Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Armenia
Participating broadcaster	AMPTV
Participation summary
Appearances	6
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 Saturday 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

Hayko performing "Anytime You Need" at Helsinki

Sirusho performing "Qélé, Qélé" at Belgrade

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Eva Rivas performing "Apricot Stone" at Oslo

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	X	X
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"	X	X	12	54
2013

• XX on the semi-finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be the result of one of the following two reasons; if a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. The other reason being that back in 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 with Spain and the United Kingdom finishing after 15th place, 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.
• XX on the finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt at qualifying to the final.

Voting history

Armenia has given the most points to... (finals only)

Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	66
2	Greece	44
	Ukraine	44
4	Georgia	37
5	France	25

Armenia has received the most points from... (finals only)

Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	51
2	Netherlands	49
3	Belgium	48
4	France	44
	Turkey	44

Armenia has given the most points to... (with semi-finals)

Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	102
2	Georgia	65
3	Greece	64
	Ukraine	64
5	Norway	30

Armenia has received the most points from... (with semi-finals)

Rank	Country	Points
1	Russia	83
	Israel	83
	Netherlands	83
4	Belgium	82
5	Turkey	75

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Spokespersons

Year(s)	Spokesperson
2006	Gohar Gasparyan
2007	Sirusho
2008	Hrachuhi Utmazyan
2009	Sirusho
2010	Nazeni Hovhannisyan
2011	Lusine Tovmasyan

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