Misplaced Pages

The Sanremo Music Festival 2022 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2022), officially the 72nd Italian Song Festival (72º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 72nd edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show was held between 1 and 5 February 2022, and was presented for the third time in a row by Amadeus, who also served as the artistic director for the competition, alongside a number of co-hosts.

The festival was won by Mahmood and Blanco with "Brividi", earning them the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, held on home soil in Turin; Mahmood had previously won Sanremo in 2019 and had represented Italy in that year's Eurovision.

Format

The 2022 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival took place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, organized by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition was Amadeus, for the third consecutive year.

The venue returned to its full capacity during the festival, after the presence of an audience was not allowed in the previous edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenters

In August 2021, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Together with Amadeus, five co-hosts alternated during the five evenings: Ornella Muti, Lorena Cesarini, Drusilla Foer, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Sabrina Ferilli.

Besides these, Orietta Berti and Fabio Rovazzi hosted parts of the show (for sponsorship reasons) from the cruise ship Costa Toscana off the shore of Sanremo.

Voting

Voting occurred through the combination of three methods:

• 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 1000 music fans who vote from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.

Their voting was articulated as follows:

• First two nights: half of the entrants were judged by three separate panels from the jury of the press room, TV, radio and web.
• Third night: all of the entrants were judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the demoscopic jury. The results were combined with those of the previous nights.
• Fourth night: the same systems used on the first three nights were put in place.
• Fifth night: the entrants were judged by 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.

Selections

Sanremo Giovani 2021

Unlike previous editions, the Newcomers' section was not included in the Festival, but a similar selection was held to decree the three places reserved in the Big Artist section. The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and Area Sanremo.

Standard selection

On 20 October 2021, the RAI commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2022 announced a list of 711 acts, but only 30 artists coming from all Italian regions – excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta – and from abroad were selected in the first phase.

On 22 November 2021, the RAI commission announced the eight finalists.

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, a RAI commission – composed by Amadeus, Gianmarco Mazzi, Claudio Fasulo, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo de Amicis – identified 4 finalists for the competition among the 330 acts:

Final

On 15 December 2021, the twelve finalists performed their songs at Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, with the show Sanremo Giovani 2021 broadcast on Rai 1 and presented by Amadeus. The three winners of the night, i.e. Yuman, Tananai and Matteo Romano, participated in Sanremo 2022 with a new entry.

Big Artists

The traditional Big Artists section of the contest was merged with the Newcomers' section, and saw the participation of 25 artists, 22 being selected among established artists as before and 3 qualifying from Sanremo Giovani. The former 22, selected from 343 submissions received, were revealed on 4 December 2021, and also attended the night of Sanremo Giovani on 15 December, where their competing songs' titles were also made known.

Competing entries

This section contains numerous links to pages on foreign language Wikipedias. They are shown as red links with the language codes in in brackets. Click on the language code to see the page in that language.

Shows

First night

The first twelve artists each performed their song.

Second night

The remaining thirteen artists each performed their song.

Third night

All of the twenty-five artists performed their songs once again.

Fourth night

The artists each performed a cover of a song from the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s. They could either perform alone or duet with a guest performer.

Fifth night

All of the artists performed their songs one last time, with the top three moving on to the final round of voting.

Controversies

On 31 January 2022, director of Rai 1 Stefano Coletta [it] publicly announced through a press conference that there would be no vaccine mandate for the Sanremo Music Festival 2022 singers as it would have breached the singers' right to privacy on their health status. This was highly criticized by the Italian public, resulting into a second declaration by Coletta, claiming that there was a "misunderstanding" and that the singers would also be required to show their proof of vaccination upon entrance at the festival.

Special guests

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2022 included:

• Singers / musicians: Arisa, Banda musicale della Guardia di Finanza [it], Cesare Cremonini, Colapesce & Dimartino, Ermal Meta, Gaia, Jovanotti, Laura Pausini, Malika Ayane, Måneskin, Marco Mengoni, Massimo Alberti, Meduza & Hozier, Mika, Orietta Berti, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
• Actors / comedians / directors / models: Anna Valle, Checco Zalone, Claudio Gioè, Filippo Scotti, Gaia Girace, Lino Guanciale, Margherita Mazzucco, Maurizio Lastrico [it], Nino Frassica, Raoul Bova, Rosario Fiorello
• Sports people: Elisa Balsamo, Matteo Berrettini, National rhythmic gymnastics team [it] (Agnese Duranti, Alessia Maurelli, Daniela Mogurean, Martina Centofanti, Martina Santandrea)
• Other persons or notable figures: Alessandro Cattelan, cast of Ballo, ballo, Fabio Rovazzi, Mara Venier, Martina Pigliapoco, Roberto Saviano, Sergio Japino [it]

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 brought the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings were also streamed online via the broadcaster's official website RaiPlay, which made it available in all member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, since the festival is broadcast on the Eurovision network.

Broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2023

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Italy	All shows	Rai 1	No commentary
		Rai Radio 2	Ema Stokholma [it] and Gino Castaldo [it]
		RaiPlay	No commentary
		Rai Italia (outside Italy)
Albania	All shows	RTSH Muzikë	No commentary
	Final	RTSH 1	Andri Xhahu and Blerina Shehu
Montenegro	All shows	TVCG 2	No commentary
Spain	Final	RTVE Play	Giuseppe di Bella and Fernando Macías
United Kingdom	Final	GlitterBeam Radio	Eugenio Ceriello, Michael Walton-Dalzell and guests

Ratings

See also

• Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Notes

1. Peppe Vessicchio was originally scheduled to conduct the band's performances before being found with COVID-19 and not being able to attend rehearsals. During the live shows, he was replaced by Simone Bertolotti on the first two occasions despite testing negative in time. He was present on the fourth night as one of the band's accompanying artists and on the fifth night as the orchestra conductor.
2. "Occhi di ragazza", "Un mondo d'amore", "Ragazzo fortunato" and "Penso positivo"
3. "Il mondo", "Figli delle stelle" and "Se mi lasci non vale"
4. "Fegato, fegato spappolato", "Deviazioni" and "Cosa succede in città"

References

1. Washak, James (20 January 2022). "Italy: Sanremo 2022 To Be Held With A Full Audience". Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
2. "Sanremo 2022, Amadeus annuncia le conduttrici". Adnkronos (in Italian). 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
3. "Sanremo: super green pass e tamponi, Ariston blindato". ansa.it (in Italian). ANSA. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
4. ^ Seclì, Daniela (30 January 2022). "Orietta Berti e Fabio Rovazzi a Sanremo 2022: "Saranno su una nave"". Fanpage (in Italian). Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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. "Sanremo 2022: via le Nuove Proposte (ma con una novità)". Vanity Fair Italia. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
7. ^ "Sanremo 2022: tre giovani accedono al Festival (ci saranno 25 cantanti)". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). 14 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
8. "Arrivate 711 domande di partecipazione". Rai. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
9. ^ "Sanremo Giovani 2021: i nomi dei finalisti". Rai (in Italian). 22 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
10. "Sono 330 gli iscritti ad 'Area Sanremo 2021' ma le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte per approdare a 'Sanremo Giovani'". Sanremonews.it (in Italian). 26 October 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
11. Rossini, Federico. "Sanremo Giovani 2021: ecco i 12 finalisti del 15 dicembre su Rai1". Retrieved 10 December 2021.
12. Minacci, Fabiano (14 December 2021). "Amadeus parla degli esclusi di Sanremo 2022: "Sono 321, mi dispiace"". Biccy (in Italian). Retrieved 15 December 2021.
13. "REGOLAMENTO SANREMO 2022" (PDF) (in Italian). RAI. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
14. Andaloro, Ivan (25 November 2021). "Sanremo 2022: Amadeus "Giuria esperti per decidere chi va ad Eurovision? No Grazie!". Si parla anche dei brani ricevuti, Gender equality e dei giovani". EIN (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
15. Granger, Anthony (2 December 2021). "🇮🇹 Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2022 Participants to be Revealed From Today". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
16. Cafarelli, Donato (16 December 2021). "Sanremo 2022: i titoli delle 25 canzoni in gara al Festival". Eurofestival News (in Italian). Retrieved 16 December 2021.
17. Scarpone, Cristian (4 December 2021). "Sanremo 2022: Elisa, Emma Marrone, Mahmood and Ana Mena among 22 confirmed participants". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
18. Cabona, Claudio (14 January 2022). "Festival di Sanremo 2022: tutti in cerca di musica leggerissima". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 14 January 2022.
19. Harlem Gospel Choir was absent during the 4th evening.
20. "Sanremo 2022, il Premio Lunezia va a Giovanni Truppi". rai.it (in Italian). RAI. 1 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
21. "Sanremo 2022, Yuman vince il Premio Enzo Jannacci NuovoIMAIE". nuovoimaie.it (in Italian). NuovoIMAIE. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
22. "Dopo il Covid Peppe Vessicchio non è al Teatro Ariston per Sanremo 2022". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
23. Leone, Tiziana (4 February 2022). "Sanremo 2022. Maria Chiara Giannetta sul palco per la serata delle cover. Amadeus commosso per la telefonata di Mattarella. Torna Peppe Vessicchio". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). Retrieved 4 February 2022.
24. ^ "Classifiche Festival di Sanremo 2022" (PDF) (in Italian). RAI. 6 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
25. "Sanremo 2022, scaletta quarta serata: duetti cantanti e cover". Adnkronos (in Italian). 4 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
26. "Sanremo 2022, "nessun obbligo di vaccino per i cantanti in gara": il direttore di Rai1 fa chiarezza". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 31 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
27. Puente, David (2 February 2022). "Nessun obbligo di vaccino per i cantanti a Sanremo? Serve il Green pass". Open (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2022.
28. "Checco Zalone al festival di Sanremo". ansa.it (in Italian). ANSA. 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
29. "Sanremo 2022: Cesare Cremonini sarà uno degli ospiti". Rolling Stone Italia (in Italian). 11 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
30. "Sanremo 2022, i Maneskin super-ospiti del Festival: l'anticipazione sull'annuncio di Amadeus al Tg1". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 16 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
31. "Sanremo 2022: Luca Argentero, Raoul Bova e Lino Guanciale ospiti speciali". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). 21 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
32. "Sanremo 2022: La serata conclusiva aperta dall'Inno di Mameli suonato dalla Banda Musicale della Guardia di Finanza" (Press release) (in Italian). RAI. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
33. "Sanremo, a sorpresa arriva Matteo Berrettini!". Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
34. Rullo, Floriana (2 February 2022). "Luca Argentero salta Sanremo, è morto il papà della moglie Cristina Marino". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
35. "Sanremo 2022, tegola per Amadeus: artisti positivi al Covid". iNews24 (in Italian). 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
36. "Radio2 a Sanremo – Extra". RaiPlay (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
37. "SANREMO 2022 drejtpërdrejt". tv.rtsh.al (in Albanian). RTSH. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
38. "Nacionalni javni servis :: Ostalo :: Sanremo 2022". rtcg.me (in Montenegrin). RTCG. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
39. Macías, Fernando (4 February 2022). "Vive la Final del Festival de San Remo, en RTVE Play". rtve.es (in European Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
40. "Sanremo Music Festival with English Commentary". glitterbeam.co.uk. GlitterBeam Radio. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
41. "Sanremo 2022, boom di ascolti per la prima serata: 10.911 milioni di ascoltatori, 54,7% di share". Rai News (in Italian). RAI. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
42. "Sanremo incassa nuovo record di ascolti". Rai News (in Italian). RAI. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
43. "Gli ascolti della terza serata di Amadeus: 54,1% di share e 9,3 milioni di telespettatori". Rai News (in Italian). RAI. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
44. "Gli ascolti della quarta serata del Festival 2022 (1)" (Press release) (in Italian). RAI. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
45. "Gli ascolti della quinta serata del Festival 2022 (1)" (Press release) (in Italian). RAI. 6 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

• 2022 in Italian music
• 2022 in Italian television
• 2022 song contests
• February 2022 events in Italy
• Eurovision Song Contest 2022
• Sanremo Music Festival by year