Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Armenia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany and was represented by Emmy who was selected through an internal selection and their song through a televised national final, organised by the Armenian broadcaster Public Television of Armenia (ARMTV).

Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country Armenia
National selection
Selection processArtist: Internal Selection
Song: National Final
Selection date(s)Artist: 11 December 2010
Song: 5 March 2011
Selected entrantEmmy
Selected song"Boom Boom"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultFailed to qualify (12th, 54 points)
Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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"Boom Boom" is a cheerful up-tempo pop song. The song was written by the members of the band Apricota, Hayk Harutyunyan and Hayk Hovhannisyan, with the lyrics by Sosi Khanikyan.

Before Eurovision

Artist selection

On 11 December 2011, during a press conference, ARMTV announced Emmy as the Armenian entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.[1][2]

National final

The song that Emmy would perform at the 2011 contest was selected through a national final.[3] ARMTV opened the song submission period for composers to send their entries in English and/or in Armenian until 23 January 2011. From all 70 songs submitted, a jury shortlisted fifteen songs. Ultimately four of the songs were selected for the competition, with their composers (DerHova, Apricota, Vahram Petrosyan and Martin Kesici) being announced on 10 February 2011.[4][5] The songs were released on 2 March 2011 and were occasionally played on radio, internet and broadcast on ARMTV until the final.

The final was scheduled to take place on 19 February 2011. However, the date was later moved forward to 26 February 2011. This which later moved forward as well due to a personal tragedy in Emmy's family. The final took place on 5 March 2011 at the ARMTV Studios in Yerevan, hosted by Gohar Gasparyan and Khoren Levonyan. All four competing songs were performed by Emmy with the winning song, "Boom Boom", being decided upon by a 50/50 combination of the votes from a jury and a public SMS vote.

Final – 5 March 2011
Draw Song Songwriter(s) Jury Televote Total Place
1 "Hi" Vahram Petrosyan, Mariam Shahinyan 8 1,535 8 16 3
2 "Boom Boom" Apricota (Hayk Hovhannisyan, Hayk Harutyunyan), Sosi Khanikyan 12 3,219 12 24 1
3 "Ayo" DerHova 10 2,422 10 20 2
4 "Goodbye" Martin Kesici 7 539 7 14 4

At Eurovision

Armenia competed fourth in the first semi-final on 10 May. The country did not qualify to the final for the first time since it joined Eurovision. However its entry came very close to qualifying after coming twelfth place in the semi-final. It received a total of 54 points, just one point behind tenth place, Switzerland.

Split results
  • In the Semi-final 1 Armenia came 12th with 54 points: the public awarded Armenia 7th place with 75 points and the jury awarded 15th place with 33 points.

Points awarded by Armenia[6]
Points awarded to Armenia (Semi-final 1)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
  1. "Emmy to sing Boom-Boom in Düsseldorf". European Broadcasting Union. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  2. Al Kaziri, Ghassan (26 October 2010). "Armenia decides internally for Dusseldorf". Oikotimes.com. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  3. Jiandani, Sanjay (11 December 2010). "Emmy to represent Armenia in Düsseldorf". EscToday.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  4. "Armenia 2011".
  5. "Composer's names has announced". OGAE Armenia'. 12 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  6. Eurovision Song Contest 2008
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