The People's Choice Award for Best Female Artist was first presented in 2000. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry won this award three times making them the most awarded artists, Swift is also the most nominations artist with eight in this category. Actually this is not true at all, the People's Choice Award for Best Female Artist was first presented in 1975 (then called Favorite Female Musical Performer) in a tie between Barbra Streisand and Olivia Newton-John (who received 3 awards in this category). The most awarded artist in this category is Whitney Houston with 5 wins (1987, 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1998).