Italy’s Sanremo 2015, this year’s edition of the age-old music festival that gave birth to the Eurovision Song Contest, has finally come to an end. The final gave us epic shows, wonderful singers and lots of entertainment. But most importantly, we learned who won the competition, and in effect, who will represent Italy in Eurovision 2015. After the first round of votes, it was narrowed down to Nek, Il Volo, and Malika Ayane. In the end, Il Volo will sing in Vienna!

COMBINED RESULTS

1) Il Volo – Grande Amore

2) Nek – Fatti avanti amore

3) Malika Ayane – Adesso è qui

4) Annalisa – Una finestra tra le stelle

5) Chiara – Straodinario

6) Marco Masini – Che giorno è?

7) Dear Jack – Il mondo esplode tranne noi

8) Gianluca Grignani – Sogni infranti

9) Nina Zilli – Sola

10) Lorenzo Fragola – Siamo uguali

11) Alex Britti – Un attimo importante

12) Irene Grandi – Un vento senza nome

13) Nesli – Buona fortuna amore

14) Bianca Atzei – Il solo al mondo

15) Moreno – Oggi ti parlo così

16) Grazia di Michele and Mauro Coruzzi – Io sono una finestra

Sanremo review and reactions

What do you think of the results? Did Sanremo 2015 produce a good Eurovision contestant? Or should they have internally selected from the pool of artists? Let us know in the comments box below!

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TaTaPu
TaTaPu
8 years ago
DEBBIE
8 years ago

Wow! ILVolo truly deserve to win the esc this year.
12 points from Israel with love 🙂

ILVOLOMIAMI Diana R. Velasquez
ILVOLOMIAMI Diana R. Velasquez
8 years ago

IlVolo are already winners to those that love them. We are & always will be #ProudILVolovers!

Sharon Mullarkey
Sharon Mullarkey
9 years ago

Beverly Olson hit the nail on the head and I agree with everything she said. Il Volo is a fabulous group. Anyone who has compared them to Il Divo has not listened to them or watched them. Il Divo has great voices but they are boring to watch, they are too old school. Il Volo is young and vibrant and put so much feeling into their music. Their voices are fabulous seperately and their harmony is undeniably superb. They are wonderful young men who truly care about their fans, they are humble and love what they do. I never listened… Read more »

Paula
Paula
9 years ago

My winner!!!-love from Romania

Haris
Haris
9 years ago

M.A.S.T.E.R.P.I.E.C.E ….!!!I dont think Eurovision this year deserves to have this song!

Marsha Knowles
Marsha Knowles
9 years ago

These young men have proved that they have what it takes. Grande Amore is a wonderful song and they sang it with such emotion. They have fans of all ages; the grandmothers (like me), the 20-30 year olds and the teens. There are not many singers out there that can make that claim! I fully expect them to win it all! They treat others with much respect and are very good to their fans, always going the extra mile.

maggy
9 years ago

A mi me gusta Il Volo porque hasta ahora no cantan canciones enfocadas a las drogas y al Sexo como otros artistas lo hacen espero que sigan así

Jose
9 years ago

I love this song, not oldfashioned at all.
Forza Italia!

Lavina
Lavina
9 years ago

I have listened to Il Volo since they first appeared and continue to be an avid fan; their love of music is their reason for singing. I have seen them grow into fine young men, who not only appreciate music of all kind, they love their family, friends and fans! The continue to learn and grow and their technical knowledge of music is outstanding! Their win was no fluke, it was pure music from the heart, their passion and power for such young men. They are classical pop, 2 tenors and the baritone… 3 voices=1 soul Their fans are growing… Read more »

Beverly Olson
Beverly Olson
9 years ago

To riff on a familiar Abraham Lincoln quote: You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time… Just as there are different flavors of ice cream to please varying palates, there are different genres of music to please the varying tastes of those who listen to it. IL VOLO has millions of fans from all around the world. Their concerts are always sold-out events. Every time they make TV and other appearances, which is often, they garner new fans. They appeal… Read more »

Ohi
Ohi
9 years ago

I wanted Nek to win!!!! ????????

eurana
eurana
9 years ago

We have a potencial winner! Bravo Italia !

elcuni
elcuni
9 years ago

Not feeling it..Top 10 maybe due to the group’s popularity, but I think the song is weak.

cheesecake
cheesecake
9 years ago

Fantastic choice. This could reach the top 5.
And I love the Italian language, therefore I’m glad that Italy always sends songs in their native tongue.

Luis D
Luis D
9 years ago

Grande amore, grande Italia! Top 10 material for sure.

SpirK
SpirK
9 years ago

Fantastic! Of course it will have to get a eurovision cut, with the verses getting a bit shorter. It mixes a classic Italian song with something new and fresh. I love the operatic chorus. The music is fantastic and Italian, as always, sound really nice. Serious contenders here! My top 12: 1. France: 9.7/10 2. Cyprus: 8.8/10 3. Italy: 8.8/10 4. Malta: 8.6/10 5. Switzerland: 7.8/10 6. The Netherlands: 7.7/10 7. Denmark: 7.1/10 8. Iceland: 6.9/10 9. Georgia: 6.9/10 (awaiting the remastering) 10. Belarus: 6.6/10 11. Albania: 6.6/10 (also awaiting the remastering) 12. FYROM: 6.2/10 We are in for a… Read more »

JESCGermany15
JESCGermany15
9 years ago

I don’t like their song! Not my music style! Their voices remind me a little bit like Croatia 2013! I hope they sing an other song in Vienna which sound more modern!

Latvia
Latvia
9 years ago

I don’t like it. My rating: 2/10

LucyEAPercy
9 years ago

I either really love it really deeply hate it and can’t decide which…

Yudhistira Mahasena
9 years ago

Deserves the top 10!

Joe
Joe
9 years ago

Not feeling it

Oostenrijk
Oostenrijk
9 years ago

Il Divo is big shit, Il Volo is the real thing! These voices are amazing!

Thank you for the music, Italia!

Edward Nygma
Edward Nygma
9 years ago

The song is really good, I hope they sing this in Vienna. They also seam very humorous, and that is what this show needs.

Iberian
Iberian
9 years ago

Boring.

Sietske
Sietske
9 years ago

Meh!

I like their voices but I don’t really like the song. Not to say that other’s don’t, because I understand why but It doesn’t appeal to me.

That said, they may not even go with Grande Amore. I’d rather see something more upbeat than another god damn ballad this year.

Scott
Scott
9 years ago

Nice…although sounds a bit familiar

The Wealdstone Raider
The Wealdstone Raider
9 years ago

Would love to see this win, glad to finally see a male group with some balls for a change!
On another note, I hope they chose Turin or Milan to host, they are such beautiful cities.

Denise
Denise
9 years ago

It will be funny for Italy, after winning JESC 2015 to win ESC 2015! Epic…

Denise
Denise
9 years ago

It will be funny for Italy to win ESC 20

Martin Palmer
9 years ago

Have they confirmed they will go to ESC 2015? “In effect” actually meant “has first refusal on entering Eurovision” – they may turn the chance down…

Edre
Edre
9 years ago

Uhm… It’s not that I don’t like the song, but as an Italian I’m discouraged by living stereotypes representing us again. It seems like we’re stuck into these old-fashioned genres when actually Italian music is finally turning into something more contemporary. Anyway, I don’t know if some (better imo) other artists such as Nek, Malika, Chiara, Nina or Annalisa could do better than this song, while these others would have been good songs but probably not winners, this one is a “love or hate” type of song (as shown in Sanremo too) that someone would probably vote for. Last year… Read more »

Timselvision
Timselvision
9 years ago

Even I like this and I dispise boybands XD Top 10 for sure, wouldn’t rule out top 5.

ESC HN
ESC HN
9 years ago

At the moment it seems like Italy is the hot favourite to win, but I’m afraid that if they do win they would not host ESC next year, like what they did with this year’s JESC.

Both Nek and Il Volo are well known acts in Latin America and Spain too (I think), so I expect Spain giving Italy 8-12 points this year.

Nitzan
Nitzan
9 years ago

The winners of ESC 2015.

LOVE IT!

CookyMonzta
CookyMonzta
9 years ago

I knew it! The sooner I saw their names on the roster, I figured they would be the front-runners to win this thing.

Musika
Musika
9 years ago

LOL teenage girls, mums and grannies will be dialing their numbers for these boys. Its too bad Nina Zili’s Sola only finished 9th. I heard it was due to plagiarism issues smh..

Deniz@TurkNL
Deniz@TurkNL
9 years ago

I like it, I can’t remember the melody, but it still is what I would like to see if I think about Italy.

There are a lot of young artists this year, so that is fun.

Just being honest
Just being honest
9 years ago

OH! OH! I remember them. They appeared on American Idol before!! Didn’t realize that they entered San Remo this year lol good choice. They got the total package 🙂

Arianator
Arianator
9 years ago

Great!!! My top 3 now))

Felix Prochain
Felix Prochain
9 years ago

Another great italian entry.. a top 10 one.

Nikos
Nikos
9 years ago

I am not a fan, perdonami Italia… I just feel like the song doesn’t have a good structure and although their voices are good, it doesn’t make sense for a trio to sing this type of song. I also do not like that the entire song is sung in excessive vibrato.

Lolilly
Lolilly
9 years ago

They’re soooo young

Alex
Alex
9 years ago

A fairly good live performance, but to be honest I’m going to have a hard time remembering the song, which doesn’t interest me that much musically.

Noah
Noah
9 years ago

Italy, at the moment, for me, you’re the winner. So, you better start saving money in order to make the ESC next year, after you refuse the right to host the JESC. The latter price tag was 1-1.5 million euros. The ESC will cost you 20-25 million. 😉

Enjoy saving money. 🙂

MTD
MTD
9 years ago

Classy. Love it.

Han
Han
9 years ago

Good song, classy, elegant, great voices, juries will love them. They will make people remember Il Divo(of course i can’t deny Il Divo quality is higher) .. Anyways these three guys will rank high..They know what to do, they’re quite popular in Italy and other latin countries in the Americas. They’re different than the usual acts of Eurovision. I can already see them getting first place on jury voting and maybe winning eurovision, we’ll see. Good job Italy, you’re going for the victory for sure.

David Who
David Who
9 years ago

I watched the whole show live, and I thought the best song won. It was a great performance as well. Good luck to them. 🙂

Me...Lucy
9 years ago

Thank God my favourite won. I was seriously stressed out lately because of countries making bad choices but Italy couldn’t make better one. Those lads will slay them all in Vienna.They can wipe out the floor with any chosen song so far lol seriously,what a bomb. It just stolen Macedonia’s first place on my top list.

Adam
Adam
9 years ago

Nice choice 🙂 I think this can do very well in the Grand Final. Top 5? Perhaps haha.

My top songs:

1.) Estonia
2.) Italy/Malta
4.) Georgia
5.) Iceland
6.) Denmark/Belarus/Netherlands
9.) France
10.) Albania
11.) Switzerland
12.) Cyprus
13.) FYR Macedonia