Sanremo Music Festival 2021

The Sanremo Music Festival 2021 (Italian: 71º Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2021) will be the 71st edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo and organised and broadcast by RAI. The show will be held between 2 and 6 March 2021.[1][2]

Sanremo Music Festival
71st edition (2021)
Dates2 March 2021 (1st night)
3 March 2021 (2nd night)
4 March 2021 (3rd night)
5 March 2021 (4th night)
6 March 2021 (5th night)
Presenter(s)Amadeus and Fiorello
Artistic director(s)Amadeus
Orchestra leaderLeonardo De Amicis
BroadcasterRai 1, Rai Radio 2, Rai Italia, Eurovision
VenueTeatro Ariston
(Sanremo, Liguria, Italy)
Big Artists section
Entries26 acts (26 songs)
Newcomers' section
Entries8 acts (8 songs)
Eurovision Song Contest
Selection processWinning act of the Big Artists section will be invited to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Sanremo Music Festival chronology
← 2021 →

The show will be presented by Amadeus, who also serves as the artistic director for the competition. Fiorello will return as co-host after appearing as a regular guest in the previous edition.[2]

Format

The 2021 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, organized by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition will be Amadeus, for the second consecutive year.

For the first time in its history, the 2021 Sanremo Music Festival will take place without a live audience, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4]

Presenters

Shortly after the end of the 2020 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 71st edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Together with Amadeus, Italian comedian and television presenter Fiorello will return, after appearing as a regular guest in the previous edition, to cover the role of co-host for the second consecutive year.[2]

Voting

Voting will occur through the combination of four methods:[5]

  • Public televoting, carried out via landline, mobile phone, the contest's official mobile app, and online voting.
  • Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web.
  • Demoscopic jury, composed by music fans who voted from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.
  • Musicians and singers of the Sanremo Music Festival Orchestra.

Voting during the five evenings for Big Artist section:[5]

  • First evening: Demoscopic jury.
  • Second evening: Demoscopic jury.
  • Third evening: Music and singers of the Sanremo Music Festival Orchestra.
  • Fourth evening: Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web.
  • Fifth evening: Televote. At the end, a ranking of the songs/artists will be drawn up determined by the average of voting percentages obtained in all the evenings, determining the three finalist. To select the winner the voting systems will have the following weight: 34% Public televoting; 33% Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web; 33% Demoscopic Jury.

Voting during the three evenings for Newcomers' section:[5]

  • First evening: The voting systems will have the following weight: 34% Public televoting; 33% Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web; 33% Demoscopic Jury.
  • Second evening: The voting systems will have the following weight: 34% Public televoting; 33% Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web; 33% Demoscopic Jury.
  • Fourth evening: The voting systems will have the following weight: 34% Public televoting; 33% Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web; 33% Demoscopic Jury.

Selections

Newcomers' section

The artists competing in the Newcomers' section were selected through two separate contests: Sanremo Giovani and Area Sanremo.[6][7]

Sanremo Giovani 2020

On 7 October 2020, Rai Commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2020 announced a list of 961 acts, but only 61 artists coming from all Italian regions -excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta- and from abroad were selected in the first phase.

On 20 October 2020, the jury of Sanremo Festival 2021 has selected the 20 semi-finalists. The selection was preceded by five late night shows on "AmaSanremo", conducted by Amadeus and Riccardo Rossi, where the artists and their entries were presented and were selected the 10 finalist.[8]

On 17 December 2020, the ten finalists performed their songs at Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, with the show Sanremo Giovani 2020 broadcast on Rai 1 presented by Amadeus and Riccardo Rossi. The six selected by the jury composed by Luca Barbarossa, Beatrice Venezi and Piero Pelù, televote and music commission were added to the two entries of Area Sanremo, for a total of eight young emerging artists in the category of the Newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2021. Gaudiano, Folcast, Greta Zuccoli, Davide Shorty, Wrongonyou and Avincola were chosen as contestants of the Newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2021.[9]

  Enters Sanremo 2021
Draw Artist Song TV Jury Music Comm. Televote Total
1 Folcast "Scopriti" 28 10.65% 12.41% 11.81% 11.62%
2 Greta Zuccoli "Ogni cosa sa di te" 28 10.65% 12.41% 11.98% 11.68%
3 Wrongonyou "Lezioni di volo" 30 11.41% 12.41% 7.26% 10.33%
4 Gaudiano "Polvere da sparo" 29 11.03% 12.41% 10.71% 11.38%
5 I Desideri "Lo stesso cielo" 20 7.60% 6.20% 15.03% 9.67%
6 Avincola "Goal!" 24 9.13% 12.41% 10.64% 10.72%
7 Hu "Occhi Niagara" 30 11.41% 12.41% 5.80% 9.83%
8 M.e.r.l.o.t "Sette volte" 21 7.98% 9.51% 7.76% 7.32%
9 Davide Shorty "Regina" 25 9.51% 6.70% 13.55% 9.95%
10 Le Larve "Musicareoplano" 28 10.65% 6.45% 5.46% 7.50%

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, RAI Commission - composed by Vittorio De Scalzi, Rossana Casale, Gianmaurizio Foderaro, Erica Mou and G-Max; plus the participation of Maurilio Giordana - identified 8 finalists for the competition among the 600 acts:[10]

  • Aurora Fadell
  • Dellai
  • Elena Faggi
  • Federica Marinari
  • Francesca Miola
  • Guasto
  • Luca Dardenzio
  • Mirall

Newcomers' Finalists
  • Gaudiano - "Polvere da sparo"
  • Folcast - "Scopriti"
  • Greta Zuccoli - "Ogni cosa sa di te"
  • Davide Shorty - "Regina"
  • Wrongonyou - "Lezioni di volo"
  • Avincola - "Goal!"
  • Elena Faggi - "Che ne so"
  • Dellai - "Io sono Luca"

Big section

The Big Artists section of the contest will see the participation of 26 artists. All the artists will perform and be scored throughout the week, but every competing artist will advance to the final night.[11][12]

Competing entries
Competing songs and artists, showing writers, orchestra conductor and results achieved
Big Artists section[12][13]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) Orchestra conductor Rank Sanremo Music Festival Awards
"Ora" – Aiello
(Antonio Aiello)
"Dieci" – Annalisa
(Annalisa Scarrone, Davide Simonetta, Jacopo Ettorre, Dario "Dardust" Faini)
"Potevi fare di più" – Arisa
(Gigi D'Alessio)
"E invece sì" – Bugo
(Bugo, Simone Bertolotti, Andrea Bonomo)
"Musica leggerissima" – Colapesce & Dimartino
(Lorenzo "Colapesce" Ucillo, Antonio Di Martino, Federico Nardelli, Giordano Colombo)
"Fiamme negli occhi" – Coma_Cose
(Fausto Zanardelli, Francesca Mesiano)
"Un milione di cose da dirti" – Ermal Meta
(Ermal Meta, Roberto Cardelli, Cristian Milani)
"Bianca luce nera" – Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo
(Pacifico, Mirco Mariani)
"Parlami" – Fasma
(Tiberio "Fasma" Fazioli)
"Chiamami per nome" – Francesca Michielin & Fedez
(Mahmood, Davide Simonetta, Alessandro Raina, Fedez, Francesca Michielin)
"Quando trovo te" – Francesco Renga
(Roberto Casalino, Davide Petrella)
"Santa Marinella" – Fulminacci
(Filippo "Fulminacci" Uttinacci, Tommaso Colliva)
"Cuore amaro" – Gaia
(Gaia Gozzi, Jacopo Ettorre, Daniele Dezi, Simone Privitera, Giorgio Spedicato)
"Momento perfetto" – Ghemon
(Ghemon, Simone Privitera, Daniele Raciti)
"Arnica" – Gio Evan
(Giovanni "Gio Evan" Giancaspro)
"La genesi del tuo colore" – Irama
(Irama, Giulio Nenna, Dario "Dardust" Faini)
"Amare" – La Rappresentante di Lista
(Veronica Lucchesi, Dario Mangiaracina, Dario "Dardust" Faini)
"Combat Pop" – Lo Stato Sociale
(Lodovico Guenzi, Alberto Gazzola, Francesco Draicchio, Matteo Romagnoli,
Alberto Guidetti, Enrico Roberto, Jacopo Ettorre)
"Voce" – Madame
(Francesca "Madame" Calearo, Dario "Dardust" Faini, Enrico "Estremo" Botta)
"Ti piaci così" – Malika Ayane
(Malika Ayane, Pacifico, Alessandra Flora, Rocco "Congorock" Rampino)
"Zitti e buoni" – Måneskin
(Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Victoria De Angelis)
"Il farmacista" – Max Gazzè & La Trifluoperazina Monstery Band
(Max Gazzè, Francesco Gazzè)
"Glicine" – Noemi
(Mahmood, Ginevra Lubrano, Francesco Fugazza, Dario "Dardust" Faini)
"Quando ti sei innamorato" – Orietta Berti
(Ciro Esposito, Francesco Boccia, Marco Rettani, Vincenzo "Enzo" Campagnoli)
"Torno a te" – Random
(Emanuele "Random" Caso, Samuel Balice)
"Mai dire mai (La locura)" – Willie Peyote
(Guglielmo "Willie Peyote" Bruno)
Newcomers' section[9]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) Orchestra conductor Rank Sanremo Music Festival Awards
"Goal!" – Avincola
(Simone Avincola)
"Regina" – Davide Shorty
(Davide Sciortino, Claudio Guarcello, Davide Savarese, Emanuele Triglia)
"Io sono Luca" – Dellai
(Luca Dellai, Matteo Dellai)
"Che ne so" – Elena Faggi
(Elena Faggi, Francesco Faggi)
"Scopriti" – Folcast
(Daniele "Folcast" Folcarelli, Tommaso Colliva, Raffaele Scogna)
"Polvere da sparo" – Gaudiano
(Luca Gaudiano, Francesco Cataldo)
"Ogni cosa sa di te" – Greta Zuccoli
(Greta Zuccoli)
"Lezioni di volo" – Wrongonyou
(Marco "Wrongonyou" Zitelli, Adel Al Kassem, Riccardo Sciré)

Special guests

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2021 are:[14][15]

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 will bring the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings will be also streamed online via the broadcaster's official website RaiPlay.

Ratings Sanremo Music Festival 2021

The audience is referred to that of Rai 1.

Live Show Timeslot (UTC+1) Date 1st time
(9.00pm - 0.00am)		 2nd time
(0.00am - 1.30am)		 Overall audience
Viewers Share (%) Viewers Share (%) Viewers Share (%)
1st
9:00 pm
 March 2
2nd March 3
3rd March 4
4th March 5
5th March 6

International broadcast

The international television service Rai Italia broadcast the competition in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The contest will also be streamed via the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.

References
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  2. "Coletta, Sanremo 2021 con Amadeus e Fiorello". Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. eurofestival (2021-02-04). "Il Cts approva il protocollo Rai: Sanremo 2021 si farà". Eurofestival News (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  4. "Sanremo. Protocollo Rai: niente pubblico all'Ariston, domani invio al Cts". rainews (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  5. ""71° Festival della Canzone Italiana" Seconda Modifica Regolamento di SANREMO 2021" (PDF). rai.it (in Italian). 17 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  6. "Sanremo Giovani giunge all'ultima sfida. Chi merita e chi no il pass per Sanremo 2021". 2020-12-18.
  7. "Online il regolamento di Sanremo Giovani 2020". Rai. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  8. "AmaSanremo: le pagelle dei venti finalisti". Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  9. "Sanremo Giovani 2021, i vincitori: i cantanti al Festival nella sezione Nuove Proposte". tg24.sky.it (in Italian). 17 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  10. "Area Sanremo, ecco gli 8 vincitori". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). 18 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  11. "Un'anteprima del Festival #Sanremo2021, Amadeus: 26 big in gara". Rai. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  12. "Sanremo 2021: svelati da Amadeus i nomi e le canzoni dei 26 cantanti in gara". iodonna.it. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  13. "Sanremo 2021, i 26 Campioni in gara e le 8 Nuove Proposte". Rai (in Italian). 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  14. "Sanremo, Amadeus: "Achille Lauro ospite fisso, Elodie una delle co-conduttrici"". 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  15. "Amadeus, Achille Lauro e Elodie a Sanremo, Ibra ospite fisso - Tv". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
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