Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance explained

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Awarded For:	Quality female vocal performances in the pop music genre
Presenter:	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Country:	United States
Year:	1959
Year2:	2011

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.

The award has had quite a convoluted history:

• From 1959 to 1960 there was an award called Best Vocal Performance, Female, which was for work in the pop field
• In 1961 the award was separated into Best Vocal Performance Single Record Or Track and Best Vocal Performance Album, Female
• From 1962 to 1963 the awards from the previous year were combined into Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female
• From 1964 to 1968 the award was called Best Vocal Performance, Female
• In 1969, the awards were combined and streamlined as the award for Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• From 1970 to 1971 the award was known as Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female
• From 1972 to 1994 the award was known as Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• From 1995 to 2011 it was known as Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

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.

Recipients

Year	Winner(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1959				^[1]
1960				^[2]
1961 (Single)				^[3]
1961 (Album)
1962				^[4]
1963				^[5]
1964				^[6]
1965				^[7]
1966
1967
1968				^[8]
1969
1970				^[9]
1971				^[10]
1972				^[11]
1973				^[12]
1974				^[13]
1975
1976				^[14]
1977				^[15]
1978				^[16]
1979				^[17]
1980				^[18]
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997	Toni Braxton
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009	Adele
2010	Beyoncé			^[19]
2011	Lady Gaga			^[20]

Category facts

Most Wins in Category

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd
Artist	Ella Fitzgerald Barbra Streisand	Dionne Warwick Whitney Houston	Bonnie Raitt Sarah McLachlan Norah Jones Christina Aguilera
Total Wins	5 wins	3 wins	2 wins

Most Nominations

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Artist	Barbra Streisand	Peggy Lee Linda Ronstadt Mariah Carey	Ella Fitzgerald	Olivia Newton-John Dionne Warwick Carly Simon Whitney Houston Sheryl Crow	Bonnie Raitt Christina Aguilera	Tina Turner Donna Summer Celine Dion Madonna Pink Sarah McLachlan Bette Midler Joni Mitchell
Total Nominations	12 Nominations	8 nominations	7 nominations	6 nominations	5 nominations	4 nominations

Other facts

• Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand received the most consecutive wins in this category with 3 (1959–1961 & 1964–1966), respectively.
• Mariah Carey received the most consecutive nominations in this category with 6 (1991–1996), winning once for "Vision of Love".
• Beyoncé 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.
• Ella Fitzgerald'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.

Contemporary (R&R) 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.

• 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

See also

• List of music awards honoring women

External links

• Official Site of the Grammy Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grammy Awards 1959 (May). IndiaServer. 20 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110528061002/http://www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1959-may-238.html. 28 May 2011. dead.
2. Web site: Grammy Awards 1959. IndiaServer.
3. Web site: Grammy Awards 1961. IndiaServer. 2011-07-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20110528044658/http://www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1961-213.html. 2011-05-28. dead.
4. Web site: Grammy Awards 1962. IndiaServer.
5. Web site: Grammy Awards 1963. IndiaServer.
6. Web site: Grammy Awards 1963. IndiaServer.
7. Web site: Grammy Awards 1965. IndiaServer.
8. Web site: Grammy Awards 1968. IndiaServer. 2011-07-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20110519012644/http://www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1968-218.html. 2011-05-19. dead.
9. Web site: Grammy Awards 1970. IndiaServer.
10. Web site: Grammy Awards 1971. IndiaServer.
11. Web site: Grammy Awards 1972. IndiaServer.
12. Web site: Grammy Awards 1973. IndiaServer.
13. Web site: Grammy Awards 1974. IndiaServer.
14. Web site: Grammy Awards 1976. IndiaServer.
15. Web site: Grammy Awards 1977. IndiaServer.
16. Web site: Grammy Awards 1978. IndiaServer.
17. Web site: Grammy Awards 1979. IndiaServer.
18. Web site: Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Performance – Female. Rock on the Net. 20 July 2011.
19. Web site: Nominees And Winners: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. GRAMMY.com. 20 July 2011.
20. Web site: Nominees And Winners: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. GRAMMY.com. 20 July 2011.