SANREMO 2022 _ LA SERATA FINALE - WHO WINS AND GOES TO EUROVISION?

Last night's fourth night was a..... yes, you guessed it, a record breaking fourth night. With a share of 60,5%!!! and nearly 11,4 million viewers it is the most watched since 1995, and only third time the magic 60% has been broken. Streaming on RaiPlay has grown 90% (well, that's what you get when you lift the geoblock!), 7,4 million contacts on social medias and 4,4 million plays on demand. But let's leave all those figures behind and concentrate on tonight's final and a few comments on last night's karaoke night.

As much as I am not a fan of that covers night last night it was rather enjoyable. Some covers were far from good, some were nice, some were prettygood. The most talked one was of course Gianni Morandi enrolling Jovanotti next to him to belt out their biggest hits. Or not quite as they started of with Morandi's Euroviison entru Occhi di ragazza, not exactly a major hit for him. The controversies aside if that was fair or not as Jovanotti is a megastar to his own credit but they ended up winning the night pushing Morandi into overall Top-3 and a possible winner. Mahmood and Blanco were second and Elisa third cementing that trio as the most likely final top-3 unless likes of Irama and Sangiovanni manage to motivate all their fans to vote tonight.The insane factor in all this is in my opinion that this karaoke attributes to the final score making Sanremo a bit of The Voice or X Factor like when it should be only about the competing songs!

Tonight all 25 will perform again and are voted only by televote so prepare for rise in the ranking for certain Iramas, SanGiovannis, Aka7evens and Rkomis just to name a few. But as Mahmood & Blanco and Elisa have been reigning the show since the start their place in the Top-3 should be already a mathematic certainty. Who will join them between Morandi, Irama or Sangiovanni or a major surprise someone else will change matters in the super final with the Top-3. Thank heavens there press jury, demoscopic jury and televote decide in three way split rather than only televote.

I'm pretty sure Mahmood and Blanco are willing to do Eurovision (despite having a string of concerts booked in early May) and so does Elisa who missed her chance back in 2001 and enjoyed some fame and success abroad already then. She has a new 2-album coming out with songs both in Italian and in English and is surely ready to try the international career again. Morandi as a good sport might just pass as he's been there already decades ago. Or so I hope.

Tonight Amadeus will have next to him a wonderful actress Sabrina Ferilli. Marco Mengoni will be there as well as a tribute number to late Raffaella Carrà, and Orietta and Rovazzi have landed from the love boat to Teatro Ariston.

Below is the ranking so far including all four night's scores:

1. Mahmood & Blanco

2. Gianni Morandi

3. Elisa

4. Irama

5. Sangiovanni

6. Emma

7. la Rappresentante di Lista

8. Massimo Ranieri

9. Fabrizio Moro

10. Michele Bravi

11. Achille Lauro

12. Matteo Romano

13. Dargen D'Amico

14. Aka7even

15. Noemi

16. Ditonellapiaga e Rettore

17. Iva Zanicchi

18. Giovanni Truppi

19. Rkomi

20. Le Vibrazioni

21. Yuman

22. Highsnob e Hu

23. Giusy Ferreri

24. Ana Mena

25. Tananai

Comments

Nina Badrić for Croatia

Croatian TV went for internal selection in the end and chose Nina Badrić. She has been around for almost 20 years and has released ten albums between 1995 and 2011. She has also treid to get to Eurovision four times already without a win (1993, 1994, 1995 and 2003). She is popular also in the other ex-Yogoslavian countries so let those 12s run in.... Listen her here: Moje oci pune ljubavi , Dat ce nam Bog , Nebo and Mama . And lovely Carobno jutro .

Sabina Babayeva for Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani selection show for the represant was as long as the selection process for the five finalists. Kurt Calleja from Malta and Can Bonomo from Turkey were present with Ell/Nikki to see Sabina Babayeva to emerge as the winner after each and every finalist had done about zillion songs amongst other guests. Now the Azeri TV will shop around a suitable song for her.

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FINLAND: VIRPI KÄTKÄ NARROWLY MISSED THE SURVIVOR FINAL

Virpi Kätkä of CatCat fame came 4th in the Finnish Survivor against all odds, and was even the longest surviving female competitor. She managed to get this far by being friendly and helpful to everyone and staying out of any major fights and double-talk. Or so we thought.... she confessed afterwards it was just the game she played! She was voted out in unison by the remaining guys in a rather ugly way. after Kim won the last challenge and got safety when the other had planned to vote him out. No one wanted to be in the final against Virpi anyways so she would have been next one out perhaps but Kim's victory messed it all up. Kim is actually Kim Herold, of Humane Euroviisut 2007 (7th) fame. Let's see if he misses the final two as well and is on the next Plane Away. Virpi took her elimination "the same way I did with Eurovision, five minutes of depression, get over it and that's it!" she told. And the bikini in top photo she found in Thailand and as ...

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The 2016 Eurovision song contest organizers didn't manage it - or any of the previous ones either nor those offering them millions of dollars - but they seem to get together for birthdays, the way the old friends do. Back in 1999 they performed together in a private party for Görel Hansel's 50th birthday, and now to celebrate the first meeting of Björn and Benny 50 years ago. Venue was Stockholm's Bern's Salonger and once again in a private setting but today even they can't stop the cell phone videos and social medias. Enjoy the magic of Frida's and Agnetha's voices again.

FINLAND: REMEMBERING KIRKA

GOODBYE, FAREWELL...

The time has come. After all these years, 5,7 million visits, 12.000 articles I guess the time has come. As much as I love and care for Eurovision it just doesn't feel the same. The Corona years took their toll and the past two years and certain decisions have helped me to mature the idea that next year I will hear the songs for the first time in semi-final just like any so called local. The bubble has burst. Add the toxicity in social medias and fandom. The arrogant teenagers who saw their first contest somewhere 2017 or even 2021 who think they know it all and only their opinion matters. Did I mention the toxic atmosphere on social medias? I'm too old for that sh*t. It's been a long ride that took me to various Eurovision on spot as a fan and tourist, as a journalist, as a delegation member. I met some great people, made memories of lifetime. In stressful, sad periods of my life this blog has been my safe place, a place to escape and forget everything else for an hour o...

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