Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Awarded for	quality vocals or instrumental duo/group or collaborative pop recordings
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Official 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 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for pop recordings by duo/groups or collaborative performances (vocal or instrumental) and is limited to singles or tracks only.^[2]

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, 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.

Recipients

2012 winner Amy Winehouse received her first posthumous award along with Tony Bennett

2013 award winner, Gotye

Two-time nominee and 2015 winner Christina Aguilera

Year^[I]	Winner(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2012	Bennett, TonyTony Bennett & Amy Winehouse	"Body and Soul"	"Dearest" performed by The Black Keys "Paradise" performed by Coldplay "Pumped Up Kicks" performed by Foster the People "Moves Like Jagger" performed by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera	[3]
2013	Gotye featuring Kimbra	"Somebody That I Used to Know"	"Shake It Out" performed by Florence and the Machine "We Are Young" performed by Fun featuring Janelle Monae "Sexy and I Know It" performed by LMFAO "Payphone" performed by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa
2014	Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers	"Get Lucky"	"Suit and Tie" performed by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay Z "Just Give Me a Reason performed by Pink featuring Nate Ruess "Stay" performed by Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko "Blurred Lines" performed by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams
2015	A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera	"Say Something"	"Fancy" performed by Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX "A Sky Full of Stars" performed by Coldplay "Bang Bang" performed by Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj "Dark Horse" performed by Katy Perry featuring Juicy J	[4]
2016	Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars	"Uptown Funk"	"Ship to Wreck" performed by Florence + The Machine "Sugar" performed by Maroon 5 "Bad Blood" performed by Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar "See You Again" performed by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth	[5]

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

References

1. "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). Retrieved April 24, 2010.
2. "Category Mapper". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
3. "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Pop Field". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011.
4. "57th Grammy Nominees". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
5. "58th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

External links

• Official Site of the Grammy Awards