Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The final night is finally here. Let's see who wins and gets the Italian ticket to the Eurovision song contest 2025 in Basel. As usual the winner does have the right to go and every artist must have signed a paper to agree should they win. If not, nothing to do, Rai will pick up someone else. The change this year is that will indeed go according the final results. If the winner says no the runner up goes. If the runner up says no the third one goes etc. Simple and clear.  Last night was another rating success: 13.187.000 viewers and 70,8% share, The peak was 17.494.000 at 21.47. The best share since ever calculated (or 41 years). As viewing numbers best since 1995 - when Giorgia won the first time btw.  Who is going to win is though wild open as there isn't one or two clear favorites (like Mahmood & Blanco, or Geolier Vs Angelina kind of situation). Considering the first two night's rankings Simone Cristicchi, Achille Lauro, Giorgia, Brunori Sas and Lucio Corsi have mad...

The Sanremo grand final running order is finally out. Tonight I will sit back and enjoy the show, but will be back with comments and other stuff once it's done and will update this post with all the information as it happens. As we know it's going to be a long night but there are also many respected awards besides the Top-3 announcements so they will be updated here as well. Here's tonight's running order (in brackets their position before tonight's votes) Matteo Romano - Virale (12th)  Giusy Ferreri - Miele (23rd) Rkomi - Insuperabile (19th) Iva Zanicchi - Voglio amarti (17th) Ala7even - Perfetta cosi (14th) Massimo Ranieri - Lettera al di Lá del mare (8th) Noemi - Ti amo non lo so dire (15th) Fabrizio Moro - Sei tu (9th) Dargen D'Amico - Dove si balla (13th) Elisa - O forse sei tu (3rd) Irama - Ovunque sarai (4th) Michele Bravi - Inverno dei fiori (10th) La Rappresentante di Lista - Ciao ciao (7th) Emma - Ogni volta è cosi (6th) Mahmood & Blanco - ...

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 megas...