The Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album () has been awarded since 1990. From 1990 to 1996 there was an award called Best Recording Album designed to honor quality engineering for pop or instrumental recording albums; The award was discontinued from 1997 in a major overhaul of Golden Melody Award categories. The award category re-emerged in 2015, but was divided into two new awards, the Golden Melody Awards for Best Vocal Recording Album and Best Instrumental Recording Album. The award is presented to the audio engineer(s) on the winning work, not to the artist or performer, except if the artist is also a credited engineer. Recipients Golden Melody Awards of 2015 Tiger Chung, AJ Chen, Yeh Yu-hsuan, Ooi Teng Fong, Zhao Huitao, Shin Chou, Joshua Lee & Michael Lin (recording engineers); Kenny Fan, Jaycen Joshua, Dan Grech & Jerry Lin (mixing engineers); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Play, performed by Jolin Tsai Nominees Martin Roller & Miikka Huttunen (recording engineers); Miikka Huttunen (mixing engineer); Svante Forsbäck (mastering engineer) for Midnight Cinema, performed by Joanna Wang Chang Te-ming (recording engineer); Chang Te-ming, Khalil Fong, Phil Tan, Fabian Marasciullo & Ken Lewis (mixing engineers); Dave Kutch (mastering engineer) for Dangerous World, performed by Khalil Fong Zhou Tianche, Thomas Lo, Zhang Hongjun & Arai Soichiro (recording engineers); Zhao Jing & Zhou Tianche (mixing engineers); Ray Staff (mastering engineer) for Departures, performed by Karen Mok Cheng Fung-sheng & Isaac Muñoz Casado (recording engineers); Isaac Muñoz Casado (mixing engineer); Ben Wang (mastering engineer) for Polynesia, performed by Chalaw Basiwali Golden Melody Awards of 2016 Li You, Dou Ruyi, Zhang Bo & Yan Zhongkun (recording engineers); Howie & Joe Hirst (mixing engineers); Ray Staff (mastering engineer) for Frozen Light, performed by Cui Jian Nominees Peter Roberts, Lupo Groinig & Strawberry (recording engineers); Richard Furch & George Dum (mixing engineers); Reuben Cohen (mastering engineer) for Heartbeat, performed by G.E.M. AJ Chen & Jansen Chen (recording engineers); Kenny Fan (mixing engineer); Joe LaPorta (mastering engineer) for Amit 2, performed by A-mei Kyle Hoffmann (recording engineer); An Dong & Richard Furch (mixing engineers); John Davis (mastering engineer) for Aphasia, performed by Tanya Chua Howie Chou & Yeh Yu-hsuan (recording engineers); Killer Wang & Jerry Lin (mixing engineers); Chris Gehringer (mastering engineer) for Love Myself, performed by Landy Wen Golden Melody Awards of 2017 Sun Tien-chih (recording engineer); Sun Tien-chih (mixing engineer); Ted Jensen (mastering engineer) for Yaangad,