The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest title given to a series of awards that recognizes vocal performance by a female in the pop category. It was first awarded in 1959 as Best Vocal performance, female. In 1961 the title was revised and given out as two separate awards, Best Vocal Performance Single Record Or Track and Best Vocal Performance Album, Female. From 1962 to 1963 the award went back to being singular and was titled Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female. The award was changed to Best Vocal Performance, Female in 1964. In 1967 both awards for Male and female was combined and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance - Male or Female. It was split again in 1968 and awarded as Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance. It was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female in 1969. It was changed twice again, once in 1970 and then again in 1972, before the current title was introduced in 1995. Both Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand have won the award five times.
Winners: Grammys Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
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Year
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Song
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Winner
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2010
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Halo
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Beyoncé
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2009
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Chasing Pavements
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Adele
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2008
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Rehab
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Amy Winehouse
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2007
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Ain't No Other Man
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Christina Aguilera
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2006
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Since U Been Gone
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Kelly Clarkson
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2005
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Sunrise
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Norah Jones
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2004
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Beautiful
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Christina Aguilera
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2003
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Don't Know Why
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Norah Jones
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2002
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I'm like a Bird
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Nelly Furtado
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2001
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I Try
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Macy Gray
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2000
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I Will Remember You
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Sarah McLachlan
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1999
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My Heart Will Go On
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Celine Dion
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1998
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Building a Mystery
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Sarah McLachlan
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1997
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Un*Break My Heart
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Toni Braxton
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1996
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No More I Love You's
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Annie Lennox
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1995
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All I Wanna Do
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Sheryl Crow
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1994
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I Will Always Love You
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Whitney Houston
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1993
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Constant Craving
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k.d. lang
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1992
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Something to Talk About
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Bonnie Raitt
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1991
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Vision of Love
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Mariah Carey
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1990
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Nick of Time
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Bonnie Raitt
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1989
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Fast Car
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Tracy Chapman
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1988
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
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Whitney Houston
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1987
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The Broadway Album
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Barbra Streisand
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1986
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Saving All My Love for You
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Whitney Houston
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1985
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What's Love Got to Do with It
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Tina Turner
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1984
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Flashdance... What a Feeling
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Irene Cara
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1983
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You Should Hear How She Talks About You
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Melissa Manchester
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1982
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Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
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Lena Horne
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1981
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The Rose
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Bette Midler
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1980
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I'll Never Love This Way Again
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Dionne Warwick
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1979
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You Needed Me
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Anne Murray
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1978
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Love Theme from A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
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Barbra Streisand
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1977
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Hasten Down the Wind
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Linda Ronstadt
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1976
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At Seventeen
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Janis Ian
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1975
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I Honestly Love You
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Olivia Newton*John
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1974
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Killing Me Softly with His Song
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Roberta Flack
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1973
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I Am Woman
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Helen Reddy
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1972
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Tapestry
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Carole King
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1971
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I'll Never Fall in Love Again
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Dionne Warwick
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1970
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Is That All There Is?
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Peggy Lee
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1969
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Do You Know the Way to San Jose
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Dionne Warwick
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1968
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(Vocal) "Ode to Billie Joe"
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Bobbie Gentry
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1968
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(Contemporary Solo Vocal) "Ode to Billie Joe"
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Bobbie Gentry
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1967
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If He Walked into My Life Today
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Eydie Gorme
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1966
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(Vocal) My Name Is Barbra
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Barbra Streisand
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1966
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I Know a Place
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Petula Clark
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1965
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People
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Barbra Streisand
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1964
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The Barbra Streisand Album
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Barbra Streisand
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1963
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Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
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Ella Fitzgerald
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1962
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Judy at Carnegie Hall
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Judy Garland
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1961
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Mack the Knife
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Ella Fitzgerald
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1961
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(Single) Mack the Knife
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Ella Fitzgerald
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1960
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But Not for Me
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Ella Fitzgerald
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1959
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
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Ella Fitzgerald
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