Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is in downtown Nashville and has been called the “Smithsonian of country music,” and was created to preserve, celebrate, and share the important cultural asset that is country music. The doors opened in 1967 on Nashville’s Music Row and moved to its current downtown location in 2001, and in 2014, unveiled a $100 million expansion. that doubled its footprint. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum now includes 350,000 square feet of dynamic galleries, archival storage, retail stores, and event space, along with classrooms in the Taylor Swift Education Center, and performance space in the CMA Theater and Ford Theater, which regularly host nationally recognized live music and cultural events. If you are interested in learning more about the museum or visiting click here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS-INDUCTEES BY DECADE (1960s to Present)
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
1960s
- Bob Wills
- Eddy Arnold
- Ernest Tubb
- Fred Rose
- Gene Autry
- George D. Hay
- Hank Williams
- J.L. (Joe) Frank
- James R. “Jim” Denny
- Jim Reeves
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Red Foley
- Roy Acuff
- Stephen H. Sholes
- Tex Ritter
- Uncle Dave Macon
1970s
- Art Satherley
- Bill Monroe
- Chet Atkins
- Grandpa Jones
- Hank Snow
- Hubert Long
- Jimmie Davis
- Kitty Wells
- Merle Travis
- Minnie Pearl
- Owen Bradley
- Patsy Cline
- Paul Cohen
- Pee Wee King
- The Carter Family
1980s
- Cliffie Stone
- Connie B. Gay
- Flatt and Scruggs
- Floyd Tillman
- Grant Turner
- Hank Thompson
- Jack Stapp
- Johnny Cash
- Lefty Frizzell
- Little Jimmy Dickens
- Loretta Lynn
- Marty Robbins
- Ralph Peer
- Rod Brasfield
- Roy Horton
- Roy Rogers
- Sons of the Pioneers
- The Duke of Paducah (Whitey Ford)
- Vernon Dalhart
- Wesley Rose
1990s
- Brenda Lee
- Buck Owens
- Cindy Walker
- Conway Twitty
- Dolly Parton
- E.W. “Bud” Wendell
- Elvis Presley
- Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
- Frances Preston
- George Jones
- George Morgan
- Harlan Howard
- Jo Walker-Meador
- Johnny Bond
- Merle Haggard
- Patsy Montana
- Ray Price
- Roger Miller
- Tammy Wynette
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Willie Nelson
2000s
- Alabama
- Barbara Mandrell
- Bill Anderson
- Bill Carlisle
- Carl Smith
- Charley Pride
- Charlie McCoy
- DeFord Bailey
- Don Gibson
- Don Law
- Emmylou Harris
- Ernest Stoneman
- Faron Young
- Floyd Cramer
- George Strait
- Glen Campbell
- Harold Bradley
- Homer and Jethro
- Jim Foglesong
- Ken Nelson
- Kris Kristofferson
- Mel Tillis
- Porter Wagoner
- Ralph Emery
- Roy Clark
- Sam Phillips
- Sonny James
- The Delmore Brothers
- The Everly Brothers
- The Jordanaires
- The Louvin Brothers
- The Statler Brothers
- Tom T. Hall
- Vince Gill
- Waylon Jennings
- Webb Pierce
2010s
- Alan Jackson
- Billy Sherrill
- Bobby Bare
- Bobby Braddock
- Brooks & Dunn
- Charlie Daniels
- Connie Smith
- Cowboy Jack Clement
- Don Schlitz
- Don Williams
- Dottie West
- Ferlin Husky
- Fred Foster
- Garth Brooks
- Grady Martin
- Hank Cochran
- Hargus “Pig” Robbins
- Jean Shepard
- Jerry Bradley
- Jerry Reed
- Jim Ed Brown and The Browns
- Jimmy Dean
- Johnny Gimble
- Kenny Rogers
- Mac Wiseman
- Randy Travis
- Ray Stevens
- Reba McEntire
- Ricky Skaggs
- Ronnie Milsap
- The Oak Ridge Boys
2020s
- Dean Dillon
- Eddie Bayers
- Hank Williams Jr.
- Marty Stuart
- Pete Drake
- Ray Charles
- The Judds