The search for Italy’s Eurovision 2023 superstar continued on Wednesday with the second night of the 73rd annual Sanremo Music Festival.
On Tuesday, 14 of 28 artists performed as part of night 1. On Wednesday, the remaining 14 artists presented their original songs, accompanied by an orchestra, with their hopes to claim the biggest prize in Italian music.
All Sanremo acts will perform their tracks again throughout the course of the week. The festival champion will be offered first refusal on the opportunity to represent Italy at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.
The results will be determined by a combination of three voting methods — the public televote, the press jury, and the demoscopic jury, consisting of 300 music fans from across Italy.
However, on these first two nights, the rankings below have been determined solely by the press.
Sanremo 2023: Night 2 results (press vote)
- Colapesce DiMartino – “Splash”
- Madame – “Il bene nel male”
- Tananai – “Tango”
- Lazza – “Cenere”
- Giorgia – “Parole dette male”
- Rosa Chemical – “Made in Italy”
- Paola e Chiara – “Furore”
- Levante – “Vivo”
- Articolo 31 – “Un bel viaggio”
- Modà – “Lasciami”
- LDA – “Se poi domani”
- Will – “Stupido”
- Shari – “Egoista”
- Sethu – “Cause perse”
Overall standings across Nights 1 and 2
- Marco Mengoni — “Due vite”
- Colapesce DiMartino – “Splash”
- Madame – “Il bene nel male”
- Tananai – “Tango”
- Elodie — “Due”
- Coma_Cose — “L’addio”
- Lazza – “Cenere”
- Giorgia – “Parole dette male”
- Rosa Chemical – “Made in Italy”
- Ultimo — “Alba”
- Leo Gassmann — “Terzo cuore”
- Mara Sattei — “Duemilaminuti”
- Colla Zio — “Non mi va”
- Paola e Chiara – “Furore”
- Cugini di Campagna — “Lettera 22”
- Levante – “Vivo”
- Mr. Rain — “Supereroi”
- Articolo 31 – “Un bel viaggio”
- Gianluca Grignani — “Quando ti manca il fiato”
- Ariete — “Mare di guai”
- Modà – “Lasciami”
- Gianmaria — “Mostro”
- Olly — “Polvere”
- LDA – “Se poi domani”
- Will – “Stupido”
- Anna Oxa — “Sali”
- Shari – “Egoista”
- Sethu – “Cause perse”
Which acts impressed you the most during the first two nights of Sanremo 2023? Can Marco Mengoni be knocked off the top in the days ahead? Let us know what you’re thinking down below!
Have a good night foreign eurovision fellows!
sethu noooooo 🙁
Ok. I’ve now become obsessed with Made in Italy by Rosa Chemical. I was sceptical to begin with, because I thought it sounded slightly monotonous and repetitive, but no! It’s grown out of proportion and I can’t stop listening! It’s been very much on repeat. This is my favourite by a long mile and, dare I say, the only one I actually like!
I’m feeling fairly disappointed by the festival overall, I must say. Last year’s was SOOOO much better quality.
Can anybody from Italy tell me top 5 songs which italian people seem to be most hyped up about?
I wanna have an idea of who could win.
Italians seem to like Due Vite and Supereroi the most
If they like those 2 the most then I hope one of those 2 will win, they are both good songs anyway and would do well in the contest.
I would like Mr. Rain to win the whole thing with “Supereroi”. The best ballad for me was “Lasciami”. Both upopular opinions, I’m afraid 🙁
I could see Mr. Rain pulling off surprise victory
I wish that could happen. I think he would do well at ESC, the song’s just pure feeling, beautiful melody, and the children multiply every emotion by billion. “Supereroi” has power to reach people’ hearts
But he can’t bring the children to Eurovision both because they violate the six person limit, and they are way under the minimal age limit of 16. Their parts will have to be pre-recorded backing vocals.
Mr Rain has been flagged by some newspapers as the black horse.
Can anyone confirm if the sampled parts in Lazza’s song would be allowed in Eurovision
The pre-recorded vocals are allowed at ESC now.
But what about if it’s pulled from an already existing old song? I’m not sure if the sampled parts are old, but it sure sounds like it. Pretty sure everything in the song has to be from this year, even if it’s pre-recorded vocals
I like how Italy is mining the 1980s at just a slightly different angle from everyone else, from Elodie’s sophisticated R-n-B to Colapesce Dimartino’s turn-of-the-decade disco-gone-weird to Giorgia’s twinkly keyboards.
Madame – “Il bene nel male” would by far and without any doubt be the best artist for Italy to select for Eurovision. Such a great song by an even greater artist………goosebumps
I think Colapesce Dimartino are my personal favourite but Madame and Lazza are also there. Really love all three
Remember not to look too hard into the scores after Night 2. Maneskin were 15th at that point.
I caught up with some songs that I didn’t get to hear last night, i’ll be honest, whilst night 1, there wasn’t really a song I loved per se, I liked a l lot songs last night, Madame, Colapesce DiMartino, Luzza, Ros Chemical, LDA, and Sethu ( there might’ve been some I missed) As someone who likes ballads, I can appreciate Marco’s vocal but the song (perhaps its a language thing idk) feels like its missing something, I wasn’t wowed by it but it was alright. Italy have some good songs to choose from so it’ll be interesting to see… Read more »
I still cannot digest the fuss over Marco’s song, it sounded to “me” like any other Italian sanremo ballad by a male artist.
Agree, it is nice but average song; very similar to ballad songs at Sanremo.
Madame’s song should be chosen to represent Italy.
I’,m glad someone understands,Madame would be excellent choice! she’s my 3rd favorite.
my Top 3 would be – 1. Lazza [I would literally K**ll for it to be choosen], 2. giANMARIA [great choice as well], 3. Madame.
I agree, Lazza for the win and with the right staging it can do very well in Liverpool. Then I have Colapesce and Mr Rain but they have quite a few good modern options there.
Average no, please!
You have to know Madame has been cought in a fraud of a false certification for Covid 19. She had a false green ertificate, even though she has never got any vaccine shot. She is actually under investigation. She then apologized on a post on Instagram, who actually made the thing worse. Then she removed the post. She was justifying herself saying her parents are novax. I don’t believe she will be huge on televote due to this.
Am I the only person who found Madame’s live performance a bit disappointing? The studio cut of the song is awesome though.
Rosa Chemical is a bit too repetitive for my taste but it’s a very good song. The chorus does not elevate it.
My favourites so far are Madame and Olly.
I prefer the live performance of Madame compared to the studio version 🙂 more emotions at the end
Totally agree! Hope she wins..
Colapesce/Dimartino’ song is my winner this year, although I know that probably they won’t win. I love Splash’s nostalgia.
Elodie, Madame or Marco are also great, but my heart just moves to Splash’s rhythm.
My favorites in the moment are Marco Mengoni, Mr Rain and Colapesce & Dimartino. Supereroi just melt my heart
after first listen of all 28, my favourites are Madame and Coma_Cose. Although it’s fair to say there are a lot of good options, looking forward to the rest of the week!
Definitely best choice for Eurovision this year for Italy would be Madame OR Rosa Chemical !
Marco is something we’ve already heard a lot of times at ESC. Please Madame win this! Contemporary, emotional and intense
Agree with you. Marco’s song is typical ballad.
Lazza was pretty good, and I also enjoyed Tananai, but he has to work on his charisma, there wasn’t much happening on stage, song and his voice was good tho. I didn’t experience the magic of “yep, this is the winner without a doubt” I had with all of their last entries since 2017, but there’ll be three more nights, so maybe the magic will come.
Madame or Marco.
Mr. Rain or Lazza for me
Madame, Lazza, Colapesce/Dimartino would all make great winners! Marco is also good yet a bit too ordinary.
Lazza is another guaranteed Top 5 for Italy.
Madame’s track is very nice in studio too, but she really elevates it live, the delivery, the nerve, the charisma. I think this is pretty much it, she’s my winner of Sanremo this year and my number one choice for another top Italian entry in Liverpool.
I still think Elodie is the best, but Lazza or Madame are close second option
I’m listening to the studio tracks on Spotify, and Ariete’s “Mare di guai” is already an early grower for me
Even though I try to judge SanRemo entries entirely on their musical merits, I do, every year, want at least one song to hit me right in the ol’ feels.
I’ll be damned if I expected that song to come from Tananai this year. What a surprise and am SO happy that the press appreciated it.
You might have missed the fact that this last year Tananai has been top of the charts and on all radios with this masterpiece
https://youtu.be/KbLgYUBnki0
Lazza could be TOP 5 in Liverpool, awesome!
Haven’t listened to most songs of tonight, but it looks like tonight was miles better than last night and the overall result might be lopsided for the second night
Second night was much better. Rosa Chemical and Lazza were amazing. I don’t understand the hype around Marco and I hope he doesn’t win.
Lazza and Colapesce DiMartino for tonight but after having heard everyone, there’s not a doubt in my mind that Ultimo has THE song that ought to win Sanremo. My 2nd choice would be Blanco with the song he “performed” yesterday. But since that one is not competing, it’s Ultimo or nobody for me.
Marco at number one. I will sleep well tonight. Buena notte a tutti. Until the next time.
What percentage of this will actually be added to the final result?
Math isn’t my strongest asset, but if nothing changed, I guess they keep adding the results. So, tomorrow the demoscopic and the televote join and tonight’s result keeps being used. Than the 3 sections vote on Friday. And then they vote again Saturday. When combining all these results, we get a top 3. Don’t ask me what percentage tonight’s result would have though!
Thanks. What’s the real question is can someone who’s placed lower end-up winning, and I think that the answer is yes. I saw that Maneskin were ranked as 7th out of 13 entries by the press on their first evening. Also, the orchestra placed them as 10th in their ranking. They still ended-up winning. So, I guess that Madame, Lazza, Elodie, and Ultimo all have a chance. Perhaps Leo too. The audiences can turn things around. 😉
I always remember the rise of Fedez and Francesca in 2021. A moment xd
It was the demoscopica that voted first in 2021. Måneskin were 15th after the first two nights’ combined results, and the orchestra then placed them 6th for their cover. The press actually loved them and voted them 2nd. But it shows that with a strong enough result the other evenings, a tanking one night isn’t necessarily the end.
This year it’ll be Top 5 instead of Top 3. May change things (or not) in the superfinal. I don’t know.
You’re right, now it’s a top 5! In theory, it helps the frontrunner. Mengoni has big chances of winning Sanremo then. But there’s still a lot of water to go under the bridge I guess.
This year it will be a top 5.
Top 10 in the combined press room vote:
1) Marco Mengoni
2) Colapesce Dimartino
3) Madame
4) Tananai
5) Elodie
6) Coma_Cose
7) Lazza
8) Giorgia
9) Rosa Chemical
10) Ultimo
Outrageous. Ultimo is being robbed blind already.
Press has never been a fan of Ultimo, so this would be expected.
I’m guessing the “press” is jealous music critics who couldn’t write such a significant song if their life depended on it.
Ultimo had terrible vocals to be fair….
No he didn’t. This is not X-Factor or idol.
Even though I’m not really into Marco’s song, that top five looks pretty good to me.
I forgot there’s a two-night result too.
Second straight night the results made me say “huh” without upsetting me too much
My top 2 in the top 2. A nice end to the day
Nice to see Tananai in third, even if I’m not sure why. He was always at the bottom last year. First and second don’t surprise me.
I much prefer his bottom-feeding (only in terms of results) song from last year, that one even made it into my playlist. I’m rather doubtful “Tango” will do the same.
It might be due to the fact that this Autumn he’s topped the charts
https://youtu.be/KbLgYUBnki0
Congrats to Colapesce & Dimartino. Also, good 2nd and 4th for Madame and Lazza (even if I hope they might ultimately win, once we get an actual televote and actual juries behind them). Again, a shameful last place. Anna Oxa didn’t deserve it, Sethu didn’t either. The press jury in Italy is even more useless than the demoscopic one in Spain.
Tananai getting third sure is a surprise!
What the blazes!
Tonight’s top 5 on the press room vote:
1) Colapesce Dimartino
2) Madame
3) Tananai
4) Lazza
5) Giorgia
Second night in a row I’ve waited to watched the results and my Internet goes down just before they are announced. Typical!
It could be worse, it could be Saturday.
Madame’s hook is a bit repetitive for my taste. I’ll be team Lazza this Sanremo!
I think it’s because a non-italian can’t understand that she indeed use the same words but with different meanings. It’s a play on words. In Italian is : Nel bene e nel male Fai bene e fai male Baby, nel bene e nel male Fai bene e fai male Quanto bene e male Nel bene e nel male A me resta il bene, a te resta il male Non male per me But in English is something like this: For better or for worse You do right and you do wrong Baby, for better or for worse You do right… Read more »
I’m watching on delay, but SO happy to finally get to see Colapesce e Dimartino perform again. Not as catchy as musica leggerissima, but definitely a great song that they absolutely nailed vocally. Would have been fun to have something like the roller skate performer they had last time, but their little jumps were fun, haha
Madame is definitively the best for ESC! I like too Rosa Chemical and Lazza!
The ones I was anticipating before nearly all delivered, Madame, Colapesce e DiMartino and Elodie my top 3 after the first impressions and it’s very likely to remain that way, hoping that one of those will be the entry for Liverpool. Levante not as impressive as last time, still an alright track tho. Didn’t mind Lazza and Mengoni either but still have to check them out in studio also. Second night overall clearly stronger than the first one.
Some great song indeed. I have 5 songs from this show I rather see go to Eurovision than from show 1. Madame and Rosa Chemical being my top 2, then Lazza, Colapesce DiMartino, and LDA, then I would have Leo Gassmann and Elodie from show 1 as my number 6 and 7….
Seriously loved Lazza. I know Dardust composed songs for Elodie, I think she would have interpreted Cenere amazingly too. Was not impressed by her song yesterday. Madame and Rosa Chemical were pleasant, as well as Paola and Chiara.
was this really needed right before the end? Was it?! 🙁
And what are we talking about this time?
Will have to think what him pull down his trousers was related to haha.
He said he is revolutionary. No tattoos, while now everybody has tattoos everywhere.
Really? What an important topic lol. And to make it last the long talking about that is quite impressive.
No, he spoke of so many things, related to relationship. Very complicate to describe.