Please note, because there are 10 ballot spaces available and 3 rounds of General nominations, this first General vote will include the top 4 vote-getters (the other two will be the top 3).
TV Girl is an indie pop act with 23M monthly listeners on Spotify, three songs with over 1 billion streams, and one between 900M and 1B streams. They'll soon have four songs in the billion-stream club. They're insanely popular for an indie pop act. Even a lot of mainstream musicians don't have numbers like that.
I don't think they'll be part of the Rock Hall conversation, but the way some oldies talk about rock being dead in the 2000s and there being almost no 00s rock acts left that need to be inducted is insane and disgusting. Of course, rock isn't the most dominant form of music anymore, but there are still tons of indie rock (adjacent) acts that have pretty substantial followings and are very much alive!
Nominations are now closed and the list of nominees is now up for review.
Here are the Performers nominees:
Amy Winehouse
Arctic Monkeys
Blink-182
Bryan Adams
Chubby Checker
Dream Theater
Florence + The Machine
Gorillaz
Huey Lewis And The News
Joan Armatrading
Lucinda Williams
Meat Loaf
Midnight Oil
Ministry
Modest Mouse
Muse
Phish
Ringo Starr
Robert Palmer
Small Faces / Faces
Sting
Tangerine Dream
The Alan Parsons Project
Usher
There will be 1 day of review. If there are any errors or missing performers on this list, please point them out ASAP.
The links to the google polls for this month's ballot will be posted after 8 PM Central on Friday.
For this round, voters will be required to vote for the following number of nominees per category:
Performers - 8
The top four vote-getters in the poll will be nominated to the ballot.
Tiebreaker votes will take place during the next round of nominations if necessary.
The polls will close at 8 PM Central on Monday.
Here is the current list of registered voters:
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Alex Voltaire
Andy
Antler Queen Carson Shaw
BSLO
Casper
Chris Lyons
Christian
Cliff
Corey Finn
Darren
Dave
DMG
Doo-Wop Phil
Dr. W
Elle Dee
GothGuy2021
Greg F
Ian W.
J.W.
Jennifer
Joe S.
JoelWhyRock
Johnny
Joker
Jtrichey
Kenmil
KING
Kurtal
Lax38
Maddie Wagon
Mason
Mat R
Michael W.
MichaelEU
Naz P
Nick B.
ntndeacon
Omar
Ozma
Paul in KY
Paul K.
Philip
Raichu
Ralib
Ray
Rhiannon JM
Rick Vendl II
RyTheSensation
Skylanderlord3
SotN
The Towerman
Tom H.
Zechariah
If you're not on this list, please email Nick at rockinretrospectpodcast@gmail.com from the email address that use on FRL to register your FRL user name as a voter.
Darren wrote: