Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Participating broadcaster	Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
Country	Italy
National selection
Selection process	Sanremo Music Festival 2022
Selection date(s)	5 February 2022
Selected artist(s)	Mahmood and Blanco
Selected song	"Brividi"
Selected songwriter(s)	Alessandro Mahmoud; Michele "Michelangelo" Zocca; Riccardo Fabbriconi;
Finals performance
Final result	6th, 268 points
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest

Italy was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Brividi", written by Alessandro Mahmoud, Michele Zocca, and Blanco, and performed by Mahmood and Blanco themselves. The Italian participating broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) selected its entry through the Sanremo Music Festival 2022. In addition, RAI was also the host broadcaster and staged the event at the PalaOlimpico in Turin, after winning the previous edition with "Zitti e buoni" by Måneskin.

Background

Prior to the 2022 contest, Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Italy forty-six times since its first entry at the inaugural contest in 1956.^[1] Since then, it 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. RAI has withdrawn from the contest a number of times, with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. It made its return in 2011, and its entry "Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—their highest result, to that point, since its victory in 1990. A number of top 10 placements followed in the next editions, culminating with its victory in 2021.

Between 2011 and 2013 and since 2015, RAI has regularly used the Sanremo Music Festival to select its entry 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.

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		Albania Slovenia
10 points	Malta	Armenia Azerbaijan Estonia Georgia Montenegro Spain
8 points	Albania Switzerland	Belgium Israel
7 points	Greece	Malta North Macedonia
6 points	Croatia Montenegro North Macedonia Slovenia	Iceland Ireland
5 points	Azerbaijan Cyprus San Marino Spain
4 points	Belgium Romania Serbia	Croatia Lithuania Poland Romania
3 points	Austria France Germany Israel Lithuania Portugal	Australia Austria San Marino
2 points	Bulgaria	Finland Switzerland
1 point	Australia	Bulgaria Cyprus Greece

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
Draw	Country	Juror 1	Juror 2	Juror 3	Juror 4	Juror 5	Rank	Points	Percentage	Rank	Points
01	Albania	11	11	5	17	11	14		9.85%	3	8
02	Latvia	10	17	15	2	17	10	1	3.01%	11
03	Lithuania	12	15	4	15	5	9	2	3.07%	10	1
04	Switzerland	4	2	16	7	6	5	6	2.64%	13
05	Slovenia	17	9	17	3	16	12		1.85%	17
06	Ukraine	7	3	3	8	7	4	7	24.28%	1	12
07	Bulgaria	6	8	10	16	15	15		2.23%	16
08	Netherlands	2	4	2	5	8	2	10	4.16%	7	4
09	Moldova	9	7	1	6	9	6	5	16.92%	2	10
10	Portugal	3	12	13	11	14	11		5.08%	5	6
11	Croatia	14	16	7	4	4	7	4	2.62%	14
12	Denmark	16	6	11	12	12	17		2.96%	12
13	Austria	13	10	9	10	3	8	3	3.39%	9	2
14	Iceland	15	5	14	14	10	16		2.44%	15
15	Greece	1	1	8	13	1	1	12	3.9%	8	3
16	Norway	5	13	12	9	13	13		4.92%	6	5
17	Armenia	8	14	6	1	2	3	8	6.48%	4	7

Detailed voting results from Italy (Final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
Draw	Country	Juror 1	Juror 2	Juror 3	Juror 4	Juror 5	Rank	Points	Percentage^[14]	Rank	Points
01	Czech Republic	20	10	11	10	17	15		1.39%	23
02	Romania	22	24	16	24	22	24		6.64%	3	8
03	Portugal	6	17	12	8	14	12		2.83%	10	1
04	Finland	7	22	4	11	10	10	1	1.9%	15
05	Switzerland	8	9	15	4	7	8	3	1.64%	20
06	France	11	21	21	14	23	20		1.43%	22
07	Norway	21	19	13	9	12	16		3.5%	7	4
08	Armenia	5	23	3	2	2	3	8	2.71%	11
09	Italy
10	Spain	19	8	20	13	24	18		2.71%	12
11	Netherlands	2	11	1	3	4	1	12	3.32%	9	2
12	Ukraine	15	7	8	17	9	11		29.5%	1	12
13	Germany	16	16	10	12	16	17		1.71%	18
14	Lithuania	12	20	5	16	15	14		2.17%	13
15	Azerbaijan	18	14	24	20	13	22		1.88%	16
16	Belgium	17	2	6	1	6	4	7	1.73%	17
17	Greece	1	3	7	15	1	2	10	1.93%	14
18	Iceland	13	15	18	21	19	21		0.87%	24
19	Moldova	14	6	2	5	5	6	5	13.34%	2	10
20	Sweden	4	12	19	18	20	13		3.58%	6	5
21	Australia	24	4	17	22	3	9	2	1.57%	21
22	United Kingdom	3	1	14	7	11	5	6	3.88%	5	6
23	Poland	10	13	23	19	21	19		3.39%	8	3
24	Serbia	9	5	9	6	8	7	4	4.69%	4	7
25	Estonia	23	18	22	23	18	23		1.68%	19

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[2] Fumarola, Silvia (5 August 2021). "Amadeus condurrà il terzo Festival di Sanremo. "È incredibile, non vedo l'ora"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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[5] Coppola, Sara Carmen (26 October 2021). "Sanremo 2022: 24 artisti in gara, le cover venerdì 4 febbraio". EIN (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

[6] Scarpone, Cristian (4 December 2021). "Sanremo 2022: Elisa, Emma Marrone, Mahmood and Ana Mena among 22 confirmed participants". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

[7] Cafarelli, Donato (16 December 2021). "Sanremo 2022: i titoli delle 25 canzoni in gara al Festival". Eurofestival News (in Italian). Retrieved 16 December 2021.

[8] Gallagher, Robyn (6 February 2022). "Italy: Mahmood & Blanco win Sanremo 2022 with "Brividi"". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

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Sanremo Music Festival Canzonissima
Participation	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1997 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Al Bano and Romina Power Alice Luca Barbarossa Franco Battiato Blanco Gigliola Cinquetti Betty Curtis Toto Cutugno Nicola Di Bari Peppino di Capri ~~Diodato~~ Emma Sergio Endrigo Riccardo Fogli Francesco Gabbani Nunzio Gallo Dori Ghezzi Raphael Gualazzi Jalisse Fausto Leali Mahmood Måneskin Angelina Mango Mia Martini Matia Bazar Marco Mengoni Ermal Meta Francesca Michielin Domenico Modugno Gianni Morandi Fabrizio Moro Anna Oxa Emilio Pericoli Raf Franca Raimondi Massimo Ranieri Renato Rascel Ricchi e Poveri Enrico Ruggeri Bobby Solo Alan Sorrenti Tonina Torrielli Umberto Tozzi Claudio Villa Il Volo Wess Iva Zanicchi Nina Zilli
Songs	"Addio, addio" "Al di là" "Amami se vuoi" "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" "L'amore è un attimo" "Aprite le finestre" "Avrei voluto" "Brividi" "Chi sarà con te" "Comme è ddoce 'o mare" "Corde della mia chitarra" "Dio, come ti amo" "Due grosse lacrime bianche" "Due vite" "Era" "L'essenziale" ~~"Fai rumore"~~ "Fiumi di parole" "Gente di mare" "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" "Grande amore" "Insieme: 1992" "Libera" "Madness of Love" "Magic Oh Magic" "Marianne" "La mia città" "La noia" "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" "No Degree of Separation" "Non andare più lontano" "Non ho l'età" "Non mi avete fatto niente" "Non so che darei" "Occhi di ragazza" "Occidentali's Karma" "Per Lucia" "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" "Questo amore" "Raggio di luna" "Rapsodia" "Romantica" "Se piangi, se ridi" "Sì" "Soldi" "Sole d'Europa" "I treni di Tozeur" "Uno per tutte" "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" "We'll Live It All Again" "Zitti e buoni"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Italy did not compete

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]