And here are all of the individual albums which have been inducted. Click on the album title to go to a detailed DMDB entry about the album. Click on the highlighted month/year to see the album’s induction entry.
A
5/20:
AC/DC Back in Black (1980)
2/19:
Adele 21 (2011)
11/21:
Alabama Greatest Hits (compilation: 1980-86, released 1986)
11/20:
Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (box set: 1925-28)
B
5/19:
Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations (1741)
8/19:
Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
2/19:
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
2/20:
The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
2/20:
The Beatles 1 (compilation: 1962-70, released 2001)
2/21:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Fate) (1808)
2/21:
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major (Emperor) (1811)
2/21:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major (1812)
2/21:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Choral) (1824)
8/20:
Harry Belafonte Calypso (1956)
8/20:
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (composers) West Side Story (soundtrack, 1961)
8/21:
Bobby “Blue” Band Two Steps from the Blues (recorded 1956-60, released 1961)
5/19:
James Brown Live at the Apollo, Vol. 1 (1962)
5/21:
Dave Brubeck Time Out (1959)
11/20:
Henry Burr Anthology: The Original King of Pop (compilation: 1903-28)
11/21:
The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
C
5/19:
Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison (1968)
11/21:
Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music (1962)
11/21:
Patsy Cline 12 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1957-63, released 1973)
8/21:
Eric Clapton From the Cradle (1994)
5/21:
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
5/21:
John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
8/21:
Robert Cray Strong Persuader (1986)
8/20:
Bing Crosby Merry Christmas (aka ‘White Christmas’) (1945)
D
2/19:
Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
5/21:
Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
8/19:
Derek & the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5/20:
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (1985)
8/21:
Willie Dixon The Chess Box (compilation: 1951-69, released 1988)
8/19:
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
5/19:
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
E-F
2/20:
Eagles Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (compilation: 1971-75, released 1976)
5/20:
Eagles Hotel California (1976)
11/20:
Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band (box set: 1939-42)
5/21:
Duke Ellington At Newport (1956)
2/19:
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
2/20:
Eminem The Eminem Show (2002)
2/20:
Eminem Recovery (2010)
11/19:
Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
11/21:
The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
8/20:
Jane Froman With a Song in My Heart (soundtrack, 1952)
G
11/19:
Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall (live, 1961)
5/19:
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
11/20:
George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward (composers) Porgy and Bess (show: 1935)
5/21:
Stan Getz with João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto (1963)
8/20:
Jackie Gleason Music for Lovers Only (1953)
11/20:
Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (live: 1938)
5/19:
Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)
H-I
5/21:
Herbie Hancock Head Hunters (1973)
8/19:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
8/21:
Howlin’ Wolf Moanin’ in the Moonlight/Howlin’ Wolf (aka “The Rockin’ Chair Album”) (1959/1962)
J
2/19:
Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
5/20:
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
2/19:
Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings (recorded 1936-37, released 1990)
8/20:
Al Jolson Songs He Made Famous (soundtrack, 1946)
5/21:
Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002)
K
8/21:
Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign (1967)
8/21:
B.B. King Live at the Regal (recorded live 1964, released 1965)
11/19:
Carole King Tapestry (1971)
L-M
8/20:
Mario Lanza The Student Prince (soundtrack, 1954)
5/19:
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
2/20:
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (composers) My Fair Lady (cast, 1956)
2/20:
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (composers) Camelot (cast album, 1960)
11/19:
Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn (soundtrack, 1959)
5/20:
Bob Marley & the Wailers Legend (compilation: 1973-83, released 1984)
2/20:
Johnny Mathis Heavenly (1959)
8/21:
John Mayall’s Blue Breakers Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
8/20:
M.C. Hammer Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (1990)
5/20:
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977)
2/20:
Metallica Metallica (aka ‘The Black Album’) (1991)
11/20:
Glenn Miller Glenn Miller (aka “Glenn Miller & His Orchestra”) (compilation: 1939-42)
5/21:
Charles Mingus Ah Um (1959)
5/19:
Claudio Monteverdi L’Orfeo (Orpheus) (1607)
5/20:
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995)
2/21:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) (1786)
2/21:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni (1787)
11/20:
Billy Murray Anthology: The Denver Nightingale (compilation: 1903-40)
N-P
11/21:
Willie Nelson Red-Headed Stranger (1975)
2/19:
Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
11/21:
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
2/21:
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass (Missa Papae Marcelli) (1565)
11/21:
Gram Parsons Grievous Angel (1974)
11/20:
Charley Patton Founder of the Delta Blues (compilation: 1929-34)
2/19:
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
5/20:
Pink Floyd The Wall (1979)
8/20:
Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii (soundtrack, 1961)
8/20:
Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)
5/19:
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
Q-R
2/19:
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) South Pacific (cast album, 1949)
2/20:
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) Oklahoma! (soundtrack, 1955)
2/20:
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) South Pacific (soundtrack, 1958)
2/20:
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) The Sound of Music (cast album, 1959)
11/21:
Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits (compilation: 1969-80, released 1980)
S
5/19:
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
11/19:
Paul Simon Graceland (1986)
5/21:
Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin’ Lovers (1956)
11/20:
Bessie Smith The Essential (compilation: 1923-33)
5/20:
Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
2/20:
Taylor Swift 1989 (2014)
T-V
2/21:
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor (1875)
11/19:
U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
8/21:
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Texas Flood (1983)
8/19:
Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
2/21:
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons (1725)
W-Z
2/21:
Richard Wagner Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (1874)
8/21:
Muddy Waters At Newport (live, 1960)
8/19:
The Who Who’s Next (1971)
11/21:
Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1947-53, released 1978)
8/19:
Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
11/19:
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
8/19:
Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
Various Artists
11/20:
Various Artists (edited by Harry Smith) Anthology of American Folk Music (box set: 1923-32)
8/20:
Various artists (Whitney Houston et al) The Bodyguard (soundtrack, 1992)
5/20:
Various Artists (including Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta) Grease (soundtrack, 1978)
11/19:
Various Artists (including the Bee Gees) Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977)
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