Italy: The participants of Festival di Sanremo 2025 will be announced on December 2!
Festival di Sanremo, Italy’s most prestigious music festival, is only a few months away. During February, the entire Italian peninsula will be following all the events in the small Ligurian city to see who wins the Golden Lion and represents Italy in the 69th Eurovision Song Contest.
Given the festival’s importance to the Italian music scene, Carlo Conti, the newly appointed Director, is working tirelessly to finalize the lineup of twenty-four artists who will compete in Sanremo 2025.
Hence, it was revealed today that the participants in the 75th edition of the Festival di Sanremo will be revealed during RAI’s newscast on December 2nd.
Carlo Conti annuncerà il cast di #Sanremo2025 il 2 dicembre al TG1.
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Although the number of established artists competing in Sanremo is still unknown, Carlo Conti claims that they will appear in the Sanremo Giovanni final.
Sanremo 2025 – the 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 of this semifinal will NOT be included in the main competition
Final: 24 artists will 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.
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.
Although originally scheduled from February 4 to February 8, eventually the festival was postponed, a week later. Therefore, it will take place from February 11 to February 15 in the small Ligurian town.
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.
Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news!