Hits from Céline Dion, Miles Davis and Mary J. Blige enter U.S. National Recording Registry

Andrew Dalton · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 3:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Albums from Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the formed of Hamilton are entering America's audio canon, on with singles from Helen Reddy and Céline Dion and the euphony of Minecraft.

New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include Davis' groundbreaking 1970 merger of jazz and stone Bitches Brew, John's loaded-with-hits Goodbye Yellow Brick Road from 1973, Chapman's self-titled 1988 medium that included Fast Car, Blige's profoundly introspective 1994 My Life, and the 2015 archetypal Broadway formed medium of Hamilton.

They were among the 25 recordings entering the archive successful the people of 2025, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced Wednesday. The recordings were chosen for their "cultural, humanities oregon aesthetic value successful the nation's recorded dependable heritage."

"These are the sounds of America — our wide-ranging past and culture," Hayden said successful a statement. "The National Recording Registry is our evolving nation's playlist."

Helen Reddy's 1972 I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar and Céline Dion's 1997 hit My Heart Will Go On from the movie Titanic are among the singles entering the archive.

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Among the much antithetic inclusions are the archetypal euphony for the video crippled (and present monster deed movie) Minecraft from German producer Daniel Rosenfeld, arsenic collected connected the 2011 album, Minecraft: Volume Alpha, and the reboot dependable for Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, created by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame instrumentalist and shaper Brian Eno.

Announcer Chuck Thompson's vigor broadcast of the 1960 World Series betwixt the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates — clinched with a Game 7 location tally by the Pirates' Bill Mazeroski — is besides entering the registry.

The oldest signaling successful the people of 2025 is 1913's Aloha 'Oe by the Hawaiian Quintette. The astir caller is the 2015 Hamilton album, with euphony by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Other albums that won inclusion are 1968's Hello Dummy from insult comic Don Rickles, 1969's Chicago Transit Authority from the set Chicago, 1975's I've Got the Music successful Me from Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker, 1976's Fly Like an Eagle from the Steve Miller Band, and 2006's Back to Black from Amy Winehouse.

Career-defining singles from different canonical artists are joining those of Reddy and Dion, including 1952's Happy Trails from Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Freddy Fender's 1975 Before the Next Teardrop Falls, and 1971's Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' from trailblazing Black state artist Charley Pride.