For lot of us, the Sanremo Music Festival week is one of the most anticipated shows in the ESC Season. It is older than Eurovision itself, and it is where all the best italian singers and composers try to show their best songs of the year to Italy.
And of course it has live orchestra, the best TV ratings of the year (74% share the grand final) and success in the Italian charts for all the contestants.
It is not even a national selection indeed. The winner has the right to represent Italy in Eurovision if he or she wants to do it.
Amadeus were the host, joined by Rosario Fiorello. This will be his last year presenting.
This year we have 30 contestants during the week, in four shows from Tuesday to Friday, and in the Grand Final (Quinta serata) on 10th February. In each show, each artist has been voted in a mix of televote, Radio Jury and Press Jury.
Before the final started, the provisional ranking was topped by Geolier, Angelina Mango and Annalisa.
In the Grand Final there are two rounds of voting.
In a first one, the 100% televote ranked again all the songs, and this is added to the aggregated results of the week.
Then we have the five qualified for the superfinal vote.
In a second round of voting, the songs was ranked again by televote, Radio Jury and Press Jury,,, but this time everyone started without points.
The final result after SIX hours of were:
1- Angelina Mango “La noia”; A pop song with sounds of cumbia. She won both jury’s votes. Angelina accepted be the italian representative in Malmö
2- Geolier “I p’ me, tu p’ te”; Sung in napoletano, even when the rules of the festival says the songs have to be in italian. This is why he has huge support of people from Napoli in televote (60% in this round, against a combined 40% of the other 4 songs). This of course was a little controversial.
3- Annalisa “Sinceramente”; The betting favorite before the contest and a hit after it.
4- Ghali “Casa mia”; where the singer asks an alien if they have wars and problems like ours in their home. This was controversial as well when Ghali asked for “stop the genocide” after he sang.
5- Irama “Tu no”
Between all that weren’t in the superfinal there were some participants in ESC like: Il Volo “Capolavoro”; Diodato “Ti muovi”; Ricchi e Poveri (just two this time) “Ma non tutta la vita”; Emma “Apnea”; and Mahmood with “Tuta Gold”, wich is one of the radio hits in Italy before the Festival
SanRemo is exhausting, but also is so Italian, so Mediterranean, full of great songs, composers and singers. It is wonderful year after year. We think Angelina can do it very good in Malmö this year.
Grazie per la musica Italia