Eurovision veteran Mahmood with Blanco will be flying the Italian flag at home soil in Turin 2022 Eurovision song contest after taking a very convincing win at Sanremo festival 2022. It feels incredible it was only three years ago Mahmood won by surprise and caused quite a racistic stir in social medias and beyong, while his Soldi became a huge success all over Europe and not only and eventually finished second in Tel Aviv not so many points behind the winner Duncan Laurence. This time he or they won thanks to the public vote clear and pure unlike in 2019 when the haters blamed the media jury of dirty game pushing him up there.
If Mahmood has provided us already years with facial memes now Blanco will provide us even more, and not only facial memes from now on. As many have noted Mahmood has to babysit his crazy friend all the way to Turin and maybe beyond. These guys are fun!
Let's see in detail. The first night they won by the web jury and radio jury, while the printed media had them second behind La Rappresentante di Lista. The second night Elisa won every jury and took the first place ahead of them in the combined ranking.
The third night they were second again behind Elisa in the demoscopic jury, while they won clearly the televote (24,9%) over second placed Morandi (9,6%). Elisa was only fourth behind Irama, too, but the differences were minimal.
The covers night they were 3rd for the demoscopic jury behind Elisa and Morandi, for the press fourth behind Elisa, Morandi and La Rappresentate di lista. For the televote they were second won by Morandi, (19,2% vs. 13,3%).
The final night's first round they won again convincingly (21,18%) followed by Morandi (12,65%) and Irama (12,04%). Elisa was 4th (10,59%) so she secured her place in the Top-3 and got to the second round.
In the superfinal it was very clear and loud: Mahmood & Blanco scored 54,26% of the votes and won the other two juries as well. Morandi was second in the televote (23,79%) but third in the other juries, while Elisa got 21,95% of the televotes but finished second in the other juries.
Mahmood became the first one to win Sanremo again after Matia Bazar in 2002 and 1978 (with a very different members), while Blanco (18) became the youngest male artist to win it. Had Elisa win it she would have been the latest double winner (2001, 2022), as well as Morandi (1987, 2022) besides becoming the oldest one (77).
Brividi already broke the all time Italian record as the song with the most streams in a day and obvisouly went to number one in Italy, and number 5 in the global chart. In the weekly chart they debured at number six, all time high for an Italian song in the global chart. They also debuted at number one in the official Italian charts this week.
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