The Italian broadcaster RAI has published the new rules for this year’s edition of the Festival di Sanremo on its website.
Following a more recent interview with Amadeus that took place yesterday (09/07/2023), earlier today the Italian broadcaster RAI has published the new rules and regulation for the 76th Edition of the Festival of the Italian Song, aka Festival di Sanremo. The new rules are available on RAI’s website.
As we already know, the final of Sanremo Giovani will take place on December 20th, 2023. Among the 12 artists participating, 3 of them will have the opportunity to go straight to the Festival di Sanremo 2024. Together with the 3 “new artists”, 23 new unpublished songs will compete from February 6th to February 10th in order to win this year’s edition.
The nights are organised as follows:
Night One – Tuesday 06/02/2024
All of the 26 competing artists will have the chance to present their song. All the songs will be voted only by a jury composed by professional journalists from television and web outlets. RAI will then proceed to announce the top 5 songs that received the most votes.
Night Two – Wednesday 07/02/2024
The first half of the competing artists (13 artists) will perform their entries again. This time, the songs will be voted by the public at home (50% of the result) and by a jury made up of radio broadcasters (50% of the result). RAI will then proceed to announce the top 5 songs that received the most votes that night.
Night Three – Thursday 08/02/2024
The second half of the competing artists (13 artists) will perform their entries again. As with the previous night the songs will be voted by the public from home (50% of the result) and by a jury made up of radio broadcasters (50% of the result). RAI will then proceed to announce the top 5 songs that received the most votes that night.
Night Four – Friday 09/02/2024
Every act will perform a cover of another song, be it in Italian or in English (or any other foreign language). The competing artists will also have the opportunity to perform it with a guest artist, not competing in this year’s edition of the Festival.
The songs will be voted by the public from home (34% of the result), by the professional jury of journalists (33% of the result), and by the professional jury of radio broadcasters (33% of the result). RAI will then proceed to announce the top 5 songs that received the most votes that night. The artist that has received the largest number of votes will be announced as the winner of the fourth night. A new ranking is created.
Night Five – Saturday 10/02/2024
All of the artists will return and perform their songs again. These will be voted by the public from home only: the average between the new ranking and the previous one will determine the final definitive ranking. The top 5 songs will have the chance to perform again and, this time, they will be voted by by the public from home (34% of the result), by the professional jury of journalists (33% of the result), and by the professional jury of radio broadcasters (33% of the result). The song that received the most votes will then be announced as the winner of Sanremo 2024.
In addition to this, the artists that are not competing on the second night will assist Amadeus and help him host. The same goes for the artists that are not competing on the third night.
The artists competing in the Festival di Sanremo 2024 are expected to be announced at the end of this year.
Image source: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU | Source: RAI.IT
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 three times, the first time being in 1964 and the latest being in 2021. 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 ten occasions.
