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

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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Εurovision 2023: Τhe results of the Marcel Bezençon Awards 2023!

As every year, shortly before the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final, the Marcel Bezençon Awards ceremony took place.

These awards, which were established in 2002 and are the brainchild of Christer Björkman (Sweden’s representative at Eurovision 1992 and current head of Sweden’s delegation) and Richard Herrey (member of the band The Herreys, who won first place on behalf of 1984), they are awarded shortly before the big Eurovision Final to some selected participants.

The specific awards were named after the founder of Eurovision, Marcel Bezençon, and are divided into three categories:

  1. Press Award (awarded by accredited journalists)
  2. Composer Award (consisting of a special jury composed of various composers participating in each event for the most artistic musical participation)
  3. Artist award (given to the most liked artist and voted by the commentators of the state bodies of the respective organization, while until 2009 this award was voted by the previous Eurovision winners)

For the 67th Song Contest, these awards are won by:

  1. Press Award – SWEDEN
  2. Artistic Award – SWEDEN
  3. Composer’s Award – ITALY

 


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Italy-Germany: Τhe viewers of the First Semi-Final of Eurovision 2023!

With the first semi-final of Eurovision 2023 already completed, the ratings for Italy and Germany have been released.

Italy

A total of 1.8 million viewers watched the first semi-final via Rai 2 in Italy. Italian interest in the Eurovision Song Contest remains high and stood at 8.6% last night. While the numbers are down from last year, when Italy hosted the competition, the channel change from Rai 4 to Rai 2 led to a fourfold increase in viewers compared to 2021. (535,000 viewers and a 2.2% share).

Germany

A total of 590 thousand viewers watched the Eurovision 2023 First Semi-Final live last night on the German channel ONE. Total viewing figures remained flat compared to recent years, with interest expected to increase in tomorrow’s second Semi-Final.

DWDL reports that the competition was among the 15 most-watched shows for viewers between the ages of 14 and 49, with a 6.3% share for the age group. This represents almost a doubling of interest compared to 2022, when it was rated at just 3.4% for 14- to 49-year-olds.

source: Εurovoix

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Iceland: France and Italy win Alla leið 2023 Show Five!

Just two days shy of the first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision, Italy and France were crowned the winners of the fifth show of the Icelandic preview show Alla leið.

The four-member jury ranked this year’s Big Five entries with the highest points being awarded to France and Italy.

The results of show four are:

  1. France – La Zarra – “Évidemment” – 12+12+10+8 – 42 points
  2. Italy – Marco Mengoni – “Due vite” – 12+12+8+10 – 42 points
  3. Ukraine – TVORCHI – “Heart of Steel” – 12+10+7+8 – 37 points
  4. Spain – Blanca Paloma – “Eaea” – 8+7+8+10 – 33 points
  5. United Kingdom – Mae Muller – “I Wrote a Song” – 8+6+10+8 – 32 points
  6. Germany – Lord of the Lost – “Blood and Glitter” – 4+7+8+6 – 25 points

The overall ranking of this year’s Alla leið looks like this:

  1. Iceland – Diljá – “Power” – 12+12+12+12 – 48 points
  2. France – La Zarra – “Évidemment” – 12+12+10+8 – 42 points
  3. Italy – Marco Mengoni – “Due vite” – 12+12+8+10 – 42 points
  4. Croatia – Let 3 – “Mama ŠČ!” – 12+8+12+10 – 42 points
  5. Switzerland – Remo Forrer – “Watergun” – 12+8+12+8 – 40 points
  6. Ukraine – TVORCHI – “Heart of Steel” – 12+10+7+8 – 37 points
  7. Czechia – Vesna – “My Sister’s Crown” – 10+6+10+10 – 36 points
  8. Belgium – Gustaph – “Because of You” – 10+10+5+10 – 35 points
  9. Australia – Voyager – “Promise” – 6+12+12+4 – 34 points
  10. Sweden – Loreen – “Tattoo” – 10+8+12+4 – 34 points
  11. Denmark – Reiley – “Breaking My Heart” – 6+10+10+8 – 34 points
  12. Finland – Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha” – 12+8+12+1 – 33 points
  13. Armenia – Brunette – “Future Lover” – 7+6+8+12 – 33 points
  14. Spain – Blanca Paloma – “Eaea” – 8+7+8+10 – 33 points
  15. Austria – Teya & Salena – “Who The Hell is Edgar?” – 12+6+6+8 – 32 points
  16. United Kingdom – Mae Muller – “I Wrote a Song” – 8+6+10+8 – 32 points
  17. Moldova – Pasha Parfeni – “Soarele și luna” – 12+7+7+5 – 31 points
  18. Portugal – Mimicat – “Ai coração” – 8+7+6+8 – 31 points
  19. Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou – “Break a Broken Heart” – 3+8+12+5 – 28 points
  20. Azerbaijan – TuralTuranX – “Tell Me More” – 10+6+10+2 – 28 points
  21. Georgia – Iru – “Echo” – 6+5+7+10 – 28 points
  22. Norway – Alessandra – Queen of the Kings – 6+7+6+8 – 27 points
  23. Latvia – Sudden Lights – “Aijā” – 2+12+8+4 – 26 points
  24. Greece – Victor Vernicos – “What They Say” – 5+2+12+7 – 26 points
  25. Slovenia – Joker Out – “Carpe Diem” – 5+12+4+5 – 26 points
  26. Albania – Albina & Familija Kelmendi – “Duje” – 3+6+6+10 – 25 points
  27. Germany – Lord of the Lost – “Blood and Glitter” – 4+7+8+6 – 25 points
  28. Estonia – Alika – “Bridges” – 6+7+2+7 – 22 points
  29. Ireland – Wild Youth – “We Are One” – 6+4+5+7 – 22 points
  30. Malta – The Busker – “Dance (Our Own Party)” – 3+6+5+7 – 21 points
  31. Serbia – Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava” – 7+5+6+3 – 21 points
  32. Lithuania – Monika Linkyte – “Stay” – 5+4+6+4 – 19 points
  33. Poland – Blanka – “Solo” – 2+4+4+7 – 17 points
  34. Netherlands – Mia Nicolai & DIon Cooper – “Burning Daylight” – 7+3+5+1 – 16 points
  35. Israel – Noa Kirel – “Unicorn” – 7+1+1+3 – 12 points
  36. Romania – Theodor Andrei – “D.G.T (Off and On)” – 1+4+1+2 – 8 points
  37. San Marino – Piqued Jacks – “Like an Animal” – 1+2+1+1 – 5 points

Iceland is the show’s winner with France,Italy and Croatia all tying in the second place.

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Italy: Marco Mengoni has filmed his postcard for Eurovision 2023!

This year’s Italian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest, Marco Mengoni, has completed the shooting of his postcard. Each postcard is shown before the artist’s performance, in this case it will be shown before his performance in the Grand Final on 13 May.

You can watch footage from the postcard below:

The filming took place in the Italian capital, Rome. The postcard shows the artist on a motorcycle riding around the city, riding the vehicle and posing at various locations. This year’s postcards aim to show the artists participating in an activity in their country.

Italy is competing directly in the final on 13 May as a member of the Big Five. Today it will be announced which half of the final it will appear in.

The countries that have confirmed that they have completed the shooting of their postcards are:

Albania – Albina & Familija Kelmendi
Austria – Teya & Salena
Croatia – Leta 3
Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou
France – La Zarra
Germany – Lord of the Lost
Ireland – Wild Youth
Latvia – Sudden Lights
Lithuania – Monika Linkytė
Malta – The Busker
Moldova – Pasha Parfeni
Netherlands – Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper
Poland – Blanka
Slovenia – Joker Out
Romania – Theodor Andrei
Belgium – Gustaph
Estonia – Alika
Greece – Victor Vernicos
Azerbaijan – TuralTuranx
Switzerland – Remo Forrer
San Marino – Piqued Jacks
Israel – Noa Kirel
Armenia – Brunette
Georgia – Iru
Finland – Käärija
Sweden – Loreen
Denmark – Reiley
Italy – Marco Mengoni

Below you can watch the reaction video of the EurovisionFun to Due Vite:

 

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

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.

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INFE Poll 2023: The results from Italy!

For the seventh consecutive year, the second fan network of the Eurovision Song Contest, the INFE Network, in collaboration with the website EscToday, is conducting the INFE Poll.

Network members in the 21 local fan clubs have already voted for their favorite songs from Eurovision 2023 and via ESCToday, they are announcing their scores.

Here are the results of INFE Italy:

  • Czechia – 1 point
  • Estonia – 2 points
  • Cyprus – 3 points
  • Finland – 4 points
  • Iceland – 5 points
  • Moldova – 6 points
  • France – 7 points
  • Norway – 8 points
  • Germany – 10 points
  • Sweden – 12 points

After adding the Italian votes to the scoreboard, the overall score is as follows:

  1. Sweden – 91 points
  2. Norway – 69 points
  3. Finland – 63 points
  4. Italy – 47 points
  5. France – 45 points
  6. Israel – 37 points
  7. Austria – 36 points
  8. Spain – 31 points
  9. Czechia – 31 points
  10. Moldova – 22 points
  11. United Kingdom – 18 points
  12. Armenia – 14 points
  13. Germany – 10 points
  14. Georgia – 9 points
  15. Serbia – 8 points
  16. Greece – 8 points
  17. Croatia – 7 points
  18. Slovenia – 7 points
  19. Iceland – 5 points
  20. Romania – 4 points
  21. Albania – 4 points
  22. Latvia – 3 points
  23. Cyprus – 3 points
  24. Netherlands – 2 points
  25. Australia – 2 points
  26. Estonia – 2 points
  27. San Marino – 1 point
  28. Portugal – 1 point

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Source: esctoday.com

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

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”!

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!

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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Source: Fanpage