Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. It was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy season. The award went to the artist. Singles or tracks only are eligible.

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Quality female vocal performances in the pop music genre

United States

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

1959

2011

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The award has had quite a convoluted history:

The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, all solo performances in the pop category (male, female, and instrumental) were shifted to the newly formed Best Pop Solo Performance category.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

and Barbra Streisand received the most consecutive wins in this category with 3 (1959–1961 & 1964–1966), respectively.

Ella Fitzgerald

received the most consecutive nominations in this category with 6 (1991–1996), winning once for "Vision of Love".

Mariah Carey

is the only artist in this category to be nominated for performing different versions of the same song, for studio version and live version of "Halo", winning for the studio version of this song in 2010.

Beyoncé

's "Mack The Knife" and Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You" are the only two performances of live songs to win in this category.

Ella Fitzgerald

In 1966 the award was called Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance – Female

In 1967 the award from the previous year was combined with the equivalent award for men as the

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance - Male or Female

In 1968 the previous award was once again separated by gender, with the female award called Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance

In 1966 the Recording Academy established a similar, but different, category in the Pop Field for Best Contemporary (rock & roll) Performances. The category went through a number of changes before being discontinued after the 1968 awards.

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance