Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 would be selected from the competing artists at the Sanremo Music Festival 2021. According to the rules of Sanremo 2021, 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 2 and 6 March 2021 with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival.

Twenty-six artists competed in Sanremo 2021. Among the competing artists were former Eurovision Song Contest entrants Francesca Michielin and Ermal Meta, who represented Italy in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Additionally, Noemi and Francesca Michielin and Fedez's songs were co-written by Mahmood, who represented Italy in 2019. The performers were:^[3][4]

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Aiello	"Ora"	Antonio Aiello
Annalisa	"Dieci"	Annalisa Scarrone, Davide Simonetta, Paolo Antonacci, Jacopo D'Amico
Arisa	"Potevi fare di più"	Gigi D'Alessio
Bugo	"E invece sì"	Cristian Bugatti, Simone Bertolotti, Andrea Bonomo
Colapesce Dimartino	"Musica leggerissima"	Lorenzo Urciullo, Antonio Di Martino
Coma_Cose	"Fiamme negli occhi"	Fausto Zanardelli, Francesca Mesiano, Fabio Dalè, Carlo Frigerio
Ermal Meta	"Un milione di cose da dirti"	Ermal Meta, Roberto Cardelli
Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo	"Bianca luce nera"	Luigi De Crescenzo, Mirco Mariani, Elisabetta Sgarbi
Fasma	"Parlami"	Tiberio Fazioli, Luigi Zammarano
Francesca Michielin and Fedez	"Chiamami per nome"	Francesca Michielin, Federico Lucia, Alessandro Mahmoud, Davide Simonetta, Alessandro Raina, Jacopo D'Amico
Francesco Renga	"Quando trovo te"	Roberto Casalino, Francesco Renga, Dario Faini
Fulminacci	"Santa Marinella"	Filippo Uttinacci
Gaia	"Cuore amaro"	Gaia Gozzi, Jacopo Ettorre, Daniele Dezi, Giorgio Spedicato
Ghemon	"Momento perfetto"	Giovanni Picariello, Simone Privitera, Giuseppe Seccia, Daniele Raciti
Gio Evan	"Arnica"	Giovanni Giancaspro, Francesco Cattiti
Irama	"La genesi del tuo colore"	Filippo Maria Fanti, Giulio Nenna, Dario Faini
La Rappresentante di Lista	"Amare"	Veronica Lucchesi, Dario Mangiaracina, Dario Faini, Roberto Cammarata
Lo Stato Sociale	"Combat Pop"	Lodovico Guenzi, Alberto Cazzola, Francesco Draicchio, Matteo Romagnoli, Alberto Guidetti, Enrico Roberto, Jacopo Ettorre
Madame	"Voce"	Francesca Calearo, Dario Faini, Enrico "Estremo" Botta
Malika Ayane	"Ti piaci così"	Malika Ayane, Luigi De Crescenzo, Alessandra Flora, Rocco Rampino
Måneskin	"Zitti e buoni"	Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Victoria De Angelis
Max Gazzè	"Il farmacista"	Max Gazzè, Francesco Gazzè, Francesco De Beneditti
Noemi	"Glicine"	Tattroli, Ginevra Lubrano, Francesco Fugazza, Dario Faini
Orietta Berti	"Quando ti sei innamorato"	Ciro Esposito, Francesco Boccia, Marco Rettani
Random	"Torno a te"	Emanuele Caso, Samuel Balice
Willie Peyote	"Mai dire mai (La locura)"	Guglielmo Bruno, Daniel Bestonzo, Carlo Cavalieri D'Oro, Giuseppe Petrelli

The 26 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time on 6 March 2021. A combination of public televoting (25%), press jury voting (25%), demoscopic jury voting (25%) and Sanremo Orchestra (25%) selected the top three to face a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2021 was decided by a combination of public televoting (34%), demoscopic jury voting (33%) and press jury voting (33%). Måneskin were declared the winners of the contest with the song "Zitti e buoni".

Final – 6 March 2021

R/O	Artist	Song	Percentage	Place
1	Ghemon	"Momento perfetto"	3.01%	21
2	Gaia	"Cuore amaro"	3.16%	19
3	Irama	"La genesi del tuo colore"	5.10%	5
4	Gio Evan	"Arnica"	2.59%	23
5	Ermal Meta	"Un milione di cose da dirti"	5.60%	3
6	Fulminacci	"Santa Marinella"	3.36%	16
7	Francesco Renga	"Quando trovo te"	2.87%	22
8	Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo	"Bianca luce nera"	3.60%	12
9	Colapesce Dimartino	"Musica leggerissima"	5.14%	4
10	Malika Ayane	"Ti piaci così"	3.40%	15
11	Francesca Michielin and Fedez	"Chiamami per nome"	6.86%	1
12	Willie Peyote	"Mai dire mai (La locura)"	4.80%	6
13	Orietta Berti	"Quando ti sei innamorato"	4.10%	9
14	Arisa	"Potevi fare di più"	4.03%	10
15	Bugo	"E invece sì"	2.48%	24
16	Måneskin	"Zitti e buoni"	6.45%	2
17	Madame	"Voce"	4.16%	8
18	La Rappresentante di Lista	"Amare"	3.80%	11
19	Annalisa	"Dieci"	4.38%	7
20	Coma_Cose	"Fiamme negli occhi"	3.09%	20
21	Lo Stato Sociale	"Combat Pop"	3.53%	13
22	Random	"Torno a te"	2.23%	26
23	Max Gazzè	"Il farmacista"	3.16%	17
24	Noemi	"Glicine"	3.49%	14
25	Fasma	"Parlami"	3.16%	18
26	Aiello	"Ora"	2.45%	25

Superfinal – 6 March 2021

R/O	Artist	Song	Expert Jury (33%)	Press Jury (33%)	Televote (34%)	Total	Place
1	Ermal Meta	"Un milione di cose da dirti"	33.89%	34.71%	18.21%	28.83%	3
2	Francesca Michielin and Fedez	"Chiamami per nome"	33.13%	30.13%	28.26%	30.49%	2
3	Måneskin	"Zitti e buoni"	32.97%	35.16%	53.53%	40.68%	1

The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 took place at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands and consisted of two semi-finals on 18 and 20 May and the final on 22 May 2021. According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "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 Five", Italy automatically qualified to compete in the final. In addition to their participation in the final, Italy was also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals.

Italy performed 24th in the grand final on 22 May 2021, following the Netherlands and preceding Sweden. To conform with European Broadcasting Union (EBU) rules governing the use of explicit language, several changes were made to the lyrics of "Zitti e buoni" as performed by Måneskin at the Sanremo Music Festival earlier in the year.^[5] However, when the band reprised the song as winners at the end of the competition, these alterations were reversed.^[6]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with a diversity in gender and age represented. The judges assess each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which takes place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.^[7] Jury members may only take part in panel once every three years, and are obliged to confirm that they are not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members should also vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members.^[8] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.^[9][10]

Points awarded to Italy (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Bulgaria  Malta  San Marino  Serbia  Ukraine	Croatia  Georgia  Slovenia  Ukraine
10 points	Albania  Azerbaijan  Croatia  Cyprus  France  Greece  Lithuania  Poland  Romania  Russia  Slovenia  Spain   Switzerland	Bulgaria  Lithuania  North Macedonia  Russia  San Marino  Sweden
8 points	Austria  Belgium  Estonia  Finland  Georgia  Moldova  North Macedonia	Cyprus  Latvia  Serbia   Switzerland
7 points	Australia  Germany  Israel  Latvia  Norway  Portugal	Iceland
6 points	Czech Republic  Ireland	Australia  Austria  Czech Republic  Germany  Finland
5 points	Denmark  Iceland	Norway  Poland
4 points		Albania  Greece
3 points	Sweden  United Kingdom	Estonia  Portugal  Romania
2 points	Netherlands	Belgium
1 point

The following members comprised the Italian jury:^[9][10]

• Giusy Cascio
• Emanuele Lombardini
• Stefano Mannucci
• Gregorio Matteo (jury member in the final)
• Katia Riccardi
• Simone Pinelli (jury member in semi-final 1)

Detailed voting results from Italy (Semi-final 1)^[11][13]

R/O	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Percentage	Rank	Points
01	Lithuania	7	8	4	4	2	4	7	10.73%	3	8
02	Slovenia	12	16	9	15	11	13		1.77%	16
03	Russia	6	3	3	8	9	6	5	8.51%	4	7
04	Sweden	4	5	8	6	8	7	4	2.60%	12
05	Australia	11	14	13	13	15	14		1.79%	15
06	North Macedonia	16	15	16	14	16	16		2.14%	14
07	Ireland	14	7	10	7	14	10	1	2.21%	13
08	Cyprus	9	9	11	9	6	8	3	3.97%	9	2
09	Norway	3	6	6	3	10	5	6	3.94%	10	1
10	Croatia	8	11	15	11	5	9	2	3.81%	11
11	Belgium	2	1	1	5	3	2	10	4.53%	7	4
12	Israel	5	2	2	1	1	1	12	4.24%	8	3
13	Romania	15	13	14	12	12	15		11.30%	2	10
14	Azerbaijan	10	10	12	10	7	11		4.69%	6	5
15	Ukraine	13	12	5	16	13	12		28.31%	1	12
16	Malta	1	4	7	2	4	3	8	5.45%	5	6

Detailed voting results from Italy (Final)^[12][13]

R/O	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Percentage	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	19	15	12	8	19	15		1.47%	21
02	Albania	20	18	14	20	25	21		11.79%	2	10
03	Israel	13	4	5	7	15	7	4	1.81%	19
04	Belgium	7	3	6	3	13	6	5	1.49%	20
05	Russia	9	6	16	19	12	11		6.20%	4	7
06	Malta	3	12	2	6	2	4	7	3.06%	14
07	Portugal	2	9	7	5	4	5	6	2.57%	16
08	Serbia	25	23	19	17	23	25		4.69%	7	4
09	United Kingdom	18	13	18	14	22	18		0.49%	25
10	Greece	17	16	17	10	21	17		1.38%	22
11	Switzerland	24	21	21	21	16	24		3.08%	12
12	Iceland	8	2	4	2	6	3	8	5.97%	5	6
13	Spain	21	14	13	22	18	19		0.85%	24
14	Moldova	22	17	20	18	24	23		4.12%	9	2
15	Germany	14	25	23	25	17	22		2.19%	17
16	Finland	1	10	3	4	3	2	10	6.54%	3	8
17	Bulgaria	23	24	8	13	7	14		2.83%	15
18	Lithuania	5	8	1	1	1	1	12	4.88%	6	5
19	Ukraine	6	7	25	24	5	10	1	17.19%	1	12
20	France	12	1	15	12	10	8	3	3.47%	10	1
21	Azerbaijan	15	22	24	23	11	20		2.10%	18
22	Norway	4	11	10	9	8	9	2	3.16%	11
23	Netherlands	16	19	11	16	14	16		1.30%	23
24	Italy
25	Sweden	10	20	9	11	9	12		3.06%	13
26	San Marino	11	5	22	15	20	13		4.31%	8	3