| Year: | 1988 |
| Broadcaster: | Finnish: [[Yle]]isradio|i=no (Yle) |
| Country: | Finland |
| Preselection: | National final |
| Preselection Date: | 13 February 1988 |
| Entrant: | Boulevard |
| Song: | Finnish: Nauravat silmät muistetaan|i=no |
| Final Result: | 20th, 3 points |
Finland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 with the song "Finnish: Nauravat silmät muistetaan|i=no", composed by Pepe Willberg, with lyrics by Kirsti Willberg, and performed by the band Boulevard. The Finnish participating broadcaster, Finnish: [[Yle]]isradio|i=no (Yle), selected its entry in the contest through a national final. Boulevard had previously represented along Vicky Rosti.
Finnish: [[Yle]]isradio|i=no (Yle) held the national final on 13 February 1988 at the Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, hosted by Sini Sovijärvi. Twelve songs took part with the winner chosen by voting from six regional juries. Other participants included former Finnish representatives Ami Aspelund and Sonja Lumme . Two of the songs, Helena Miller's "Swedish: Svart och vitt|i=no" and Benny Törnroos's "Swedish: I november|i=no", were written in Swedish, which is a national language in Finland as well. The other 10 songs were written in Finnish.[1]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Points | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boulevard | "Nauravat silmät muistetaan" | Pepe Willberg, Kirsti Willberg | 38 | 1 | |
| 2 | "Maata vaadin taivaanrantaa" | Jyrki Niemi, | 2 | 12 | ||
| 3 | "Svart och vitt" | , Marita Lindquist | 37 | 2 | ||
| 4 | Kari Tapio | "Tää kaipuu" | 12 | 9 | ||
| 5 | Ami Aspelund | "Amor amor" | , | 32 | 3 | |
| 6 | Sonja Lumme | "Vielä jaksan odottaa" | Matti Siitonen | 9 | 10 | |
| 7 | "Uuteen elämään" | Esko M. Toivonen | 13 | 8 | ||
| 8 | "I november" | Roni Kamras, Marita Lindquist, Benny Törnroos | 8 | 11 | ||
| 9 | Mikko Alatalo | "Tuhat ja yksi yöta" | Pertti Niemi, | 19 | 6 | |
| 10 | "Tie" | 20 | 5 | |||
| 11 | , Jonna and Beat | "Mayday Mayday" | Timo Tervo, | 29 | 4 | |
| 12 | Tauski, Tutta and Crista | "Lasikaupunki" | Kari Kuuva | 15 | 7 |
| + Detailed Regional Jury Votes | |||||||||
| Draw | Song | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Nauravat silmät muistetaan" | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 38 | |
| 2 | "Maata vaadin taivaanrantaa" | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 3 | "Svart och vitt" | 10 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 37 | ||
| 4 | "Tää kaipuu" | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |||
| 5 | "Amor amor" | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 32 | |
| 6 | "Vielä jaksan odottaa" | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| 7 | "Uuteen elämään" | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 13 | |||
| 8 | "I november" | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| 9 | "Tuhat ja yksi yöta" | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | |
| 10 | "Tie" | 2 | 8 | 10 | 20 | ||||
| 11 | "Mayday Mayday" | 1 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 29 | ||
| 12 | "Lasikaupunki" | 10 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
On the night of the final Boulevard performed third in the running order, following and preceding the . The band had to deal with a technical malfunction when the backing track temporarily faded out halfway through the song. At the close of voting "Finnish: Nauravat silmät muistetaan|i=no" had received only 3 points, placing Finland 20th of the 21 entries, ahead only of the nul-points song from .[2] The Finnish jury awarded its 12 points to .[3] Among the members of the Finnish jury was Ilpo Hakasalo.[4]
Full national final on Yle Elävä Arkisto