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Italy: The regulations of Festival di Sanremo 2025!

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RAI has already announced Italy’s participation in Eurovision 2025. Festival di Sanremo will once again serve as the country’s national selection process for Eurovision 2025 and it will take place from 11 to 15 February 2025.

Festival di Sanremo will see minor changes in its format in 2025 along with a new artistic director, namely Carlo Conti, who will return to this role after eight years.

DAY 1  –  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2025

All the 24 participating songs in the “Campioni (Big)” category will be heard for the first time, and journalists from TV and electronic media will exclusively determine the first night’s results.

DAY 2  –  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The first 12 songs from the “Campioni (Big)” category will be performed on the second night again. The outcome of that night will be decided in equal shares by televoting and the voting of representatives from the Italian radio.

DAY 3  –  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The remaining 12 songs from the “Campioni (Big)” category will be performed during the third night and the results will be determined as in the second night (50-50).

DAY 4  –  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2025 (COVER NIGHT)

The 24 competitors will sing a cover of a popular Italian or non-Italian song, and the outcome on that particular day will be decided by a triple vote consisting of 34% televoting, 33% press, TV, and internet jury, and 33% radio jury.

The special cover night award will also be given to the winner.

DAY 5  –  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The 24 artists will perform again, and a three-way vote will determine the outcome on that night: 34% will be cast by televoting, 33% by the press, TV, and internet jury, and 33% by radio jury.

These results and the results from the first three nights of Sanremo 2025 will then be combined. The top five will then be determined by adding these results together (day 4 results will not be tallied).

A triple vote will be used to determine the winner after the top five either performs  their entries again or following the recap, as following:

  • 33% press, TV, and web jury
  • 34% televoting
  • 33% radio jury

Italian representation in Eurovision 2025

If any of the 24 competitors (along with their respective record labels) want to compete in Eurovision 2025, they must complete a special form by the beginning of the festival’s final night on Saturday, February 15.

If the Sanremo 2025 winner has previously signed the interest form, he will be automatically considered Italy’s representative in the Eurovision 2025. Should he decide not to compete in Eurovision 2025, the festival’s organizing committee will select an artist from among those who have signed the interest form based on its own standards, which may or may not include the final score ranking.

The winner of Sanremo’s Music Festival in 2024 was the debutant Angelina Mango with her song “La Noia“, who ultimately gained the right to represent Italy in Eurovision 2024, placing seventh in the Grand Final.

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Source: RAI

Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2025 is postponed!

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About a month ago, the Italian public broadcaster, announced that the 75th Festival di Sanremo will take place a week earlier than usual, from the 4th to the 8th of February at the Teatro Ariston. However, the latest announcement by the organizers comes to postpone the festival, a week later! Read more

Sanremo 2025: 24 participants and no consideration of Covers’ Night into the final result is the first planning!

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Carlo Conti is the new artistic director of the Sanremo Music Festival. He has already announced the shorter duration of the festival’s evenings, a reduced number of participating entries as well as an alternative competition for the Nuove Proposte category.

Carlo Conti and RAI unveiled the initial plan for the five nights of Sanremo 2025 in further detail. Two significant changes are highlighted.

  • the top five of each night will be announced at a random order and the precise ranking will not be disclosed
  • the classification from the Covers’ Night will not be take into consideration when it comes to the final result.

Carlo Conti believes that by doing so, the rating among journalists will be less biased, as they will not be able to massively vote for or against a song on the final night, in order to receive the desired outcome.

Furthermore, it was announced that 24 songs will compete for the prize, six fewer than the 30 that took part in this year’s Festival.

Sanremo 2025 – the initial schedule

First Evening: 24 artists perform their competing song (top five is revealed in a random order)

Second Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Third Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Fourth Evening: Covers’ Night, the artists will perform in a duet. The results for this semifinal will NOT be included in the main competition

Final: 24 artists perform their competing song. The top five in the combined rankings of all semifinals advances in the Superfinal and gets to perform again. Juries and televote will vote again to decide the winner.

When it comes to Eurovision 2025, Italy has yet to confirm its participation, so it is still unknown whether the winner of Festival Di Sanremo will represent Italy in Switzerland.

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Sanremo 2025: Carlo Conti Announced as Host and Artistic Director

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The eagerly awaited announcement has finally arrived: Carlo Conti will be the host and artistic director of Sanremo 2025 and 2026. This decision follows the five successful editions led by Amadeus.

The announcement was made during the Tg1 broadcast at 8 AM on Wednesday, May 22. Carlo Conti, who has signed a two-year contract, will be returning for his fourth and fifth editions after previously hosting three consecutive editions from 2015 to 2017.

Here are Carlo Conti’s first statements:

“I Conti tornano! After seven years, I will try to build on the work done by Baglioni and Amadeus. The first person to message me was Fiorello. I am grateful for all the affection from the people at Rai. Hosting Sanremo for the next two years, 2025 and 2026, will be a wonderful way to celebrate my 40 years at Rai. From today, I will start thinking about the regulations, then I will begin listening to the songs and start planning the team on stage. I don’t think Pieraccioni and Panariello will be regulars, as I always try to mix up the guests.”

The official Rai statement reads:

“A unanimous decision by the company’s top executives, CEO Roberto Sergio and General Director Giampaolo Rossi in agreement with Prime Time Entertainment Director Marcello Ciannamea. For the next two years, Conti will steer the most important national multimedia event organized by Rai and the Municipality of Sanremo. For Conti, this is not just a return to the Festival but a new challenge aimed at continuing to promote and highlight new trends, as he did in his successful editions from 2015 to 2017, which launched artists who are now key figures in Italian music. The Artistic Director is already at work planning a Festival full of surprises and novelties.”

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Italy: Media reports “Amadeus at Sanremo 2025 and 2026” while Rai Denies Everything!

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In the past few hours, the news portal ItaliaOggi has launched the rumor that Rai’s CEO, Roberto Sergio, would have made a mega-offer to Amadeus to host and artistically direct the next two editions of the Sanremo Festival, 2025 and 2026.

According to the newspaper, some clauses of the agreement still need to be refined, but “it seems that the signature will arrive shortly”. There is talk of a “mega-offer” from CEO Roberto Sergio, who would have also proposed to the host a show with his friend Rosario Fiorello on Rai 1 and the continuation of pre-evening shows Affari Tuoi and I Soliti Ignoti.

The news bounced around through various portals, but Rai immediately stepped in to deny it:

“The news reported by some news outlets about an agreement reached between the company and Amadeus for the hosting of the 75th edition of the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo is to be considered totally unfounded,” reads the statement. 

Recall that Amadeus, several times, has confirmed his intention to stop after the five editions from 2020 to 2024.

As a reminder, the big winner of this year’s Sanremo Festival was Angelina Mango with the song “La Noia”, who will represent Italy in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKzWskcTTA8

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for more news about Italy’s participation in Eurovision 2024!

Source: ItaliaOggi