It’s the fourth night of the long-lasting Sanremo Music Festival. The third live episode collected over 9.4 million viewers and an audience share of 46.7% — and the competition is really getting going.
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Friday night at the Ariston Theatre, the 24 competing artists enhanced their performances with the help of other colleagues before tomorrow’s last episode.
Who took the stage as special guests? Among them singers, actors, comedians, musicians, dancers and many former Sanremo participants, such as Nada, Noemi, Giovanni Caccamo, Roy Paci, Diodato, Bungaro, Rocco Hunt, Syria, Irene Grandi, Manuel Agnelli, Sergio Sylvestri, Sottotono and Morgan.
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Also three former Eurovision acts took part: Fabrizio Moro paired up with Ultimo to sing “I miei particolari”, Ermal Meta performed “Abbi cura di me” with Simone Cristicchi, while Enrico Ruggeri sang “I ragazzi stanno bene” together with Negrita.
At the end of the night, the expert jury awarded a prize for the Best Duet to Motta and Nada for their rendition of “Dov’è l’Italia”.
Since the list of songs performed was very long, just a couple of extra guests filled this evening. A rarity for Sanremo!
Italian rocker Ligabue sung his latest single “Le luci d’America”, “Urlando contro il cielo” and “Dio è morto”, while recent X Factor Italy winner Anastasio made an unexpected appearance on stage to present a new song called “Correre”.
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— Festival di Sanremo (@SanremoRai) February 8, 2019
‘Nuff said, let’s go straight to results of this special duets night! Oh wait… to keep us in suspense until the grand final, the organisers decided to NOT show us the top, middle and bottom-ranked artists this time. Ouch!
But we’ll leave y’all with the complete list of duets if you want to hear a different version of the competing songs waiting for the final act of Sanremo 2019.
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— Festival di Sanremo (@SanremoRai) February 8, 2019
Sanremo’s duets night
- Federica Carta e Shade with Cristina D’Avena – Senza farlo apposta
- Motta and Nada – Dov’è l’Italia
- Irama and Noemi – La ragazza col cuore di latta
- Patty Pravo con Briga with Giovanni Caccamo – Un po’ come la vita
- Negrita with Enrico Ruggeri and Roy Paci – I ragazzi stanno bene
- Il Volo and Alessandro Quarta – Musica che resta
- Arisa with Tony Hadley and Kataklò – Mi sento bene
- Mahmood and Guè Pequeno – Soldi
- Ghemon with Diodato and Calibro 35 – Rose viola
- Francesco Renga with Bungaro, Eleonora Abbagnato and Friedemann Vogel – Aspetto che torni
- Ultimo and Fabrizio Moro – I tuoi particolari
- Nek and Neri Marcorè – Mi farò trovare pronto
- Boomdabash and Rocco Hunt with Musici Cantori di Milano – Per un milione
- The Zen Circus and Brunori Sas – L’amore è una dittatura
- Paola Turci and Giuseppe Fiorello – L’ultimo ostacolo
- Anna Tatangelo and Syria – Le nostre anime di notte
- Ex-Otago and Jack Savoretti – Solo una canzone
- Enrico Nigiotti with Paolo Jannacci and Massimo Ottoni – Nonno Hollywood
- Loredana Bertè and Irene Grandi – Cosa ti aspetti da me
- Daniele Silvestri and Manuel Agnelli – Argentovivo
- Einar with Biondo and Sergio Sylvestre – Parole nuove
- Simone Cristicchi and Ermal Meta – Abbi cura di me
- Nino D’Angelo e Livio Cori with Sottotono – Un’altra luce
- Achille Lauro and Morgan – Rolls Royce
On Saturday night, the 24 competing acts will sing their original entries for the last time, to gain the trophy. They will be judged by the televote (50%), the press jury (30%) and the experts jury (20%) .
Three of them will then advance to the final round and after another performance of their song, one will finally be crowned the winner.
How will the Sanremo winner be picked?
Voting during the five evenings will occur through different combinations of four methods:
- Public televoting, carried out via landline, mobile phone, the contest’s official mobile app, and online voting.
- Press jury voting, expressed by accredited journalists that followed the competition from the Roof Hall at the Ariston Theatre.
- A demoscopic poll, composed of a sample of 300 music fans, which voted from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.
- Expert jury voting, resulting from points assigned by eight personalities from the world of music, entertainment and culture.
The three voting systems will have a percentage weight so distributed:
- First, Second and Third Evening: 40% public televoting; 30% demoscopic poll; 30% press jury voting
- Fourth and Fifth Evening: 50% public televoting; 30% press jury voting; 20% expert jury voting
In the final part of the fifth evening, a new rank indicating the top three acts — determined by the percentage of votes obtained in this evening’s vote and those obtained in previous evenings — will be drawn up.
What do you think of the songs of Sanremo 2019? Who are you most excited for? Share your thoughts below!
people here are MAD, that victory was so random and undeserved
That’s unfair. Mahmood’s song is not for duet.
Well, Nek should have won. His duet was awesome, the song sounded different. The winning one is nonsense !
Not Ultimo or Simone? I know they like to spread the awards out but come on…!
If by some chance Il Volo win they need to make the duet version with the violinist their Eurovision entry because that was great, and what was missing from the original version.