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Italy: “Due Vite” is now a five times platinum record!

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One of the biggest “winners” of this year’s Eurovision was undoubtedly Marco Mengoni. Following his win in Sanremo 2023 with “Due Vite“, he accepted the invitation and represented his home country for the second time in Liverpool, finishing fourth.

Having won such a prestigious for the Italian music scene festival, his song “Due Vite” has become a major success. As Mengoni posted himself yesterday on X, “Due Vite” is now a five times platinum record, having sold more than half a million copies since its release date.

https://twitter.com/mengonimarco/status/1726600630742180117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1726600630742180117%7Ctwgr%5E7ab98dc2b5dd1eb2fec223f1970fc177b64b7bb8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F2023%2F11%2FCEB9CF84CEB1CEBBCEAFCEB1-CF80CEADCEBDCF84CEB5-CF86CEBFCF81CEADCF82-CF80CEBBCEB1CF84CEB9CEBDCEADCEBDCEB9CEBF-CF84CEBF-due-vite%2F

The song remains also extremely popular on all streaming platforms. To this day, the official video of “Due Vite” counts 95 million views on Marco Mengoni’s official YouTube channel and over 86 million streams on Spotify.

His record had a warm reception in several European countries, such as Switzerland, where it was also platinum certificated. Moreover, a few months prior, Mengoni released a French version of “Due Vite“.

It looks like Marco Mengoni follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, as several recent Italian Eurovision artists, such as Mahmood, Diodato and Francesco Gabbani, went also platinum following their Sanremo win.

https://youtu.be/d6IiOSut_4M?si=09dlyk2ETqdMEN9F

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Italy: Marco Mengoni releases French version of “Due Vite”!

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After giving Italy another Top 5 result and releasing an album that still gets numerous streams daily, Marco Mengoni never stops, and he is now offering us a different version of his Eurovision song, “Due Vite”, with which he got fourth place in the Contest.

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Eurovision 2023: Italy’s First Rehearsal!

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Next Big 5 act to take the stage for his first rehearsal is Italy with Marco Mengoni, performing his song “Due Vite”!

Who is Marco Mengoni?

Marco Mengoni is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of the Italian X Factor. Since then, Mengoni has managed to make a name for himself in Italy as well as abroad. At the time of writing, he’s released 7 studio albums that between them have gone 69-times platinum, has sold over 2.8 million records in Italy, has peaked the Italian albums chart seven consecutive times and entered the Top 10 Italian Singles Chart fifteen times. Marco has also won the Sanremo Festival twice, in 2013 and this year, becoming one of the few italian artists to have achieved two wins in the festival.

Marco is also not new to Eurovision, as he has previously taken part in the 2013 contest in Malmö after his first Sanremo win, managing to finish 7th with his entry L’essenziale!

The rehearsal

Marco is in leather trousers and a silver sparkly vest (for today – the Italian delegation has previously announced that he will be wearing a different outfit in each of his performances). He is backed by swirling clouds and a moon on the LED wall, as well as two male dancers and a staircase prop.

Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU

Corinne Cumming / EBU

Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU

You can watch the official snippet of Marco Mengoni’s first rehearsal on TikTok below:

@eurovision Magnificent Marco Mengoni returns to the Eurovision stage ✨🇮🇹 #Eurovision2023 #Eurovision @Marco Mengoni ♬ original sound – Eurovision


Marco himself also posted another snippet of his performance showing the two dancers and the staircase prop more clearly, as well as the moon on the LED wall. You can watch it below:

https://twitter.com/ESCdiscord/status/1654152979866439682?t=buS4NFVAoAgFBmouNSk7Og&s=19&fbclid=IwAR0zHh_DdsaGu5rjykApohcDinB57GT1h-J8x6Xu1H_HsajZP0f59RMtphE

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Italy: RAI’s trailer for Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

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It’s time for last year’s host broadcaster, RAI, to release their own trailer for Eurovision 2023. The Italian public broadcaster, hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 after Måneskin’s victory in 2021 so they were expected to make a new trailer regarding this year’s contest.

The trailer’s protagonist, is this year’s representative of Italy, no other than Marco Mengoni, who wakes up and gets ready to fly to Liverpool for the contest.

Did you like RAI’s trailer for this year’s contest? Write us in the comments below!

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Italy: The first live performance of Eurovision version “Due Vite”!

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As part of the international promotion of the Italian participation, the representative of Italy in this year’s Eurovision, Marco Mengoni, was in Germany performing for the first time live the Eurovision version of “Due Vite”.

The presentation took place on ZDF’s “Giovanni Zarrella Show” in Germany where he performed “Due Vite” live for the first time, as it will be performed on the Liverpool stage.

You can watch his performance in the video below:

We remind you that the changes made to adapt the piece to the three-minute rule for each entry, is that excerpts were removed from the first couplet, but also from the first chorus.

You can also watch the EurovisionFun team’s reaction to Italy’s entry, below:

Italy, as a member of the Big 5, is directly qualified in the final.

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Italy: Listen to the three-minute version of “Due Vite”!

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Marco Mengoni who was the winner of the 73rd Festival of Sanremo and will represent Italy in Eurovision 2023, published a little while ago on his YouTube channel, the three-minute version of Due Vite. That is, the song as it will compete in Liverpool!

The changes made to fit the track into the three-minute rule for each entry, are that excerpts from the first verse, but also from the first chorus, were removed.

You can listen to the three-minute version of Due Vite below:

You can also watch the EurovisionFun team’s reaction to Italy’s entry, below:

Italy, as a member of the BIG-5, participates directly in the final.

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Italy: Marco Mengoni prepares for Eurovision with four European concerts!

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Marco Mengoni has started preparing himself to represent Italy in Liverpool.  He will sing a 3 minutes shortened version of Due Vite for Eurovision to comply with the rules.

And as part of the preparations he will head to four main European cities before arriving to Liverpool.  The cities and dates for his mini-European tour are the following:

  • Paris – 24 April
  • Brussels – 25 April
  • Frankfurt – 27 April
  • Zurich – 29 April

Marco Mengoni is not a stranger to the European audience.  After all he represented his country 10 years ago in Malmö with the song.  However, with his tour Marco Mengoni is planning to reconnect with the international public and to rehearse before heading to Liverpool.

Marco Mengoni came in seventh place in Eurovision 2013 with the song L’essenziale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4HBDAbdXUg&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

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Italy: With “Due Vite” Marco Mengoni will compete in Eurovision 2023!

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Shortly after his big victory at the San Remo Festival, Marco Mengoni had left open the possibility of changing his song for Eurovision 2023, which of course is allowed by the regulations of the historic festival.

As the OGAE of Italy reports, in the end Marco will not change his track and thus the country will be represented by “Due vite”. Of course, its duration should be adapted to the Eurovision regulations which want each entry to not exceed 3:00. This automatically means they should be removed from the song at around the 45 second mark.

Italy as part of the Big 5 will compete directly in the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final on May 13. Will Italy manage to continue the streak of good placements?

Source: OGAE Italia

Italy: “Due Vite” by Marco Mengoni went Gold!

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“Due Vite” the song with which Marco Mengoni will represent his country in Eurovision 2023, went Gold in Italy, having sold more than 35.000 copies since the day it was released.

In Spotify, the song counts more than 15.970.000 streams. Marco seems to follow along the steps of previous Italian representatives, as Diodato, Mahmood, Ermal & Fabrizio and Francesco Gabbani, all reached Gold.

Marco Mengoni was the winner of Sanremo 2023 with the song “Due Vite”! He is going to perform in the Grand Final of Eurovision 2023 in May 13:

https://youtu.be/Etn8d1x5Byk

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