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Sanremo Festival: These are the names of the twenty-four participants of SanremoGiovani 2025!

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The procedures for the Festival di Sanremo seem to be progressing. The 24 names of the SanremoGiovani 2025 participants have just been announced! The list of names was announced via the official Sanremo social media accounts.

Below you can see the list of official names:

 

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The show will be broadcast in a second zone on Rai2, RaiRadio2 and RaiPlay from 12 November.

The historic Sanremo is a very important music festival in Italy and through which new talents and trends in the Italian music industry are highlighted. SanremoGiovani is an important event for the Italian music scene, acting as a prelude to the Sanremo 2025 festival. The participation of young artists is expected to offer fresh ideas and musical proposals.

We are looking forward to this year’s selections by Sanremo’s 2025 organizers!

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Sanremo Giovani: Alessandro Cattelan presenter for 2025.

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Looks like we have news from Italy! Sanremo Giovani now has an official presenter for 2025! So Alessandro Cattelan will be the presenter of Sanremo Giovani for the coming year, as announced by a Sanremo instagram post. The forty-four-year-old was also co-host of Mika and Laura Pausini at Eurovision 2022, where Italy also hosted the contest.

Below you can see the post of the announcement:

 

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In fact, the presenter seems to be thrilled with this assignment from the festival’s artistic director Carlo Conti and did not miss the opportunity to inform their online friends and followers with a post:

On November 12th, the search for the new talents who will take part with their songs at the Festival di Sanremo in February 2025 starts. Then the presenter will also be at the Dopo Festival!

 

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Italy: Mina to host Sanremo 2025!

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After Amadeus announced his retirement from the position of presenter and artistic director of the Sanremo festival. Sanremo 2024 was be the fifth and final festival run by the popular Italian TV presenter.

As he stated back in the days:

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.

During that period, there were many rumors about Amadeus to host and artistically direct the next two editions of the Sanremo Festival, 2025 and 2026. Unfortunately, RAI denied that rumor with the withrawal of Amadeus being official.

The Italan public broadcaster is currently searching for the new presenter of the famous music show. Many names and rumors are heard until today, but recently it became known that the  famous Italian singer Mina is among the candidates to host the next edition of Sanremo.

According to La Verità, in fact, Mina is among the candidates to inherit the artistic direction of Sanremo from the record-breaking host. The there were circulations about the fact that Mina would host back in 2019 and it seems that this is happening again.

 

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Who is Mina?

Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, known as Mina, was born on 25 March 1940. Mina is an Italian singer and actress and she was formed as dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her vocal abilities at three-octave vocal range, soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.

Mina was making history back in the days by selling over 150 million records worldwide, she is the best-selling Italian musical artist. Mina dominated the country’s charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts, and charted at Billboard Hot 100.

What do you think about Mina being the host of the next edition of Sanremo?

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Italy: RAI wants Amadeus back to Sanremo!

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Italy’s public broadcaster RAI wants Amadeus back as artistic director of Sanremo.

Not even a month has passed since the end of this year’s Sanremo festival, and it seems that it is not easy for RAI to let go of the previous artistic director of the festival, who for quite some time had announced that 2024 would be the last year that he would be in this position.

According to Italian media, RAI has resumed negotiations with Amadeus in an attempt to convince him to renew his contract for two more years, i.e. until 2026.

However, later Amadeus himself live from the show Viva Rai 2 put an end to the aforementioned scenarios saying that there was indeed a meeting with the director of public television of Italy, however there was no proposal to continue in the future in the position of artistic director of Sanremo.

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Italy: Will Elettra Lamborghini be the next host of Sanremo and what changes could she bring to the festival?

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Elettra Lamborghini, one of the biggest superstars of Italy, was invited in the radio show Un giorno da pecora and revealed that she will apply for the role of the host of the next edition of Sanremo Festival, after the withdrawal of Amadeus.

Italy: Amadeus won’t host Sanremo 2025| These are the candidates for hosting the Festival!

The granddaughter of Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the talian manufacturer of luxury sports cars Lamborghini, announced that she would like to return to the stage of Sanremo not only as a performer but also as a host. In fact, she would like to host the festival, together with Alessandro Cattelan, one of the names considered as successors of Amadeus, but also familiar to fans, as he was one of the hosts of Eurovision 2022, in Turin, Italy.

As for the changes she would make at the Festival, as a hypothetical new artistic director, Elettra, on the occasion of this year’s results and the uproar created, with the dominance of Geolier, in televoting, considers that the current voting system should be reviewed, while she wishes better results, for songs that will enter the charts in the following weeks, after the festival.

Finally, on the occasion of the political statements on the stage of Sanremo, as happened in the case of Ghali, she believes that space should be given mainly to music.

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Italy: A race for two according to the winner betting odds of Sanremo 2024!

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Tonight is the last night of the 74th Sanremo Festival. After four very successful nights ,not only as far as the rating views are concerned, the music festival is coming to an end with the grand final. The winner has the right to represent Italy at the upcoming 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmö in May.

If he/she does not wish to do so, then the Sanremo organizing committee has the right to choose any other participant, according to its own criteria.

The betting odds

Who is the winner of the betting odds?

The claim of the trophy is expected to be a race for two. In the first place is Angelina Mango with her song “La noia” while in the second place very close to her is Geolier with the song “I p’ me, tu p’ te”.

It seems that it will be a very interesting night with twists and turns.

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The schedule for tonight’s show

Tonight’s fifth and final show of the 74th annual Sanremo festival is the most crucial one as the 30 contestants are going to perform for a third and last time their songs. After the competitive part of the show, the overall score will be announced, out of which the Top 5 songs will emerge and they will compete again in a new round for the trophy. This process also entails a new voting round.

The songs and their perfomers of tonight’s final show of Sanremo are as per below:

  1. Francesco Renga and Nek – “Pazzo di te”
  2. BigMama – “La rabbia non ti basta”
  3. Gazzelle – “Tutto qui”
  4. Dargen D’Amico – “Onda alta”
  5. Il Volo – “Capolavoro”
  6. Loredana Bertè – “Pazza”
  7. Negramaro – “Ricominciamo tutto”
  8. Mahmood – “Tuta gold”
  9. Santi Francesi – “L’amore in bocca”
  10. Diodato – “Ti muovi”
  11. Fiorella Mannoia – “Mariposa”
  12. Alessandra Amoroso – “Fino a qui”
  13. Alfa – “Vai!”
  14. Irama – “Tu no”
  15. Ghali – “Casa mia”
  16. Annalisa – “Sinceramente”
  17. Angelina Mango – “La noia”
  18. Geolier – “I p’ me, tu p’ te”
  19. Emma – “Apnea”
  20. Il Tre – “Fragili”
  21. Ricchi e Poveri – “Ma non tutta la vita”
  22. The Kolors – “Un ragazzo una ragazza”
  23. Maninni – “Spettacolare”
  24. La Sad – “Autodistruttivo”
  25. Mr. Rain – “Due altalene”
  26. Fred De Palma – “Il cielo non ci vuole”
  27. Sangiovanni – “Finiscimi”
  28. Clara – “Diamanti grezzi”
  29. Bnkr44 – “Governo punk”
  30. Rose Villain – “Click Boom!”

In the first phase, the results will be determined 100% by televoting. After that, today’s results will be added to those of the previous 4 days of Sanremo 2024. The sum of all these results will then determine the top-5 (even the 4th day will count, despite the contestants performing covers as opposed to their original songs). (Note that during each show, they reveal a portion of the results from those days just before the end of the current show… and they only show a portion of the provisional overall results either just before the end of the current show or at the start of the next show) – The top 5 will either re-perform their entries or a medley will be broadcast. The winner will then be determined by triple voting: 34% televoting, 33% press, TV and web jury and 33% radio jury.

How can you watch Sanremo 2024?

The Sanremo 2024 Festival can be watched live on TV, from Rai1, but also from the RaiPlay website at 22:45 CET.

So those of you who love Italian music and have patience for endless Italian shows, with many guests, endless dialogues and any other kind of interference that can push the broadcast even after 2:00 a.m, tune in with us for the great celebration of Italian music, out of which big international stars started their careers!

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Italy: The running order of the fourth night of Sanremo 2024!

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The 74th edition of Sanremo Music Festival is slowly reaching its conclusion. Following the first presentation of all the thirty participating songs, along with the artists’ second performances on the second and third night, today it is the fourth night of the Festival.

Undoubtedly the most special night, tonight the thirty participants will be accompanied on stage by a guest from the Italian music scene and will perform a cover of a song, Italian or not.

Meanwhile, just a while ago, the running order for tonight’s show was revealed. Hence, the thirty contestants will perform in the following order:

  1. Sangiovanni & Aitana – Medley of Farfalle and Mariposas by Sangiovanni
  2. Annalisa & La Rappresentante di Lista – Artemia Choir – Sweet dreams (Are made of this) by Eurythmics
  3. Rose Villain & Gianna Nannini – Medley
  4. Gazzelle & Fulminacci – Notte prima degli esami by Antonello Venditti
  5. The Kolors & Umberto Tozzi – Medley of Umberto Tozzi’s hits
  6. Alfa & Roberto Vecchioni – Sogna ragazzo sogna by Roberto Vecchioni
  7. Bnkr44 & Pino D’Angiò – Ma quale idea by Pino D’Angiò
  8. Irama & Riccardo Cocciante – Quando finisce un amore by Riccardo Cocciante
  9. Fiorella Mannoia & Francesco Gabbani – Medley: Che sia benedetta by Fiorella Mannoia and Occidentali’s karma by Francesco Gabbani
  10. Santi Francesi & Skin – Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
  11. Ricchi e Poveri & Paola & Chiara – Medley of Sarà perché ti amo and Mamma Maria by Ricchi e Poveri
  12. Ghali & Ratchopper – Medley titled Italiano vero
  13. Clara & Ivana Spagna – Children’s Choir of the Regio Theatre of Turin – Il cerchio della vita by Ivana Spagna
  14. Loredana Bertè & Venerus – Ragazzo mio by Luigi Tenco (Ivano Fossati version)
  15. Geolier & Guè – Luchè – Gigi D’Alessio – Medley titled Strade
  16. Angelina Mango & Quartet of the Rome Symphony Orchestra – La rondine by Mango
  17. Alessandra Amoroso & BoomDaBash – Medley
  18. Dargen D’Amico & BabelNova Orchestra – Tribute to Ennio Morricone: Modigliani
  19. Mahmood & Tenores di Bitti – Come è profondo il mare by Lucio Dalla
  20. Mr.Rain & Gemelli Diversi – Mary by Gemelli Diversi
  21. Negramaro & Malika Ayane – La canzone del sole by Lucio Battisti
  22. Emma & Bresh – Tribute to Tiziano Ferro
  23. Il Volo & Stef Burns – Who wants to live forever by Queen
  24. Diodato & Jack Savoretti – Amore che vieni, amore che vai by Fabrizio De André
  25. La Sad & Donatella Rettore – Lamette by Donatella Rettore
  26. Il Tre & Fabrizio Moro – Medley of Fabrizio Moro‘s hits
  27. BigMama & Gaia – La Niña – Sissi – Lady Marmalade by Labelle
  28. Maninni & Ermal Meta – Non mi avete fatto niente by Ermal Meta
  29. Fred De Palma & Eiffel 65 – Medley: Eiffel 65
  30. Renga Nek – Medley of their hits

Quarta serata – guests

On the Ariston stage, Amadeus won’t be alone. Each night, he will be joined by different co-hosts. In Terza Serata he will be joined by Lorella Cuccarini, one of the most famous actresses of the Italian television and theatrical scene.

Guests at the Ariston are the protagonists of the series Mameli shown on Italian public television. Arisa will perform in Piazza Colombo (online), while Gigi D’Agostino, famous DJ and producer, will appear on the Costa Smeralda (off Sanremo).

How to Watch Sanremo 2024

You can watch the Sanremo 2024 Festival live on Rai1 and on the RaiPlay website at 20:40 Central European Time. If you are a fan of Italian music, stay tuned to EurovisionFun for the most comprehensive coverage of the 74th Sanremo Festival.

Last year, Italy was proudly represented for the second time by Marco Mengoni, following his victory in Sanremo 2023 with the song “Due Vite.” The track, accumulating 350 points, secured an impressive fourth place in the grand final!

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Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2023 finalists to be announced on December 4!

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The artistic director and presenter of Festival di Sanremo, the well-known Amadeus, attended the Milan Music Week and spoke about the hot topic of the Italian music industry, the big music festival!

In detail, he said that he will announce the finalists of Festival di Sanremo 2023, next Sunday, December 4 on TG1 on 13:30 CET.

He stated that for yet another year, what is of utmost importance in the selection process is the song and not the singer as “the song is what brigs the success to the singer and not vice-versa”.

We remind you that Festival di Sanremo 2023 will take place from February 7 to 11, and apart from the artists that Amadeus will announce next week, the top three artists of Sanremo Giovanni, will win a ticket to participate in Festival di Sanremo in February.

The previous winners of Festival di Sanremo and Italy’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Mahmood & Blanco with the song “Brividi“ and they managed to bring their country in the top 10 of the Grand Final for the second year in a row, finishing 6th:

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Italy: Sanremo 2023 finalists to be released on December 2 and 3?

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We are three months away from the 73rd Sanremo Festival, where once again the winner will have the opportunity to represent their country in the Eurovision Song Contest. In case the Sanremo winner does not wish to participate in Eurovision, then RAI can choose any of the other finalists from the festival to represent them. 25 artists will compete for the Golden Lion, with three coming from Sanremo Giovani, which will take place on December 12.

In the past days, Italian media have been publishing lists of the possible names of artists expected to be seen at Sanremo 2023, and according to Il Messaggero, the official announcement of the artists for this year’s festival is expected to take place on two separate evenings, namely on December 2 and 3.

The announcement will be made by Amadeus, who is expected to reveal more about the festival on November 25th at Milan Music Week.

Last but not least, according to Il Messaggeroit, the number of songs collected for this year far exceeds that of last year.

Sanremo 2023 will take place from 7 to 11 February 2023. The voting rules remain unchanged. You can read the Sanremo regulations in detail here!

Last year’s Sanremo winner was Mahmood and Blanco with “Brividi” which brought Italy their fifth consecutive top 10 spot as they finished 6th with 268 points!

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Eurovision 2022: Artists will enter the stage like in Sanremo Festival!

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Eurovision 2022 will have a great difference compared to what we are used to. The hosts of the contest (Laura Pausini, Mika and Alessandro Cattelan) will call each artist by their name to enter the stage, just like they do in Festival di Sanremo!

Before the postcard of each country, the hosts will call the name of the artist to enter the stage. This is a tradition that is used in the Sanremo Festival. We will also watch a few seconds of the artists entering the stage.
After that, with the help of a drone named Leo, and the addition of special 3D effects we will travel to different beautiful locations of Italy, which RAI chose for the filming of the postcards. Going even further, the artists will see a video that they haven’t watched before and react to it.

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