SANREMO 2015: THE NEWCOMERS FINAL AND BIG'S ELIMINATION TONIGHT

Sanremo's fourth night is ahead of us and tonight things get serious. First the four remaining Nuove proposte or Newcomers have their final in duels and we will have the winner of this category. The duels are as drawn this afternoon:

Amara - Credo Vs. KuTso - Elisa

Enrico Nigiotti - Qualcosa da decidere Vs. Giovanni Caccamo - Ritornerò da te

This blogger isn't happy at all as my ideal final would have been Nigiotti Vs Caccamo so now I can only hope Amara beats KuTso and then Caccamo beats Nigiotti and in the superfinal Amara.

The voting will be a 3some with televote (40%), expert jury (30%) and so called demoscopic jury (30%)

The Big artists will also all perform their songs and be voted the same 3some way. These votes are added to the votes received the first and second night, and in the end four of them will have to watch Saturday's final in TV like all of us.

Tonight's guests are The Avener, Giovanni Allievi, Virginia Raffaele and Antonio Conte.

Meanwhile Sanremo audience success continues. The third aka Covers night was watched by nearly 10,6 million people and share of 49,51%! That's about 3 million and 15% more than in 2014!

Meanwhile Nek has emerged as a betting odds favorite after his win last night wit covers and is at top with Il Volo, it's looking PERFECT for Eurovision, doesn't it? Nek is also the most played Sanremo song in the Italian radios the past three days with 507 plays, followed by Chiara (321), Malika (314), Annalisa (311) and Britti (290). Il Volo's flight haven't quite taken off yet, only 102!

Raf has been looking and sounding very bad this time but it has been kept secretuntil today he's suffering a bad bronchitis. He has been even taken to hospital but should make it tonight, as he tweets from hospital he's already feeling better. Or at least drugged with medicine.

Annalisa – Una finestra tra le stelle

Bianca Atzei – Il solo al mondo

Malika Ayane – Adesso e qui (nostalgico presente)

Biggio e Mandelli – Vita d’inferno

Alex Britti – Un attimo importante

Chiara – Straordinario

Dear Jack – Il mondo esplode tranne noi

Grazia Di Michele e Mauro Coruzzi – Io sono una finestra

Lara Fabian – Voce

Lorenzo Fragola – Siamo uguali

Irene Grandi – Un vento senza nome

Gianluca Grignani – Sogni infranti

Il Volo – Grande amore

Marco Masini – Che Giorno è

Moreno – Oggi ti parlo così

Nek – Fatti avanti amore

Nesli – Buona fortuna amore

Raf – Come una favola

Anna Tatangelo – Libera

Nina Zilli – Sola

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Today's funniest Eurovision related story comes from Belarus. Some sources claim Ivan wants to perform on stage naked and with live wolf or wolves. It surely would be a first on Eurovision stage! We have seen some forgotten underwear over the years, and some cardbox animals though..... Is it time to take things a bit further? No, according the rules live animals are not allowed, and Eurovision being a family show nudity won't do either. (It seems to be ok to be half naked if you are a dancer though..... )

CAROLA'S BOOBS STEAL THE SHOW, SVT APOLOGIES

Update! Another thing got Swedes talking last night: Carola's boobs when she was giving away an award. This is not the first time her boombs cause headlines; her misfortunate adventures in the 80's in Japan wer explained with her boobs being too big for Japanese market. Ok.... Or was it the song ? Anyways, Carola apologies and says she thinks the dress is stylish and elegant (even her friends said so) and she's a mature woman in her 40s, not a 16-year-old girl and looks like one. The Swedish Oscars, Guldbagge awards were given out last night. Carola was there as a guest star to sing Barbra Streisand's The way we were when honoring the movie stars who passed away during 2012. However, the cameras were too much on Carola, not on the stars showed in photos in the background and that upset many viewers as that part of the show was to celebrate them, not Carola. Oh well... The producer of the show tells in Aftonbladet the part of the show was made the sam...

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Rumors, rumors, rumors....

While the national selections for Junior Eurovision are going on around Europe and Ani Lorak's been confirmed as host all sort of rumors about the real thing are beginning to be the order of the day. Austria returns - or then not. Andorra stays home - or then not. San Marino returns - well, most likely but not surely. Luxembourg should make a come back - or then maybe not. Liechtenstein is still in the running - or has it ever been for real? Has the local TV ever confirmed anything? Is it just wishful thinking by the fans? Poland on the other hand has confirmed they will be in Oslo. And Italy will be still out. And apparently there will be no ban or such for Azerbaijan nor Spain for the irregularities in and after the 2009 edition. EBU had to change the text in the rules to make it sure nothing like that what happened in Azerbaijan could happen again. Or if it will they have means and rules to back up a ban or sanction.... Katerina Avgoustakis has been rumored to be in Oslo...

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