The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s new Class of 2026 was announced on American Idol on Monday night (Apr. 13), and as always, the list of inducted artists — as well as the list of artists still left on the outside looking in — makes for a fascinating look at where the Rock Hall voting bloc’s priorities currently lie.

The eight artists who are to be inducted as performers this year are Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Oasis, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan — with Collins now a two-time inductee, having previously been entered as a member of prog-rock reverse-supergroup Genesis. Meanwhile, Celia Cruz, Fela Kuti, Queen Latifah and MC Lyte will also be entered via the early influence award, along with Linda Creed, Arif Mardin, Jimmy Miller and Rick Rubin as music excellence award honorees and Ed Sullivan as the Ahmet Ertegun Award recipient.

Meanwhile, nominated for 2026 but not inducted are New Edition, P!nk, INXS, The Black Crowes, Jeff Buckley, Shakira, Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge and Mariah Carey. While Oasis, Iron Maiden and Joy Division/New Order all get in on their third nomination this year, Carey is left as one of just a dozen artists who have been nominated for the Rock Hall at least three times but still have not been inducted as a performer.

What do the list of inductees and snubs tell us about what the Rock Hall is thinking in 2026? Here are five quick takeaways we had following the Monday announcement.

Heated Rivalry, the envelope-pushing TV series about gay hockey players that had a broader cultural reach than anyone could have predicted, was nominated Thursday (April 9) for a Peabody Award. Other nominees included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Pitt, Dying for Sex, FOREVER and programs about influential musicians Sly Stone and Fela Kuti: the documentary Sly Lives! (a.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius) and the podcast Fela Kuti: Fear No Man.

Kuti, a Nigerian musician, producer, arranger, political radical and outlaw, is widely regarded as the father of Afrobeats. The musician, who died in 1997 at age 58, received a posthumous lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy earlier this year. Stone, who led Sly & the Family Stone to three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Everyday People,” “Thank U Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” and “Family Affair,” received that same honor in 2017.

Heated Rivalry won outstanding new TV series at the GLAAD Media Awards on March 5 in Los Angeles.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended for a week last September following a controversial remark by Jimmy Kimmel about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but it survived that near-death experience. Kimmel’s progam has received 14 consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for outstanding talk series (or in a predecessor category, outstanding variety series), but it has yet to win.

The Peabody Awards board of jurors announced the nominees in the arts, children’s/youth, entertainment, and interactive & immersive categories. The nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 28 jurors from more than 1,000 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web.

“These nominees showcase the power of storytelling at its most urgent and expansive, where art, entertainment, and innovation collide with the defining issues of our time,” Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody, said in a statement. “From identity and mental health to political extremism, systemic inequality, and the search for belonging, this work reflects exactly what the Peabody Awards stand for: stories that challenge, illuminate, and push culture forward.”

The winners of the 86th annual Peabody Awards will be announced April 23, and then celebrated on May 31 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Actress and podcast host Amy Poehler will receive the Peabody Career Achievement Award; director, producer and screenwriter Sterlin Harjo will receive the Peabody Trailblazer Award; Multiple Oscar- and Emmy-winning creator James L. Brooks will be honored with the Peabody Industry Icon Award; and historic programmer PBS KIDS will receive the Peabody Institutional Award.

Here are the honorees of greatest interest to the music community, with capsule descriptions provided by the Peabodys. The first two are in the Arts category, the last five in Entertainment.