First and foremost, it has been confirmed that the winner of Sanremo will once again represent Italy at Eurovision 2024.
Regarding the voting, it has been clarified that in determining the five contestants who will advance to the superfinal (i.e. the second phase of the final from which the winner emerges), the combined votes of the Radio Jury and the Press Jury will hold greater influence than the Televote alone, as follows:
Source: @sanremo_en, Twitter
Finally, it was announced that song submissions close on November 27th and that Amadeus will announce the participants after December 1st.
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Some announcements were made by Amadeus earlier today on Tg1 regarding the new structure andrules of the next Festival di Sanremo.
The first change has to do with the way the artists will be divided between the first three nights of the festival. Specifically, on the first night all the participating artists will step on stage for the first performance of their songs, while half of them will appear for their second performance on the second night and the other half on the third night. Therefore, we will have the opportunity to hear all 26 participating entries as early as the very first night.
The second change is about the new role of participating artists as co-hosts as well! On the second and third night, during which the artists will be separated as explained above, the half of the artists who will not perform their songs will undertake the role of presenting the other half artists alongside Amadeus. The pairing of the artists-performers and the artists-“presenters” will be decided by public draw during the press conferences of each previous day.
The third change concerns covers night. While in previous years artists could choose to cover a song published up to a certain decade, their choice has now been widened to include songs, from the Italian and international repertoire, published up to 2023.
The fourth change sees the replacement of the ever-present demoscopic jury by a new radio jury in the voting procedures, which will include national and local radio stations selected with the criterion of adequately representing the entire Italian territory. The factors that will determine the results, along with the radio jury (second, third, fourth night & superfinal) are completed by the well-known jury of journalists (first, fourth night & superfinal) and the also known televoting (second, third, fourth night & both phases of the voting in the final)
As for the number of participating artists, Amadeus announced that they will be 26, 23 of whom will be selected by him and the remaining three of whom will come from Sanremo Giovani, taking place on the 20th of December.
Sanremo 2024 will take place from 6 to 10 February.
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Amadeus announced his retirement from the position of presenter and artistic director of the Sanremo festival. Sanremo 2024 will be the fifth and final festival run by the popular Italian TV presenter.
Since 2020, Amadeus has been leading the Sanremo festival, so to speak, with admittedly spectacular results, since during his days Sanremo reached huge ratings, while Maneskin in 2021 also managed to win the Eurovision contest.
I say it officially: this is my last Festival. Five in a row is a lot. I am honored to have drawn Pippo Baudo and Mike Bongiorno. If in a few years they asked me I could go back, yes in the future but now I have to stop.
Amadeus has revealed that it has no problem with the new CEO of RAI, appointed by the government of G. Meloni. He has not decided who will be his co-presenters at the 74th Sanremo Festival, while for the candidate songs he will start their search in the coming months, after the scenography has been completed.
In the interview that Amadeus gave, he also describes the way of choosing the songs that participate in the festival every year, saying that he always asks the artists more than one song to choose. He doesn’t make it clear whether in 2024 we’ll have 28 songs or less, saying that it’s always the songs and their level that determine the final number.
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It’s been months now that Festival di Sanremo2024 has been taking up italian media, which convey that key components of the Festival are in the process of being redefined, following suggestions by the current Italian government for changes to the programs of the national channel RAI.
The involvement of the Italian government in the procedures and possibly the participants of the 2024 Festival has resulted in reactions by many artists, who are expected to reject a possible participation in the Festival as a sign of protest. Thus, Italian media report that the chances of seeing artists such as Achille Lauro, Fedez, Rosa Chemical and Marracash are minimal. Elodie and Antonello Venditti are also added to this list and aren’t expected, neither as participants nor as presenters.
Italian media, however, have also predicted some names that would possibly be positive to a participation in the Festival. The biggest of these names is the legendary Al Bano. Next up are GiuseppePovia, a possible father-son duet by Gigi D’Alessio and LDA, Rita Pavone, Enrico Ruggieri, as well as winners of the Festival and Italy’s representatives in Eurovision 2015 Il Volo.
In addition to the above, Italian media are reporting that Amadeus’s position as artistic director and presenter of the Festival is in danger, despite his renewed contract. At the same time, the rest of the cast of presenters is also unclear.
The winner of this year’s much-discussed Sanremo Festival was Marco Mengoni with his song Due Vite, with which he even managed to get Italy the 4th place in Eurovision 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’svictory 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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“Due Vite” the song with which Marco Mengoni will represent his country in Eurovision 2023, went Goldin 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:
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Italian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!
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This year’s Sanremo has been and will continue to be talked about due to events during the performances of the participating artists and not only, with Blanco‘s guest appearance during the first night of the Festival being a prime example.
Blanco’s appearance made rounds on media inside and outside of Italy, as the artist, in a move that is still debated as to whether it was planned or not, destroyed the flower sets that had been placed as props for his performance, which resulted to damages on the Ariston stage.
Reactions to this move were not limited to the reaction of the public and fans but have now taken a dramatic turn, with the Prosecutor’s Office of Imperia investigating the case on the charge of destruction of property at a public event, a charge punishable by one to five years in prison. The case is expected to go to court in Imperia.
Aside from Blanco, a second legal case is unfolding starring Rosa Chemical and Fedez, over the kiss they shared during contestant Rosa Chemical’s appearance on the final night of the Festival.
Specifically, a representative of the organization Pro Vita & Famiglia (Pro-Life & Family)filed a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office of Sanremo, arguing that
“(That of Rosa Chemical and Fedez) is a behavior of unprecedented gravity, which has led to a wave of general indignation for the shame, discomfort and revulsion caused by the vulgarity of behavior in the sexual sphere.”
The organization’s lawyer argues that the kiss between the two artists violates articles 529 and 527 of the Criminal Code regarding obscene acts and objects and obscene acts in a public place respectively. Added to the charges is the violation of laws on the protection of minors with regard to the material shown on television until 11 o’clock at night.
For all of the above, RAI seems to be at risk of a fine of up to 600 thousand euros, in the event that it is found guilty.
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The popular artist in Italy and the country’s representative in Eurovision 2013 returned to this year’s Sanremo festival, winning last night, ten years after his previous victory. Marco Mengoni confirmed he will represent Italy at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, but he hasn’t decided yet if he goes with his winning Sanremo entry, Due Vite!Read more
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The 73rd Festival di Sanremo has come to an end, crowning Marco Mengoni winner with the song Due Vite.
Amadeus, along with Gianni Morandi and Chiara Ferragni, were tonight’s presenters. There were also a lot of guest appearances, including a message from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a performance by Depeche Mode.
During the first phase of the final we listened to all 28 songs again for the third time and, after a 100%televoting which was added to the rankings of the previous nights, the first 5 songs qualified to the next phase: the super final, in which voting restarted from zero, not taking into consideration any of the previous voting procedures of the whole week. In the super final, everyone had a say: televoting by 34%, demoscopic jury by 33% and jury of journalists also by 33%.
The performances
Elodie – Due
Elodie’s best performance in this year’s Sanremo. Her look is gorgeous and she’s very good vocally.
Tananai enters wearing a yellow and blue flower. His performance is really emotional and and the audience cheer. At the end, he thanks the Ukrainian protagonists of his music video.
An epic performance that everyone will remember for a long time. The singer takes Fedez from the audience, who’s sitting first row, brings him on stage and kisses him. The audience cheers.
The performances part of the final ends with Sethu! Despite coming steadily last in the ranking since the beginning, Sethu delivers a fun and energetic performance.
After Amadeus signaled the closing of the televote lines, he announced the official places 28-6 in the ranking:
6. Giorgia
7. Madame
8. Rosa Chemical
9. Elodie
10. Colapesce e Dimartino
11. Moda
12. Gianluca Grignani
13. Coma_Cose
14. Ariete
15. LDA
16. Articolo 31
17. Paola e Chiara
18. Leo Gassmann
19. Mara Sattei
20. Colla Zio
21. Cugini di Campagna
22. gIANMARIA
23. Levante
24. Olly
25. Anna Oxa
26. Will
27. Shari
28. Sethu
He then went on to announce the top 5 artists who made it to the super final in a random order. These 5 artists were the following:
Ultimo
Tananai
Lazza
Marco Mengoni
Mr.Rain
The special awards
Other than the big award of the overall winner, Sanremo gives out a set of extra awards every year, in a beautiful gesture of recognition of specific aspects of the songs, from best lyrics to best composition. The winners of these awards were the following:
Award Mia Martini (jury of critics): Colapesce e Dimartino
Award Sergio Bardotti (best lyrics): Coma_Cose
Award Lucio Dalla (jury of journalists): Colapesce e Dimartino
Award Giancarlo Bigazzi (best composition): Marco Mengoni
The results – second phase (super final)
The official top 5 is the following:
Marco Mengoni
Lazza
Mr.Rain
Ultimo
Tananai
Marco Mengoni is, therefore, the winner of Sanremo 2023 with the song “Due Vite”! We will be waiting for the press conference in a few hours, in which he will confirm whether he accepts to be the Italian representative in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. For now, you can enjoy his performance here:
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A few minutes ago, RAI, the public broadcaster of Italy, announced the running order of the last night of this year’s Festival di Sanremo, through the festival’s official Twitter account.
The running order of the 28 artits competing in Festival di Sanremo 2023 is:
The Grand Final of Sanremo 2023 will take place tonight at 21:00 CET and will last five hours. You can watch him through the official website of RAI, by clicking HERE.
So, those of you who are fans of Italian music and have patience in the Italian shows with many guests, endless sometimes dialogues and any other kind of interference that can make the show end even after 2 in the morning, tune in with us to the great celebration of Italian music, from which great international stars started their careers!
Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for the full coverage of the 73rd Sanremo Festival.
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