Overview
- Acting Librarian Robert R. Newlen announced Thursday that 25 recordings were added, bringing the registry to 700 titles.
- Taylor Swift and Beyoncé earn their first placements, and their works are the only releases from the 21st century in this year’s class.
- Rosanne Cash’s The Wheel enters alongside her father’s earlier induction, creating the registry’s first daughter–father pairing.
- Boundary-stretching picks include the 1993 Doom video game soundtrack and the 1971 radio call of Ali vs. Frazier’s “Fight of the Century.”
- The roster cuts across styles and eras, with Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You,” The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat, Weezer’s Blue Album, and Ray Charles’ Modern Sounds among the additions.
- Selections draw from more than 3,000 public nominations, and the Library accepts suggestions year-round with next-cycle submissions due Oct. 1.