultimate minimize.
That’s proper, regardless of receiving practically 50,000 more fan votes than every other artist nominated, Phish is not going to be amongst these inducted into the Rock Corridor in 2025. As an alternative, the dignity will go to performers Dangerous Firm, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.
As stunning as this may occasionally or might not be to the 330,000 followers who casted ballots for Phish (beating out runner-up Dangerous Firm, who earned 281,000 votes), it’s not too stunning contemplating the way in which the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame choice course of really works.
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Relatively than equitably contemplating fan enter, the Rock Corridor considers the totality of the fan vote to be simply one in all 1,200 ballots. In different phrases, the highest 5 artists within the fan vote are positioned on a single poll, which is then thought-about simply one of many a whole lot of ballots submitted by trade professionals, different performers, historians, and extra.
So, though Phish gained the fan vote, incomes 50,000 extra votes than Dangerous Firm made no distinction — all 5 winners got the identical benefit when the gained the fan vote, and that benefit had a comparatively minuscule influence on the final word end result, contemplating that it solely accounted for one out of 1,200 votes.
Phish and Billy Idol are the 2 artists included on the followers’ poll this yr that gained’t be inducted. The opposite three — Checker, Cocker, and Lauper — might be honored.
This isn’t the primary time the winner of the fan poll was excluded from the Corridor. In 2020, the Dave Matthews Band gained the fan vote however weren’t inducted. 4 years later, although, the group returned to the poll, and finally were inducted.
So, this isn’t the top of the highway for Phish’s Rock Corridor ambitions… however when you ask the band’s Trey Anastasio, that ambition doesn’t appear too terribly robust. In an interview with GQ earlier this yr, he expressed immense gratitude that Phish was even nominated, however appeared extra inclined to vote for his different nominees than himself.
For now, Phish joins the lengthy record of artists who have been snubbed by the Rock Hall.
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