After last night’s Sanremo final, which saw Stadio win the competition, the entrant for Italy in Eurovision 2016 has been decided. As the group declined the invitation due to a clash with their touring schedule, RAI has now confirmed that runner-up Francesca Michielin will sing for Italy in Stockholm. X Factor winner Michielin sang “Nessun grado di separazione” (No degree …
Stadio wins Festival di San Remo
It was the longest show of this SuperSaturday, but we got the winner of the 66th Festival di San Remo after five days of glorious shows. Tonight sixteen acts performed and three of them proceeded to the superfinal. They were the band Stadio, Francesca Michielin and Deborah & Giovanni. Out of the three Stadio has earned the right to become the next Italian representative, …
TONIGHT: 10 Shows – 3 Finals – 1 Big Night
Tonight is a huge night in Eurovisionland. (Potentially) Three songs will be selected for Stockholm, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. Italian TV channel will offer the opportunity to the winner to go to Eurovision, but, that is down to the act. Ukraine: Semi-Final 2 SunSay – Love Manifest Pur:Pur – We do Change Peaks of Kings – Last Hope Pringlez – Easy to love Victoria Petryk – Overload …
Italy: Sanremo Begins Tonight!
Tonight the Italians will begin their quest for their Eurovision 2016 representative. Tonight will be the first of five shows where the Italians will be hoping to select the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 winner! There will be ten songs performed tonight: Lorenzo Fragola – Infinite volte Noemi – La borsa di una donna Dear Jack – Mezzo respiro Giovanni Caccamo & …
JESC: Italy Reveals Their Entry “Viva”
The JESC songs are coming in thick and fast, and seem to be announced on a daily basis. The latest song to be revealed is from the current title holders, Italy, who have revealed their song “Viva” which will be performed by Chiara Scarpari and Martina Scarpari next month in hope of retaining the title and doing the double in Sofia. …
ESC United Podcast: Montenegro picks the act, Italy and the UK take Eurovision seriously and should we change the Point System
The Eurovision season is slowly picking up so it’s time to start with our first Podcast of the 2016 season. Over the next months, Matt and Adam are going to discuss anything Eurovision and share their thoughs and ideas. This time it’s only going to be the two of them but they’ll have special guests going forward to bring in …
Italy make a move to RAI 1 for 2016
Despite the hugely impressive run of results since their surprise comeback in 2011, Italy’s national broadcaster has only shown the Eurovision final on RAI 2, with the main channel instead featuring other programming during the night of the contest. That is, until now – thanks to a third place finish and televote victory from Il Volo in 2015, RAI have …
Big 5 and Sweden to have rehearsals shown during live semi-finals
It’s been a call made by many fans for several years, but it appears it will now be a reality. The first major change rung in by SVT for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will see Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom recieve extra exposure with performance videos shown of their rehearsals during live shows, currently set …
Dream Team 2016 – Italy
Another day, another country. Let’s see who our first Big 5 Dream Team artist is for Italy… It was in fact a tie for first between two artists, but the first of those requested was Youtuber Marzia Gaggioli, who has become known for her many self-curated music videos and songs, as seen below. Would she be able to make the …
OGAE: Three Big 5 clubs in fourth set of votes
It’s time for some more votes. Macedonia, France, Italy and United Kingdom have their votes revealed by OGAE International today and here are their votes! Macedonia 12 Italy 10 Spain 8 Sweden 7 Albania 6 Slovenia 5 Estonia 4 Belgium 3 Australia 2 Israel 1 Azerbaijan France France’s club votes had been revealed by us earlier on but they have …