Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals


The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was 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 songs on which singers collaborate. 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 award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was first presented to Al Green and Lyle Lovett at the 37th Grammy Awards for the song "Funny How Time Slips Away". According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award was presented to artists that performed "newly recorded collaborative pop performances" that "do not normally perform together."
In 1997, the father-daughter duo of Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole won the award for "When I Fall in Love", a "virtual duet" remake of one of his signature hits, using a recording of his vocals more than 30 years after his death in 1965.
There have been five instances in which an artist was nominated for more than one song in the same year, with different collaborators. In 1998, Barbra Streisand received nominations for the songs "I Finally Found Someone" and "Tell Him". Santana was nominated in 2000 for the songs "Love of My Life" and "Smooth". In 2002, Christina Aguilera was nominated for the songs "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" and "Lady Marmalade". In 2005, Ray Charles earned nominations for the songs "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" and "Here We Go Again". In 2010, Colbie Caillat was nominated for the songs "Breathe" and "Lucky". Four of the five won the award with one of their two nominations.
Two-time award recipients include Van Morrison, Pink, Santana, Alison Krauss, and Robert Plant. Krauss and Plant are the only duo to win more than once, as well as the only consecutive winners. Christina Aguilera and Stevie Wonder share the record for the most nominations, with six each.
The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. At that point, all duo or group performances in the pop category were shifted to the newly formed Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. The 2011 award for a cover version of "Imagine" was the last one to be awarded in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category.

Recipients

YearPerforming artistsWorkNomineesRef.
1995 and Lyle Lovett
1996The Chieftains and Van Morrison
1997 and Nat King Cole
1998 and Van Morrison
1999 and Burt Bacharach
2000Santana and Rob Thomas
2001 and Dr. John
2002, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink
2003Santana and Michelle Branch
2004Sting and Mary J. Blige
2005 and Norah Jones
2006Gorillaz and De La Soul
2007 and Stevie Wonder
2008 and Alison Krauss
2009 and Alison Krauss
2010 and Colbie Caillat
2011, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono Nº1, Jeff Beck and Oumou Sangaré

Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.