The 70th edition of the Italian Music Festival will take place today at Sanremo’s Ariston Theatre. 23 performers will compete at tonight’s final to get the big prize and the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.
Once again, the Italian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest will be selected from Sanremo. Artists and their labels have already confirmed RAI whether they want to compete at the European contest. It has been reported that 16 of the competing contestants have submitted the form confirming their willingness before the first night, as stated by the rules. If the winner is among the entrants that haven’t submitted the form, RAI will internally select the Italian entry from the other participants taking part. The full list of participants is available below:
- Irene Grandi – “Finalmente io“
- Marco Masini – “Il confronto”
- Rita Pavone – “Niente (Resilienza 74)”
- Achille Lauro – “Me ne frego”
- Diodato – “Fai rumore”
- Le Vibrazioni – “Dov’è”
- Anastasio – “Rosso di rabbia”
- Elodie – “Andromeda”
Bugo e Morgan – “Sincero”- Alberto Urso – “Il sole a est”
- Riki – “Lo sappiamo entrambi”
- Raphael Gualazzi – “Carioca”
- Piero Pelù – “Gigante“
- Elettra Lamborghini – “Musica (E il resto scompare)”
- Enrico Nigiotti – “Baciami adesso“
- Levante – “Tiki Bom Bom”
- I pinguini tattici nucleari – “Ringo Starr”
- Tosca – “Ho Amato Tutto”
- Francesco Gabbani – “Viceversa“
- Paolo Jannacci – “Voglio parlarti adesso”
- Rancore – “Eden“
- Junior Cally – “No grazie”
- Giordana Angi – “Come mia madre“
- Michele Zarrillo – “Nell’estasi O Nel Fango“
Tonight 23 artists will perform their entries for the last time. A combination of the televote (34%), the press jury (33%) and the demoscopic jury (33%) will decide the outcome. As usual, the three superfinalists will be decided after adding up the votes of all shows. After Friday’s performance of Bugo and Morgan, in which they claimed a boycott against them, they’re no longer taking part in the show.
At the superfinal, the winner of Sanremo 2020 will be decided through the same voting combination, but, this time, the points will be reset. So, only the points of the superfinal will help choose the final winning entry.
Don’t forget to watch today’s show at 20.40 CET on our ESCplus Multi-Window live feed.
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