If I have described Melodifestivalen as the annual Song Contest decathlon then Sanremo must surely be the equivalent of a cricket test match. Five days of songs and singers with the result not determined till the final day and even then the winner is not guaranteed to go to the Eurovision but instead has “First refusal” of going.
We’ll spare you the first four days worth of stuff and plough headlong into the results of the fifth and final day where, firstly, all 25 songs were sung and voted upon by televote only
| Song | Performer(s) | Percentage | Psn | |
| Virale | Matteo Romano | 1.7299 | 10 | |
| Miele | Giusy Ferreri | 0.4293 | 24 | |
| Insuperabile | Rkomi | 1.6202 | 15 | |
| Voglio amarti | Iva Zanicchi | 1.1841 | 18 | |
| Perfetta così | Aka 7even | 2.1459 | 13 | |
| Lettera di là del mare | Massimo Ranieri | 3.4472 | 9 | |
| Ti amo, non lo so dire | Noemi | 1.2546 | 16 | |
| Sei tu | Fabrizio Moro | 2.5505 | 12 | |
| Dove si balla | Dargen D’Amico | 3.7243 | 7 | |
| O forse sei tu | Elisa | 10.6923 | 3 | Q |
| Ovunque sarai | Irama | 12.0356 | 4 | |
| Inverno dei fiori | Michele Bravi | 3.1136 | 11 | |
| Ciao ciao | La Rappresentante di Lista | 3.9949 | 6 | |
| Ogni volta è così | Emma | 3.7015 | 8 | |
| Brividi | Mahmood & Blanco | 21.1766 | 1 | Q |
| Abbi cura di te | Highsnob & Hu | 0.7672 | 21 | |
| Farfalle | Sangiovanni | 5.8871 | 5 | |
| Apri tutte le porte | Gianni Morandi | 12.6549 | 2 | Q |
| Chimica | Ditonellapiaga & Donatella Rettore | 1.1933 | 17 | |
| Ora e qui | Yuman | 0.6593 | 22 | |
| Domenica | Achille Lauro feat. Harlem Gospel Choir | 1.7299 | 13 | |
| Duecentomila ore | Ana Mena | 0.8922 | 19 | |
| Sesso occasionale | Tananai | 0.4848 | 23 | |
| Tuo padre, mia madre, Lucia | Giovanni Truppi | 0.8311 | 20 | |
| Tantissimo | Le Vibrazioni | 0.4103 | 25 |
The top three, then, had another go with the winner being asked if they would like to go and represent Italy. A jury of press and journo’s from the written media, a 1000 member demoscopic jury AND another televote decided the winner.
| Song | Performer(s) | Juries | Demo | Televote | Total | Psn |
| O forse sei tu | Elisa | 2 | 2 | 21.9459 | 26.3282 | 2 |
| Apri tutte le porte | Gianni Morandi | 3 | 3 | 23.7942 | 21.9029 | 3 |
| Brividi | Mahmood & Blanco | 1 | 1 | 54.2599 | 51.7689 | 1 |
So Mahmood did it again . This time he had help in the shape of Blanco and both of them look good in a suit, for those of you so inclined and, for the record, they said they’d go to Turin!! – I can’t show you the Sanremo performance because it will just been taken down and, frankly, I love not being sued so here is the official video.
Israel, anyone?
They also selcted a song this weekend(and at this moment I don’t like the song at all)
It’s included in the rundown of the week.
And no, I don’t like it either
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