Library of Congress Adds 25 Recordings to National Registry, Including Taylor Swift's '1989' and Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies'

The Library of Congress added 25 recordings to its National Recording Registry on Thursday. The collection preserves audio selections that represent the nation's artistic, cultural and historic heritage. This year's inductees span jazz, rock, pop, country, R&B, Broadway, radio and video games.

Taylor Swift's 2014 album "1989," her fifth studio album, tops the list as the most recent entry. It won album of the year and best pop vocal album at the Grammys. The only other 21st-century pick is Beyoncé's 2008 single "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."

Country artists The Charlie Daniels Band, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and Rosanne Cash made the cut, along with R&B performer Chaka Khan, the 1980s band The Go-Go's and jazz artist Oliver Nelson. Other selections include José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," Weezer's debut album and The Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)."

Broadway contributes the original cast album of "Chicago." Video games send the soundtrack from "Doom."

The additions raise the registry total to 700 titles out of the library's nearly 4 million recorded sound items.

Swift shifted from country for "1989" to keep it sonically cohesive. "A big goal of mine was to make this album very sonically cohesive," she told CBS This Morning in 2014. "So, if I were to put a fiddle on a version of 'Shake It Off' and service it to country radio, that would've completely shattered the entire idea I had that this album was going to have its own sound."

The album produced three No. 1 singles: "Shake It Off," "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood," plus hits "Wildest Dreams," "Style" and "Out of the Woods."

The Winstons' 1969 "Amen, Brother" earned its spot thanks to a seven-second drum solo sampled by N.W.A., Salt-N-Pepa, Aphex Twin and Oasis.

The Go-Go's debut "Beauty and the Beat" from 1981 came from the Los Angeles punk scene. "We came from the punk rock scene in L.A., where anything went and you could learn as you went along," Belinda Carlisle told Sunday Morning in 2018. Record executives hesitated to sign the all-female band because they were women.

Oliver Nelson's 1961 jazz album "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" drew from composers Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.

The 1975 original cast album of "Chicago" by John Kander and Fred Ebb starred Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach. Critics panned the initial run, but a 1996 revival became Broadway's longest-running show.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers' 1944 "Cocktails for Two" featured wacky sound effects.

The Charlie Daniels Band's 1979 "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" added a fiddle solo late in production.

Bobby Prince composed the 1993 "Doom" soundtrack using MIDI, inspired by Metallica and Alice in Chains.

José Feliciano's 1970 "Feliz Navidad" aimed to teach Spanish to Americans. "We thought there's gotta be a way of teaching the American people Spanish," he told Sunday Morning in 2020.

The 1971 radio broadcast "The Fight of the Century: Ali vs. Frazier" came from a hotel, not ringside. Joe Frazier won by unanimous decision.

Kaye Ballard's 1954 "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" predated Frank Sinatra's version.

Vince Gill wrote 1994's "Go Rest High on That Mountain" for his brother Bob, who died of a heart attack. "I played well enough so that I can do a little bit of everything. And I'll always have the ability to work," Gill told Sunday Morning in 2003.

Chaka Khan's 1984 "I Feel for You," featuring Melle Mel, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Pérez Prado's 1950 "Mambo No. 5" helped popularize the genre outside Cuba.

Gladys Knight and the Pips' 1973 "Midnight Train to Georgia" won a Grammy after leaving Motown.

Ray Charles' 1962 "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" covered Hank Williams and others. "There's only two kinds of music as far as I'm concerned: good and bad," he told Sunday Morning in 2003.

Paul Anka's 1959 "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" marked his teen idol days. "When you started as I did as a kid with a squeaky little voice, not knowing what's gonna happen when it changes, I couldn't envision me being around for all these decades," he told Sunday Morning this year.

Reba McEntire's 1990 "Rumor Has It" included "Fancy."

Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" from her 2008 album "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" won song of the year. "I didn't wake up and become famous," she told The Early Show in 2010.

Ruth Brown's 1950 "Teardrops from My Eyes" topped R&B charts for 11 weeks.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's 1983 "Texas Flood" showcased Texas blues-rock.

The Byrds' 1965 "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" adapted Pete Seeger and hit No. 1.

Weezer's 1994 blue-covered debut stood out clean-cut amid grunge.

Rosanne Cash's 1993 "The Wheel" captured personal change.

Jamie Principle's 1986 "Your Love," revised by Frankie Knuckles in 1987, advanced house music.