Eurolaul 2008 was the fifteenth edition of the Estonian national selection Eurolaul, which selected Estonia’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The competition consisted of a ten-song final on 2 February 2008 at the ERR studios in Tallinn, hosted by Marko Reikop and Eda-Ines Etti and broadcast on Eesti Televisioon (ETV) as well as streamed online at the broadcaster’s official website etv.ee and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.

Competing entries

On 2 October 2007, ERR opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 26 October 2007. All artists and composers were required to have Estonian citizenship or be a permanent resident of Estonia. 58 submissions were received by the deadline. An 11-member jury panel selected 5 finalists from the submissions, while an additional 5 finalists were selected by ERR via composers directly invited for the competition: Alar Kotkas, Elmar Liitmaa, Priit Pajusaar, Rein Rannap and Hendrik Sal-Saller. The selected songs were announced during the ETV program Kes pääses finaali? on 1 December 2007. The selection jury consisted of Toomas Puna (Raadio Sky+ program director), Alari Kivisaar (Raadio Sky+ presenter), Allan Roosileht (Star FM presenter), Andres Panksep (Raadio Uuno chief editor), Ahto Kruusmann (Raadio Uuno presenter), Raul Saaremets (Raadio 2 program director), Olev Ehrlich (Vikerraadio head of music), Ivan Makarov (Raadio 4 music editor), Owe Petersell (Raadio Elmar chief editor), Koit Raudsepp (Raadio 2 presenter) and Sven Lõhmus (composer).

Final

The final took place on 2 February 2008. Ten songs competed during the show and the winner was selected over two rounds of public televoting. In the first round, the top three entries proceeded to the second round, and in the second round, „Leto svet“ performed by Kreisiraadio was selected as the winner entirely by a public televote. The public vote registered 64,851 votes in the first round and 96,471 votes in the superfinal. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, Sahlene, who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, and Gerli Padar, who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, with Taavi Langdi performed as the interval acts.

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Televote	Place
1	Kreisiraadio	„Leto svet“	Priit Pajusaar, Tarmo Leinatamm, Hannes Võrno, Peeter Oja, Glen Pilvre	31,429	1
2	Ska Faktor	„Real Big Money“	Taavi Otsus	1,444	6
3	Rolf Junior	„One on One“	Vahur Valgmaa	2,660	4
4	Taavi Peterson	„Question Man“	Rein Rannap, Karl Martin Sinijärv	837	9
5	Kristjan Kasearu and Paradise Crew	„Üksinduses“	Madis Muul, Kristjan Kasearu	1,189	7
6	Birgit Õigemeel	„365 Days“	Pearu Paulus, Alar Kotkas, Ilmar Laisaar, Jana Hallas	6,699	3
7	Luisa Värk and Traffic	„It’s Never Too Late“	Imre Sooäär, Riina Kindlam	866	8
8	Supernova	„Stefani“	Rainer Michelson, Hendrik Sal-Saller	646	10
9	Iiris Vesik	„Ice-Cold Story“	Riine Pajusaar	16,682	2
10	Margus Vaher and Luisa Värk	„God Inside Your Soul“	Elmar Liitmaa, Liis Lass	2,399	5

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Place
1	Kreisiraadio	„Leto svet“	52,518	1
2	Birgit Õigemeel	„365 Days“	12,990	3
3	Iiris Vesik	„Ice-Cold Story“	30,963	2

Kreisiraadio came 18th in the 1st ESC Semi-Final. One of Iiris Vesik’s backing singers was Dave Benton who represented Estonia in ESC 2001.