VAUGHAN
This is an August 1989 file photo of the late blues singer Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in an Aug. 27, 1990 helicopter crash neat East Tryo, Wis.
(WYATT COUNTS)
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Voting for the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class has ended. That includes the annual Fan Vote.
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble led the way in the fan poll with just over 30 percent of the vote, followed by Nine Inch Nails, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Bill Withers and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Those five acts will be placed on a fan ballot that's added to this year's voting pool.
It's worth noting that the previous two winners of the fan vote -- KISS and Rush -- both made it into the Rock Hall the year they led the poll.
The list of inductees for the next Rock Hall class should be announced any day now. Tickets for the ceremony, which will be held at Cleveland's Public Hall in April, go on sale to next week.
Here are the final results of the Fan Vote (courtesy of the Rock Hall's website):
- Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble 31.04% (18,331,552 votes)
- Nine Inch Nails 22.20% (13,114,452 votes)
- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 15.08% (8,907,062 votes)
- Bill Withers 6.49% (3,830,589 votes)
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 6.25% (3,692,968 votes)
- Lou Reed 5.28% (3,121,380 votes)
- War 2.67% (1,575,228 votes)
- Green Day 2.59% (1,527,136 votes)
- Sting 1.75% (1,034,508 votes)
- N.W.A. 1.29% (761,395 votes)
- Kraftwerk 1.15% (682,002 votes)
- The Smiths 1.12% (662,229 votes)
- The Spinners 1.12% (661,758 votes)
- The Marvelettes 0.98% (580,523 votes)
- Chic 0.98% (578,506 votes)