Sanremo Music Festival 2019 Explained

Sanremo Music Festival
Year:2019
Competing:artists
Semi1:5 February 2019
Semi2:6 February 2019
Semi3:7 February 2019
Semi4:8 February 2019
Final:9 February 2019
Presenters:Claudio Baglioni
and Claudio Bisio, Virginia Raffaele
Artistic Director:Claudio Baglioni
Orchestra Leader:Geoff Westley
Venue:Teatro Ariston
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Section1:Big Artists section
Entries1:24
Vote1:Televoting, demoscopic voting, press jury, Expert Jury
Winner1:Mahmood
"Italian: [[Soldi]]|i=unset"

The Sanremo Music Festival 2019 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2019), officially the 69th Italian Song Festival (Italian: 69º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 69th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show was held between 5 February 2019 and 9 February 2019. Claudio Baglioni was the artistic director of the contest, and co-hosted it with Virginia Raffaele and Claudio Bisio.

24 entries competed in one section only, contrarily to previous editions which featured at least two sections. Mahmood emerged as the winner of the festival with his song "Soldi", earning the right to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

Format

Presenters

Singer-songwriter and musician, Claudio Baglioni, who was also the competition's artistic director, hosted the Sanremo Music Festival for the second consecutive year, alongside co-hosts Claudio Bisio and Virginia Raffaele.[1]

Voting

Voting during the five evenings occurred through different combinations of four methods:

The three voting systems were distributed in the following percentages:[2]

In the final part of the fifth evening, a new rank indicating the first three acts -determined by the percentage of votes obtained in this evening's vote and those obtained in previous evenings- was drawn up.

Selections

Ecco Sanremo Giovani

Unlike previous editions, the Newcomers' section was not included in the Festival, but a similar selection was held to decree the two places reserved in the Big Artist section.[3] The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and Area Sanremo. The selection was preceded by four afternoon shows, conducted by Luca Barbarossa and Andrea Perroni, where the artists and their entries were presented.

Standard selection

On October 19, 2018, Rai Commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2019 announced a list of 677 acts, but only 69 artists coming from all Italian regions -excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta- and from abroad were selected in the first phase.[4] [5]

On November 27, 2018, Rai Commission announced the eighteen finalists.[6] [7]

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, RAI Commission - composed by Claudio Baglioni, Claudio Fasulo, Duccio Forzano, Massimo Giuliano, Massimo Martelli and Geoff Westley- identified 6 finalists for the competition among the 225 acts:[8]

Sanremo Giovani 2018

On December 20 and 21, 2018, the twenty four finalists performed their songs at Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, with the show Sanremo Giovani 2018 broadcast on Rai 1 presented by Pippo Baudo and Fabio Rovazzi. The two winners of the nights participated in Sanremo 2019 with a new entry. Einar and Mahmood were selected as the winners.[9] [10]

DrawArtistSongPlaceTelevote results
PercentagePlace
1Fosco17"Dicembre"84.65%9
2Einar"Centomila volte"124.32%1
3Andrea Biagioni"Alba piena"47.75%6
4Symo"Paura di amare"123.02%11
5Fedrix & Flaw"L'impresa"104.67%8
6Ros"Incendio"67.88%4
7Marte Marasco"Nella mia testa"76.13%7
8Wepro"Stop/Replay"93.36%10
9Giulia Mutti"Almeno tre"59.67%3
10Federica Abbate"Finalmente"27.88%4
11Diego Conti"3 gradi"112.81%12
12Deschema"Cristallo"317.85%2
DrawArtistSongPlaceTelevote results
PercentagePlace
1Le Ore"La mia felpa è come me"114.68%8
2Francesca Miola"Amarsi non serve"95.32%6
3Mahmood"Gioventù bruciata"15.03%7
4Angelucci"L'uomo che verrà"77.10%4
5Sisma"Slow motion"56.16%5
6La Rua"Alla mia età si vola"235.08%1
7Nyvinne"Io ti penso"34.40%9
8Cordio"La nostra vita"414.76%2
9La Zero"Nina è brava"83.83%10
10Cannella"Nei miei ricordi"102.93%11
11Saita"Niwrad"121.08%12
12Mescalina"Chiamami amore adesso"69.65%3

Big Artists section

The Big Artists section of the contest reverted to 24 artists, after briefly going up to 22 the previous year. Like the previous year, there were no eliminations during the four weeknight shows. All the artists performed several times and were scored during the week, but every competing artist advanced to the final night.[11] [12]

Competing entries

+Competing songs and artists, showing writers, orchestra conductor and results achieved
Big Artists section[13]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)Orchestra conductorRank[14] Sanremo Music Festival Awards
"Soldi" – Mahmood
(Mahmood, Dardust, Charlie Charles)
Dario "Dardust" Faini1
  • Winner of the "Big Artists" section – Golden Lion[15]
  • "Enzo Jannacci" Award for Best Performance[16]
"I tuoi particolari" – Ultimo
(Niccolò Moriconi)
Diego Calvetti2
  • TIMmusic Award for Most-Streamed Song[17]
"Musica che resta" – Il Volo
(Gianna Nannini, Emilio Munda, Piero Romitelli, Pasquale Mammaro, Antonello Carozza)
Adriano Pennino3
"Cosa ti aspetti da me" – Loredana Bertè
(Gaetano Curreri, Gerardo Pulli, Piero Romitelli)
Massimo Zanotti4
  • "Ariston's Audience" Award
"Abbi cura di me" – Simone Cristicchi
(Simone Cristicchi, Nicola Brunialti, Gabriele Ortenzi)
Roberto Rossi5
  • "Giancarlo Bigazzi" Award for Best Arrangement
  • "Sergio Endrigo" Award for Best Interpretation
"Argentovivo" – Daniele Silvestri[18]
(Daniele Silvestri, Tarek Iurcich, Fabio Rondanini, Manuel Agnelli)
Enrico Gabrielli6
  • Critics' Award "Mia Martini"
  • Press, Radio, TV & Web Award "Lucio Dalla"
  • "Sergio Bardotti" Award for Best Lyrics
"La ragazza con il cuore di latta" – Irama
(Irama, Giuseppe Colonnelli, Andrea Debernardi, Giulio Nenna)
Giulio Nenna7
"Mi sento bene" – Arisa
(Matteo Buzzanca, Lorenzo Vizzini, Rosalba Pippa, Alessandra Flora)
Fabio Gurian8
"Rolls Royce" – Achille Lauro[19]
(Achille Lauro, Davide Petrella, Daniele Deizi, Daniele Mungai, Boss Doms)
Enrico Melozzi9
"Nonno Hollywood" – Enrico Nigiotti
(Enrico Nigiotti)
Federico Megozzi10
  • Lunezia Award for Best Music-letterary Value[20]
"Per un milione" – Boomdabash
(Federica Abbate, Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Rocco Pagliarulo, Angelo Cisternino, Alessandro Merli, Fabio Clemente)
Valeriano Chiaravalle11
"Rose viola" – Ghemon
(Ghemon, Stefano "Zef" Tognini)
Valeriano Chiaravalle12
"Solo una canzone" – Ex-Otago
(Maurizio Carucci, Simone Bertuccini, Olmo Martellacci, Francesco Bacci, Rachid Bouchabla)
Dario "Dardust" Faini13
"Dov'è l'Italia" – Motta
(Francesco Motta)
Fabio Gurian14
  • Best Duet Performance Award[21]
"Aspetto che torni" – Francesco Renga
(Bungaro, Francesco Renga, Cesare Chiodo, Rakele, Giacomo Runco)
Roberto Rossi15
"L'ultimo ostacolo" – Paola Turci
(Paola Turci, Luca Chiaravalli, Stefano Marletta, Edwyn Roberts)
Massimo Zanotti16
"L'amore è una dittatura" – The Zen Circus
(Andrea Appino, Gian Paolo Cuccuru, Massimiliano Schiavelli)
Carlo Carcano17
"Senza farlo apposta" – Federica Carta & Shade
(Shade, Jacopo Ettore, Jaro)
Pino Perris18
"Mi farò trovare pronto" – Nek
(Filippo Neviani, Luca Chiaravalli, Paolo Antonacci)
Massimo Zanotti19
"I ragazzi stanno bene" – Negrita
(Paolo Bruni, Cesare Petricich, Enrico Salvi, Lorenzo Cilembrini, Francesco Barbacci, Guglielmo Ridolfo Gagliano)
Valeriano Chiaravalle20
"Un po' come la vita" – Patty Pravo feat. Briga
(Marco Rettani, Diego Calvetti, Zibba, Briga, Luca Lenori)
Diego Calvetti21
"Le nostre anime di notte" – Anna Tatangelo
(Lorenzo Vizzini)
Adriano Pennino22
"Parole nuove" – Einar
(Antonio Maiello, Enrico Palmosi, Nicola Marotta)
Pino Perris23
"Un'altra luce" – Nino D'Angelo & Livio Cori
(Livio Cori, Nino D'Angelo, Francesco Fogliano, Massimiliano Dagani, Mario Fracchiolla)
Fabio Gurian24

Shows

First evening

The 24 Big Artists each performed their song for the first time.

ArtistDrawSongVotes[22] Place
Public
(weight 40%)
Demoscopic Jury
(weight 30%)
Press Jury
(weight 30%)
Average
Francesco Renga1"Aspetto che torni"3.74%8203.47%11
Nino D'Angelo & Livio Cori2"Un'altra luce"2.51%20211.94%22
Nek3"Mi farò trovare pronto"4.04%5164.11%10
The Zen Circus4"L'amore è una dittatura"2.28%17112.98%16
Il Volo5"Musica che resta"17.21%11310.72%2
Loredana Bertè6"Cosa ti aspetti da me"3.92%355.85%4
Daniele Silvestri7"Argentovivo"2.90%635.30%5
Federica Carta & Shade8"Senza farlo apposta"5.27%12243.45%12
Ultimo9"I tuoi particolari"17.99%2611.53%1
Paola Turci10"L'ultimo ostacolo"2.57%11143.15%14
Motta11"Dov'è l'Italia"1.57%2292.63%19
Boomdabash12"Per un milione"4.80%10124.55%9
Patty Pravo feat. Briga13"Un po' come la vita"3.31%16192.69%18
Simone Cristicchi14"Abbi cura di me"4.06%426.43%3
Achille Lauro15"Rolls Royce"2.74%2473.14%15
Arisa16"Mi sento bene"2.07%944.69%7
Negrita17"I ragazzi stanno bene"2.09%14152.58%20
Ghemon18"Rose viola"1.81%23181.75%23
Einar19"Parole nuove"2.49%18231.96%21
Ex-Otago20"Solo una canzone"3.95%21162.82%17
Anna Tatangelo21"Le nostre anime di notte"1.20%15221.57%24
Irama22"La ragazza con il cuore di latta"4.52%794.91%6
Enrico Nigiotti23"Nonno Hollywood"1.22%1383.22%13
Mahmood24"Soldi"1.74%1914.55%8

Second evening

The first twelve Big Artists each performed their song again.

ArtistDrawSongVotesPlace
Public
(weight 40%)
Demoscopic Jury
(weight 30%)
Press Jury
(weight 30%)
Average
Achille Lauro1"Rolls Royce"7.13%1247.55%5
Einar2"Parole nuove"6.57%8114.96%10
Il Volo3"Musica che resta"38.32%1821.51%1
Arisa4"Mi sento bene"5.83%5112.78%2
Nek5"Mi farò trovare pronto"5.88%496.56%6
Daniele Silvestri6"Argentovivo"5.40%3210.95%4
Ex-Otago7"Solo una canzone"5.78%1065.00%9
Ghemon8"Rose viola"3.42%1153.92%11
Loredana Bertè9"Cosa ti aspetti da me"8.12%2312.35%3
Paola Turci10"L'ultimo ostacolo"3.21%675.04%8
Negrita11"I ragazzi stanno bene"3.06%9103.79%12
Federica Carta & Shade12"Senza farlo apposta"7.29%7125.58%7

Third evening

The other twelve Big Artists each performed their song for the second time.

ArtistDrawSongVotesPlace
Public
(weight 40%)
Demoscopic Jury
(weight 30%)
Press Jury
(weight 30%)
Average
Mahmood1"Soldi"4.32%828.94%4
Enrico Nigiotti2"Nonno Hollywood"8.02%568.65%5
Anna Tatangelo3"Le nostre anime di notte"2.85%794.15%10
Ultimo4"I tuoi particolari"27.92%2319.90%1
Francesco Renga5"Aspetto che torni"6.83%487.29%7
Irama6"La ragazza con il cuore di latta"14.62%3412.32%3
Patty Pravo feat. Briga7"Un po' come la vita"3.77%10113.58%11
Simone Cristicchi8"Abbi cura di me"9.69%1113.99%2
Boomdabash9"Per un milione"11.42%6108.29%6
Motta10"Dov'è l'Italia"2.64%1254.66%9
The Zen Circus11"L'amore è un dittatura"3.73%975.11%8
Nino D'Angelo & Livio Cori12"Un'altra luce"4.20%11123.13%12

Fourth evening

The 24 Big Artists performed their songs in a duet with a guest artist.

Artist - Guest[23] DrawSongVotesPlace
Public
(weight 50%)
Experts Jury
(weight 20%)
Press Jury
(weight 30%)
Average
Federica Carta & Shade - Cristina D'Avena1"Senza farlo apposta"721202,4016
Motta - Nada2"Dov'è l'Italia"233133,899
Irama - Noemi3"La ragazza con il cuore di latta"413115,617
Patty Pravo feat. Briga - Giovanni Caccamo4"Un po' come la vita"1515231,4221
Negrita - Enrico Ruggeri and Roy Paci5"I ragazzi stanno bene"2011191,8619
Il Volo - Alessandro Quarta6"Musica che resta"121912,471
Arisa - Tony Hadley and Kataklò7"Mi sento bene"9815,418
Mahmood - Gué Pequeno7"Soldi"13138,303
Ghemon - Diodato and Calibro 359"Rose viola"19583,8210
Francesco Renga - Bungaro, Eleonora Abbagnato
and Friedemann Vogel
10"Aspetto che torni"818182,1017
Ultimo - Fabrizio Moro11"I tuoi particolari"36710,292
Nek - Neri Marcorè12"Mi farò trovare pronto"1315201,6020
Boomdabash - Rocco Hunt and Musici Cantori di Milano13"Per un milione"69163,7611
The Zen Circus - Brunori Sas14"L'amore è una dittatura"1410142,6114
Paola Turci - Giuseppe Fiorello15"L'ultimo ostacolo"2212171,8718
Anna Tatangelo - Syria16"Le nostre anime di notte"2418151,2922
Ex-Otago - Jack Savoretti17"Solo una canzone"176123,0513
Enrico Nigiotti - Paolo Jannacci and Massimo Ottoni18"Nonno Hollywood"1018102,4915
Loredana Bertè - Irene Grandi19"Cosa ti aspetti da me"1467,084
Daniele Silvestri - Manuel Agnelli20"Argentovivo"21226,356
Einar - Biondo and Sergio Sylvestre21"Parole nuove"1621231,1923
Simone Cristicchi - Ermal Meta22"Abbi cura di me"51346,555
Nino D'Angelo & Livio Cori - Sottotono23"Un'altra luce"1821221,1824
Achille Lauro - Morgan24"Rolls Royce"111563,4112

Fifth evening

The 24 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time. The top three faced a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2019 was decided.

ArtistDraw[24] SongVotesPlace
Public
(weight 50%)
Experts Jury
(weight 20%)
Press Jury
(weight 30%)
Average
Daniele Silvestri1"Argentovivo"9235,876
Anna Tatangelo2"Le nostre anime di notte"1818181,0822
Ghemon3"Rose viola"17593,1612
Negrita4"I ragazzi stanno bene"2110181,5520
Ultimo5"I tuoi particolari"17612,922
Nek6"Mi farò trovare pronto"1417201,4919
Loredana Bertè7"Cosa ti aspetti da me"36110,354
Francesco Renga8"Aspetto che torni"1318171,6515
Mahmood9"Soldi"71213,301
Ex-Otago10"Sola una canzone"168112,5813
Il Volo11"Musica che resta"221139,483
Paola Turci12"L'ultimo ostacolo"159162,1116
The Zen Circus13"L'amore è una dittatura"1912121,7517
Patty Pravo ft. Briga14"Un po' come la vita"2218210,8521
Arisa15"Mi sento bene"12344,958
Irama16"La ragazza con il cuore di latta"412105,607
Achille Lauro17"Rolls Royce"81274,099
Nino D'Angelo & Livio Cori18"Un'altra luce"2021230,7224
Federica Carta & Shade19 "Senza farlo apposta"1121211,5218
Simone Cristicchi20"Abbi cura di me"51246,015
Enrico Nigiotti21"Nonno Hollywood"61283,5310
Boomdabash22"Per un milione"1011152,5511
Einar23"Parole nuove"2321230,6823
Motta24"Dov'è l'Italia"244142,2314

Superfinal

ArtistDrawSongVotesPlace
Jury
(weight 50%)
Public
(weight 50%)
Average
Ultimo1"I tuoi particolari"24.7%48.80%35.6%2nd
Il Volo2"Musica che resta"11.6%30.26%25.5%3rd
Mahmood3"Soldi"63.7%20.95%38.9%1st

Special guests

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2019 were:[25] [26]

Related shows

Prima Festival

Simone Montedoro e Anna Ferzetti hosted PrimaFestival, a side-show that aired on Rai 1 immediately after TG1. The show featured details, curiosities and news relating to Sanremo Music Festival 2019.

Dopo Festival

Rocco Papaleo, with the participation of Anna Foglietta and Melissa Greta Marchetto and a group of journalists of Italian press, hosted Dopofestival - The Dark Side of Sanremo a talk show that aired on Rai 1 immediately after Sanremo Music Festival. The show featured comments about the Festival as well as interviews to the singers competing in the song contest.

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

Rai 1, Rai Premium and Rai Radio 2 are the official broadcasters of the festival in Italy. The show is also available in streaming via website on Rai Play.

Ratings Sanremo Music Festival 2019

The audience is referred to the one of Rai 1.

Live ShowTimeslot (UTC+1)Date1st time
(9.00pm - 0.00am)
2nd time
(0.00am - 1.00am)
Overall audience
ViewersShare (%)ViewersShare (%)ViewersShare (%)
1st9:00 pmFebruary 512,282,00049.45,120,00050.110,086,00049.5
2ndFebruary 610,959,00046.35,260,00052.09,144,00047.3
3rdFebruary 710,851,00046.45,099,00049.09,409,00046.7
4thFebruary 811,170,00045.56,215,00048.69,552,00046.1
5thFebruary 912,129,00053.18,394,00065.210,622,00056.5

Ratings Prima Festival 2019

EpisodeTimeslot (UTC+1)DateViewersShare (%)
text-align:center" 18:30 pmFebruary 58,012,00029.9
2February 610,805,00038.8
3February 79,574,00035.2
4February 89,941,00037.0
5February 910,691,00043.5

Ratings Dopo Festival 2019

EpisodeTimeslot (UTC+1)DateViewersShare (%)
text-align:center" 11:00 amFebruary 61,663,00036.0
2February 71,802,00037.4
3February 81,650,00032.5
4February 92,025,00035.0
5February 103,305,00051.0

International broadcast

The international television service Rai Italia broadcast the competition in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. The contest was also streamed via the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.

See also

References

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