IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer
The IIFA Best Female Playback Award given to chosen by the viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. 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 21st IIFA Awards in the year 2020. Superlatives. Award was introduced in 2000 and records after 2000 til date are as follows. Shreya Ghoshal with 8 wins, hold the record for most awards in this category. Alka  Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Kanika Kapoor have won the award two times. Shreya Ghoshal won the award in a record of three consecutive years (2012–14). Shreya Ghoshal's four nominations out of the five nominations in 2008 also give her the record for most number of Best Female Playback Singer nominations in a single year. Shreya Ghoshal holds the record of getting nominated for consecutively 11 years from 2006 till 2016, resulting in 17 nominations and 5 wins. List of Winners. † - indicates the performance also "won" the Filmfare Award ‡ - indicates the performance was also "nominated" for the Filmfare Award IIFA