Timbaland, Steely Dan and Hillary Lindsey Among 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductees

The Songwriters Hall of Fame Class of 2024 has arrived!

On Wednesday, the organization revealed that Timbaland, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Hillary Lindsey, REM and Dean Pitchford will join the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the upcoming 2024 induction and awards ceremony.

Grammy-winning musician, Chico co-founder and Songwriters Hall of Fame president Nile Rodgers spoke about the group of musicians in a press statement: “I’ve said it before, but the music industry doesn’t exist without songwriters who deliver great songs first,” he said. “Without them there is no recorded music, no concerts, no merch… nothing, everything starts with the song and the songwriter.”

Nile Rodgers.

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Rodgers, 71, continued: “That’s why we’re so proud to continue to recognize some of the most culturally important songwriters of all time and that the 2024 list represents not just iconic songs, but diversity and unity across genres, ethnicities and genders, songwriters who have enriched our lives and literally enriched the music and lives of billions of listeners around the world.”

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Each of this year’s nominees has lent their pen to several big hit songs during their storied careers. Timbaland (whose real name is Timothy Mosley), 51, won Grammys for his work on Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” and Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love,” while he also took No. 1 with Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On.” and his own “Give It to Me” with Timberlake and Nelly Furtado.

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.

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Steely co-founders Dana Fagen, 76, and Becker (who died in 2017) have earned several platinum-certified albums as well as three top 10 hits on Board Top 100 career jazz rock acts: “Do It Again,” “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Hey Nineteen.”

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Hillary Lindsey and Lady Gaga.

Lindsey has been behind the scenes of country music for a long time, but anyone who has listened to the radio since the late 90s knows a few of her songs. She co-wrote Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush,” as well as Lady Gaga’s “Always Remember Us This Way” from A star is born and “A Million Reasons.”

Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of REM

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REM members Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe — already inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — will be recognized for their songwriting skills including “Losing My Religion,” “Everybody Hurts,” “That is the end of the world as we know it (and I feel good)”, “Radio Free Europe” and “The one I love”.

Dean Pitchford.

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Oscar and Golden Globe winner Pitchford composed for pop icons such as Whitney Houston and Cher, musicals such as Glory and Free including movies The Lizzie McGuire movie and Bambi II. Listeners across several generations know his songs: “Footloose”, “Fame”, “Holding Out for a Hero”, “What Dreams Are Made Of” and many others.

Additional 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame honorees will be announced soon. This year’s induction and awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.

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