Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Awarded for	quality female vocal performances in the pop music genre
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded	1959
Last awarded	2011
Official website	grammy.com

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 awards 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.

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