ITALY: SANREMO 2020 QUARTA SERATA/FOURTH NIGHT - LIVE BLOGGING AND COMMENTING

Sanremo 2020 continues its almost unexpected success. The third night scored an average share of 54,5% or 9,8 million viewers, the highest since 1997 and 8% more than last year. Tonight Amadeus with Fiorello and Tiziano Ferro will present the show with presenter Antonella Clerici and Francesca Sofia Novello, a model and Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi's girlfriend.

The guest stars will be Dua Lipa, Ghali, Johnny Dorelli and Gianna Nannini.

The Big will be voted tonight by accredited press only. and their votes will be added to the ones from previous nights.

The Newcvomers will have their final tonight and they will be voted by Demoscopic jury (33%), accredited press (33%) and televote (34%), with the usual duel system.

Ok, we started the night with the official ranking of the three nights and it isn't apparently as simple maths as it seemed in my pevious post as Gabbani is in the lead still!

1. Gabbani, 2. Le Vibrazioni, 3. Pelù, 4. Tosca, 5. Pinguini, 6. Diodato, 7. Elodie, 8. Masini, 9. Grandi, 10. Zarrillo, 11. Levante, 12. Anastasio, 13. Urso, 14. Gualazzi, 15. Jannacci, 16. Nigiotti, 17. Anfi, 18. Lauro, 19. Pavone, 20. Rancore, 21. Riki, 22. Elettra, 23. Junior Cally, 24. Bugo e Morgan

First Newcomers duel follows immediately and both Tecla and Marco perform with more security and relax. Very different looks and songs. I won't even try to guess, Tecla making it this far was already a surprise.... and yes, she goes to the final with her very classic ballad.
Also in second duel a classic Sanremo (with Lion King ending) versus something a bit different with autotune. I may have a preference for Fasma.... who seems extremely nervous again. And Leo wins with the smallest possible difference. The Newcomers final will be very traditional then.
Why I have a feeling Tecla is going to win this? She'd be the first female winner since Arisa in 2009. Or will Leo's surname have better on her?

Tecla Insolia - 8 Marzo 55%

Marco Sentieri - Billy Blu 45%

Gassmann - Vai bene cosi 50,1%

Fasma - Per sentirmi vivo 49.9%

Recap and advertising, the Newcomers final is on....... Of course we won't have time for them to sing their songs again because there are so many other guests and things coming in the next 4-5 hours.... No further comment. It's only the final of Nuove proposte of the Festival della canzone Italiana, who cares?

... meanwhile Sanremorai publishes and then cancels this...... Think what you want....

Eh no, the winner is Leo Gassman with 52,5%. Meanwhile the Critic's awards go to Eugenio in Via Gioia (Mia Martini) and Tecla (Lucia Dalla)

22.01 starts the Big competition for tonight.....

Paolo Jannacci – Voglio parlarti adesso **

22.09 Ok, one Big down, let's have something else, like Tiziano Ferro...

Fiorello joins later for Finalmente tu and a gay kiss. Che scandalo!

22.19 Entra Antonella Clerici. Un mito.

22.29 Ok, let's have more guests.... Dua Lipa now. To be honest I have no idea about her music and after this I don't have any urge to go and check her out. Yawn. The back to competition with Rancore...

Rancore – Eden ****

Giordana Angi – Come mia madre **

Francesco Gabbani – Viceversa *****

Raphael Gualazzi – Carioca****

Pinguini Tattici Nucleari – Ringo Starr ***

Anastasio – Rosso di rabbia **

Panico, panico..... #twitterdown! But incredibly we have had six songs in a row without major interruptions! And after the other co-hostess enters we go on.... Hard to believe but true!

Elodie – Andromeda *****

23.20 Re-enter Tiziano Ferro with Luca Barbarossa's winner Portami a ballare......

Riki – Lo sappiamo entrambi **

It was all going too fast so let's have Fiorello on stage again. I like him but am I getting a bit too huge dose of him this week? Nah..... right after he goes on the how older men pee and other problems as he's turning 60 and .... well.... Gotta love him! Piscismo!

23.45 Enter Tony Renis.... Mr Quando quando quando, Grande grande grande etc.... Quando quando quando must be the most known Italian song with Volare, and the most used one in American movies was told. After that an hommage to legendary journalist Vincenzo Mollica, 30 years in Sanremo and now he's last one working for Rai....

... and then yet another guest star, Ghali. Actually I do like some of his songs. But can't help wondering why Mahmood is not here, or is it he's in America performing?

00.24 we go on.....

Diodato – Fai rumore ****

Irene Grandi – Finalmente io **

Achille Lauro – Me ne frego **

Piero Pelù – Gigante ****

00.55 Another guest act: Gianna Nannini with Coez.... OMG, she belts out Ragazzo dell'Europa, a very very old favorite of mine. All is forgiven. Sing Gianna sing!

Tosca – Ho amato tutto ****

Michele Zarrillo – Nell’estasi o nel fango ****

Junior Cally – No grazie **

Le Vibrazioni – Dov’è **

Alberto Urso – Il sole ad est **

Levante – Tikibombom ***

Bugo e Morgan – Sincero * DISQUALIFIED
Morgan changed the lyrics adressing them against Bugo, who did the only decent thing and walked out the stage.... #drama

Rita Pavone – Niente (Resilienza 74) *****

Enrico Nigiotti – Baciami adesso *

Elettra Lamborghini – Musica (e il resto scompare) **

Marco Masini – Il confronto **

02.10 It's official: Morgan and Bugo have been disqualified and the competition end here. Soon we will get the ranking of tonight voted by the press. One can already imagine it will be quite different from the one by Demoscopic jury. The votes ad to the total of previous three nights and the new full ranking will be revealed tomorrow in the beginning of the show......

And indeedsome major changes: Diodato winner tonight followed by Gabbani so he's certainly still number one. Rancore jumps to 7th, Achille Lauro 9th, Alberto Urso drops last, Zarrillo 20th......

2.24 (or 3.24 for me). The end. Good night!

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