Alanis Morissette, Bryan Adams Nominated For Songwriters Hall of Fame 2025

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) has announced its slate of nominees to be voted upon for induction at its 2025 Induction & Awards Gala in New York City. Included in the Performing Songwriters category are two of Canada's most internationally successful singer-songwriters, Alanis Morissette and Bryan Adams.

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 catalogue of notable songs qualifies for induction 20 years after their first significant commercial song release. There are approximately 470 inductees who make up the impressive roster enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Eligible voting members will have until midnight on December 22, 2024 to turn in ballots, with their choices of up to three nominees in each of the songwriter and performing songwriter categories.

Below is a list of the Songwriters Hall of Fame 2025 Nominees for Induction in the Performing Songwriters category.

(After each nominee name below, the five songs listed in italics are merely a representative sample of their extensive catalogues.)

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You * Heaven * All for Love * Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? * Summer of ‘69

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

George Clinton - Atomic Dog * Flash Light * (Not Just) Knee Deep * I’d Rather Be With You * Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do * Soak Up the Sun * If It Makes You Happy * A Change Would Do You Good * Everyday Is a Winding Road

Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons p/k/a Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music * Takin' It to the Streets * Black Water * What a Fool Believes * Long Train Runnin'

Marshall Mathers p/k/a Eminem - Lose Yourself * Stan * Mockingbird * Houdini * Rap God

David Gates - Everything I Own * Make It With You * Baby I’m-a Want You * The Guitar Man * If

Janet Jackson - Black Cat * Together Again * Again * Got 'til It’s Gone * Rhythm Nation

Tommy James - Mony Mony * Crimson and Clover * Crystal Blue Persuasion * Sweet Cherry Wine * Tighter, Tighter

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, Easy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella p/k/a N.W.A. - Express Yourself * Dopeman * Fuck Tha Police * Gangsta Gangsta * Straight Outta Compton

Steve Winwood - Higher Love * Gimme Some Lovin’ * I’m a Man * Valerie * Roll With It

Notable nominees in the Non-Performing Songwriters category include Walter Afanasieff, Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan, Mike Chapman, Sonny Curtis, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Tony Macaulay, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham and Narada Michael Walden. Check the full list of nominees in this category here.

Earlier this year, Alanis Morissette received the Icon Award at the inaugural Billboard Canada Women In Music Awards. Learn more about that honour here.

Morissette was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022. Coincidentally, Bryan Adams and his long-time songwriting partner Jim Vallance were inducted into the CSHF at the same time.