Phish topped the fan vote for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame’s 2025 class, however sadly, the jam band nonetheless didn’t make the ultimate reduce.
That’s proper, regardless of receiving almost 50,000 extra fan votes than some other artist nominated, Phish is not going to be amongst these inducted into the Rock Corridor in 2025. As an alternative, the distinction will go to performers Unhealthy Firm, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.
As surprising as this will likely or is probably not to the 330,000 followers who casted ballots for Phish (beating out runner-up Unhealthy Firm, who earned 281,000 votes), it’s not too shocking contemplating the way in which the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame choice course of truly works.
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Reasonably 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 lots of of ballots submitted by trade professionals, different performers, historians, and extra.
So, regardless that Phish received the fan vote, incomes 50,000 extra votes than Unhealthy Firm made no distinction — all 5 winners got the identical benefit when the received the fan vote, and that benefit had a comparatively minuscule influence on the last 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 received’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 received the fan vote however weren’t inducted. 4 years later, although, the group returned to the poll, and finally have been inducted.
So, this isn’t the top of the street for Phish’s Rock Corridor ambitions… however for those who ask the band’s Trey Anastasio, that ambition doesn’t appear too terribly sturdy. 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 checklist of artists who’ve been snubbed by the Rock Corridor.
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