Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Armenia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, as confirmed by Armenian broadcaster Armenian Public Television (ARMPTV). Inga and Anush Arshakyan won the National final with their song "Jan Jan" and represented Armenia in the Eurovision 2009.

Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Country Armenia
National selection
Selection processNational Final
Selection date(s)14 February 2009
Selected entrantInga and Anush Arshakyan
Selected song"Jan Jan"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (5th, 99 points)
Final result10th, 92 points
Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2008 • 2009 • 2010►

Before Eurovision

Possible artists

Popular male artist Aramé had expressed an interest in representing Armenia.[1]

The Azeria-Press Agency had claimed that System of a Down would be the artists for the Armenian entry. A member of the Turkish Parliament from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Akif Ekici, commented that the group was going to perform a song about Armenian genocide. He went on to say their song “Holy Mountains” offended the Turkish people, and asked the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, what action could have been taken to stop the group participating in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.[2]

National final

The Armenian broadcaster returned to a national final format to select the fourth Armenian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. This was the second time the Armenian entry was selected through a public contest.

The final took place on 14 February 2009 at the Sport and Concert Complex in Yerevan, hosted by Gohar Gasparyan and Avet Barseghyan. Twenty-one songs competed with the winner being decided upon by a 50/50 combination of the votes from a jury and a public televote.[3][4] "Jan Jan" performed by Inga & Anush Arshakyanner were the landslide winners, receiving top marks from both the jury and the televote (gaining 35% of the votes).[5] "My Heart, My Soul" performed by Mher placed second while "Fly" performed by Dorians placed third.

Final – 14 February 2009
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
1 Iren "Miayn du" 0 91 0 0 14
2 Hasmik Margaryan "Erazanq" 0 62 0 0 16
3 The Beautified Project "Butterfly" 0 223 2 2 11
4 Gayane Arzumanyan "Molto Bello" 4 173 1 5 8
5 Marta Bulbulyan "Yes andari perin em" 0 55 0 0 18
6 Inga & Anush Arshakyanner "Jan Jan" 12 5,416 12 24 1
7 Oxygen "Pare andzrevi" 0 9 0 0 21
8 Artem Avun "Eternal Fire" 0 82 0 0 15
9 Shprot "Lucky" 6 1,055 7 13 5
10 Hayk Kasparov "Give Me An Answer" 0 50 0 0 19
11 Arman Harutyunyan "Come On, My Friends" 0 57 0 0 17
12 Guj "Ko dem" 0 23 0 0 20
13 Lilu "Et ari" 0 353 4 4 9
14 Davit Minasyan "Kez yerkem" 1 90 0 1 12
15 Mher "My Heart, My Soul" 7 4,493 10 17 2
16 Dorians "Fly" 10 874 6 16 3
17 Bambir "Yolk" 5 1,134 8 13 4
18 Hripsime Hakobyan "Eli Eli" 2 272 3 5 7
19 Davo "Dzerkere ver" 0 100 0 0 13
20 Tigran Petrosyan "Only Time" 8 495 5 13 6
21 Sergey Grigoryan "Qez Hamar" 3 127 0 3 10

Controversy

Azerbaijani press agencies claimed that, the song "Jan Jan" fully copying the famous Azerbaijanian composer Tofig Guliyev's dance song "Nakhchivani", which was composed more than 30 years ago. A quick listen however, reveals they barely resemble one another, sharing perhaps only slight features of regional rhythms and instrumentation.[6][7]

At Eurovision

Since Armenia is not one of the "Big Four" and was not the host of the 2009 contest, it had to compete in one of the two semi-finals. Armenia qualified from the first semi final placing 5th and scoring 99 and eventually finished in 10th place in the final with 92 points. Despite it being the country's worst finish in the Eurovision at the time, it gave them the country's fourth successive top ten finish.

Split results
  • In the Final Armenia came 10th with 92 points: the public awarded Armenia 9th place with 111 points and the jury awarded 15th place with 71 points.

Points awarded by Armenia
Split voting results from Armenia (final)
Draw Country Jury points Televoting points Scoreboard (Points)
01  Lithuania
02  Israel
03  France 3 8 6
04  Sweden
05  Croatia 1
06  Portugal
07  Iceland 5 6 5
08  Greece 10 7 10
09  Armenia
10  Russia 12 10 12
11  Azerbaijan 3 1
12  Bosnia and Herzegovina
13  Moldova 4 2
14  Malta 2
15  Estonia 2
16  Denmark
17  Germany
18  Turkey 7 4 4
19  Albania
20  Norway 1 12 8
21  Ukraine 6 3
22  Romania
23  United Kingdom 8 5 7
24  Finland
25  Spain
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
Points awarded to Armenia (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
  1. Solloso, Jaime (26 November 2008). "Either System of a Down or Aramé to represent Armenia". Oikotimes. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2008.
  2. "Turkish opposition demands to tackle Armenian to join Eurovision contest with so-called "genocide" song". Azeri-Press Agency (APA). 29 December 2008. Archived from the original on 10 January 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
  3. Floras, Stella (9 January 2009). "Armenia: National final on Valentine's day". ESCToday. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
  4. Konstantopoulos, Fotis (9 January 2009). "Armenia: ARMTV decides for Moscow on February 14". Oikotimes. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
  5. Mikheev, Andy (15 February 2009). "Armenia at Eurovision Song Contest 2009". EscKaz. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
  7. namiq585@yahoo.com (20 May 2009). "Ermənistan Azərbaycana şikayət edib". Big.az. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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