Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
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"Ghost in the Machine" by SZA & Phoebe Bridgers is the most recent recipient
Awarded forArtistic excellence in a duo, group, or collaborative vocal or instrumental pop performance
CountryUnited States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
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]

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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. Amy Winehouse f4962007 crop.jpg
2012 winner Amy Winehouse received her first posthumous award for "Body and Soul" with Tony Bennett.
Four-time nominee Lady Gaga is the first act to win multiple times since the category's revamp, winning in 2019 and 2021. Lady Gaga JWT Toronto, 2017-09-06 (cropped2).jpg
Four-time nominee Lady Gaga is the first act to win multiple times since the category's revamp, winning in 2019 and 2021.
Four-time nominee and 2021 winner Ariana Grande. "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga was the first all-female collaboration to win this category. Dangerous Woman Tour2.jpg
Four-time nominee and 2021 winner Ariana Grande. "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga was the first all-female collaboration to win this category.
2023 winner Kim Petras became the first openly transgender artist to win this award. Kim Petras 2018.jpg
2023 winner Kim Petras became the first openly transgender artist to win this award.
Year [I] RecipientsWorkNomineesRef.
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]
2025 PendingPending [18]

^[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

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  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.
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