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Get ready for some hot girl-on-girl-on-girl action at tonight’s Grammy Awards.

Of the stars with a shot at sweeping the three top categories on the show — which airs between 8 and 11:30 p.m. on CBS — all boast double X chromosomes.

Vying for Album, Song and Record of the Year honors are fierce R&B diva Beyoncé, faux-country teen star Taylor Swift and dance-floor freak show Lady Gaga.

There’s even a key fourth woman up in two of the top three slots (Album and Record): Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.

The fact that gender played such a big part in choosing the top candidates speaks to more than just the particular work these women released in the last year.

It proves that estrogen fuels much of what’s left of the music industry itself. More, it underscores the red-alert level of anxiety experienced by the entire business.

As illegal downloading continues to erode CD sales (while, ironically, escalating actual music consumption), the industry has had to choose more carefully who to back with its bucks. At the same time, the infinite choices provided by the Internet have undermined the industry’s attempts to sustain mass-market stars, to the benefit of smaller indie labels. Which means the major companies have to think even harder about who has the goods to endure as the last true panmedia stars.

The thinking goes something like this: Female artists — with their endless hair, makeup and clothing adornments, not to mention the assertive characters they need to survive in a male-dominated world — make more fetching, changeable and interesting icons than most of their male counterparts. (Adam Lambert to the contrary.)

Acts like the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day and U2 may impress no end in the realm of music. But they lack the tricked-out glamour and sizzle that stars like Beyoncé and Gaga can use to get on fashion and lifestyle magazine covers, as well as to land on the most coveted seat on the planet: across from Oprah.

As the general media lose interest in actual music while gaining interest in what’s garish, record companies need singers with big enough backstories and attitudes to snag the most eyes and ears.

That explains why the lone males we see in the top Grammy categories this time are the rather frumpy Matthews & Co. (up for Album of the Year) and, for some token man candy, Kings of Leon (up for Song and Record).

But if this year’s big categories saved at least a seat for males, it’s telling that they haven’t made equal room for a group voters normally make sure to include: arty ringers.

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As the clock starts ticking for 2010 Grammys’, pop star Beyonce Knowles who has been nominated for 10 honours is reportedly set to perform with Maxwell at the ceremony which will held at the Staples Centre.

The 28-year-old singer who collected nominations including album of the year for her ‘I Am . . . Sasha Fierce’ double CD and for the single ‘Halo’ has been booked for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards to be held on Jan 31 here, Aceshowbiz reported.

In addition to Beyonce, another musician who is speculated to make a live performance at the forthcoming show is Maxwell, who has grabbed six nominations.

However, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which organises the event has not yet confirmed the report.

By now you should know Beyoncé’s infectious tune by heart. It’s the get-the-party-started anthem of the year, the fun kiss-off track that got Justin Timberlake dancing in a leotard on SNL, The Chipettes shaking their hips in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and fans of every age, shape and size posting tributes to YouTube.

Nominated for three Grammys, Beyoncé’s hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” from her third solo album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, has taken the world by storm. Peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and staying on top for four non-consecutive weeks, the single dominated Hot 100 Airplay, topped U.K., Canadian and Australian charts and, with over 3,000,000 digital downloads, became the singer’s highest-selling song.

But do you know the story behind the music and the moves?

The Lyrics
“Single Ladies,” conceptualized by singer-songwriter The-Dream, was recorded after Beyoncé secretly married Jay-Z.

“It was the only public statement that they ever made about marriage,” says the song’s producer Christopher “Tricky” Stewart. “When we went into the studio she didn’t have a ring on or anything, because at that point they were still really hiding it. That’s where Dream got that concept from.”

“I thought it was a subject that most women wanted to talk about because most of us men are scared as s— to be bound to a commitment,” adds The-Dream (real name: Terius Youngdell Nash).

The Sound
Ever notice that “Single Ladies” sounds a lot like another Beyoncé dance hit, “Get Me Bodied?”

“I always believe that every artist has a groove to them,” says Tricky, who crafted the song’s shuffle beat. “That rhythm is what she responds to,” he adds. And once she had the rhythm locked in, she delivered the now-classic lines, “on point right away,” says vocal producer Kuk Harrell. “She knows what she’s going for.”

The Video
Spawning a massive dance craze and hundreds of YouTube tributes, the moves in the music video for “Single Ladies” were choreographed by Frank Gatson Jr. and JaQuel Knight.

“She wanted it to feel good and powerful and she wanted something that everyone would do,” says Knight. Beyoncé’s main inspiration was the Bob Fosse-choreographed performance of “Mexican Breakfast” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 and, says Gatson, “Shirley MacLaine in Sweet Charity … That is why Beyoncé ran up the wall [in the video].”

Pair those moves and killer costumes, “reminiscent of the high-cut leotards seen in both A Chorus Line and All That Jazz, but modern,” according to designer Tina Knowles, and add a flash of that $5-million Lorraine Schwartz wedding ring, and it’s easy to see why “Single Ladies” became an instant classic.

“I think the visual is what really pulled the record together as a whole,” says Tricky. “The reach was just unparalleled.”

Watch the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, live on CBS – and catch up on all the news and style from the show on PEOPLE.com!

Christmas came early for Beyonce after she earned 10 Grammy Award nominations with three of them coming in the major categories.

The Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga also received three major Grammy nominations.

Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Swift will fight for the Song of the Year prize in January, while the Black Eyed Peas, who opened the Grammy Nominations Concert at the Nokia Theatre Wednesday, will join the ladies to compete for both Record of the Year and Album of the Year.

Dave Matthews Band and Kings of Leon scooped two nominations as the leading eight awards categories were announced – DMB will fight for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album honors, while Use Somebody landed Kings of Leon nods in the Song of the Year and Record of the Year categories.

The Grammy Awards ceremony will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on January 31st.

The top award nominees announced at the nominations concert were:

Song of the Year

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce

Poker Face – Lady Gaga

Use Somebody – Kings of Leon

You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

Pretty Wings – Maxwell

Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group with Vocals

I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas

We Weren’t Born To Follow – Bon Jovi

Never Say Never – The Fray

Sarah’s Smile – Daryl Hall & John Oates

Kids – MGMT

Best Rock Album

Black Ice – AC/DC

Live From Madison Square Garden – Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton

21st Century Breakdown – Green Day

Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King – Dave Matthews Band

No Line On The Horizon – U2

Best Rap Solo Performance

Best I Ever Had – Drake

Beautiful – Eminem

D.O.A. (Death of Autotune) – Jay-Z

Day & Night – Kid Cudi

Casa Bey – Mos Def

Best Country Performance by a Duo/Group with Vocals

Cowgirls Don’t Cry – Brooks & Dunn

Chicken Fried – Zac Brown Band

I Run To You – Lady Antebellum

Here Comes Goodbye – Rascal Flatts

It Happens – Sugarland

Record of the Year

Halo – Beyonce

I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas

Use Somebody – Kings of Leon

Poker Face – Lady Gaga

You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

Album of the Year

I Am… Sasha Fierce – Beyonce

The E.N.D. – Black Eyed Peas

The Fame – Lady Gaga

Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King – Dave Matthews Band

Fearless – Taylor Swift

Best New Artist

Zac Brown Band

Keri Wilson

MGMT

Silversun Pickups

The Ting Tings