Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

  • Alessandro Mahmoud
  • Michele "Michelangelo" Zocca
  • Riccardo Fabbriconi
Finals performanceFinal result6th, 268 pointsItaly in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Italy hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, having won the previous edition with "Zitti e buoni" by Måneskin. Italian broadcaster RAI announced that the winning performer(s) of the Sanremo Music Festival 2022, later turning out to be Mahmood and Blanco with "Brividi", would earn the right to represent the nation at the contest. As both the host country and a member of the "Big Five", Italy automatically qualified to the final.

Background

Prior to the 2022 contest, Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-six times since its first entry at the inaugural contest in 1956.[1] Since then, Italy has won the contest on three occasions: in 1964 with the song "Non ho l'età" performed by Gigliola Cinquetti, in 1990 with "Insieme: 1992" by Toto Cutugno, and in 2021 with "Zitti e buoni" by Måneskin. Italy has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times, with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. Italy made its return in 2011, and their entry "Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—their highest result, to that point, since their victory in 1990. A number of top 10 placements followed in the next editions, culminating with their victory in 2021.

Between 2011 and 2013 and since 2015, the Sanremo Music Festival has regularly been used to select the Italian entrant to the contest, at first through an intermediate stage of internal selection among the contestants, and after 2014 (when a full internal selection took place), the winner of the festival has always earned the right of first refusal to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Before Eurovision

Sanremo Music Festival 2022

Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 would be selected from the competing artists at the Sanremo Music Festival 2022, the 72nd edition of the event. According to the rules of Sanremo 2022, 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 1 and 5 February 2022 with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival.

For the third year in a row, Amadeus served as the artistic director and presenter of Sanremo,[2] and was joined on stage by Ornella Muti, Lorena Cesarini, Drusilla Foer, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Sabrina Ferilli, each on a different night.[3] 25 artists, three of which directly qualifying from the newcomers' section Sanremo Giovani (held on 15 December 2021), competed in the festival.[4] This took place over the course of five consecutive nights, articulated as follows:[5]

  • On each of the first two nights, half of the entrants performed their songs, and were judged by three separate panels from a jury of journalists.
  • On the third night, all of the songs were performed and voted through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and a demoscopic jury. The results were combined with those of the previous nights.
  • On the fourth night, the contestants each performed a cover of a song, and were voted by the same system used on the first three nights.
  • On the last night, the 25 entries were once again performed, going through 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 3, which determined the winner.

The first 22 competing artists were announced on 4 December 2021. Six former Eurovision Song Contest entrants were among the competing artists: Iva Zanicchi (1969), Gianni Morandi (1970), Massimo Ranieri (1971 and 1973), Emma (2014), Fabrizio Moro (2018) and Mahmood (2019).[6] On 15 December, the three artists qualifying from the Sanremo Giovani section were announced, alongside the titles of all 25 competing songs.[7] Entrant Achille Lauro would later be selected in the Sammarinese national final on 19 February 2022.

Artist Song Songwriter(s)
Achille Lauro feat. Harlem Gospel Choir "Domenica" Lauro De Marinis, Simon Pietro Manzari, Davide Petrella, Matteo Ciceroni, Mattia Cutolo, Gregorio Calculli
Aka 7even "Perfetta così" Luca Marzano, Vincenzo Colella, Max Elias Kleinschmidt, Gianvito Vizzi, Renato Luis Patriarca
Ana Mena "Duecentomila ore" Rocco Hunt, Stefano Tognini, Federica Abbate
Dargen D'Amico "Dove si balla" Jacopo D'Amico, Edwyn Roberts [it], Gianluigi Fazio, Andrea Bonomo [it]
Ditonellapiaga and Rettore "Chimica" Margherita Carducci, Donatella Rettore, Alessandro Casagni, Benjamin Ventura, Edoardo Castroni, Valerio Smordoni
Elisa "O forse sei tu" Elisa Toffoli, Davide Petrella
Emma "Ogni volta è così" Emma Marrone, Davide Petrella, Dario Faini
Fabrizio Moro "Sei tu" Fabrizio Mobrici, Roberto Cardelli
Gianni Morandi "Apri tutte le porte" Lorenzo Cherubini, Riccardo Onori [it]
Giovanni Truppi "Tuo padre, mia madre, Lucia" Giovanni Truppi, Luigi De Crescenzo, Niccolò Contessa, Marco Buccelli, Giovanni Pallotti
Giusy Ferreri "Miele" Federica Abbate, Davide Petrella, Fabio Clemente [it], Alessandro Merli [it]
Highsnob and Hu "Abbi cura di te" Michele Matera, Federica Ferracuti, Andrea Moroni, Fazio De Marco
Irama "Ovunque sarai" Filippo Maria Fanti, Giulio Nenna, Pablo Miguel Lombroni Capalbo [it], Vincenzo Luca Faraone
Iva Zanicchi "Voglio amarti" Italo Ianne [it], Vito Mercurio [it], Celso Valli, Emilio Di Stefano [it]
La Rappresentante di Lista "Ciao ciao" Veronica Lucchesi, Dario Mangiaracina, Roberto Calabrese, Roberto Cammarata, Carmelo Drago, Simone Privitera
Le Vibrazioni "Tantissimo" Francesco Sarcina, Nicco Verrienti, Roberto Casalino
Mahmood and Blanco "Brividi" Alessandro Mahmoud, Riccardo Fabbriconi, Michele Zocca
Massimo Ranieri "Lettera di là dal mare" Fabio Ilacqua
Matteo Romano "Virale" Matteo Romano, Dario Faini, Alessandro La Cava, Federico Rossi
Michele Bravi "Inverno dei fiori" Michele Bravi, Alfredo Rapetti [it], Alex Andrea Vella [it], Francesco Catitti, Federica Abbate
Noemi "Ti amo, non lo so dire" Dario Faini, Alessandro Mahmoud, Alessandro La Cava
Rkomi "Insuperabile" Mirko Martorana, Francesco Catitti, Alessandro La Cava
Sangiovanni "Farfalle" Giovanni Pietro Damian, Alessandro La Cava, Stefano Tognini
Tananai "Sesso occasionale" Alberto Cotta Ramusino, Davide Simonetta [it], Paolo Antonacci, Alessandro Raina [it]
Yuman "Ora e qui" Yuri Santos Tavares Carloia, Francesco Cataldo [it], Tommaso Di Giulio [it]

Final

The 25 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time on 5 February 2022. A combination of public televoting, press jury voting and demoscopic jury voting selected the top three to face a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2022 was decided by a combination of public televoting (34%), demoscopic jury voting (33%) and press jury voting (33%). Mahmood and Blanco were declared the winners of the contest with the song "Brividi".[8]

Final – 5 February 2022
Draw Artist Song Place
1 Matteo Romano "Virale" 11
2 Giusy Ferreri "Miele" 23
3 Rkomi "Insuperabile" 17
4 Iva Zanicchi "Voglio amarti" 18
5 Aka 7even "Perfetta così" 13
6 Massimo Ranieri "Lettera di là dal mare" 8
7 Noemi "Ti amo, non lo so dire" 15
8 Fabrizio Moro "Sei tu" 12
9 Dargen D'Amico "Dove si balla" 9
10 Elisa "O forse sei tu" 3
11 Irama "Ovunque sarai" 4
12 Michele Bravi "Inverno dei fiori" 10
13 La Rappresentante di Lista "Ciao ciao" 7
14 Emma "Ogni volta è così" 6
15 Mahmood and Blanco "Brividi" 1
16 Highsnob and Hu "Abbi cura di te" 20
17 Sangiovanni "Farfalle" 5
18 Gianni Morandi "Apri tutte le porte" 2
19 Ditonellapiaga and Rettore "Chimica" 16
20 Yuman "Ora e qui" 21
21 Achille Lauro feat. Harlem Gospel Choir "Domenica" 14
22 Ana Mena "Duecentomila ore" 24
23 Tananai "Sesso occasionale" 25
24 Giovanni Truppi "Tuo padre, mia madre, Lucia" 19
25 Le Vibrazioni "Tantissimo" 22
Superfinal – 5 February 2022
Draw Artist Song Demoscopic jury
(33%) 		Press jury
(33%) 		Televote
(34%) 		Total Place
1 Elisa "O forse sei tu" 2nd 2nd 21.95% 26.33% 2
2 Gianni Morandi "Apri tutte le porte" 3rd 3rd 23.79% 21.9% 3
3 Mahmood and Blanco "Brividi" 1st 1st 54.26% 51.77% 1

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 took place at the PalaOlimpico in Turin, Italy and consisted of two semi-finals on 10 and 12 May and the final on 14 May 2022. 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 both the host country and a member of the "Big Five", Italy automatically qualified to compete in the final. In addition to its participation in the final, Italy was also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. This was decided via a draw held during the semi-final allocation draw on 25 January 2022, when it was announced that Italy would be voting in the first semi-final.[9]

Italy performed in position 9, following the entry from Armenia and before the entry from Spain.[10] At the close of the voting, Italy finished in sixth place overall with 268 points.

Voting

Points awarded to Italy

Points awarded to Italy (Final)[11]
Score Televote Jury
12 points
10 points  Malta
8 points
7 points  Greece
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points  Bulgaria
1 point  Australia

Points awarded by Italy

Points awarded by Italy (Semi-final 1)
Score Televote Jury
12 points  Ukraine  Greece
10 points  Moldova  Netherlands
8 points  Albania  Armenia
7 points  Armenia  Ukraine
6 points  Portugal   Switzerland
5 points  Norway  Moldova
4 points  Netherlands  Croatia
3 points  Greece  Austria
2 points  Austria  Lithuania
1 point  Lithuania  Latvia
Points awarded by Italy (Final)
Score Televote Jury
12 points  Ukraine  Netherlands
10 points  Moldova  Greece
8 points  Romania  Armenia
7 points  Serbia  Belgium
6 points  United Kingdom  United Kingdom
5 points  Sweden  Moldova
4 points  Norway  Serbia
3 points  Poland   Switzerland
2 points  Netherlands  Australia
1 point  Portugal  Finland

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Italian jury:[12][13]

  • Andrea Spinelli - Artist
  • Cinzia Poli - Radio host, designer
  • Filippo Solibello - Radio host
  • Monica Agostini - TV journalist
  • Paolo Di Gioia - Musician
Detailed voting results from Italy (Semi-final 1)
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror 1 Juror 2 Juror 3 Juror 4 Juror 5 Rank Points Rank Points
01  Albania 11 11 5 17 11 14 3 8
02  Latvia 10 17 15 2 17 10 1 11
03  Lithuania 12 15 4 15 5 9 2 10 1
04   Switzerland 4 2 16 7 6 5 6 13
05  Slovenia 17 9 17 3 16 12 17
06  Ukraine 7 3 3 8 7 4 7 1 12
07  Bulgaria 6 8 10 16 15 15 16
08  Netherlands 2 4 2 5 8 2 10 7 4
09  Moldova 9 7 1 6 9 6 5 2 10
10  Portugal 3 12 13 11 14 11 5 6
11  Croatia 14 16 7 4 4 7 4 14
12  Denmark 16 6 11 12 12 17 12
13  Austria 13 10 9 10 3 8 3 9 2
14  Iceland 15 5 14 14 10 16 15
15  Greece 1 1 8 13 1 1 12 8 3
16  Norway 5 13 12 9 13 13 6 5
17  Armenia 8 14 6 1 2 3 8 4 7
Detailed voting results from Italy (Final)
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror 1 Juror 2 Juror 3 Juror 4 Juror 5 Rank Points Rank Points
01  Czech Republic 20 10 11 10 17 15 23
02  Romania 22 24 16 24 22 24 3 8
03  Portugal 6 17 12 8 14 12 10 1
04  Finland 7 22 4 11 10 10 1 15
05   Switzerland 8 9 15 4 7 8 3 20
06  France 11 21 21 14 23 20 22
07  Norway 21 19 13 9 12 16 7 4
08  Armenia 5 23 3 2 2 3 8 11
09  Italy
10  Spain 19 8 20 13 24 18 12
11  Netherlands 2 11 1 3 4 1 12 9 2
12  Ukraine 15 7 8 17 9 11 1 12
13  Germany 16 16 10 12 16 17 18
14  Lithuania 12 20 5 16 15 14 13
15  Azerbaijan 18 14 24 20 13 22 16
16  Belgium 17 2 6 1 6 4 7 17
17  Greece 1 3 7 15 1 2 10 14
18  Iceland 13 15 18 21 19 21 24
19  Moldova 14 6 2 5 5 6 5 2 10
20  Sweden 4 12 19 18 20 13 6 5
21  Australia 24 4 17 22 3 9 2 21
22  United Kingdom 3 1 14 7 11 5 6 5 6
23  Poland 10 13 23 19 21 19 8 3
24  Serbia 9 5 9 6 8 7 4 4 7
25  Estonia 23 18 22 23 18 23 19

References

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