IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer

The IIFA Award for Best Female Playback Singer given to chosen by the viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. Shreya Ghoshal holds the record for most wins in this category (9). Ghoshal also holds the record for most nominations (25).

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 23rd IIFA Awards in the year 2023.

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

Shreya Ghoshal with 9 wins, hold the record for most awards in this category. Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Kanika Kapoor have won the award two times. Ghoshal won the award in a record of three consecutive years (2012–2014).

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. Ghoshal holds the record of getting nominated for consecutively 11 years from 2006 till 2016, resulting in 17 nominations and 5 wins. Additionally, with 25 nominations, Ghoshal is also the most nominated singer in this category.

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