Sanremo Music Festival 2023

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The Sanremo Music Festival 2023 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2023), officially the 73rd Italian Song Festival (73º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 73rd edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was held between 7 and 11 February 2023, and was presented for the fourth time in a row by Amadeus, who also served as the artistic director for the competition, with Gianni Morandi co-hosting.[1][2]

Semi-final 1
  • 7 February 2023
Semi-final 2
  • 8 February 2023
Semi-final 3
  • 9 February 2023
Semi-final 4
  • 10 February 2023
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Sanremo Music Festival 2023
Dates and venue
Semi-final 1
  • 7 February 2023
Semi-final 2
  • 8 February 2023
Semi-final 3
  • 9 February 2023
Semi-final 4
  • 10 February 2023
Final
  • 11 February 2023
VenueTeatro Ariston
Sanremo, Italy
Production
BroadcasterRadiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
DirectorStefano Vicario
Musical directorLeonardo De Amicis
Artistic directorAmadeus
PresentersAmadeus and Gianni Morandi with
Chiara Ferragni (first and fifth night)
Francesca Fagnani (second night)
Paola Egonu (third night)
Chiara Francini (fourth night)
Vote
Voting systemTelevote, press jury and demoscopic jury
Big Artists section
Number of entries28
Winner"Due vite"
Marco Mengoni
2022 Sanremo Music Festival 2024
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The festival was won by Marco Mengoni with "Due vite", earning him the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023; Mengoni had previously won Sanremo in 2013 and had represented Italy in that year's Eurovision.

Format

The 2023 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival took place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, organized by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition was Amadeus, for the fourth consecutive year.[3]

Presenters

On 24 March 2022, one month after the final of the 2022 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.[4][5] Together with Amadeus, Gianni Morandi served as co-host in all five nights of the festival.[2] Alongside Amadeus and Morandi, four co-hosts alternated during the five evenings: Chiara Ferragni (first night and final),[6] Francesca Fagnani (second night),[7] Paola Egonu (third night) and Chiara Francini (fourth night).[8]

Voting

Voting occurred 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, radio and web.
  • Demoscopic jury, composed by 1000 music fans who vote from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.

Their voting was articulated as follows:

  • First two nights: half of the entrants were judged by three separate panels from the jury of the press room, TV, radio and web.
  • Third night: all of the entrants were judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the demoscopic jury. The results were combined with those of the previous nights.
  • Fourth night: the same systems used on the first three nights were put in place.
  • Fifth night: the entrants were 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) was held among the top 5, which determined the winner.

Selections

Sanremo Giovani 2022

For the second time in a row, the Newcomers' section was not included in the Festival, but a similar selection was held to decree the six places reserved in the Big Artist section.[9] The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and Area Sanremo.

Standard selection

On 26 October 2022, the RAI commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2022 announced a list of 714 acts, but only 43 artists coming from all Italian regions – excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta – and from abroad were selected in the first phase.[10]

On 5 November 2022, the RAI commission announced the eight finalists.[11]

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, a RAI commission – composed by Amadeus, Federica Lentini, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo de Amicis – identified 4 finalists for the competition among the 549 acts:[11][12]

Final

On 16 December 2022, the twelve finalists performed their songs on Sanremo Giovani 2022, broadcast on Rai 1 and presented by Amadeus.[13] Gianmaria, Will, Olly, Colla Zio, Shari and Sethu will participate in Sanremo 2023 with a new entry.

  Enters Sanremo 2023
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R/O Artist Song
1 Gianmaria "La città che odi"
2 Noor "Tua Amelie"
3 Will "Le cose più importanti"
4 Olly "L'anima balla"
5 Maninni "Mille porte"
6 Colla Zio "Asfalto"
7 Fiat 131 "Pupille"
8 Mida "Malditè"
9 Shari "Sotto voce"
10 Giuse the Lizia "Sincera"
11 Romeo & Drill "Giorno di scuola"
12 Sethu "Sottoterra"
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Big Artists

For the second year in a row, the traditional Big Artists section of the contest was merged with the Newcomers' section, and saw the participation of 28 artists, 22 being selected among established artists and 6 qualifying from Sanremo Giovani. The former 22, selected from over 300 submissions received, were revealed on 4 December 2022, and also attended the night of Sanremo Giovani on 16 December, where their competing songs' titles were also made known.[14]

Competing entries

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Competing songs and artists, showing writers, orchestra conductor and results achieved[15][16][17]
Artist Song Songwriter(s) Orchestra conductor Rank Sanremo Music Festival Awards
Marco Mengoni "Due vite"
Giovanni Pallotti (nights 1, 3 and 5)
Carmelo Patti (night 4)
1
  • Winner of the "Big Artists" section – Golden Lion
  • Orchestra's "Giancarlo Bigazzi" Award for the Best Composition
Lazza "Cenere"
Enzo Campagnoli [it] 2 None
Mr. Rain "Supereroi"
Enrico Melozzi 3
Ultimo "Alba"
  • Niccolò "Ultimo" Moriconi
Will Medini (nights 1, 3 and 5)
Celso Valli (night 4)
4
Tananai "Tango"
Fabio Gurian 5
Giorgia "Parole dette male"
  • Alberto Bianco [it]
  • Francesco Roccati
  • Massimiliano "Big Fish" Dagani
  • Mario Marco Gianclaudio Fracchiolla
Big Fish 6
Madame "Il bene nel male"
  • Francesca "Madame" Calearo
  • Iacopo "Brail" Sinigaglia
  • Nicolas "Bias" Biasin
Luca Faraone 7
Rosa Chemical "Made in Italy"
  • Davide Simonetta
  • Manuel Franco "Rosa Chemical" Rocati
  • Oscar Inglese
  • Paolo Antonacci
Fabio Gurian 8
Elodie "Due"
Carolina Bubbico 9
Colapesce and Dimartino "Splash"
  • Antonio "Dimartino" Di Martino
  • Lorenzo "Colapesce" Urciullo
Davide Rossi 10
  • "Mia Martini" Critic's Award
  • Press room's "Lucio Dalla" Award
Modà "Lasciami"
Adriano Pennino 11 None
Gianluca Grignani "Quando ti manca il fiato"
Enrico Melozzi (nights 1, 3 and 5)
Peppe Vessicchio (night 4)
12
Coma_Cose "L'addio"
  • Carlo Frigerio
  • Fabio Dalè
  • Fausto Zanardelli
  • Francesca "California" Mesiano
Vittorio Cosma 13
  • Music commission's "Sergio Bardotti" Award for the Best Lyrics
  • Lunezia Award[18]
Ariete "Mare di guai"
Alberto Cipolla 14 None
LDA "Se poi domani"
  • Alessandro Caiazza
  • Luca "LDA" D'Alessio
Francesco D'Alessio (nights 2, 3 and 5)
Adriano Pennino (night 4)
15
Articolo 31 "Un bel viaggio" Valeriano Chiaravalle [it] (nights 2, 3 and 5)
Franco Godi (night 4)
16
Paola e Chiara "Furore"
Federico Mercuri (nights 2, 3 and 5)
Luca Faraone (night 4)
17
Leo Gassmann "Terzo cuore"
Simone Bertolotti (nights 1, 3 and 5)
Fernando Lopez (night 4)
18
Mara Sattei "Duemilaminuti" Carmelo Patti 19
Colla Zio "Non mi va"
  • Andrea "Armo" Arminio
  • Andrea "Mala" Malatesta
  • Francesco "Glampo" Lamperti
  • Giorgio Pesenti
  • Tommaso "Berna" Bernasconi
  • Tommaso "Petta" Manzoni
20
  • NuovoIMAIE "Enzo Jannacci" Award for the Best Interpretation[20]
I Cugini di Campagna "Lettera 22" Fabio Gargiulo 21 None
Gianmaria "Mostro"
  • Antonio Filippelli
  • Gianmarco Manilardi
  • Gianmaria Volpato
  • Vincenzo Centrella
  • Vito Petrozzino
Daniel Bestonzo 22
Levante "Vivo"
  • Claudia "Levante" Lagona
23
Olly "Polvere"
Alberto Cipolla 24
Anna Oxa "Sali (Canto dell'anima)" Loris Ceroni 25
Will "Stupido"
  • Andrea Pugliese
  • Simone Cremonini
  • William "Will" Busetti
Valeriano Chiaravalle 26
Shari "Egoista"
Carmine Iuvone 27
Sethu "Cause perse"
  • Giorgio "Jiz" De Lauri
  • Marco "Sethu" De Lauri
Enrico Melozzi 28
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Shows

First night

The first fourteen competing artists each performed their song.

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First night: 7 February 2023
R/O Artist Song Press jury ranking
Panel 1 (press and TV) Panel 2 (radio) Panel 3 (web) Total ranking
1 Anna Oxa "Sali (Canto dell'anima)" 14 14 14 14
2 Gianmaria "Mostro" 13 13 11 12
3 Mr. Rain "Supereroi" 10 8 7 9
4 Marco Mengoni "Due vite" 1 1 1 1
5 Ariete "Mare di guai" 11 10 12 11
6 Ultimo "Alba" 4 7 10 4
7 Coma_Cose "L'addio" 2 5 2 3
8 Elodie "Due" 3 2 3 2
9 Leo Gassmann "Terzo cuore" 6 4 5 5
10 I Cugini di Campagna "Lettera 22" 5 8 9 8
11 Gianluca Grignani "Quando ti manca il fiato" 7 13 8 10
12 Olly "Polvere" 12 12 13 13
13 Colla Zio "Non mi va" 8 6 6 7
14 Mara Sattei "Duemilaminuti" 9 3 4 6
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Second night

The remaining fourteen artists each performed their song.

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Second night: 8 February 2023
R/O Artist Song Press jury ranking
Panel 1 (press and TV) Panel 2 (radio) Panel 3 (web) Total ranking
1 Will "Stupido" 12 10 13 12
2 Modà "Lasciami" 8 12 10 10
3 Sethu "Cause perse" 13 14 12 14
4 Articolo 31 "Un bel viaggio" 7 9 9 9
5 Lazza "Cenere" 6 4 3 4
6 Giorgia "Parole dette male" 4 3 7 5
7 Colapesce and Dimartino "Splash" 1 5 1 1
8 Shari "Egoista" 14 13 14 13
9 Madame "Il bene nel male" 2 1 2 2
10 Levante "Vivo" 9 8 9 8
11 Tananai "Tango" 3 2 4 3
12 Rosa Chemical "Made in Italy" 5 6 5 6
13 LDA "Se poi domani" 11 11 11 11
14 Paola e Chiara "Furore" 10 7 6 7
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Third night

All of the twenty-eight artists performed their songs once again.

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Third night: 9 February 2023
R/O Artist Song Provisional general ranking Night rankings Updated general ranking
Demoscopic jury Televote Total ranking
1 Paola e Chiara "Furore" 14 16 16 17 14
2 Mara Sattei "Duemilaminuti" 12 14 19 18 18
3 Rosa Chemical "Made in Italy" 9 13 6 7 7
4 Gianluca Grignani "Quando ti manca il fiato" 19 17 8 8 12
5 Levante "Vivo" 16 18 24 23 21
6 Tananai "Tango" 4 8 5 5 5
7 Lazza "Cenere" 7 9 4 4 4
8 LDA "Se poi domani" 24 22 9 13 15
9 Madame "Il bene nel male" 3 7 7 6 6
10 Ultimo "Alba" 10 11 1 1 2
11 Elodie "Due" 5 5 13 10 9
12 Mr. Rain "Supereroi" 17 2 3 3 3
13 Giorgia "Parole dette male" 8 6 12 9 10
14 Colla Zio "Non mi va" 13 19 22 21 20
15 Marco Mengoni "Due vite" 1 1 2 2 1
16 Colapesce and Dimartino "Splash" 2 3 14 11 8
17 Coma_Cose "L'addio" 6 4 15 12 11
18 Leo Gassmann "Terzo cuore" 11 10 23 19 19
19 I Cugini di Campagna "Lettera 22" 15 21 25 25 22
20 Olly "Polvere" 23 24 21 24 24
21 Anna Oxa "Sali (Canto dell'anima)" 26 26 18 20 25
22 Articolo 31 "Un bel viaggio" 18 12 17 16 17
23 Ariete "Mare di guai" 20 20 11 15 16
24 Sethu "Cause perse" 28 28 27 28 28
25 Shari "Egoista" 27 27 28 27 27
26 Gianmaria "Mostro" 22 23 20 22 23
27 Modà "Lasciami" 21 15 10 14 13
28 Will "Stupido" 25 25 26 26 26
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Fourth night

The artists each performed a cover of a song from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, or '00s, duetting with a guest performer.

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Fourth night: 10 February 2023[21]
R/O Artist Guest artist Song Night rankings Updated general ranking
Press jury Demoscopic jury Televote Total ranking
1 Ariete Sangiovanni "Centro di gravità permanente" 28 28 7 17 18
2 Will Michele Zarrillo "Cinque giorni" 26 23 18 25 26
3 Elodie BigMama "American Woman" 3 4 12 7 9
4 Olly Lorella Cuccarini "La notte vola" 20 18 17 20 24
5 Ultimo Eros Ramazzotti Eros Ramazzotti medley[a] 12 13 2 2 2
6 Lazza Emma Marrone and Laura Marzadori [it] "La fine" 4 3 3 3 3
7 Tananai Don Joe and Biagio Antonacci "Vorrei cantare come Biagio" and "Sognami" 5 5 6 6 6
8 Shari Salmo "Hai scelto me" and "Diavolo in me" 27 26 24 28 27
9 Gianluca Grignani Arisa "Destinazione Paradiso" 9 10 8 8 11
10 Leo Gassmann Edoardo Bennato and Quartetto Flegreo Edoardo Bennato medley[b] 11 8 15 13 16
11 Articolo 31 Fedez Articolo 31 medley[c] 16 6 10 9 14
12 Giorgia Elisa "Luce (Tramonti a nord est)" and "Di sole e d'azzurro" 1 1 4 4 5
13 Colapesce & Dimartino Carla Bruni "Azzurro" 6 20 19 15 10
14 I Cugini di Campagna Paolo Vallesi "La forza della vita" and "Anima mia" 24 25 22 24 22
15 Marco Mengoni The Kingdom Choir "Let It Be" 2 2 1 1 1
16 Gianmaria Manuel Agnelli "Quello che non c'è" 14 22 16 16 21
17 Mr. Rain Fasma "Qualcosa di grande" 25 11 5 5 4
18 Madame Izi "Via del Campo" 8 12 11 11 7
19 Coma_Cose Baustelle "Sarà perché ti amo" 17 7 23 18 12
20 Rosa Chemical Rose Villain "America" 7 21 13 12 8
21 Modà Le Vibrazioni "Vieni da me" 18 14 9 10 13
22 Levante Renzo Rubino "Vivere" 23 19 27 26 23
23 Anna Oxa Iljard Shaba "Un'emozione da poco" 21 24 20 23 25
24 Sethu Bnkr44 "Charlie fa surf" 22 27 28 27 28
25 LDA Alex Britti "Oggi sono io" 13 16 14 14 15
26 Mara Sattei Noemi "L'amour toujours" 19 9 26 22 19
27 Paola e Chiara Merk & Kremont Paola e Chiara medley[d] 15 15 21 19 17
28 Colla Zio Ditonellapiaga "Salirò" 10 17 25 21 20
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Fifth night – Final

All of the artists performed their songs one final time, with the top five reprising their performances before moving on to the final round of voting.[22]

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Fifth night: 11 February 2023 – First round
R/O Artist Song Televote Final general ranking
% Place
1 Elodie "Due" 2.34% 10 9
2 Colla Zio "Non mi va" 0.53% 21 20
3 Mara Sattei "Duemilaminuti" 0.66% 18 19
4 Tananai "Tango" 6.30% 5 5
5 Colapesce & Dimartino "Splash" 2.01% 11 10
6 Giorgia "Parole dette male" 2.44% 9 6
7 Modà "Lasciami" 2.70% 8 11
8 Ultimo "Alba" 15.67% 2 2
9 Lazza "Cenere" 13.88% 4 3
10 Marco Mengoni "Due vite" 21.19% 1 1
11 Rosa Chemical "Made in Italy" 3.68% 7 8
12 I Cugini di Campagna "Lettera 22" 0.74% 16 21
13 Madame "Il bene nel male" 3.94% 6 7
14 Ariete "Mare di guai" 1.71% 12 14
15 Mr. Rain "Supereroi" 14.80% 3 4
16 Paola e Chiara "Furore" 0.62% 19 17
17 Levante "Vivo" 0.42% 24 23
18 LDA "Se poi domani" 1.11% 13 15
19 Coma_Cose "L'addio" 0.94% 15 13
20 Olly "Polvere" 0.42% 25 24
21 Articolo 31 "Un bel viaggio" 0.71% 17 16
22 Will "Stupido" 0.19% 26 26
23 Leo Gassmann "Terzo cuore" 0.49% 23 18
24 Gianmaria "Mostro" 0.59% 20 22
25 Anna Oxa "Sali (Canto dell'anima)" 0.52% 22 25
26 Shari "Egoista" 0.09% 28 27
27 Gianluca Grignani "Quando ti manca il fiato" 1.07% 14 12
28 Sethu "Cause perse" 0.11% 27 28
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Fifth night: 11 February 2023 – Second round (Superfinal)
R/O Artist Song Rankings Place
Press jury Demoscopic jury Televote Total
1 Ultimo "Alba" 5 4 20.39% 12.25% 4
2 Tananai "Tango" 3 5 11.15% 11.15% 5
3 Lazza "Cenere" 2 3 18.28% 16.64% 2
4 Marco Mengoni "Due vite" 1 1 32.31% 45.53% 1
5 Mr. Rain "Supereroi" 4 2 17.87% 14.43% 3
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Special guests

Gianni Morandi, Chiara Ferragni and Amadeus taking a selfie with president of Italy Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura Mattarella

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2023 included:[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 brought the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings were also streamed online via the broadcaster's official website RaiPlay, which made it available in all member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, since the festival is broadcast on the Eurovision network.

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Broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2022
Country Show(s) Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Italy All shows Rai 1, Rai 4K [it] No commentary [42]
Rai Radio 2 Ema Stokholma and Gino Castaldo [it]
RaiPlay, RaiPlay Sound [it] No commentary
Rai Italia (outside Italy)
Albania All shows RTSH Muzikë, RTSH Tirana No commentary [43]
Final RTSH 1 Andri Xhahu and Blerina Shehu
Montenegro All shows TVCG 2 Nebojsa Sofranac [44]
Serbia Nights 1–4 RTS2 No commentary
Final RTS3
United Kingdom Final GlitterBeam Eugenio Ceriello and Michael Walton-Dalzell [45]
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Ratings

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Live show Timeslot (UTC+1) Date 1st time (9:00 pm – 0:00 am) 2nd time (0:00 am – 1:30 am) Overall audience Ref(s)
Viewers Share (%) Viewers Share (%) Viewers Share (%)
1st 9:00 pm 7 February 14,170,000 61.7 6,271,000 64.8 10,757,000 62.4 [46]
2nd 8 February 14,087,000 61.1 6,281,000 65.7 10,545,000 62.3 [47]
3rd 9 February 13,341,000 57.2 5,584,000 58.4 9,240,000 57.6 [48]
4th 10 February 15,046,000 65.2 7,041,000 69.7 11,121,000 66.5 [49]
5th 11 February 14,423,000 62.70 9,490,000 73.65 12,256,000 66.0 [50]
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See also

Notes

  1. "A cosa serve la guerra", "L'isola che non c'è" and "Il rock di Capitan Uncino"
  2. "L'italiano medio", "Domani smetto", "Spirale ovale", "Gente che spera", "Volume", "La fidanzata", "Ohi Maria", "Il funkytarro", "Tranqi Funky", and "Un urlo"
  3. "Festival", "Viva el amor!", "Amici come prima" and "Vamos a bailar (Esta vida nueva)"; The performance was accompanied by instrumentals of "Hung Up", "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and "I Will Survive"

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