Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer

The Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer (Chinese: 金曲獎最佳華語女歌手獎) is a Golden Melody Award recognizing outstanding vocal performance by a female in the Mandopop category, the first of which was presented in 1991.

Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer
Awarded for	quality female vocal performances in the Mandopop music genre
Country	Taiwan
Presented by	Ministry of Culture
First awarded	1991
Currently held by	A-Lin for LINK (2023)
Website	gma.tavis.tw

In 1990 an award called Best Female Singer was designed to honor all female solo performances in the pop category; In 1991 the award was separated into Best Mandarin Female Singer, Best Taiwanese Female Singer, Best Hakka Female Singer, and Best Aboriginal Female Singer.

The award has been won by Tanya Chua the most times, with four wins. A-Mei is the artist with the most nominations with fourteen.

Recipients

 

Ten-time nominee Tanya Chua holds the most wins in this category with four awards

 

Fourteen-time nominee received the most nominations in this category, including three-time award winner A-Mei

 

Seven-time nominee, including two-time award winner Karen Mok

 

Four-time nominee, including two-time award winner Sandy Lam

 

Six-time nominee, including one-time award winner Stefanie Sun

 

Five-time nominee, including one-time award winner Faye Wong

 

Four-time nominee, including one-time award winner Jolin Tsai

 

Five-time nominee, including one-time award winner Penny Tai

 

Three-time nominee, including one-time award winner Sally Yeh

 

Three-time nominee, including one-time award winner Na Ying

 

Twice nominee, including one-time award winner Hebe Tien

Year	Winner(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1991	Sarah Chen		Chiang Nien-ting Chin Su-mei Sammi Kao Delphine Tsai	^[1]^[2]
1992	Sammi Kao		Shelly Yu Anna Lin Hung Hsiao-chiao Christine Hsu	^[3]^[4]
1993	Sally Yeh		Lily Lee Stella Chang Michelle Pan Julie Sue	^[5]^[6]
1994	Stella Chang	Indecisive	Kung Lan-hsun – Chang'e Sally Yeh – The Days When I Was Away from My Lover Tsai Chin – Tragedy of Loving You Tang Na – Hold Tighter	^[7]^[8]
1996	Sarah Chen	Forever	Faye Wong – Sky Sally Yeh – Wishes... Tsai Chin – Light Up the Neon Lights Stella Chang – In the Rainy Night	^[9]^[10]
1997	Stella Chang	Purity	Winnie Hsin – It's Not All My Fault to Love Him Valen Hsu – If Cloud Knows Christine Hsu – Fragrance Tang Na – Freedom	^[11]^[12]
1998	Chyi Yu	Camel, Flying Bird, Fish	A-Mei – Bad Boy Shunza – Shunza Christine Hsu – Pure Christine Coco Lee – Each Time I Think of You	^[13]^[14]
1999	Shunza	I Am Not a Star	Faye Wong – Sing and Play Na Ying – Conquer Winnie Hsin – Every Woman A-Mei – Holding Hands	^[15]^[16]
2000	Faith Yang	Silence	Faye Wong – Lovers & Strangers Mavis Fan – I Want Us to Be Together A-Mei – Can I Hug You, Lover? Karen Mok – You Can	^[17]^[18]
2001	Na Ying	Sad Romance	Faye Wong – Fable Karen Mok – Karen Mok on the Twelfth Floor A-Mei – Regardless Stefanie Sun – My Desired Happiness	^[19]^[20]
2002	A-Mei	Truth	Shunza – And Music's There Sandy Lam – Truly... Tanya Chua – I Do Believe Stefanie Sun – Kite Winnie Hsin – Forever	^[21]^[22]
2003	Karen Mok	I	A-Mei – Fever Na Ying – Nowadays... Shunza – Dear Shunza Valen Hsu – Rue Blossom Stella Chang – Waiting for Fang to Sing	^[23]^[24]
2004	Faye Wong	To Love	Penny Tai – No Pain, No Gain Tanya Chua – Stranger Fish Leong – Beautiful Jolin Tsai – Magic	^[25]^[26]
2005	Stefanie Sun	Stefanie	Sandee Chan – Then We All Wept in Silence Angela Chang – Aurora A-Mei – Maybe Tomorrow Fish Leong – Wings of Love	^[27]^[28]
2006	Tanya Chua	Amphibian	Fengie Wang – Only Want You to Be Happy Fish Leong – Silkroad of Love Cheer Chen – Peripeteia Penny Tai – Crazy Love Stefanie Sun – A Perfect Day Christine Fan – One to One	^[29]^[30]
2007	Jolin Tsai	Dancing Diva	Angela Chang – Pandora Jyotsna Pang – All I Want A-Mei – I Want Happiness？ Penny Tai – IPenny Sandy Lam – Breathe Me	^[31]^[32]
2008	Tanya Chua	Goodbye & Hello	A-Mei – Star Stefanie Sun – Against the Light Fish Leong – J'Adore Karen Mok – L!ve Is... Joi Chua – Blessed	^[33]^[34]
2009	Sandee Chan	What If It Matters	Tsai Chin – No Regret Fish Leong – Today Is Our Valentine's Day A-Lin – A Born Diva Tanya Chua – My Space	^[35]^[36]
2010	A-Mei	Amit	Tanya Chua – If You Meet Him Karen Mok – Hui Wei Deserts Chang – A City Tiger Huang – Simple or Not Cheer Chen – Immortal	^[37]^[38]
2011	Karen Mok	Precious	Denise Ho – Nameless Poem A-Lin – Loneliness Is Not the Hardest Part Wan Fang – Let's Not Grieve Anymore Freya Lim – Holding Back the Tears	^[39]^[40]
2012	Tanya Chua	Sing It Out of Love	A-Lin – We Will Be Better Stefanie Sun – It's Time Hebe Tien – My Love Waa Wei – No Crying A-Mei – R U Watching?	^[41]^[42]
2013	Sandy Lam	Gaia	Ellen Loo – You Quietly Hide Away G.E.M. – Xposed Jia Jia – Unforgettable Lala Hsu – Ideal Life Jolin Tsai – Muse	^[43]^[44]
2014	Penny Tai	Unexpected	Faith Yang – Zero Denise Ho – Coexistence Tanya Chua – Angel vs. Devil Jia Jia – Alone the Way	^[45]^[46]
2015	A-Mei	Faces of Paranoia	Lala Hsu – Missing Waa Wei – You Lovely Bastard Karen Mok – Departures A-Lin – Guilt	^[47]^[48]
2016	Julia Peng	Darling	Peggy Hsu – Swing Inc. Huang Qishan – Xiao Xia Su Yunying – Min Ming A-Mei – Amit 2 Tanya Chua – Aphasia	^[49]^[50]
2017	Eve Ai	Talk About Eve	Jia Jia – Still Missing Waa Wei – Run! Frantic Flowers! Ellen Loo – Imperfections Faith Yang – Centrifugal Force Miss Ko – Queen of Queens	^[51]
2018	Lala Hsu	The Inner Me	Amuyi – O_Love Faye – Little Outerspace A-Mei – Story Thief Julia Peng – When I Look Back	^[52]
2019	Sandy Lam	0	Eve Ai – Fade to Exist Shi Shi – Shi's Journey Yoyo Sham – Nothing Is Under Control Jolin Tsai – Ugly Beauty	^[53]
2020	Waa Wei	Hidden, Not Forgotten	Joanna Wang – Love is Calling Me Fish Leong – The Sun Also Rises G.E.M. – City Zoo Peggy Hsu – Hypnocity Faith Yang - The More Beautiful, The More Invisible	^[54]
2021	Hebe Tien	Time Will Tell	Wanfang – Dear All Panai – Love, And Yet Shi Shi – Where is SHI? Tarcy Su – Every Side of Me Tan Weiwei – 3811	^[55]^[56]
2022	Tanya Chua	Depart	Karencici – 99% Angel Faye – Zai Yun Cai Shang Tiao Wu Ji Ji Zha Zha Ilid Kaolo – Longing Waa Wei – Have a Nice Day Tia Ray – Once Upon a Moon	^[57]
2023	A-Lin	LINK	Lala Hsu – Gei Hong Pei-yu – Silver Lining Yisa Yu – Dear Life Penny Tai – The Passive Audience Lexie Liu – The Happy Star	^[58]

Category facts

Most Wins in Category

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd
Artist	Tanya Chua	A-Mei	Sarah Chen Stella Chang Karen Mok Sandy Lam
Total wins	4 wins	3 wins	2 wins

Most nominations

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Artist	A-Mei	Tanya Chua	Stella Chang Karen Mok	Stefanie Sun Fish Leong	Faye Wong Penny Tai A-Lin	Shunza Jolin Tsai Sandy Lam Faith Yang
Total nominations	14 nominations	10 nominations	7 nominations	6 nominations	5 nominations	4 nominations

Other facts

• A-Mei is the only artist to receive the six consecutive nominations in this category and she won for Truth among them.

See also

• List of music awards honoring women

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