Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album | |
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Awarded for | Quality pop music albums |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1968 |
Currently held by | Adele, 25 (2017) |
Official website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop music albums. Awards in several categories are distributed annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."
The honor was first presented in 1968 at the 10th Grammy Awards as Best Contemporary Album to The Beatles for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The category was then discontinued until 1995 where it emerged with the new name Best Pop Album. In 2001, the category became known as Best Pop Vocal Album. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to artists that perform "albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded pop vocal tracks."Kelly Clarkson and Adele are the only artists to win the award twice. Clarkson was the first to win the award more than once and currently holds the record for the most nominations, with four; followed by Madonna, P!nk, Sarah McLachlan, Justin Timberlake and James Taylor with three.
^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.