
Artist selection
The Armenian representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was internally selected by the AMPTV. On 15 November 2007, Sirusho was announced as the Armenian entrant. The broadcaster also announced that a national final would be held to select her song.
Evrotesil 2008
Following their artist reveal, AMPTV announced a public call for song submissions with a deadline of 15 January 2008. 10 songs were submitted by Armenian songwriters and a jury panel together with Sirusho selected four songs to proceed to the national final, which were announced on 6 March 2008. The national final was scheduled to take place on 8 March 2008 at the Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan, however due to a State of Emergency in Armenia the show, hosted by Gohar Gasparyan and Felix Khachatryan and broadcast on Channel 1, took place at the AMPTV studios in Yerevan instead. All four competing songs were performed by Sirusho and the winning song, „Qélé, Qélé“, was selected exclusively by a public vote. The song was co-written by Canadian-Armenian composer/producer DerHova. In addition to the performances of the competing songs, the interval act featured Armenian Eurovision 2007 entrant Hayko with „Anytime You Need“.
Draw | Song | Songwriter(s) | Televote | Place |
1 | „Strong“ | Vahram Petrosyan, Sirusho | 2.4% | 4 |
2 | „I Can’t Control It“ | DJ Serjo, Sirusho | 6.0% | 2 |
3 | „I Still Breathe“ | Martin Mirzoyan, Sirusho | 5.1% | 3 |
4 | „Qélé, Qélé“ | H.A. Der-Hovagimian, Sirusho | 86.5% | 1 |
Sirusho came 4th at the ESC.