Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance | |
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Awarded for | Artistic excellence in a duo, group, or collaborative vocal or instrumental pop performance |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 2012 |
Currently held by | SZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers – "Ghost in the Machine" (2024) |
Most awards | Lady Gaga and SZA (2) |
Most nominations | Coldplay (5) |
Website | grammy.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.