San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

San Marino participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Sammarinese national broadcaster Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV) internally selected Valentina Monetta with "Maybe" to represent the nation in the contest. Monetta had previously represented San Marino in both the 2012 and 2013 contests, though both entries failed to qualify for the grand final. The 2014 entry was promoted through the creation of music videos in both English and Italian, and a promotional tour that included stops in Amsterdam, Moscow and London. San Marino performed 12th in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, held on 6 May 2014, and placed 10th, receiving 40 points. The entry qualified for the grand final held four days later, where the nation placed 24th with 14 points. This marked their best placing to this point.

Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Country San Marino
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)Artist: 19 June 2013
Song: 14 March 2014
Selected entrantValentina Monetta
Selected song"Maybe"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (10th, 40 points)
Final result24th, 14 points
San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Background
Main article: San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2014 contest, San Marino had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest four times since their debut in the 2008 contest.[1] For all of these appearances, Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV) hosted internal selection processes, choosing the band Miodio with the song "Complice" for 2008, Senit with "Stand By" for 2011, and Valentina Monetta for 2012 and 2013 with "The Social Network Song" and "Crisalide (Vola)", respectively.[2][3][4][5] All competed in the respective semi-finals of their contests, but failed to qualify for the grand final.[1] To this point, the nation's best placing in the contest was 11th in the semi-finals, which they achieved in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.[1] San Marino did not compete in the 2009 or 2010 contests, citing financial difficulties.[6][7]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

Similar to their previous entries, SMRTV sought to internally select their entry for 2014. On 19 June 2013, a month after the conclusion of the 2013 contest, the broadcaster announced that they had selected Valentina Monetta to represent San Marino for a third consecutive year.[8] The song's presentation was then set for 14 March 2014.[9]

On 13 March 2014, a day prior to the song's official unveiling, snippets of a song titled "Maybe" and its Italian-language version "Forse" were available for preview and pre-order at digital download outlets.[10] Versions included ESC and radio edits in both English and Italian, as well as a dance remix of the English version.[11] Media outlets suggested these were signs that "Maybe" (and/or "Forse") was the song to be presented the following day and the presence of both English- and Italian-language versions meant that the ultimate version was still being discussed.[10][11]

During the special presentation program on 14 March 2014 titled Verso Copenhagen and hosted by Sammarinese Head of Delegation Alessandro Capicchioni, the English version "Maybe" was presented as the selected entry.[12] In an interview with ESCToday, Monetta stated that she opted to sing in English so that the song could be more broadly understood.[13] The programme was also available to view online through both SMRTV's website and the official Eurovision website.[11] Both versions of the song were composed by Ralph Siegel with lyrics by Mauro Balestri.[14] Siegal and Balestri began composing several songs in July 2013, for which Monetta recorded demos in Forte dei Marmi, Italy and at Siegel's studio in Munich, Germany. The remaining songs that were under consideration were released as part of Monetta's third studio album Sensibilit.[15]

Promotion

To promote the entry, music videos for both "Maybe" and "Forse" were released.[16][17] Directed by Michele Massari, the former video was shot at SMRTV's studio and at a beach in Rimini, Italy.[14][18] Monetta staged a promotion tour, appearing on 5 April 2014 in the sixth annual Eurovision in Concert series, an event held at club Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands that was staged to serve as a preview party for the year's entries.[19][20] She also traveled to Moscow in Russia and Brighton and London of the United Kingdom.[13][21]

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 took place at B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen, Denmark. It consisted of two semi-finals held on 6 and 8 May, respectively, and the grand final on 10 May 2014.[22] According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host nation and the "Big Five", consisting of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, were required to qualify from one of the two semi-finals to compete for the grand final; the top 10 countries from the respective semi-finals would proceed to the final.[23]

On 20 January 2014, an allocation draw was held at Copenhagen City Hall that placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, with San Marino being placed into the second half of the first semi-final.[24] Once all of the competing songs for the Eurovision Song Contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the producers of the event rather than through another draw.[25] On 24 March, the running order was published, with the nation assigned position 12, following Moldova and preceding Portugal.[25]

Valentina Monetta performing "Maybe" in the 2014 contest, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Monetta performed "Maybe" in the first semi-final on 6 May 2014, appearing 12th out of the 16 countries.[23] Her performance was introduced by a 40-second-long postcard shot at San Marino's Torraccia airfield.[26] On stage, she was joined by four backing vocalists and accompanied on piano by composer Siegel.[27][28] The performance featured Monetta standing in a white dress on a glittery gold circular platform with bluish a fan-like cloth arrangement behind her.[23][28] Choreography for the performance was by art director Fabrizio Raggi, who also served in that role the previous year.[14] At the end of voting, San Marino placed 10th with a score of 40 points, thus qualifying for the grand final.[29]

During the winner's press conference for the first semi-final qualifiers, San Marino was allocated to compete in the second half of the grand final.[30] Their qualification marked the first time San Marino qualified for the grand final since their debut in the contest in 2008. In the grand final, the producers of the show decided that San Marino would perform 25th, following the Netherlands and preceding the United Kingdom.[31] In the grand final, held on 10 May, San Marino placed 24th out of the 26 participants, scoring 14 points.[32] This placement marked nation's highest placing in the contest to this point.[1]

In San Marino, both the semi-finals and the grand final were broadcast on SMRTV and Radio San Marino with commentary by Lia Fiorio and Gigi Restivo.[33] An alternative broadcast of the semi-finals and the grand final were also broadcast online on the SMRTV website with English commentary by John Kennedy O'Connor and Jamarie Milkovic.[34]

Voting

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to and awarded by San Marino in the first semi-final and grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. The Sammarinese votes in the semi-final and the grand final were based solely on the jury's vote due to an insufficient number of votes cast during the televote period.[35][36][37] The spokesperson revealing the result of the Sammarinese vote in the grand final was San Marino's representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Michele Perniola.[27][38]

Points awarded to San Marino
Points awarded to San Marino (Semi-final 1)[39]
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded by San Marino (Grand final)[40]
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Points awarded by San Marino

Detailed jury voting results

The following five members comprised the Sammarinese jury:[41]

  • Sara Ghiotti – Chairperson – musician, speech therapist
  • Lorenzo Salvatori – rapper
  • Andrea Gattei – DJ, composer
  • Maria Ugolini – singer
  • Paolo Macina – guitarist
Jury results (Semi-final 1)[36]
Draw Country S. Ghiotti L. Salvatori A. Gattei M. Ugolini P. Macina Average Jury Rank Scoreboard (Points)
01  Armenia 7 1 3 2 3 2 10
02  Latvia 12 5 9 8 13 9 2
03  Estonia 8 15 10 13 12 13
04  Sweden 6 9 4 7 7 8 3
05  Iceland 13 3 6 5 1 4 7
06  Albania 4 8 5 3 9 6 5
07  Russia 10 14 11 12 11 12
08  Azerbaijan 1 6 7 1 14 5 6
09  Ukraine 3 7 12 9 2 7 4
10  Belgium 9 12 8 11 15 10 1
11  Moldova 11 13 15 15 6 14
12  San Marino
13  Portugal 14 11 14 14 8 15
14  Netherlands 2 4 1 4 5 1 12
15  Montenegro 15 10 13 10 10 11
16  Hungary 5 2 2 6 4 3 8
Jury results (Grand final)[37]
Draw Country S. Ghiotti L. Salvatori A. Gattei M. Ugolini P. Macina Average Jury Rank Scoreboard (Points)
01  Ukraine 10 20 16 14 4 13
02  Belarus 21 21 10 21 25 22
03  Azerbaijan 3 3 1 7 3 1 12
04  Iceland 2 6 9 5 2 3 8
05  Norway 19 14 8 13 7 12
06  Romania 24 25 23 24 23 25
07  Armenia 9 1 15 4 1 5 6
08  Montenegro 8 13 19 18 18 18
09  Poland 25 23 24 25 6 23
10  Greece 23 16 25 23 9 21
11  Austria 5 22 13 3 24 14
12  Germany 12 5 14 9 20 11
13  Sweden 1 4 6 1 10 2 10
14  France 11 15 21 20 15 19
15  Russia 22 24 20 22 22 24
16  Italy 20 10 17 17 12 17
17  Slovenia 15 18 22 19 17 20
18  Finland 17 17 5 8 5 8 3
19  Spain 18 12 12 16 16 16
20   Switzerland 16 9 18 11 19 15
21  Hungary 6 2 7 6 8 4 7
22  Malta 14 11 2 10 11 7 4
23  Denmark 4 19 3 12 21 10 1
24  Netherlands 13 7 4 15 13 9 2
25  San Marino
26  United Kingdom 7 8 11 2 14 6 5

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