Sanremo 2022 rules and other info has been revealed. There are changes to voting, and next year there will 24 Big artists, two of them coming from the Newcomers Sanremo Giovani 2021 selection that is the biggest change really, or no more two different categories. This isn't anything new either as already 2019 this was tried out and gave us Mahmood.
For the Giovani selection there were 711 submissions out of which 30 acts will be invited to live auditions on November 8 in Rome. A special invitation there is also for Castrocaro winner Simo Veludo. Eight of them will make to the televised selection in December, with addition of four acts from Area Sanremo. That's doubled to previous years when only two made it that way. Each of the chosen ones has had to have two songs ready already and has input in decision; one for the Giovani selection and one new one for the Sanremo itself.
As already common, the same phrase is in the rules: The winner goes to Eurovision if only has agreed and signed the papers beforehand.If not, Rai will choose whoever they please with whatever criteria they please.
The first two nights 12 Big acts will performs their songs each and are voted this way: Print press and television accredited journalists 33%, those of radio 34% and finally those of web 33%.
The third night all 24 will perform their songs and are voted this way: televote 50% and Demoscopic jury of 1000 persons 50%.
The fourth night is dedicated to the covers, this time any song released between 1960 and 1989 will do, Italian or international. With guest acts or not. And yes there's the voting (this is just so stupid) that contributes to the final result: televote 34%, press vote (all combined unlike the first two nights) 33% and Demoscopic jury 33%.
The fifth and final night will feature all 24 again, voted first by televote 100%. The votes will be added to the those of previous nights and we will have a Top-3 who will face another vote with previous votes zeroed: televote 34%, press vote 33% and Demoscopic jury 33%. Should there be a tie televote wins. After all these confusing voting methods and combinations we will have a winner, and the entry for the home soil Eurovision in Torino in May!
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