Williams and Hugo worked on Billboard Hot 100 No. The Neptunes, based in Virginia, became highly sought producers and songwriters as everyone, from pop to rap to R&B stars, requested their services. Eligible members can vote for three non-performing songwriters and three performing songwriters until December 16. Six songwriters, or songwriting groups, will be officially inducted at the HallвЂ™s 51st annual Induction & Awards Gala in New York on June 11, 2020. Songwriters are eligible for induction after writing hit songs for at least 20 years. Russell Brown and the late Irwin Levine, and Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan. Non-performing songwriting duos nominated include the late Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, L. Non-performing solo nominees are William вЂњMickeyвЂќ Stevenson, Rick Nowels, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Fuller, Tony Macaulay, Bob McDill and Roger Nichols. 1 hits and earned her first Songwriters Hall nomination last year, is up for the prize again. Mariah Carey, who co-wrote 17 of her 18 No. Performing nominees include Patti Smith, Journey, Vince Gill, Gloria Estefan, the Isley Brothers, former Eurythmics members Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Mike Love, BreadвЂ™s David Gates and Steve Miller. Twenty-four acts are in contention for the 2020 class. The Songwriters Hall gave The Associated Press the list of nominees Tuesday, a day ahead of its official announcement. Joining the Neptunes as nominees for the 2020 class are other visionaries who have carved out their own space in the music universe: the rap icons Outkast and rock pioneers R.E.M., who announced they had called it quits in 2011. NEW YORK (AP) - The Neptunes, the creative, innovative production-songwriting duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo who shaped pop and urban radio from the вЂ™90s well into the 2000s thanks to crafting hits for Britney Spears, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Usher and BeyoncГ©, are nominated for the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

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