That's a huge honour : Mariah Carey on her Rock Hall nomination

"That's a huge honour. I don't know if I'm going to win it, so I don't want to get too excited about it," she said in an interview, reported People.

"So, I just want to say that, again, it's a huge honor and I guess I didn't expect it. I wasn't really thinking about it. And here we here," added Mariah.

Carey was nominated in 2024, but was not selected. In February, it was announced that she was among the nominees once again, alongside stars like Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol, Joe Cocker, Chubby Checker, OutKast and Oasis.

"I don't really know if genre matters," she said, adding, "I feel like people are more open to all different genres, much more than they were, you know? But I feel like a rock star sometimes," as per the outlet.

Artists and bands become eligible for nomination 25 years after releasing their first commercial recording, and Carey's debut came out in 1990, as per the outlet.

This year's inductees will be revealed later this month, with a ceremony set to take place in Los Angeles in the fall.

Carey was recently honoured with the Icon Award at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards, "On this Saint Patrick's Day, I want to honor my mother Patricia Carey for giving me the gift of music," she said.

"Thank you iHeart for this incredible honour. As a kid, I used to listen to my favorite artist on the radio and dream of being on the airwave myself. Now, for those of you who may not know what airwaves are, think of it as the non-WiFi version of streaming, okay?" Carey said elsewhere in her speech. "Even now I still get excited when I hear one of my songs playing on the radio. It never stops being magical," reported People.