National Recording Registry adds songs from Abba, Biggie, the Chicks

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National Recording Registry adds songs from Abba, Biggie, the Chicks

The Library of Congress announced its 2024 selections, including The Notorious B.I.G.'s ‘Ready to Die’ and Gene Autry’s ‘Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer’

By Herb Scribner
April 16, 2024 at 5:01 a.m. EDT



Members of the pop group Abba, from left, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Foltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, appear in Tokyo in 1980. (Tsugufumi Matsumoto/AP)

Abba’s “Dancing Queen” and Gene Autry’s “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” are among the 25 songs inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry this year.

The latest inductees bring the list of titles in the registry to 650. In all, the library’s collection contains more than 4 million items. Song choices for the registry are “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” according to the library. Recordings must be a decade old to make it into the registry.

“The Library of Congress is proud to preserve the sounds of American history and our diverse culture through the National Recording Registry,” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement. “We have selected audio treasures worthy of preservation with our partners this year, including a wide range of music from the past 100 years, as well as comedy.”

For 2024, the registry’s newly added songs and albums didn’t have a central theme, but the list highlighted several popular albums from ’90s-era artists, including the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ready to Die,” the Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces” and Green Day’s “Dookie.”

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By Herb Scribner
Herb Scribner is a breaking news reporter for features at The Washington Post. He previously worked at Axios, where he wrote about breaking news in politics, entertainment and sports. Twitter https://twitter.com/HerbScribner

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Personnel:
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
Barry Harris – piano
Bob Cranshaw – bass
Billy Higgins – drums


Released: 1964
Recorded: December 21, 1963
Studio: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Label: Blue Note
Producer: Alfred Lion

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