The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its 2026 inductees – three non-performing songwriters or songwriting teams (Walter Afanasieff, Terry Britten & Graham Lyle and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart) and four performing songwriters or songwriting teams (Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, Kenny Loggins, Alanis Morissette and Taylor Swift).
Swift has set a couple of Songwriters Hall of Fame records. At 36, she’s the youngest woman ever to be inducted into the SHOF (though she’s not the youngest inductee overall. See this exclusive list of the seven-youngest inductees.) Also, Swift, who received the Hal David Starlight Award from the SHOF in 2010, is the first person to graduate from the Starlight Award (an award for a songwriter who shows promise, which dates to 2004) to full membership status.
A songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for SHOF induction 20 years after the first commercial release of a song. Swift’s first single, “Tim McGraw,” was released in June 2006. The SHOF Induction and Awards gala is set for June 11 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, so she just made it.
Several of this year’s inductees are well-known for collaborations with previous SHOF inductees. Swift collaborated on her early hits (including perhaps her most prized song “All Too Well”) with 2023 inductee Liz Rose. Afanasieff is best-known for his collaboration with 2022 inductee Mariah Carey on such songs as “Hero” and “All I Want for Christmas Is You”. Loggins has collaborated on his biggest hits with 2025 inductee Michael McDonald (“What a Fool Believes”) and 2024 inductee Dean Pitchford (“Footloose”).
The list of inductees includes three songwriters or songwriting teams who have won Grammys for song of the year – Britten and Lyle (Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It”); (the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes,” a co-write with McDonald); and Stewart (“Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” a co-write with Beyoncé, Terius “The-Dream” Nash and Thaddis Harrell.
Morissette was nominated for song of the year for co-writing the incendiary “You Oughta Know,” but didn’t win. But she did win Juno Awards for songwriter of the year in both 1996 and 1997 in her native Canada.
The announcement of the induction of Simmons and Stanley comes just one month after KISS received the Kennedy Center Honors. It comes about three months after the death of Ace Frehley, KISS’ original lead guitarist and founding member. Frehley, 74, died Oct. 16 in New Jersey.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1969 and inducted its first class of songwriters in 1970.
Here’s the full list of 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees, with inductees marked. The songs listed as examples of each songwriter’s work were supplied by the SHOF.
INDUCTED: Walter Afanasieff – “All I Want for Christmas Is You” * “My All” * “Hero” * “Love Will Survive” * “One Sweet Day”
Pete Bellotte – “Hot Stuff” * “I Feel Love” * “Love To Love You Baby” * “Heaven Knows” * “Push It to the Limit”
Andreas Carlsson – “I Want It That Way” * “Bye Bye Bye” * “It’s Gonna Be Me” * “That’s The Way It Is” * “Waking Up in Vegas”
Steve Kipner – “Physical” * “Hard Habit To Break” * “Genie in a Bottle” * “These Words” * “Breakeven”
Jeffrey LeVasseur p/k/a Jeffrey Steele – “What Hurts the Most” * “My Wish” * “Knee Deep” * “The Cowboy in Me” * “I’d Give Anything/She’d Give Anything”
Patrick Leonard – “Like a Prayer” * “Live To Tell” * “Nevermind” * “You Want It Darker” * “Yet Another Movie”
INDUCTED: Terry Britten and Graham Lyle – “What’s Love Got To Do With It” * “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” * “Typical Male” * “Devil Woman” * “I Should Have Known Better”
Bob McDill – “Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold” * “Good Ole Boys Like Me” * “Gone Country” * “Don’t Close Your Eyes” * “Song of the South”
Kenny Nolan – “Lady Marmalade” * “My Eyes Adored You” * “I Like Dreamin’” * “Masterpiece” * “Get Dancin’”
Martin Page – “We Built This City” * “These Dreams” * “King of Wishful Thinking” * “Faithful” * “Fallen Angel”
Vini Poncia – “Do I Love You” * “I Was Made for Lovin You” * “Oh My My” * “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” * “Just Too Many People”
Tom Snow – “He’s So Shy” * “Let’s Hear it for the Boy” * “Dreaming of You” * “Don’t Know Much” * “After All”
INDUCTED: Christopher “Tricky” Stewart – “Umbrella” * “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” * “Obsessed” * “Just Fine” * “Break My Soul”
Larry Weiss – “Rhinestone Cowboy” * “Bend Me Shape Me” * “Hi Ho Silver Lining” * “Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore” * “Darling Take Me Back”
Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell (America) – “A Horse With No Name” * “Ventura Highway” * “Sister Golden Hair” * “I Need You”* “Tin Man”
David Byrne – “Once in a Lifetime” * “Psycho Killer” * “Burning Down the House” * “Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)” * “Strange Overtones”
Richard Carpenter – “Goodbye to Love” * “Top of the World” * “Yesterday Once More” * “Only Yesterday” * “Merry Christmas Darling”
Harry Wayne Casey – “Rock Your Baby” * “Get Down Tonight” * “That’s The Way (I Like It)” * “(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty” * “Please Don’t Go”
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings (The Guess Who) – “These Eyes” * “Laughing” * “No Time” * “American Woman” * “No Sugar Tonight” / “New Mother Nature”
INDUCTED: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (KISS) – “Rock and Roll All Nite” * “I Love It Loud” * “Calling Dr. Love” * “Shout It Out Loud” * “Christine Sixteen”
INDUCTED: Kenny Loggins – “Danny’s Song” * “Footloose” * “Celebrate Me Home” * “Return to Pooh Corner” * “What a Fool Believes”
Sarah McLachlan – “Angel” * “Sweet Surrender” * “I Will Remember You” * “Building a Mystery” *“Adia”
INDUCTED: Alanis Morissette – “You Oughta Know” * “Ironic” * “Ironic” * “Hand in My Pocket” * “Thank U” * “Uninvited”
Alecia B. Moore p/k/a P!nk – “Glitter in the Air” * “Just Like a Pill” * “Raise Your Glass” * “So What” * “What About Us”
Boz Scaggs – “Lido Shuffle” * “Lowdown” * “We’re All Alone” * “Thanks to You” * “Look What You’ve Done to Me”
James Todd Smith p/k/a LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out” * “I Need Love” * “Around the Way Girl” * “Going Back to Cali” * “Illegal Search”
INDUCTED: Taylor Swift – “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” * “Blank Space” * “Anti-Hero” * “Love Story” * “The Last Great American Dynasty”
Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Jane M. Wiedlin (Go-Go’s) – “We Got the Beat” * “Our Lips Are Sealed” * “Vacation” * “Head Over Heels” * “This Town”
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