Today began week long Italian music festival Festival di Sanremo 2025. 29 acts trying their luck to win the music festival and potentially represent Italy at Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
Show began of tribute of Ezio Bosso’s Following a Bird, rearranged by the orchestra, and with his words: “Music, like life, is made together.”
Show was hosted by Carlo Costi and co-hosted for night 1 was Antonella Clerici and Gerry Scotti.
Tonight’s running order was:
- Gaia – Chiamo io chiami tu
- Francesco Gabbani – Viva la vita
- Rkomi – Il ritmo delle cose
- Noemi – Se ti innamori muori
- Irama – Lentamente
- Coma_Cose – Cuoricini
- Simone Cristicchi – Quando sarai piccola
- Marcella Bella – Pelle diamante
- Achille Lauro – Incoscienti Giovani
- Giorgia – La cura per me
- Willie Peyote – Grazie ma no grazie
- Rose Villain – Fuorilegge
- Olly – Balorda nostalgia
- Elodie – Dimenticarsi alle 7
- Shablo ft. Guè, Joshua e Tormento – La mia parola
- Massimo Ranieri – Tra le mani un cuore
- Tony Effe – Damme ‘na mano
- Serena Brancale – Anema e core
- Brunori SAS – L’albero delle noci
- Modà – Non ti dimentico
- Clara – Febbre
- Lucio Corsi – Volevo essere un duro
- Fedez – Battito
- Bresh – La tana del granchio
- Sarah Toscano – Amarcord
- Joan Thiele – Eco
- Rocco Hunt – Mille vot’ ancora
- Francesca Michielin – Fango in paradiso
- The Kolors – Tu con chi fai l’amore?
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Top 5 of the night in random order was:
Tomorrow we continue with night 2 and this is how you can watch, when its on and how the system works:
Format
Festival di Sanremo 2025 – All Known Details
- The festival will last for 5 nights, starting on the 11th of February 2025 (Tuesday) and ending on the 15th of February 2025 (Saturday)
- As always, 2 categories of artists will take part in the festival:
- “Categoria Campioni” – The “Champions” (Big Artists) Category: will feature at least 25 artists.
- “Categoria Nuove Proposte” – The “Newcomers” Category: will feature 4 finalists from “Sanremo Giovani 2024″
- Night 1:
- All the big artists (“Champions”) will perform their songs.
- The results will be based on web and TV journalists
- At the end of the night, the top 5 will be announced in a random order.
- Night 2:
- 15 of the big artists (“Champions”) will perform their songs
- The results will be based on 50% public votes and 50% radio
- The top 5 will be announced in random order.
- In addition, 2 of the 4 “Newcomers” will perform their songs. One of them will qualify for the Newcomers” final.
- Night 3:
- The remaining 15 artists will perform their songs
- The results will be based on 50% public votes and 50% radio
- The top 5 will be announced in random order.
- In addition, 2 of the 4 “Newcomers” will perform their songs. One of them will qualify for the Newcomers” final.
- Night 4:
- The artists will perform covers and/or duets.
- The covered songs will be either Italian or international (as well as duet partners).
- The results will be based on a 34% public vote, 33% professional jury vote, and a 33% radio jury vote
- The night winner will be announced, but the results won’t impact the festival’s final results.
- Furthermore, the 2 “Newcomers” finalists will perform their songs. One of them will be the category winner, based on a 34% public vote, a 33% professional jury vote, and a 33% radio jury vote. Check out the list of duets: below.
- Night 5:
- All participants will perform their songs.
- The results will be based on the average ranking of the first 3 nights and the final night (based on 100% public votes)
- The Top 5 artists (based on the combined ranking of nights 1-3 and night 5, based on jury and public) will advance to the super final.
- Super-finalists will perform their songs again.
- The results of the super-final will be based on a 34% public vote, a 33% professional jury vote, and a 33% radio jury vote.
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