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IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer

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IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer
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The IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer is given by the International Indian Film Academy as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a female playback singer who has delivered an outstanding vocal performance in a film song. The winner is chosen by viewers, and is announced at the annual ceremony. Shreya Ghoshal holds the record for most wins in this category (10). Ghoshal also holds the record for most nominations (29).

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The first recipient of the award was Alka Yagnik, who was honoured at the 1st IIFA Awards in the year 2000. The most recent recipient of the award is Shreya Ghoshal, who was honoured at the 25th IIFA Awards in the year 2025.[1]

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Award was introduced in 2000 and records after 2000 till date are as follows.

  • Shreya Ghoshal is the most awarded singer in this category with ten wins, followed by Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Kanika Kapoor, who each have two wins. Ghoshal is also the singer with the most consecutive wins with three (2012–2014).
  • Ghoshal is the singer who received the most nominations in a single year, with being nominated for four songs in a single year (2008). She also holds the record of getting nominated for consecutively 11 years from 2006 till 2016, resulting in 17 nominations and 5 wins. Additionally, with 29 nominations, she is the most nominated singer in this category.

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† - indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award
‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

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