History Main / VocalTagTeam

* Music/TheBeatles, besides employing vocal harmonies in the vast majority of their songs, usually had Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/JohnLennon switching out lead vocal roles. Music/GeorgeHarrison and Music/RingoStarr, while not as frequently as Paul and John, still sung lead every now and then as well.

* Music/LinkinPark: One of the main hallmarks of their sound, especially in their earlier NuMetal / RapRock centric years, with Chester Bennington doing most of the singing and Mike Shinoda doing Rap verses, backup vocals, and occasional StepUpToTheMicrophone moments.

* Even though Duane Allen is nominally the lead singer of Music/TheOakRidgeBoys, the other three most famous members (tenor Joe Bonsall, baritone William Lee Golden, and BassoProfundo Richard Sterban) have gotten enough lead vocals to qualify. Most notably, Allen sings most of "Elvira" (Sterban handles the iconic "[[EpicRiff oom papa mow mow]]" riffs), while "American Made" and "You're the One" rotate among all four. After Golden was forced out, his replacement Steve Sanders sang lead on a few of the band's singles.

* The titular band from TheEighties' SaturdayMorningCartoon ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo''; while the main character (whose name is also Kidd Video) was nominally the bandleader and singer, all four members got to take lead vocal chores on the original songs which closed each episode.

* The Music/BeastieBoys would do this often.

* Music/{{Sugababes}}, with particular ephasis on harmonising.

* Music/DanceGavinDance has gone through multiple configurations, always with the "clean and scream" formula [[note]][[RevolvingDoorBand In order]]: Jonny Craig and Jon Mess (''Whatever I Say is Royal Ocean'' and ''Downtown Battle Mountain''), Kurt Travis and Jon Mess (the self-titled), Kurt Travis and [[StepUpToTheMicrophone Will Swan]] (''Happiness''), Jonny Craig and Jon Mess again (Downtown Battle Mountain II''), and Tilian Pearson and Jon Mess (''Acceptance Speech'' onwards), with Andrew Wells officially joining the tag team (as another clean vocalist) on ''Jackpot Juicer'' after contributing guest vocals on the preceding two albums. Swan also contributes rap verses to the occasional song from ''Happiness'' onward, even after Mess's return.[[/note]]

* In the manga ''Manga/{{BECK}}'', the eponymous band's lead singers are Chiba, who's influenced by hip-hop and punk, and Koyuki, who's more suited to ballads.

* Tally Hall (Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley, and Zubin Sedghi). Andrew Horowitz gets to StepUpToTheMicrophone at least [[OncePerEpisode once per album.]]

There can be any number of reasons to do this. The various singers may have vastly differing vocal styles which fit into one song type or another. It may be simply for the sake of variety, or to give one singer a bit of a rest. It may be an effort to appease egos or to avert FaceOfTheBand. Or, if the band features singers that probably love each other, they can engage in [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Duets]].

* Music/TheBangles (all four of them) And, for the record, they were not able to avert FaceOfTheBand by doing this.

* Music/GooGooDolls have John Rzeznik (their recognized [[FaceOfTheBand frontman]]) and Robby Takac. Takac actually handled the majority of the lead vocal duties before Rzeznik's voice caught the attention of record producers and he was asked to StepUpToTheMicrophone.

* Basically all incarnations of Sebadoh did this, even though Lou Barlow was still widely considered the FaceOfTheBand: Early albums had him splitting singing and songwriting with Eric Gaffney, later albums (after Gaffney left) had him splitting it with Jason Lowenstein, and a few albums in the middle had him sharing vocal turns with both.

* At Music/BobDylan's 30th Anniversary Concert in 1992, he, [[Music/TheByrds Roger McGuinn]], Music/TomPetty, Music/NeilYoung, Music/EricClapton, and Music/GeorgeHarrison took turns singing "My Back Pages", all singing a verse in that order.

* {{Music/HundredGecs}}: Laura and Dylan often switch between each other when it comes to singing, sometimes several times in a song.

* {{Music/Bread}} has David Gates and James Griffin.

* Music/DaYoopers. The lead vocals are most often the lead guitarist (Joe Potila until 1995; Jim Bellmore afterward), lead songwriter/occasional drummer Jim [=DeCaire=], or keyboardist Lynn Bellmore/Coffey/Anderson if the song takes a female perspective. But just about everyone who has ever been counted as an official member in the RevolvingDoorBand has gotten a lead vocal at least once, except for Bobby Symons (drummer since at least the late 90s). Most of their albums have also featured local musicians on lead vocals. In addition, one of their most famous songs, "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck", was sung by Dave "Doc" Bradbury, who was only in the group for about two years.

A Vocal Tag Team is a band/musical act which features two (or more) lead singers, rather than the more typical singular vocalist[[note]]although, as illustrated by the example list below, it's much more common than you might expect[[/note]]. The singers may trade off vocals on a song-by-song or even a verse-by-verse basis, or they may just harmonize constantly. Particularly common, if not ubiquitous, in musical duos and vocal groups. If more than one member of a band is a songwriter, the band member who wrote the song is usually the one who sings lead on it. For songs that are credited to multiple writers, such as [[Music/TheBeatles "Lennon–McCartney"]], whoever sings lead on the song is a good clue as to who is the "primary" writer.

* Music/{{Zebrahead}} have always used this, with rapper Ali Tabatabaee sharing vocals with a singer: Justin Mauriello from 1996 to 2004, Matty Lewis from 2005 to 2021, and Adrian Estrella from 2021 onwards.

* Music/Blink182[='=]s has some songs sung by the bassist (Mark Hoppus) and other sung by the guitarist (including Tom [=DeLonge=] and Matt Skiba), with certain songs like "Feeling This" and "I Miss You" alternating between them.

* Music/{{Blink 182}} (Mark Hoppus and Tom [=DeLonge=] originally, now Matt Skiba)

* Music/BarenakedLadies (For their first 20 years, Steven Page and Ed Robertson were the primary vocalists, with Page considered the lead vocalist, taking most of the "solo only" numbers, with Robertson joining him for a number of Vocal Tag Team songs. Jim Creeggan, his brother Andy and later Kevin Hearn would do the occasional lead vocal. Since Page left, they don't employ this much, unless they're covering one of their old songs, in which case Hearn mostly takes Page's parts._

* Music/KidNPlay (the image source[[note]]actually the comics based on the duo[[/note]]) has both the eponymous rappers singing on every song.

* Music/Bread has David Gates and James Griffin.