Piosenka dla Europy 2008 was the national final organised by TVP in order to select the Polish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The show took place on 23 February 2008 at the Studio 5 of TVP in Warsaw, hosted by Katarzyna Sowińska and Radosław Brzózka. A combination of public televoting and jury voting selected the winner. The show was broadcast on TVP1 and TVP Polonia as well as streamed online at the broadcaster’s website tvp.pl. The national final was watched by 2.7 million viewers in Poland with a market share of 26%.
Competing entries
TVP opened a submission period for interested artists and songwriters to submit their entries between 30 November 2007 and 2 January 2008. Only artists that had either released an album or single with national radio airplays, had competed in at least one professional song contest or music festival at a national level, or had a valid contract with a record company or a professional concert agency were eligible to compete.The broadcaster received 100 submissions at the closing of the deadline. A nine-member selection committee selected ten entries from the received submissions to compete in the national final, while TVP selected an additional three entries to compete as wildcards. The selection committee consisted of Piotr Klatt (musician, songwriter, journalist and music producer at TVP and artistic director of the Opole Festival), Paweł Sztompkę (journalist, music critic and editorial director of music at Polish Radio), Artur Orzech (Eurovision commentator, radio and television journalist and presenter), Magda Czapińska (songwriter), Zuzanna Łapicka (Head of Entertainment of TVP1), Agata Krysiak (editor at the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry), Ryszard Poznakowski (singer and composer), Robert Obcowski (composer and producer) and Tomasz Deszczyński (President of OGAE Poland). The selected entries were announced on 7 January 2008, while the wildcards were announced between 8 February 2008. Among the competing artists was Sandra Oxenryd, who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. On 11 January, „Kiełbasa“, written and to have been performed by Krzysztof Zalewski, was disqualified from the national final as the song had been released before 1 October 2007 and replaced with the song „Do Something“ performed by Plastic. On 15 February, „Noc kupaly“, written by Robert Wasilewski and to have been performed by Zywiolak, was disqualified from the national final as the song had been performed before 1 October 2007. The competing artists were required to submit a promotional video for their song to TVP by 28 January 2008.
Final
The televised final took place on 23 February 2008. Twelve entries competed and the winner, „For Life“ performed by Isis Gee, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from a four-member professional jury and a public vote. The jury consisted of Maryla Rodowicz (singer), Janusz Kosiński (journalist), Paweł Sztompke (journalist, music critic and editorial director of music at Polish Radio) and Adrian Stanisławski (member of OGAE Poland). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, singer Natalia Kukulska opened the show with her song „Sexy Flexi“, while Kukulska and singers Bartosz Królik, In-Grid and Stachursky performed as the interval acts.
Final – 23 February 2008
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Jury | Televote | Total | Place |
| 1 | Kasia Nova | „The Devil“ | Harald Retinger, Ulrich Fischer | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | Edi Ann | „Lovin‘ U“ | Edyta Kuczynska | 7 | 5 | 12 | 4 |
| 3 | Izabela Kopeć | „You’ve Got My Love“ | Filip Kuncevicz, Izabela Kopeć | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| 4 | Starnawski and Urban Noiz | „It’s Not a Game“ | Marcin Urban, Bozena Intrator | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | Queens | „I Say My Body“ | Lukasz Pilch, Marcin Skoczylas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Isis Gee | „For Life“ | Isis Gee | 12 | 12 | 24 | 1 |
| 7 | Man Meadow | „Viva la Musica“ | Thomas G:son, Andreas Rickstrand | 2 | 10 | 12 | 3 |
| 8 | Afromental | „Thing We’ve Got“ | Wojciech Lozowski, Bartosz Śniadecki | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| 9 | Plastic | „Do Something“ | Agnieszka Burcan | 10 | 2 | 12 | 5 |
| 10 | Sandra Oxenryd | „Superhero“ | Knut-Oyvind Hagen, Andreas Rickstrand | 6 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 11 | Natasza Urbańska | „Blow Over“ | Rickey Fernand | 8 | 7 | 15 | 2 |
| 12 | Margo | „Dlatego walcz“ | Filip Siejka, Malgorzata Gadzinska | 1 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
Isis Gee came equal 23rd at the ESC. One of the members of Man Meadow was Fredrik Olofsson who was a backing singer for Belarus in ESC 2007 & Ukraine in ESC 2008. Sandra Oxenryd represented Estonia in ESC 2006.