Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Awarded forArtistic excellence in a duo, group, or collaborative vocal or instrumental pop performance
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
Currently held bySZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers – "Ghost in the Machine" (2024)
Most awardsLady Gaga and SZA (2)
Most nominationsColdplay (5)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[1] According to the 63rd Grammy Awards category rules, "this category recognizes artistic excellence in a duo, group, or collaborative vocal or instrumental pop performance. Recordings on which a group receives artist billing are eligible here, even when the vocal features only one member of the group. The entire group or collaborative performance, rather than the presence of a lead vocal performance, determines category eligibility".[2]

The award goes to the performing artists. The producer, vocal arranger, engineer and songwriter can apply for a Winners Certificate.[3]

It was one of several new categories for the annual Grammy Awards ceremony to start from 2012. It combines the previous categories for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards and to eliminate the distinctions between collaborations and duo or groups.

Lady Gaga and SZA are the only acts overall to win this category multiple times, both with two wins. Coldplay are the act with most nominations in this category, receiving a total of five nods, but they have yet to win in this category.

Recipients

2012 winner Amy Winehouse received her first posthumous award for "Body and Soul" with Tony Bennett.
A blonde woman wearing a black gown singing into a microphone.
Three-time nominee and 2015 winner Christina Aguilera
Three-time nominee Lady Gaga is the first act to win multiple times since the category's revamp, winning in 2019 and 2021.
Three-time nominee and 2021 winner Ariana Grande. "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga was the first all-female collaboration to win this category.[4]
Kim Petras, 2023 co-winner alongside Sam Smith, became the first openly transgender woman to win this award.[5]
Year[I] Recipients Work Nominees Ref.
2012 Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse "Body and Soul" [6]
2013 Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody That I Used to Know" [7]
2014 Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers "Get Lucky" [8]
2015 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera "Say Something" [9]
2016 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" [9]
2017 Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out"
[10]
2018 Portugal. The Man "Feel It Still" [11]
2019 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper "Shallow" [12]
2020 Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus "Old Town Road" [13]
2021 Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande "Rain on Me" [14]
2022 Doja Cat featuring SZA "Kiss Me More" [15]
2023 Sam Smith and Kim Petras "Unholy" [16]
2024 SZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers "Ghost in the Machine"
[17]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artist with multiple wins

2 wins

Artists with multiple nominations

References

  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "63rd Grammy Awards Category Rules: Pop Field" (PDF). The Recording Academy. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "AWARDS, CERTIFICATES, AND GRAMMY TICKETS" (PDF). Grammy Awards.
  4. ^ Ismael Ruiz, Matthew (March 14, 2021). "Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande Win Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at 2021 Grammys". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  5. ^ Nicholson, Jessica (February 5, 2023). "Kim Petras Makes History As First Openly Trans Woman to Win a Grammy". Billboard. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  6. ^ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011.
  7. ^ "2012 – 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners". The Recording Academy. December 5, 2011.
  8. ^ "2014 Nominees" (PDF).
  9. ^ a b "2015 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  10. ^ "Grammys 2017: Complete list of winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. February 12, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Grammy Awards Winners List: Updating Live". Variety. January 28, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  12. ^ "61st Annual GRAMMY Awards". GRAMMY.com. December 6, 2018.
  13. ^ "Grammy Awards Nominations: The Complete List". Variety. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  14. ^ Shafer, Ellise (March 14, 2021). "Grammys 2021 Winners List". Variety. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  15. ^ "Grammy Nominations 2022: See the Full List Here". Pitchfork. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  16. ^ Monroe, Jazz (November 15, 2022). "Grammy Nominations 2023: See the Full List Here". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 15, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  17. ^ "Grammy Nominations 2024: See the Full List Here". 2023-11-10. Retrieved 2023-11-10.

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