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While Jedward are still doing well in charts around the continent, their new single Bad behaviour entered the charts in their home country Ireland at #1..The single will be on their new album. Victory will be released on 5 August in Ireland. American gossip blogger Perez Hilton i featured in the video clip accompanying Bad Behaviour. You can watch it below.

Well what can we say about the contest?

Quite a lot actually, where do we start? And where should we end... We could say the contest started back in 1956. That ABBA started their career in the contest back in 1974 by winning it with Waterloo. That even Céline Dion once won the contest, although she isn't even European. That it was our favorite show already when we were kids and were allowed to stay up late that one evening in the year. That at some point countries still had to sing in their own language. That until the late  nineties an orchestra was still part of the setup for the evening, etc... etc...

But there are quite a lot of prejudices about the contest too. Things we have to explain over and over again. Not that we really care because we remain passionate about the contest anyway, but still, as of now we can refer to this page. Let's look at a hard to beat Eurovision prejudices, or well, some of them might even be true too... Not yet sure if we will admit though. 

She did it again.

Aurela Gaçe, 36 years old, has won Festivali i Këngës for the 3rd time. This makes her the =2nd most successful performer in the 48 years of the contest. This feat was previously reached by Vaçe Zela in 1966, Tonin Tërshana in 1983 and Manjola Nallbani in 1993. The song she has won with this year is called "Kënga ime", translated as "My song".

News Round-up of the day. Well, but not (yet) for everybody to see, that is.....

The Grimes brothers, better known as Jedward, celebrated their 300,000th folower on Twitter by uploading a semi naked clip on Youtube, where they are dancing to one of the songs on their upcoming album. They were afraid the clip would be banned, it wasn't, but it was removed nonentheless as they did not have the copyright to distribute the song ahead of its release.

News Round-up of the day. And, would it be true, will Morocco return to the Eurovision? We hope so.

This week Stockholm Pride started, tonight there will already be one Eurovision related act on stage (Crucified Barbara, hmm, well, we don't fully remember them anymore either, so that's ok), tomorrow Stockholm will prove that it is the Eurovision capital of Eurovision at the traditional Thursday Eurovision evening. Some names we've already heard, most will be kept a secret....

News Round-up of the day. Another summerday with not too much Eurovision news.

Croatian Severina (2006) is said to be pregnant, accoring to Serbian gossip press. She is currently living in Belgrade but planing to move back to Croatia when the baby is born...

News Round-up of the day. Jedward never fails to be in the news continuously.

Today we start off with the Jedward news of the day, the two Irish twins will get their own show on Irish television, OMG! Jedward's Dream Factory. Because of the excentric brothers, this year's Eurovision Song Contest got the best viewing rates on Irish tv this year, with more than a million viewers.

News Round-up of the day. Don't be afraid, I am with you.....

That's the title of the film that Eurovision winner Eldar will star in.  Scooch entertained at a gay picknick, Pal Oskar got an award, and that was about it when it comes to ESC news today! Watch Carola perform at Norwegian Allsång på grensen, below.

News Round-up of the day. Israel will be in the contest next year.

Organising the Eurovision Song Contest is a race against the clock, Azerbaijan seems to still be doubting between two possible locations for the contest next year. No reason for looking out for an alternative country to organise the contest yet, says Sietse Bakker (EBU).

News Round-up of the day. Some news about Bosnian, DAnish and Armenian plans for 2012.

Finally some real good news about Jedward! The two brothers back a campaign about bullying. The slogan on the Jedward poster reads: "Imagine if every child knew that nothing can ever happen that can't be fixed by someone who cares".