NEW YORK – Musicians Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton and Mary J. Blige are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2024, along with Dave Matthews Band, Kool & The Gang, Foreigner and A Tribe Called Quest, the hall announced on April 21.

The latest crop of stars will officially join the pantheon in a ceremony on Oct 19 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, where the hall’s affiliated museum is also located.

The 39th annual group of inductees matches the hall’s genre and demographic spread of recent years, with an American pop diva (Cher), a metal idol (Osbourne), a top funk band of the 1970s and 1980s (Kool & The Gang), a couple of 1990s hip-hop and R&B heroes (Blige, A Tribe Called Quest) and rock mainstays from the boomer (Frampton, Foreigner) and Gen X (Dave Matthews Band) eras.

Of those artistes, four were elevated to the hall on their first nomination – Cher, Foreigner, Frampton and Kool & The Gang. Osbourne was nominated for the first time as a solo act, though he had joined the hall as part of Black Sabbath in 2006.

Seven acts that were nominated in February did not make the cut: Mariah Carey, Jane’s Addiction, Oasis, Sade, Eric B. & Rakim, Lenny Kravitz and, perhaps most surprisingly, Sinead O’Connor, whose death in 2023, at age 56, elicited a global outpouring of grief and a reconsideration of her place in rock history.

The hall will also honour blues musicians Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton with the musical influence award, while Jimmy Buffett, Dionne Warwick, the MC5 and Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield will receive an honour for musical excellence.

Suzanne de Passe, an American film and television producer who was a long-time executive at Motown, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.

Artistes become eligible for nomination 25 years after the release of their first recording. The nominations are voted on by more than 1,000 music historians, industry professionals and inducted artists. NYTIMES