The Grand Final of Festival di Sanremo 2020 had the highest viewing share since the 2002 contest.
An average of 11,477,000 viewers followed the final of Festival di Sanremo, with a share of 60.2% of the viewing audience. The contest had its highest audience share since the 2002 contest. Overall a total of 29.202 million people watched at least one minute of the competition, an increase of 2 million over last years contest.
Italy is being represented by Diodato at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest having won with the song “Fai rumore”. The full results were as follows:
- “Fai rumore”, Diodato (1st)
- “Viceversa”, Francesco Gabbani (2nd)
- “Ringo Starr”, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (3rd)
- “Dov’è”, Le Vibrazioni (4th)
- “Gigante”, Piero Pelù (5th)
- “Ho amato tutto”, Tosca (6th)
- “Andromeda”, Elodie (7th)
- “Me ne frego”, Achille Lauro (8th)
- “Finalmente io”, Irene Grandi (9th)
- “Eden”, Rancore (10th)
- “Carioca”, Raphael Gualazzi (11th)
- “Tikibombom”, Levante (12th)
- “Rosso di rabbia”, Anastasio (13th)
- “Il sole ad est”, Alberto Urso (14th)
- “Il confronto”, Marco Masini (15th)
- “Voglio parlarti adesso”, Paolo Jannacci (16th)
- “Niente (Resilienza 74)”, Rita Pavone (17th)
- “Nell’estasi o nel fango”, Michele Zarrillo (18th)
- “Baciami adesso”, Enrico Nigiotti (19th)
- “Come mia madre”, Giordana Angi (20th)
- “Musica (e il resto scompare)”, Elettra Lamborghini (21st)
- “No grazie”, Junior Cally (22nd)
- “Lo sappiamo entrambi”, Riki (23rd)
Source: Eurofestival News
Italy debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 and has participated a total of 42 times to date. Italy returned to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011 having last participated in the contest in 1997, the country has withdrawn from the contest on a number of occasions in the past. Italy has won the contest twice, the first time being in 1964 and the latest being in 1990. Italy’s hosting of the contest in 1991 has been remembered as one of the most chaotic contests to date. Since their return in 2011 Italy has finished in the top 10 on seven occasions.