EUROVISION 2025 ITALY: OLLY WINS SANREMO - BUT WHAT ABOUT EUROVISION?

The five day and night long marathon of 75th Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo came to conclusion at 02.05 o'clock.

The ranking announcement created quite a reaction when Achille Lauro was called 7th and total chaos when Giorgia 6th. It's worth remembering Mahmood was 6th in 2024 but scored by far the biggest hit, in fact the biggest hit of 2024 in Italy, not only from Sanremo. Had he made the Top-5.... who knows?

When she came on stage to pick up the TIM award people were shouting "You have won! You have won!" She was very, very emotional. Brunori Sas picked an award for the best lyrics, Cristichhi for the best music, and critic's awards went to Cristicchi and Lucio Corsi.

The artists were asked to sign an agreement if they intent to do Eurovision song contest for Italy shoudl they win. If the winner declines the runner up gets the right, then the third placed etc. Generally the artists stay quite tight lipped about the fact and this year is no exception. I noticed Brunori Sas sais he'd do it while Giorgia is known to have said No before due to her fear of flight but Basel is close and can be reached by train, and she has also said she'd rather let the youngsters have the opportunity..... We will know tomorrow in the press conference of the winner. But as the winner is Olly I can't see why he wouldn't want to do it.

Update: In the Winner's press conference he didn't confirm yet saying he hasn't yet had time to think about it being so surprised about the win and the past week. What was that Rai's papers to sign then?! He asked for some time and Rai granted it saying there's no rush, a week or so? Considering he has the same manager as Angelina Mango, Marco Mengoni and Måneskin (at the time) I still think he'll do it.

As for results of individual nights you can check them on wikipedia but the first night was won by Giorgia, second by Simone Cristicchi, third by Brunori Sas, the covers night by Giorgia, and the final's first round by Brunori Sas and the second round by Lucio Corsi - but in the end combined winner was Olly, who didn't win any nights!

If there was only televoting and one round the final night Brunori Sas would have won, Olly second, Lucio Corsi 3rd, Fedez 4th, Achille Lauro 5th, Giorgia 6th and Simone Cristicchi 7th. Radio and Press had Giorgia as their winner so it wasn't the juries that stopped her as first thought and accused but the televoters.

Final ranking (Radio/Press/televote %)

1. Olly - Balorda nostalgia (2./2./1. 31,1%) 23,84%

2. Lucio Corsi - Volevo essere un duro (1./1./2.25,7%) 23,39%

3. Brunori Sas - L'albero delle noci (3./3./4. 16,6%) 20,32%

4. Fedez - Battito (5./4./3. 20,5%) 17,67%

5. Simone Cristicchi - Quando sarai piccola (4./4./5. 6,1%) 14,78%

6. Giorgia - La cura per me

7. Achille Lauro - Incoscienti giovani

8. Francesco Gabbani - Viva la vita

9. Irama - Lentamente

10. Coma_Cose - Cuoricini

11. Bresh - La tana del granchio

12. Elodie - Dimenticarsi alle 7

13. Noemi - Se t'innamori muori

14. The Kolors - Tu con chi fai l'amore

15. Rocco Hunt - Mille vote ancora

16. Willie Peyote - Grazie ma no grazie

17. Sarah Toscano - Amarcord

18. Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua, Tormento - La mia parola

19. Rose Villain - Fuorilegge

20. Joan Thiele - Eco

21. Francesca Michielin - Fango in paradiso

22. Modà - Non ti dimentico

23. Massimo Ranieri - Tra le mani un cuore

24. Serena Brancale - Anema e core

25. Tony Effe - Damme'na mano

26. Gaia - Chiamo io, chiami tu

27. Clara - Febbre

28. Rkomi - Il ritmo delle cose

29. Marcella Bella - Pelle diamante

Critic's award Mia Martini: Lucio Corsi

Lyrics award Sergio Bardotti: Brunori Sas

Press-radio-Tv-web award Lucio Dalla_ Simone Cristicchi

Emotional award Lunezia: Simone Cristicchi

Conposition award Giancarlo Bigazzi: Simone Cristicchi

Tim award: Giorgia

Critic's award Mia Martini: Settembre

Press-radio-Tv-web award Lucio Dalla: Settembre

Best performance award Enzo Jannacci: Settembre

to be updated

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