25 new recordings are set to enter the Nationwide Recording Registry, administered by the Library of Congress. The listing contains works by Amy Winehouse, Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion, Steve Miller Band, and extra.
John enters the Registry along with his iconic 1973 file Goodbye Yellow Brick Street. Elton and his longtime songwriting accomplice Bernie Taupin had been beforehand honored by the Library of Congress once they had been awarded the 2024 Gershwin Prize for Standard Music.
The listing notably options Winehouse’s second album Again to Black, launched in 2006. Blige additionally enters together with her sophomore album, 1994’s chart-topping My Life. The Steve Miller Band, in the meantime, are being honored for the 1976 album Fly Like An Eagle, which featured the primary hit “Rock’n Me.” In the end, the 25 chosen recordings characterize the huge spectrum of in style music and sound, with 102 years between the oldest and most up-to-date works.
Since 2000’s Nationwide Recording Preservation Act, 675 titles have been added to the Registry. The Librarian of Congress, with help from the Nationwide Recording Preservation Board, selects 25 titles every year which might be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
“These are the sounds of America – our wide-ranging history and culture. The National Recording Registry is our evolving nation’s playlist,” stated Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in a press release. “The Library of Congress is proud and honored to select these audio treasures worthy of preservation, including iconic music across a variety of genres, field recordings, sports history and even the sounds of our daily lives with technology.”
“I think the National Recording Registry is an artistic version of a nation’s conversation with itself,” 2025 inductee Lin-Manuel Miranda shared in his personal assertion. “Every piece of art that is made is both deemed timeless by the Library of Congress and also a product of its time. To listen to these recordings, to go back as far as the turn of the century, to the beginning of recorded sound to the present is to hear points in a timeline, to time travel.”
Be taught extra on the Library of Congress’ web site.
