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Beyonce promoted her new fragrance Heat appearing at Macy’s Herald Square in front of 500 customers on Wednesday. She generated an estimated $60,000 at the location in one day. Beyonce wore a very sexy blue dress for the occasion.

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Following on from her Grammys award winning success, Beyonce is reportedly keen to ensure her music keeps getting better, and thinks the US rock band could help her experiment with a new sound. Beyonce approached Nathan, Caleb, Jared and Matthew Followill at a Grammy after-party and is said to have spent the whole night discussing ideas for new songs. “Beyonce looked stunning and was chatting to virtually every major star on hand,” an onlooker told British newspaper The Daily Mirror. “She kissed Kings of Leon on their cheeks and congratulated them on winning an award for Use Somebody. “They were chatting for ages. She knows how huge they are in the UK and loves their album. She was scouting for people to collaborate with and has been talking about doing something different with a rock band. Kings of Leon would be perfect.”

Beyonce wore an appropriately colored dress, that itself gave off some serious heat, as she promoted her new fragrance “Beyonce Heat” in New York. Enjoy the pictures, they are smoking hot (excuse the puns :))

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A large selection of pictures of Beyonce from Beyonce’s massive 6 award winning Grammys evening. Beyonce looked absolutely stunning as she arrived in a full length dress. The gallery also showcases some of the other outfits Beyonce wore on the evening as she also performed.

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Beyonce has set a record for the most wins by a female in one night at the Grammys as she won six awards, including best female pop performance and song of the year for her anthem “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).” Beyonce was Sunday night’s top nominee with 10 nods. Her wins also included best contemporary R&B album for “I Am … Sasha Fierce.” Beyonce had previously been tied for most wins by a female at a Grammys with Alison Krauss, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse.

Beyonce won the following awards:
Female R&B Vocal Solo – Single Ladies
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – At Last
R&B Song – Single Ladies
Contemporary R&B Album – I Am… Sasha Fierce
Song of the Year – Single Ladies
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance – Halo

What, apart from a well-deserved break, is next for Beyoncé? Well, if all goes according to some elaborate blueprints drawn up by noted Robert Pattinson aficionado Simon Cowell, then a stint on his hit British series X Factor as a guest judge. This would then make Beyoncé the third pop diva to serve on the judges’ panel, the other two being Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue. Confides a source, possibly Minogue’s unborn baby, “Simon leaves nothing to chance and is planning for the future already. He wants to bring in Beyoncé. And what Simon wants, Simon gets. Expect Beyoncé on the panel. Nothing has been confirmed yet because the deal hasn’t been sealed…but she’ll be there in some form.” Adds the source, “It’s difficult to get A-listers to commit to a six-month slot as a full judge, but a fortnight is a lot simpler. Simon wants to extend the mentoring to the judging panel so you get to hear what the stars really think.” More complications have arisen though, as Cole herself may leave the talent show at the end of its next season, to pursue motherhood or the American Dream.

It’s a good thing Beyoncé is comfortable with her status as an inspirational figure, because with hit songs like “Single Ladies” that empower women, that’s exactly what she is! “I know that my niche is anthems, and I think that’s what I’m good at as far as songwriting,” she tells Allure of those songs that make women jump to their feet. “Probably the best songs I write are about relationships, and flipping the roles between women and men, and things that women go through.”

“Growing up in a female group and in a hair salon, I have always been passionate about women. I just think we need each other, and the things that inspire me to write songs are things that I think women need to hear,” she adds in the Allure interview, hitting stands Jan. 26. ” I’m happy to be a voice, one of the many. I’m happy to be, in some way, a role model.”

But even superstar role models have to start out somewhere, and for Beyoncé, that somewhere was quite a hair-raising experience!

“I remember when I started doing my hair myself — I cut bangs, and I started curling my hair and pressing it, literally, with an iron,” she recalls. “The girls from Destiny’s Child, we would put our hair on the ironing board, and iron it, which is so crazy! My mom [who used to own a hair salon] was like, ‘We have to get you out of your own hair, because you are destroying it!’”

She’s come a long way from her old life, and with husband Jay-Z, she’s looking toward the future of their family.

“I definitely want to have a child,” she says. “But I know from my nephew it’s a lot. I hope that those things will just happen naturally. I still haven’t had time to relax.”

Angie Martinez, AKA “The Voice of New York” celebrated her birthday party this week at Quo Nightclub, and all of New York came through for the festivities. Beyonce & Jay were among the atendees.

Jay-Z and Beyonce earned $122 million together between June 2008 and June 2009, more than any other couple – married or unmarried – in entertainment. The list makers at Forbes are at it again, this time determining Hollywood’s top-earning couple. Beyonce and Jay-Z beat out the competition not only by churning out hit songs but also by attaching their names to Budweiser, American Express and a host of other brands. In this relationship, the wife out-earned the husband, $87 million-$35 million.