Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Piosenka dla Europy 2008 was the national final organised by TVP in order to select the Polish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The show took place on 23 February 2008 at the TVP studios in Warsaw, hosted by Katarzyna Sowińska and Radosław Brzózka. A four-member jury panel and a public SMS vote exclusively selected the winner.

TVP opened a submission period for interested artists and songwriters to submit their entries between 30 November 2007 and 2 January 2008. Only artists that had either released an album or single with national radio airplays, had competed in at least one professional song contest or music festival at a national level, or that had a valid contract with a record company were eligible to compete.[1] The broadcaster received 100 submissions at the closing of the deadline.[2] A nine-member selection committee selected ten entries from the received submissions to compete in the national final. The selection committee consisted of Piotr Klatt, Paweł Sztompke, Artur Orzech, Magda Czapińska, Zuzanna Łapicka, Agata Krysiak, Ryszard Poznakowski, Robert Obcowski and Tomasz Deszczyński. The selected entries were announced on 7 January 2008. Among the competing artists was Sandra Oxenryd, who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. The competing artists were required to submit a promotional video for their song to TVP by 28 January 2008.[3]

On 11 January 2008, "Kiełbasa" performed by Krzysztof Zalewski was disqualified from the national final, and was replaced by "Do Something" performed by Plastic.[4] On 8 February 2008, "You've Got My Love" performed by Izabela Kopeć, "Blow Over" performed by Natasza Urbańska and "Noc kupaly" performed by Zywiolak were announced as wildcards invited by TVP to compete in the national final, however Zywiolak was later disqualified.[5]

The televised final took place on 23 February 2008. Twelve entries competed and the winner, "For Life" performed by Isis Gee, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from a professional jury of four members - Maryla Rodowicz (singer), Janusz Kosiński (journalist), Paweł Sztompke (Polish Radio) and Adrian Stanisławski (OGAE Poland) and a public SMS vote.[6]