Most Golden Melody Awards won for Best Female Mandarin Singer

Tanya Chua (Singapore) won her fourth award for Best Female Mandarin Singer at the 33rd Golden Melody Awards, held at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Arena on 2 July 2022, for her 12th studio album DEPART (2021). Chua, who had previously won for Amphibian (2006), Goodbye & Hello (2008) and Sing It Out of Love (2012), is a 10-time Best Female Mandarin Singer nominee (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008–10, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2022) – second only to the 14 nominations received by three-time category winner A-Mei (Taiwan, b. Kulilay Amit) in 1998–2018.

At the 33rd Golden Melody Awards, Chua won Album of the Year, Best Mandarin Album and Best Female Mandarin Singer, and DEPART won Best Album Recording. Chua became the first artist to win Album of the Year and Best Mandarin Album at the same ceremony.

Founded in 1990, the Golden Melody Awards are regarded as the Chinese-speaking world’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Since 2007, the event has hosted two ceremonies each year, in recognition of the best Popular and Traditional music.