| Sanremo Music Festival 2024 | |
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| Sanremo si ama | |
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| Dates | |
| Semi-final 1 | 6 February 2024 |
| Semi-final 2 | 7 February 2024 |
| Semi-final 3 | 8 February 2024 |
| Semi-final 4 | 9 February 2024 |
| Final | 10 February 2024 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Teatro Ariston (Sanremo, Liguria, Italy) |
| Presenter(s) | Amadeus and
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| Musical director | Leonardo De Amicis[1] |
| Artistic director | Amadeus |
| Host broadcaster | |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Televote, press jury and radio jury |
| Big Artists section | |
| Number of entries | 30 |
The Sanremo Music Festival 2024 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2024), officially the 74th Italian Song Festival (74º Festival della canzone italiana), is set to be the 74th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show will be held between 6 and 10 February 2024, and will be presented for the fifth and final time in a row by Amadeus, who also serves as the artistic director for the competition.[2] As has been the case since 2015, the winner of the festival will earn the right of first refusal to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Format
The 2024 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, organised by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition will be Amadeus, for the fifth and final consecutive year.[3][4]
Presenters
On 24 March 2022, one month after the final of the 2022 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 73rd and 74th editions of the Sanremo Music Festival,[5][6] announcing in June 2023 that this will be his last time hosting the event. Each of the nights of the festival will be co-hosted, respectively, by: Marco Mengoni, the winner of the previous edition, who will additionally perform during the show; Giorgia; Teresa Mannino; Lorella Cuccarini; and Rosario Fiorello, who was originally meant to be a guest on that night.[7][8][9] The competing entries on each of the second and third nights will also be introduced by the non-competing artists alongside the hosts.[10]
In addition, PrimaFestival, the introductory segment aired before each of the nights, will be hosted by Paola & Chiara, Mattia Stanga and Daniele Cabras.[11]
Format changes
On 19 June 2023, Amadeus announced to have proposed changes in the rules of the contest, as well as in the organisation of the traditional five evening shows.[12] The complete rules were published on 10 July.
Changes will affect the number of the entries (increased from 28 to 30), the arrangement of the five shows (with the first night being organised as the third night of previous editions), the cover performance show (which will be opened to songs from any time and place) and the jury system (as explained below).[10][13]
Voting
Voting will again occur through the combination of three methods:
- Public televoting, carried out via landline, mobile phone, the contest's official mobile app, and online voting.
- Jury of the press room, TV and web.
- Jury of the radio, detached from the second one and replacing the demoscopic jury from previous editions.
Their voting will be articulated as follows:
- First night: all of the entrants will be judged by the jury of the press room, TV and web.
- Second night: half of the entrants will be judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the jury of the radio.
- Third night: the other half of the entrants will be judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the jury of the radio.
- Fourth night: the covers will be judged through a split system by means of the televoting (34%) and the two juries (33% each). The results obtained on each evening that far will then be combined.
- Fifth night: as in previous years, the entrants will be judged by televoting alone, to be added up to the results obtained that far; ultimately, a final voting round (again a sum of televoting and the two juries) will be held among the top five, which will determine the winner.
For the first time, only the top entries in each night's partial ranking will be revealed (the top ten on the first and fourth nights, the top five on the second and third nights), and only the complete ranking of the final will be made public.[13][14]
Selections
Sanremo Giovani 2023
For the third time in a row, the Newcomers' section will not be included in the Festival, with the Sanremo Giovani selection directly decreeing three places reserved in the Big Artists' section. The twelve artists competing in the format were selected through two separate contests: standard section and Area Sanremo.[15]
Standard selection
Online submissions for the standard selection were open between 15 June and 19 October 2023. On 27 October 2023, it was announced that 564 acts had applied, 49 of which were selected at a listening session by a musical committee – composed of Federica Lentini, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo De Amicis, and chaired by the artistic director (Amadeus) – to proceed to a live audition in Rome on 10 November; there, a total of eight Sanremo Giovani finalists were selected.[15][16][17][18] Their songs were released on 18 November 2023.[19]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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| Bnkr44 | "Effetti speciali" |
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| Clara | "Boulevard" |
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| Grenbaud | "Mama" | Simone Buratti |
| Jacopo Sol | "Cose che non sai" |
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| Lor3n | "Fiore d'inverno" | Lorenzo Iavagnilio |
| Santi Francesi | "Occhi tristi" |
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| Tancredi | "Perle" |
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| Vale LP | "Stronza" |
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Area Sanremo 2023
The rules of the Area Sanremo selection, organised by the Municipality of Sanremo alongside the Sanremo Symphonic Orchestra Foundation, were released on 10 October 2023, with the opening of an online application platform lasting until 30 October 2023. Artists aged between 16 and 30 were eligible to compete. The 772 submitting acts were auditioned by a musical committee – composed of Alessio De Stefani, Lavinia Iannarilli, Paolo Biamonte and Sergio Rubino, and chaired by the artistic director (Amadeus) – between 4 and 24 November 2023 at the Sanremo Palafiori, with around fifty qualifiers from this phase attending a final round on 25 and 26 November 2023; there, twenty winners were proclaimed among whom a total of four Sanremo Giovani finalists were selected.[20][21][22][23][24] Their songs were released on 1 December 2023.[25]
| Artist | Song | Songwriters |
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| Dipinto | "Criminali" |
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| Fellow | "Alieno" |
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| Nausica | "Favole" |
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| Omini | "Mare forza 9oi" |
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Final
The final of Sanremo Giovani was held on 19 December 2023 at the Sanremo Casino Theatre, presented by Amadeus and broadcast on Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2, as well as on the broadcaster's online platform RaiPlay.[16][27][28][29] The ranking was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from the musical committee and the artistic director (Amadeus); the resulting top three artists were selected to compete in the Big Artists' section.[15][27][30][31]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grenbaud | "Mama" | Not selected |
| 2 | Clara | "Boulevard" | Winner |
| 3 | Bnkr44 | "Effetti speciali" | Selected |
| 4 | Lor3n | "Fiore d'inverno" | Not selected |
| 5 | Nausica | "Favole" | Not selected |
| 6 | Dipinto | "Criminali" | Not selected |
| 7 | Santi Francesi | "Occhi tristi" | Selected |
| 8 | Tancredi | "Perle" | Not selected |
| 9 | Vale LP | "Stronza" | Not selected |
| 10 | Fellow | "Alieno" | Not selected |
| 11 | Omini | "Mare forza 9oi" | Not selected |
| 12 | Jacopo Sol | "Cose che non sai" | Not selected |
Competing entries
For the third year in a row, the Newcomers' section of the contest will be merged into the traditional Big Artists section, which will see the participation of 30 artists. 27 were selected by the artistic director among established artists, both by direct invitation and from over 400 submissions received by the deadline of 27 November 2023, and were announced on 3 December 2023; the remaining three artists qualified from Sanremo Giovani on 19 December 2023 and will compete with a new song.[10][11][13][30][32][33] All the titles were announced on that day,[34][35][36] with the lyrics set to be published on 30 January 2024.[37] By tradition, the full entries will only be premiered during the festival, but the press will be able to listen to them in advance in mid-January.[38]
| Artist(s) | Song | Songwriter(s) | Conductor | Rank | Awards |
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| Alessandra Amoroso | "Fino a qui" |
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TBA | TBD | |
| Alfa | "Vai!" |
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| Angelina Mango | "La noia" |
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| Annalisa | "Sinceramente" |
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| BigMama | "La rabbia non ti basta" | Marianna Mammone | |||
| Bnkr44 | "Governo punk" |
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| Clara | "Diamanti grezzi" |
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| Dargen D'Amico | "Onda alta" |
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| Diodato | "Ti muovi" | Antonio Diodato | |||
| Emma | "Apnea" |
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| Fiorella Mannoia | "Mariposa" |
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| Francesco Renga and Nek | "Pazzo di te" |
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| Fred De Palma | "Il cielo non ci vuole" |
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| Gazzelle | "Tutto qui" |
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| Geolier | "I p' me, tu p' te" |
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| Ghali | "Casa mia" |
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| Il Tre | "Fragili" |
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| Il Volo | "Capolavoro" |
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| Irama | "Tu no" | Filippo Maria Fanti | |||
| La Sad | "Autodistruttivo" |
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| Loredana Bertè | "Pazza" |
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| Mahmood | "Tuta gold" |
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| Maninni | "Spettacolare" |
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| Mr. Rain | "Due altalene" |
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| Negramaro | "Ricominciamo tutto" | Giuliano Sangiorgi | |||
| Ricchi e Poveri | "Ma non tutta la vita" |
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| Rose Villain | "Click Boom!" |
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| Sangiovanni | "Finiscimi" |
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| Santi Francesi | "L'amore in bocca" |
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| The Kolors | "Un ragazzo una ragazza" |
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Shows
First night
All of the competing artists will perform their songs.[10]
Second night
Fifteen of the competing artists will perform their songs.[10]
Third night
The remaining fifteen competing artists will perform their songs.[10]
Fourth night
The artists will each perform a cover of an Italian or international song from the past, duetting with a guest performer.[10]
Fifth night
All of the artists will perform their songs one final time, with the top five reprising their performances before moving on to the final round of voting.[10]
Special guests and other acts
Special guests will include:[39][40][41][42]
- first night – Lazza and Tedua;
- second night – Giovanni Allevi, Bob Sinclar and Rosa Chemical;
- third night – Bresh and Paola & Chiara;
- fourth night – Arisa and Gigi D'Agostino;
- fifth night – Roberto Bolle, Tananai and Tedua.
Following the death of Toto Cutugno on 22 August 2023, Amadeus announced his intentions to include a segment paying homage to the artist's record 15 participations in the festival.[43]
Broadcast and ratings
Local broadcast
Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 will bring the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings will also be streamed online via the broadcaster's official online platform RaiPlay, which makes it available in all member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, since the festival, serving as the Italian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, is broadcast on the Eurovision network.
References
- ↑ "Sanremo, De Amicis direttore musicale anche nel 2024" [Sanremo, De Amicis again musical director in 2024] (in Italian). ANSA. 30 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ↑ Mariani, Cristiana (7 July 2023). "Festival di Sanremo 2024, ecco le date ufficiali" [Sanremo Festival 2024, here are the official dates]. Quotidiano Nazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 7 July 2023.
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- ↑ Puntel, Oscar (10 October 2023). "Aperte le iscrizioni di Area Sanremo. Si cercano nuovi talenti per il festival 2024" [Subscriptions open for Area Sanremo. Looking for new talents for the 2024 festival]. Rai News (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ↑ "Calendario Audizioni" [Audition Calendar]. Area Sanremo (in Italian). Sanremo Symphonic Orchestra Foundation. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ↑ Zampedroni, Pietro (4 November 2023). "Al via nel weekend Area Sanremo 2023: 772 artisti in gara da tutta Italia sognando il palco dell'Ariston" [This weekend Area Sanremo 2023 kicks off: 772 competing artists from all over Italy dreaming of the Ariston stage]. Sanremonews.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
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- 1 2 Granger, Anthony (8 July 2023). "Italy: Sanremo 2024 & Sanremo Giovani 2023 Dates Announced". Eurovoix. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
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