During an interview at Milan Music week with FQ Magazine Rai’s Carlo Conti revealed that the Big Artists competing at Sanremo 2025 will be revealed next month.
1st of December
The artists being revealed on the 1st make up the Big Artists that automatically qualify to the final week of Sanremo. They will be joined by the two winners of Sanremo Giovani for the final week of shows. Conti also revealed that the previously announced 24 entries competing will likely be increased due to the quality of songs, with Conti jovially stating that the number of songs cant increase to as much as 40. He also stated that any song submitted this year that does not make it to the contest may still be able to resubmit the same song again for the following year. It was also revealed that Eurovision 2022, and Sanremo Giovani 2024 host Alessandro Cattelan will join the the main event as the co-host of the final night.
The announcement will take place at 13:30 CET on Rai’s Tg1.
What is Sanremo?
Italy’s renowned Festival di Sanremo is, in many ways, the original Eurovision–the contest we know and love was modeled after it, after all! First broadcast in 1951, it is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world. Sanremo was developed as a way to revitalize the city of Sanremo’s economy and reputation after the Second World War, and has since split into two smaller contests: the “Big Artists” section, whose winner gets first refusal to represent Italy in Eurovision, and the “Newcomers” section, first included in 1984. Scores are determined through public voting and two groups of juries, and the festival takes place across five nights.
Italy’s Eurovision Journey
Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since the very beginning and have always been considered a powerhouse in the contest. The country has won the contest on three occasions in 1964, 1990 and 2021. Italy withdrew after 1997, returning again in 2011 with Raphael Gualazzi who sang ‘Madness Of Love’. Raphael placed second in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest after scoring 189 points.
Italy’s most recent entry in 2024 was “La Noia” by Angelina Mango. At the close of voting, Italy scored a total of 268 points in the Eurovision 2024 Grand Final, placing 7th. Of these, 164 points came from the juries, whilst the remaining 104 points came from the televote.
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Source: FQ Magazine
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