The Library of Congress announced the 2023 inductees into the National Recording Registry. It includes Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” album, and, for the first time, video game music with the “Super Mario Brothers” theme.
This year’s list includes recordings from as early as 1908. In order to qualify, songs and albums must be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and at least 10 years old.
Here is the full inductee list, in chronological order:
1. “The Very First Mariachi Recordings” album, Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
2. “St. Louis Blues”, Handy’s Memphis Blues Band (1922)
3. “Sugar Foot Stomp”, Fletcher Henderson (1926)
4. “Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio” (August 23rd to September 6th, 1939)
5. “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around”, The Fairfield Four (1947)
6. “Sherry”, The Four Seasons (1962)
7. “What the World Needs Now is Love”, Jackie DeShannon (1965)
8. “Wang Dang Doodle”, Koko Taylor (1966)
9. “Ode to Billie Joe”, Bobbie Gentry (1967)
10. “Déjà Vu” album, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
11. “Imagine”, John Lennon (1971)
12. “Stairway to Heaven”, Led Zeppelin (1971)
13. “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, John Denver (1971)
14. “Margaritaville”, Jimmy Buffett (1977)
15. “Flashdance…What a Feeling”, Irene Cara (1983)
16. “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”, Eurythmics (1983)
17. “Synchronicity” album, The Police (1983)
18. “Like a Virgin” album, Madonna (1984)
19. “Black Codes (From the Underground)” album, Wynton Marsalis (1985)
20. “Super Mario Brothers” theme song, composer Koji Kondo (1985)
21. “All Hail the Queen” album, Queen Latifah (1989)
22. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, Mariah Carey (1994)
23. “Pale Blue Dot” audiobook, Carl Sagan (1994)
24. “Gasolina”, Daddy Yankee (2004)
25. “Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra”, Northwest Chamber Orchestra and composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (2012)
