Sanremo Music Festival 2025

Presenters

In June 2023, Amadeus, Sanremo's host and artistic director from 2020, announced that he would step down from his position after 2024.^[7] Despite proposals by RAI to remain for 2025,^[8] Amadeus confirmed during a press conference on 5 February 2024 that the 2024 edition would be his final time in the role.^[9]

On 22 May 2024, RAI announced Carlo Conti – who had previously taken on the role in 2015, 2016 and 2017 – as the artistic director and main host of the 2025 and 2026 editions.^[10][11] In October 2024, Conti announced that the special DopoFestival broadcast after each of the shows would be hosted by Alessandro Cattelan.^[12] The following month, Cattelan was announced as one of the co-hosts of the final night of the festival.^[13] In mid-January 2025, the complete line-up of the hosts was announced, which includes: Antonella Clerici (2005 co-host and 2010 host) and Gerry Scotti on the first night; Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Nino Frassica on the second night; Miriam Leone, Elettra Lamborghini and Katia Follesa on the third night; Mahmood (2019 and 2022 winner) and Geppi Cucciari on the fourth night; Alessia Marcuzzi in addition to Cattelan on the final.^[14] In late December 2024, the hosts of PrimaFestival, the introductory segment aired before each of the nights and during the opening red carpet, were announced to be Bianca Guaccero, Gabriele Corsi and Mariasole Pollio;^[15] comedy duo I Sansoni was added to the cast on 3 February 2025.^[16]

Stage design

In June 2024, it was announced that the Sanremo 2025 stage would be designed by Riccardo Bocchini, the same designer of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions.^[17]

Theme music

The official musical theme of the festival, "Tutta l'Italia", was composed by Gabry Ponte and was released on 31 January 2025.^[18]

Format changes

On 13 June 2024, Conti announced the first changes in the rules and the organisation of the contest: these include the reintroduction of the separate Newcomers' section, which was last featured in 2021, and that of DopoFestival, which would be reduced in length compared to previous editions; the "cover night" was retained, and once again none of the entries was eliminated before the final.^[19][20]

The complete rules were published on 20 August. It was initially confirmed that the number of entries would decrease from 30 to 24. As for the voting system, the results of the "cover night" would not be added to the score obtained on the other shows. On the final night, after the top five songs have been announced, there would be another round of voting, but unlike previous years, the results would then be added to the overall score. The song with the highest overall score would win the contest.^[21] In November, Conti announced that the number of entries would instead be higher than 24, as well as clarifying that competing artists would be able to duet with each other during the "cover night";^[22] the entries were ultimately revealed to be 30 as in the previous edition.^[23]

Voting

Voting occurred again through the combination of three methods:

• Public televoting, carried out via landline and mobile phone.
• Jury of the press room, TV and web.
• Jury of the radio.

Their voting was articulated as follows:

• First night: all of the entrants were judged by the jury of the press room, TV and web.
• Second night: half of the entrants were judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the jury of the radio, to be added up to the results of the first night. The four newcomers were judged by all three juries, determining the two finalists.
• Third night: the other half of the main entrants and the two newcomer finalists were judged as on the previous night, with the winner of the latter section being proclaimed.
• Fourth night: the covers were judged through a split system by means of the televoting (34%) and the two juries (33% each), determining the winner of the night.
• Fifth night: the entrants were judged through a split system by means of the televote (34%), and the two juries (33% each), to be added up to the results of the first three nights; ultimately, a final voting round (with the same split system) was held among the top five, which determined the winner.^[21]

Sanremo Giovani 2024

The four artists competing in the Newcomers' section were determined through the Sanremo Giovani format, with the contestants, aged 16 to 26, being selected via a standard selection and the separate Area Sanremo competition. The contest was held from 12 November to 18 December 2024, and took place in three stages:^[12][24]

• four weekly "challenges" on 12, 19, 26 November and 3 December, presented by Alessandro Cattelan and airing on Rai 2, each seeing six contestants, three of them advancing to the next stage based on the votes of the musical committee;
• a semi-final on 10 December, also presented by Cattelan and airing on Rai 2, where six of the remaining twelve contestants were eliminated by the musical committee;
• a final on 18 December 2024, titled Sarà Sanremo, held at the Sanremo Casino Theatre and presented by Carlo Conti, airing live on Rai 1; the six finalists competed for three spots in the festival, while another two, selected from Area Sanremo, competed for an additional place; the results were determined by the votes of the musical committee.

First night

All 29 artists performed their competing songs. The top 5 were announced in a random order.^[3]

Second night

Fifteen of the competing artists performed their competing songs for a second time. The top 5 were announced in a random order.^[3]

The night was opened by the Newcomers' semi-final.^[60][61]

Third night

The remaining fourteen artists performed their competing songs for a second time. The top 5 were announced in a random order.^[3]

The night was closed by the Newcomers' final.^[60]

Fourth night

The artists each performed an Italian or international song from the past (or a medley thereof), duetting with each other or with one or more guest performers. A winner for the night was proclaimed, but, unlike previous years, the results for the night were not added to the overall score.^[3][22] During the night, only the top 10 were announced.^[66]

Fifth night

All 29 artists performed their competing songs. The top 5 artists of the combined rankings of this and the first three shows advanced to the superfinal, where the juries and televote determined the winner.^[3]

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 brought the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy – the latter with commentary by Gino Castaldo [it] and Ema Stokholma. The five evenings were also streamed online via the broadcaster's official online platform RaiPlay.

International broadcast

Outside Italy, RAI aired the festival on its international channel Rai Italia and made the RaiPlay broadcast available worldwide, including all member countries of the European Broadcasting Union; the festival, serving as the Italian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, was also broadcast on the Eurovision network.

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International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2025

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Channel(s)	Show(s)	Commentator(s)	Refs
Albania	RTSH	RTSH 2	Nights 1–3	Andri Xhahu	[75]
		RTSH 1	Nights 4–5
Canada[g]	ICI Télévision		All shows[h]	—N/a	[76]
Moldova	TRM	Moldova 1	All shows	Unknown	[77]
Montenegro	RTCG	TVCG 2, Radio 98	All shows	Nebojša Šofranac	[78]
Romania	TVR	TVR 1	All shows	Bogdan Stănescu Nadine Vlădescu and Kyrie Mendél	[79]
Spain	RTVE	RTVE Play	Night 5	Giuseppe di Bella, Irene Mahía and Mawot	[80]
United Kingdom	GlitterBeam		Night 5	Eugenio Ceriello and Michael Walton-Dalzell	[81]

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