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• 1963 – Bing Crosby
• 1965 – Frank Sinatra
• 1966 – Duke Ellington
• 1967 – Ella Fitzgerald
• 1968 – Irving Berlin
• 1971 – Elvis Presley
• 1972 – Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson
• 1984 – Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker
• 1985 – Leonard Bernstein
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, The Rolling Stones, Andrés Segovia
• 1987 – Roy Acuff, Benny Carter, Enrico Caruso, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Woody Herman, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Isaac Stern, Igor Stravinski, Arturo Toscanini, Hank Williams
• 1989 – Fred Astaire, Pablo Casals, Dizzy Gillespie, Jascha Heifetz, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan
• 1990 – Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul McCartney
• 1991 – Marian Anderson, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Kitty Wells
• 1992 – James Brown, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters
• 1993 – Chet Atkins, Little Richard, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Pete Seeger, Fats Waller
• 1994 – Bill Evans, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Rubinstein
• 1995 – Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, Curtis Mayfield, Barbra Streisand
• 1996 – Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder
• 1997 – Bobby "Blue" Bland, The Everly Brothers, Judy Garland, Stéphane Grappelli, Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa
• 1998 – Bo Diddley, The Mills Brothers, Roy Orbison, Paul Robeson
• 1999 – Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Mel Tormé
• 2000 – Harry Belafonte, Woody Guthrie, John Lee Hooker, Mitch Miller, Willie Nelson
• 2001 – The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Marley, The Who
• 2002 – Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Al Green, Joni Mitchell
• 2003 – Etta James, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller, Tito Puente, Simon & Garfunkel
• 2004 – Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw, Doc Watson
• 2005 – Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, Carter Family, Morton Gould, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Perkins, The Staple Singers
• 2006 – David Bowie, Cream, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Jessye Norman, Richard Pryor, The Weavers
• 2007 – Joan Baez, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Bob Wills
• 2008 – Burt Bacharach, The Band, Cab Calloway, Doris Day, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach, Earl Scruggs
• 2009 – Gene Autry, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Four Tops, Hank Jones, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin, Tom Paxton
• 2010 – Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, André Previn, Clark Terry
• 2011 – Julie Andrews, Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, The Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, Ramones, George Beverly Shea
• 2012 – The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antônio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, The Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron
• 2013 – Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar, The Temptations
• 2014 – The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, Maud Powell
• 2015 – Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, George Harrison, Flaco Jiménez, The Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter
• 2016 – Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Run-DMC
• 2017 – Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, The Velvet Underground
• 2018 – Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, The Meters, Queen, Tina Turner
• 2019 – Black Sabbath, George Clinton ja Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave, Dionne Warwick
• 2020 – Chicago, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Iggy Pop, John Prine, Public Enemy, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
• 2021 – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, Talking Heads
• 2022 – Bonnie Raitt
• 2023 – Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Slick Rick, Nile Rodgers, The Supremes ning Ann Wilson ja Nancy Wilson (ansamblist Heart)
• 2024 – Laurie Anderson, The Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette