Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

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Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Country Italy
National selection
Selection processSanremo Music Festival 2020
Selection date(s)8 February 2020
Selected entrantDiodato
Selected song"Fai rumore"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Final resultContest cancelled
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Italy originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The winner of the "Campioni" section of the 70th Sanremo Festival, Diodato with "Fai rumore", would have represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was planned to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. However, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

Prior to the 2020 Contest,

1990 with the song "Insieme: 1992" performed by Toto Cutugno. Italy has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. Their return in 2011 with the song "Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—their highest result, to this point, since their victory in 1990. In the 2019 edition, Mahmood represented Italy with the song "Soldi
", placing second with 472 points.

Between 2011 and 2013, the broadcaster used the Sanremo Music Festival as an artist selection pool where a special committee would select one of the competing artist, independent of the results in the competition, as the Eurovision entrant. The selected entrant was then responsible for selecting the song they would compete with. For 2014, RAI forwent using the Sanremo Music Festival artist lineup and internally selected their entry. Since 2015, the winning artist of the Sanremo Music Festival is rewarded with the opportunity to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, although in 2016 the winner declined and the broadcaster appointed the runner-up as the Italian entrant.

Before Eurovision

Sanremo Music Festival 2020

Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest would be selected from the competing artists at the Sanremo Music Festival 2020. According to the rules of Sanremo 2020, the winner of the festival earns the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, but in case the artist is not available or refuses the offer, the organisers of the event reserve the right to choose another participant via their own criteria. The competition took place between 4 and 8 February 2020 with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival.

Twenty four artists competed in Sanremo 2020. Among the competing artists were former Eurovision Song Contest entrants Raphael Gualazzi and Francesco Gabbani, who represented Italy in 2011 and 2017 respectively. Additionally, Elodie's song was co-written by Mahmood, who represented Italy in 2019.

On 7 February, Bugo and Morgan were disqualified for failing to deliver their performance during the fourth evening.

Artist Song Songwriter(s)
Achille Lauro "Me ne frego" Achille Lauro, Davide Petrella, Daniele Dezi, Daniele Mungai, Matteo Ciceroni, Edoardo Manozzi
Alberto Urso "Il sole ad est" Gerardo Pulli, Piero Romitelli
Anastasio "Rosso di rabbia" Marco Anastasio, Stefano Tartaglini, Marco Azara, Luciano Serventi
Bugo and Morgan "Sincero" Andrea Bonomo, Cristian Bugatti, Gianmario Bertolotti, Marco Castoldi
Diodato "Fai rumore" Antonio Diodato, Edwyn Roberts
Elettra Lamborghini "Musica (e il resto scompare)" Davide Petrella, Michele Canova
Elodie "Andromeda" Dario Faini, Alessandro Mahmoud
Enrico Nigiotti "Baciami adesso" Enrico Nigiotti
Francesco Gabbani "Viceversa" Francesco Gabbani, Luigi De Crescenzo
Giordana Angi "Come mia madre" Giordana Angi, Manuel Finotti
Irene Grandi "Finalmente io" Andrea Righi, Gaetano Curreri, Roberto Casili, Vasco Rossi
Junior Cally "No grazie" Antonio Signore, Jacopo Ettorre, Eugenio Maimone, Leonardo Grillotti, Federico Mercuri, Giordano Cremona
Le Vibrazioni "Dov'è" Davide Simonetta, Francesco Sarcina, Roberto Casalino
Levante "Tikibombom" Claudia Lagona
Marco Masini "Il confronto" Daniele Coro, Federica Camba, Marco Masini
Michele Zarrillo "Nell'estasi o nel fango" Valentina Parisse, Michele Zarrillo
Paolo Jannacci "Voglio parlarti adesso" Andrea Bonomo, Emiliano Bassi, Maurizio Bassi, Paolo Jannacci
Piero Pelù "Gigante" Luca Chiaravalli, Pietro Pelù
Pinguini Tattici Nucleari "Ringo Starr" Riccardo Zanotti
Rancore "Eden" Dario Faini, Tarek Iurcich
Raphael Gualazzi "Carioca" Davide Pavanello, Davide Petrella, Raffaele Gualazzi
Riki
"Lo sappiamo entrambi"
Riccardo Marcuzzo
, Riccardo Scirè
Rita Pavone "Niente (Resilienza 74)" George Merk
Tosca
"Ho amato tutto" Pietro Cantarelli

Final

The 23 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time on 8 February 2020. A combination of public televoting (34%), press jury voting (33%) and expert jury voting (33%) selected the top three to face a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2020 was decided. Diodato was declared the winner of the contest with the song "Fai rumore".

Final – 8 February 2020
Draw[2] Artist Song Percentage Place
1 Michele Zarrillo "Nell'estasi o nel fango" 1.83% 18
2 Elodie "Andromeda" 6.09% 7
3 Enrico Nigiotti "Baciami adesso" 2.63% 19
4 Irene Grandi "Finalmente io" 3.71% 9
5 Alberto Urso "Il sole ad est" 5.34% 14
6 Diodato "Fai rumore" 13.40% 1
7 Marco Masini "Il confronto" 2.78% 15
8 Piero Pelù "Gigante" 6.66% 5
9 Levante "Tikibombom" 3.11% 12
10 Pinguini Tattici Nucleari "Ringo Starr" 8.43% 3
11 Achille Lauro "Me ne frego" 6.25% 8
12 Junior Cally "No grazie" 1.53% 22
13 Raphael Gualazzi "Carioca" 3.18% 11
14
Tosca
"Ho amato tutto" 4.64% 6
15 Francesco Gabbani "Viceversa" 11.64% 2
16 Rita Pavone "Niente (Resilienza 74)" 1.94% 17
17 Le Vibrazioni "Dov'è" 6.32% 4
18 Anastasio "Rosso di rabbia" 2.50% 13
19
Riki
"Lo sappiamo entrambi" 1.26% 23
20 Giordana Angi "Come mia madre" 1.26% 20
21 Paolo Jannacci "Voglio parlarti adesso" 1.60% 16
22 Elettra Lamborghini "Musica (e il resto scompare)" 2.02% 21
23 Rancore "Eden" 2.94% 10
Superfinal – 8 February 2020
Draw Artist Song Expert Jury
(33%)
Press Jury
(33%)
Televote
(34%)
Total Place
1 Diodato "Fai rumore" 36.33% 57.97% 23.93% 39.32% 1
2 Francesco Gabbani "Viceversa" 38.67% 24.16% 38.85% 33.94% 2
3 Pinguini Tattici Nucleari "Ringo Starr" 25.00% 17.87% 37.21% 26.80% 3

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was to take place at

Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. As a member of the "Big 5", Italy automatically qualifies to compete in the final. In addition to their participation in the final, Italy is also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. However, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
.

References

  1. ^ "Italy Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  2. ^ Rossino, Federico (9 February 2019). "Sanremo 2019: la scaletta della quinta serata. Apre Silvestri, ultimo Motta". Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Rotterdam to host Eurovision 2020!". eurovision.tv. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-23.