Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008


Estonia was represented by Kreisiraadio with the song "Leto svet" in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Before Eurovision

Eurolaul 2008

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 ten entries competing in a final on 2 February 2008.

Competing entries

On 17 September 2007, ETV opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 26 November 2007. 58 submissions were received by the deadline. An 11-member jury panel selected 5 finalists from the submissions. The selection jury consisted of Toomas Puna, Alari Kivisaar, Allan Roosileht, Andres Panksep, Ahto Kruusmann, Raul Saaremets, Olev Ehrlich, Ivan Makarov, Owe Petersell, Koit Raudsepp and Sven Lõhmus. In addition to the public submissions, ETV directly invited 6 composers to submit entries, one of whom withdrew. The composers both created the song and selected the performer for their entry. The 10 songs were announced during the ETV program Kes pääses finaali? on 1 December 2007.

Final

The final took place on 2 February 2008 at the ETV studios in Tallinn, hosted by Marko Reikop and Eda-Ines Etti. The winner was selected over two rounds of public televoting. In the first round, the top three entries were determined to proceed to the second round: "Leto svet" performed by Kreisiraadio, "365 Days" performed by Birgit Õigemeel and "Ice-Cold Story" performed by Iiris Vesik. The public vote in the first round registered 64,851 votes. In the second round, "Leto svet" performed by Kreisiraadio was selected as the winner. The public televote in the second round registered 96,471 votes.

Commentators and spokespersons

Estonia competed in the first semi-final on May 20, 2008. The song was not among the ten songs selected for the final, the fifth consecutive year in which Estonia did not feature in the final.

Points awarded by Estonia

Semi-final 1

Final

12 points10 points8 points7 points6 points

5 points4 points3 points2 points1 point