Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Italy participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Italian broadcaster RAI announced in October 2017 that the winning performer(s) of the Big Artists section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2018 would earn the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal.

Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Country Italy
National selection
Selection processSanremo 2018
Selection date(s)10 February 2018
Selected entrantErmal Meta & Fabrizio Moro
Selected song"Non mi avete fatto niente"
Selected songwriter(s)Ermal Meta
Fabrizio Moro
Andrea Febo
Finals performance
Final result5th, 308 points
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Background

Prior to the 2018 Contest, Italy had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-three times since its first entry during the inaugural contest in 1956.[1] Since then, Italy has won the contest on two occasions: in 1964 with the song "Non ho l'età" performed by Gigliola Cinquetti and in 1990 with the song "Insieme: 1992" performed by Toto Cutugno. Italy has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. Their return in 2011 with the song "Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—their highest result, to this point, since their victory in 1990. In 2017, Francesco Gabbani represented the nation with the song "Occidentali's Karma", placing sixth with 334 points.

The Italian national broadcaster, Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), broadcasts the event within Italy and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. RAI confirmed Italy's participation in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest on 15 September 2017.[2] Between 2011 and 2013, the broadcaster used the Sanremo Music Festival as an artist selection pool where a special committee would select one of the competing artist, independent of the results in the competition, as the Eurovision entrant. The selected entrant was then responsible for selecting the song they would compete with. For 2014, RAI forwent using the Sanremo Music Festival artist lineup and internally selected their entry. Since 2015, the winning artist of the Sanremo Music Festival is rewarded with the opportunity to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, although in 2016 the winner declined and the broadcaster appointed the runner-up as the Italian entrant.

Before Eurovision

Sanremo 2018

On 12 October 2017, Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest would be selected from the competing artists at the Sanremo Music Festival 2018. According to the rules of Sanremo 2018, the winner of the Campioni or Big Artists category 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 6–10 February 2018 with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival.[3]

Twenty artists competed in the Big Artists category of Sanremo 2017. Among the competing artists were former Eurovision Song Contest entrants Riccardo Fogli who represented Italy in the 1983 Contest, Luca Barbarossa who represented Italy in the 1988 Contest, Enrico Ruggeri, frontman of Decibel, who represented Italy in the 1993 Contest and Nina Zilli who represented Italy in the 2012 Contest.[4] The performers in the "Big Artists" category were:

Artist Song (English translation) Composer(s)
Annalisa "Il mondo prima di te" (The world before you) Annalisa Scarrone, Davide Simonetta, Alessandro Raina
Decibel "Lettera dal Duca" (Letter from the Duke) Silvio Capeccia, Enrico Ruggeri, Fulvio Muzio
Diodato & Roy Paci "Adesso" (Now) Antonio Diodato
Elio e le Storie Tese "Arrivedorci"1 Sergio Conforti, Stefano Belisari, Davide Luca Civaschi, Nicola Fasani
Enzo Avitabile feat. Peppe Servillo "Il coraggio di ogni giorno" (The courage of every day) Pacifico, Enzo Avitabile, Peppe Servillo
Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro "Non mi avete fatto niente" (You didn't do anything to me) Ermal Meta, Fabrizio Moro, Andrea Febo
Giovanni Caccamo "Eterno" (Eternal) Cheope, Giovanni Caccamo
Le Vibrazioni "Così sbagliato" (So wrong) Francesco Sarcina, Andrea Bonomo, Luca Chiaravalli, Davide Simonetta
Lo Stato Sociale "Una vita in vacanza" (A life in vacation) Lodovico Guenzi, Alberto Gazzola, Francesco Draicchio, Matteo Romagnoli, Alberto Guidetti, Enrico Roberto
Luca Barbarossa "Passame er sale"2 Luca Barbarossa
Mario Biondi "Rivederti" (Seeing you again) Mario Biondi, Giuseppe Furnari, Fisicaro
Max Gazzè "La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno" (The legend of Cristalda and Pizzomunno) Francesco Gazzè, Max Gazzè, Francesco De Benedettis
Nina Zilli "Senza appartenere" (Without belonging) Giordana Angi, Antonio Iammarino, Nina Zilli
Noemi "Non smettere mai di cercarmi" (Never stop looking for me) Diego Calvetti, Massimiliano Pelan, Veronica "Noemi" Scopelliti, Fabio De Martino
Ornella Vanoni feat. Bungaro & Pacifico "Imparare ad amarsi" (Learn to love each other) Bungaro, Pacifico, Cesare Chiodo, Antonio Fresa
Red Canzian "Ognuno ha il suo racconto" (Everyone has his story) Red Canzian, Michele Porru
Renzo Rubino "Custodire" (Preserving) Renzo Rubino
Roby Facchinetti & Riccardo Fogli "Il segreto del tempo" (The secret of time) Pacifico, Roby Facchinetti
Ron "Almeno pensami" (At least think about me) Lucio Dalla
The Kolors "Frida (mai, mai, mai)" (Frida (never, never, never)) Davide Petrella, Dario Faini, Alessandro Raina, Antonio "Stash" Fiordispino
1.^ "Arrivedorci" is an intentional misspelling of the word "arrivederci" which translates to "goodbye".
2.^ "Passame er sale" comes from Romanesco dialect and translates to "Give me the salt"

Final

During the final evening of the Sanremo Music Festival 2018, Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro were selected as the winners with the song "Non mi avete fatto niente". RAI later confirmed during the closing press conference for the Sanremo Music Festival on 10 February 2018 that Meta and Moro had accepted to participate at Eurovision and would perform their Sanremo song "Non mi avete fatto niente" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.[5]

First Round – 10 February 2018
Draw Artist Song Expert Jury
(20%)
Press Jury
(30%)
Televote
(50%)
Total Place
1 Luca Barbarossa "Passame er sale" 3 11 4 6.83% 7
2 Red Canzian "Ognuno ha il suo racconto" 13 16 13 2.06% 15
3 The Kolors "Frida (mai, mai, mai)" 10 8 5 5.99% 9
4 Elio e le Storie Tese "Arrivedorci" 16 19 19 1.14% 20
5 Ron "Almeno pensami" 1 7 7 7.13% 4
6 Max Gazzè "La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno" 5 4 6 6.93% 6
7 Annalisa "Il mondo prima di te" 6 6 3 8.31% 3
8 Renzo Rubino "Custodire" 17 12 11 2.69% 13
9 Decibel "Lettera dal Duca" 17 15 15 1.99% 16
10 Ornella Vanoni feat. Bungaro & Pacifico "Imparare ad amarsi" 2 4 8 7.07% 5
11 Giovanni Caccamo "Eterno" 11 13 10 2.99% 10
12 Lo Stato Sociale "Una vita in vacanza" 8 1 2 10.50% 2
13 Roby Facchinetti & Riccardo Fogli "Il segreto del tempo" 17 19 12 1.70% 18
14 Diodato & Roy Paci "Adesso" 6 2 9 6.78% 8
15 Nina Zilli "Senza appartenere" 11 17 18 1.94% 17
16 Noemi "Non smettere mai di cercarmi" 17 14 16 2.09% 14
17 Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro "Non mi avete fatto niente" 4 3 1 16.56% 1
18 Mario Biondi "Riederti" 9 17 20 1.69% 19
19 Le Vibrazioni "Così sbagliato" 13 8 17 2.82% 11
20 Enzo Avitabile feat. Peppe Servillo "Il coraggio di ogni giorno" 13 10 14 2.79% 12
Second Round – 10 February 2018
Draw Artist Song Jury
(50%)
Televote
(50%)
Total Place
1 Annalisa "Il mondo prima di te" 23.69% 23.49% 26.94% 3
2 Lo Stato Sociale "una vita in vacanza" 38.00% 22.10% 28.40% 2
3 Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro "Non mi avete fatto niente" 38.31% 54.41% 44.66% 1

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 took place at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal and consisted of two semi-finals on 8 and 10 May and the final on 12 May 2018.[6] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (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 a member of the "Big 5", Italy automatically qualified to compete in the final. In addition to their participation in the final, Italy was also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals.

Points awarded to Italy

Points awarded to Italy (final)
Televote
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Jury
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Points awarded by Italy

Split voting results

The following five members comprised the Italian jury:[7]

  • Silvia Gavarotti – Chairperson – singer
  • Antonella Nesi – journalist
  • Sandro Comini – conductor
  • Matteo Catalano – author
  • Barbara Mosconi – journalist
Split voting results from Italy (Semi-final 2)
Draw Country Jury Televote
A. Nesi S. Comini S. Gavarotti M. Catalano B. Mosconi Average Rank Points Rank Points
01 Norway13212112101
02 Romania121114171316112
03 Serbia139614710174
04 San Marino5693116515
05 Denmark2114321047
06 Russia6121218181492
07 Moldova310581774210
08 Netherlands141841248311
09 Australia728654712
10 Georgia15771191117
11 Poland1117101561283
12 Malta843283813
13 Hungary9151810101556
14 Latvia168137141316
15 Sweden41315915614
16 Montenegro18161713161818
17 Slovenia175115129265
18 Ukraine10141616151738
Split voting results from Italy (final)
Draw Country Jury Televote
A. Nesi S. Comini S. Gavarotti M. Catalano B. Mosconi Average Rank Points Rank Points
01 Ukraine24242025242538
02 Spain16171013121617
03 Slovenia23182122232422
04 Lithuania915915151413
05 Austria22103164715
06 Estonia112416227456
07 Norway2323311219
08 Portugal21212314212325
09 United Kingdom1095245621
10 Serbia201315231819101
11 Germany17164121083
12 Albania19126172515112
13 France41617671116
14 Czech Republic12201818171812
15 Denmark8111083874
16 Australia761912111223
17 Finland15222220132120
18 Bulgaria14231324192011
19 Moldova131914112017210
20 Sweden5142421210124
21 Hungary18252519142292
22 Israel38119109247
23 Netherlands17118891318
24 Ireland2547756514
25 Cyprus65125168365
26 Italy

References

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