Italy: RAI releases the Sanremo 2022 rules and regulations; Changes introduced in the voting process

Italy: RAI releases the Sanremo 2022 rules and regulations; Changes introduced in the voting process
Tuesday, 26 October 2021

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI , have released the rules and regulations of the next edition of Sanremo Festival with changes introduced in the voting process.  

    This Eurovision season one thing is sure for RAI: they have a demanding double work to be do, as apart from the iconic Sanremo festival they will be hosting the 66th Eurovision Song Contest next May in Turin. 

    Progressing their national selection in order to determine Maneskin's successors, the Italian broadcaster has released the rules and regulations of the 2022 Sanremo Festival, the winner of which is eligible to represent the country at Eurovision. 

    Twenty-four artists will compete in the next edition of Sanremo with twenty-four unpublished songs and a renewed voting mechanism with three independent juries for accredited journalists in the first two evenings (print, Radio and TV, Web) and the debut of the “Demoscopic 1000” jury, that will determine along with televoting the final outcome. 

    Out of the 24 contestants, 22 will be invited by the artistic director, Amadeus, whilst the last 2 will come out of the Sanremo Giovani festival. From Tuesday 1 February live on Rai1, RaiPlay and Radio2 - the festival will unfold without any eliminations reaching the final night on February 5, during which the winner will be delcared. 


    In addition, the special evening of the Covers returns on Friday 4 February, during which the artists will perform - alone or with a guest agreed with Rai and with the Artistic Direction - a piece that can be taken not only from the Italian repertoire, but also from the international one of the 60 ', 70' or 80 '.

     

    Changes in the voting format

    During the first two evenings the jury of accredited journalists is expected to be divided into three independent voting components: a jury from the press and TV, one from the radio and one from the web. 

    In the fourth and fifth evening, however, the Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web will vote as a single component, adding to the Televoting and the "Demoscopic 1000" Jury, composed of a thousand members selected according to balanced criteria of age and geographical origin, who will vote remotely with an app especially for them.

     

    First and second evening

    Precisely, during the first two evenings the results will be influenced by the three bodies, Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web with the first two having a 33% contribution to the result and the Rado and Web a 34% share. After the vote, a ranking of the 12 songs / artists performed in each of the two evenings will be drawn up.

     

    Third evening's show

    In the third evening the 24 artists will propose the 24 songs in the competition that will be voted on by the public through televoting and by the 1000 Opinion Jury which will have a 50% weight on the overall result.The average between the overall voting percentages obtained by the songs / artists in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking of the 24 songs / artists in the competition.

     

    Fourth evening of Covers

    In the fourth evening of 'Covers' each of the 24 acts in the competition will deliver - alone or with a guest - a song from the Italian and international repertoire of the 60s, 70s and 80s which will be voted by all the juries with a percentage weight of 34% for televoting; 33% for the Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web; and 33% for the Demoscopica 1000. The average between the overall percentages of votes obtained by the Artists in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking of the 24 songs / Artists in the competition.

     

    Grand final night

    During the Grand final night, the 24 competing entries will be voted on by the public through televoting and the average between the percentages of votes obtained in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking of the 24 songs / artists.
    The first three songs in the ranking will repeat their live performance or through audio-video recording. Previous votes will be cleared and a new round of Televoting; voting of the Press, TV, Radio and Web Jury; and of the Demoscopic 1000 jury, with a percentage weight divided as follows: Televoting 34%: Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web 33%; Demoscopic 1000 33%.
    The song / Artist with the highest overall vote percentage obtained in this last vote will be proclaimed Winner of Sanremo2022.

     

    Italy in Eurovision 

    Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 46 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956.  After a 14-year absence from 1998 and on, the country returned to the contest in 2011. Italy has won the contest twice  in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti and her song “Non ho l’età”.  Italy’s second victory in the contest came in 1990 with Toto Cutugno and the song “Insieme: 1992”.

    Italy’s come back to the contest has proved to be very successful, the country having finished in the top ten in eight times of the last decade (2011–2021), with Raphael Gualazzi second in 2011, Nina Zilli ninth in 2012, Marco Mengoni seventh in 2013 and Il Volo third in 2015, Francesco Ghabbani 6th in Kiev. In 2018  the winners of Sanremo 2018 ,Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, represented Italy in Eurovision in Lisbon with their song “Non mi avete fatto niente”. The Italian duo achieved an honorable 5th place in the Grand final with 308 points and a remarkable 3rd placing in the public voting.

    In 2019 , Mahmood, winner of Sanremo 2019 represented the country in Tel Aviv with his entry Soldi. The Italian representative kept the good results for Italy achieving a 2nd place in the Grand Final in Tel Aviv. In 2020 Diodato might have won the Sanremo festival with 'Fai Rumore' but unfortunately didn't have the chance to perform in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled de to the coronavirus pandemic.

    This year the rock band Maneskin won Saremo 2021 and went on representing the nation on Rotterdam where they triumphed with their song 'Zitti e Buoni' bringing the 2022 contest to Italy. 

     

    News Source:rai.it  / eurofestivalnews.com

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