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Dave Matthews Band fans revolt over Rock Hall snub

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Audra Schroeder

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020   Updated on May 19, 2021, 5:46 pm CDT

The snub drama continues: This year’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced today, but Dave Matthews Band fans are piping hot over the group’s exclusion—despite winning the fan vote.

Voting on the fan ballot ended on Jan. 10 with DMB coming in first, followed by Pat Benatar, the Doobie Brothers, Soundgarden, and Judas Priest. The Rock Hall’s fan voting started in 2012, and since then the winner of the vote has always been inducted. Until now. And, as Vulture details, the fan ballot is counted as one ballot, and then voted on by the larger Rock Hall body.

Matthews had his own thoughts about being nominated, telling Billboard in October: “I feel like I don’t belong, but I’m pretty happy to be included… in a pretty outrageous lineup of people.” DMB fans obviously know how to move the needle, and made their displeasure known.

But others were like, maybe the system works?

The 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees include Whitney Houston, the Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, Nine Inch Nails, the Doobie Brothers, and Depeche Mode.

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*First Published: Jan 15, 2020, 12:55 pm CST