Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest

For Armenia's most recent participation, see Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. For Armenia's upcoming participation, see Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Armenia
Participating broadcaster	AMPTV
Participation summary
Appearances	8 (6 finals)
First appearance	2006
Highest placement	4th: 2008
External links
AMPTV page

Armenia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 with the song "Without Your Love" performed by André. Armenia had never entered the competition before, therefore it had to compete in the semi final. André was the first performer of the semi-finals. The song reached the final of the contest on 20 May 2006 and gave Armenia a successful debut coming in 8th position.

Having reached the top ten in the final, Armenia didn't have to compete in the semi-final of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest and automatically reached the final on 12 May performing 23rd of the 24 finalists and came 8th again.

Armenia was one of only three countries that had always placed in the top ten since the introduction of the semi-finals. This record was broken at the 2011 contest, when Emmy and the song Boom Boom failed to qualify from the first semi-final by only one point.

On 7 March 2012, Armenia announced that it would be withdrawing from the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, because of security concerns.

Despite their 2012 withdrawal, Armenia confirmed participation in the 2013 contest in Sweden.

Contestants

Table key

  Winner

  Second place

  Third place

  Last place

  Automatically qualified to the final

  Did not qualify for the final

Year	Artist	Language	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points
2006	André	English	"Without Your Love"	8	129	6	150
2007	Hayko	English, Armenian	"Anytime You Need"	8	138	Top 10 Previous Year
2008	Sirusho	English, Armenian	"Qélé, Qélé"	4	199	2	139
2009	Inga and Anush	English, Armenian	"Jan Jan"	10	92	5	99
2010	Eva Rivas	English	"Apricot Stone"	7	141	6	83
2011	Emmy	English	"Boom Boom"	Failed to qualify		12	54
2013	Dorians	English	"Lonely Planet"	18	41	7	69
2014	Aram Mp3	English	"Not Alone"

NOTE: If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. In addition from 2004-2007, the top ten countries who were not members of the big four did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. If, for example, Germany and France placed inside the top ten, the countries who placed 11th and 12th were advanced to the following year's grand final along with the rest of the top ten countries.

Voting history

As of 2013, Armenia's voting history is as follows:

Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	73
2	Ukraine	56
3	Greece	52
4	Georgia	47
5	France	27

Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	53
2	France	51
3	Netherlands	49
4	Belgium	48
5	Bulgaria	46

Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	109
2	Georgia	87
3	Greece	80
4	Ukraine	76
5	Norway	38

Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	Israel	91
2	Russia	85
3	Netherlands	83
4	Belgium	82
5	Bulgaria	78

12 points

Table key

  Winner – Armenia gave 12 points to a winning song / Armenia won the contest.

  Second place – Armenia gave 12 points to a runner-up song / Armenia was runner-up in the contest.

  Third place – Armenia gave 12 points to a third place song / Armenia came third place in the contest.

  Qualified – Armenia gave 12 points to a song that qualified to the Grand Finals / Armenia qualified to the Grand Finals.

  Non-qualified – Armenia gave 12 points to a song that did not qualify to the Grand Finals / Armenia did not qualify to the Grand Finals.

Year	Given		Received
	Final	Semi	Final	Semi
2006	Russia	Russia	Belgium Russia	Belgium Cyprus France Netherlands Russia Spain
2007	Russia	Belarus	Georgia Turkey	Did not Participate
2008	Russia	Russia	Belgium Czech Republic France Georgia Greece Netherlands Poland Russia	Belgium Greece Netherlands Poland Russia
2009	Russia	Iceland	Czech Republic	Czech Republic
2010	Georgia	Georgia	Israel Netherlands Russia	Cyprus Israel
2011	Ukraine	Russia	Did not Qualify	None
2012	Did not compete
2013	Ukraine	Georgia	None	France

Commentators and spokespersons

Year(s)	Commentators	Spokesperson
2006	Gohar Gasparyan & Phelix Khachatryan	Gohar Gasparyan
2007	Meri Picart & Josep Lluís Trabal	Sirusho
2008	Felix Khachatryan & Hrachuhi Utmazyan	Hrachuhi Utmazyan
2009	Khoren Levonyan	Sirusho
2010	Hrachuhi Utmazyan & Khoren Levonyan	Nazeni Hovhannisyan
2011	Artak Vardanyan	Lusine Tovmasyan
2012	Gohar Gasparyan & Artur Grigoryan	Armenia did not participate.
2013	André & Arevik Udumyan	André

Photogallery

• 
  Hayko performing "Anytime You Need" at Helsinki (2007)
• 
  Sirusho performing "Qélé, Qélé" at Belgrade (2008)
• 
  Dorians performing "Lonely Planet" at Malmö (2013)

See also

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest

External links

• OGAE Armenia Official fan club for supporting Armenian representatives at Eurovision Song Contest
• Points to and from Armenia eurovisioncovers.co.uk