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

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