Phish Wins 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Fan Vote

Fans will have to wait until Sunday (April 27) to find out if Phish makes it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year on its first try, but the veteran jam band’s enthusiasts showed their support. The band won the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote, receiving 329,000-plus votes — nearly 50,000 more than runner-up Bad Company, who got 280,725.

The top five finishers in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Fan Vote will have their results counted alongside ballots from more than 1,200 artists, historians and music industry professionals to help determine the Class of 2025. Joining Phish and Bad Company in the fan vote’s top five are Billy Idol (260K votes), Cyndi Lauper (nearly 237K), and Joe Cocker (233K).

As was announced Monday, Ryan Seacrest will announce this year’s inductees into the Rock Hall on a live episode of American Idol on Sunday. James Taylor will serve as mentor on the episode, on which this year’s contestants will perform songs associated with past Rock Hall inductees.

Soundgarden just missed the top five in the fan vote, receiving about 300 fewer votes than Cocker. They were followed by Chubby Checker (203K), The Black Crowes (165K), Mariah Carey (nearly 138K), Joy Division and New Order (120K), The White Stripes (110K), OutKast (108K), Oasis (99K) and Maná (34K).

Phish has had an unorthodox career. The band has yet to put a single on the Billboard Hot 100 and has received just one Grammy nomination — best rock instrumental performance for “First Tube” in 2001. But the band has put 38 albums on the Billboard 200, including three that made the top 10 — Billy Breathes (No. 7 in 1996), The Story of the Ghost (No. 8 in 1998) and Fuego (No. 7 in 2014).

The band has had its greatest radio success in the adult alternative format. It has had four top 10 hits on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart — “Free” (No. 7 in 1996), “Heavy Things” (No. 2 in 2000), “The Connection” (No. 2 in 2004) and “Backwards Down the Number Line” (No. 9 in 2009).

And the band is a powerhouse live attraction, as evidenced when it played the Sphere in Las Vegas in April 2024.