Sanremo Music Festival 2022
Dates and venue
Semi-final 1	1 February 2022
Semi-final 2	2 February 2022
Semi-final 3	3 February 2022
Semi-final 4	4 February 2022
Final	5 February 2022
Venue	Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Italy
Production
Broadcaster	Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
Director	Stefano Vicario
Musical director	Leonardo De Amicis
Artistic director	Amadeus
Presenters	Amadeus and Ornella Muti(first night) Lorena Cesarini(second night) Drusilla Foer(third night) Maria Chiara Giannetta(fourth night) Sabrina Ferilli(fifth night)
Big Artists section
Number of entries	25
Winner	Mahmood andBlanco "Brividi"
2021 ← Sanremo Music Festival →2023

TheSanremo Music Festival 2022 (Italian:Festival di Sanremo 2022), officially the72nd Italian Song Festival (72º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 72nd edition of the annualSanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at theTeatro Ariston inSanremo, organised and broadcast byRadiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was held between 1 and 5 February 2022, and was presented for the third time in a row byAmadeus, who also served as the artistic director for the competition, alongside a number of co-hosts.

The festival was won byMahmood andBlanco with "Brividi", earning them the right to representItaly in theEurovision Song Contest 2022, held on home soil inTurin; Mahmood had previously won Sanremo in2019 and had representedItaly in that year's Eurovision.

The 2022 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival took place at theTeatro Ariston inSanremo, Liguria, organized by the Italian public broadcasterRAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition wasAmadeus, for the third consecutive year.

The venue returned to its full capacity during the festival, after the presence of an audience was not allowed in theprevious edition due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

In August 2021, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Together with Amadeus, five co-hosts alternated during the five evenings:Ornella Muti, Lorena Cesarini,Drusilla Foer,Maria Chiara Giannetta andSabrina Ferilli.^[2]

Besides these,Orietta Berti andFabio Rovazzi hosted parts of the show (for sponsorship reasons) from the cruise shipCosta Toscana off the shore of Sanremo.^[3][4]

Voting occurred through the combination of three methods:

• Public televoting, carried out via landline, mobile phone, the contest's official mobile app, and online voting.
• Jury of the press room, TV, radio and web.
• Demoscopic jury, composed by 1000 music fans who vote from their homes via an electronic voting system managed byIpsos.

Their voting was articulated as follows:^[5]

• First two nights: half of the entrants were judged by three separate panels from the jury of the press room, TV, radio and web.
• Third night: all of the entrants were judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the demoscopic jury. The results were combined with those of the previous nights.
• Fourth night: the same systems used on the first three nights were put in place.
• Fifth night: the entrants were judged by televoting alone, to be added up to the results obtained that far; ultimately, a final voting round (again a sum of televoting and the two juries) was held among the top 3, which determined the winner.

Unlike previous editions, the Newcomers' section was not included in the Festival, but a similar selection was held to decree the three places reserved in the Big Artist section.^[6][7] The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section andArea Sanremo.

On 20 October 2021, the RAI commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2022 announced a list of 711 acts, but only 30 artists coming from all Italian regions – excludingBasilicata andValle d'Aosta – and from abroad were selected in the first phase.^[8]

On 22 November 2021, the RAI commission announced the eight finalists.^[9]

After the auditions, a RAI commission – composed byAmadeus, Gianmarco Mazzi, Claudio Fasulo, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo de Amicis – identified 4 finalists for the competition among the 330 acts:^[9][10]

On 15 December 2021, the twelve finalists performed their songs atSanremo Casino in Sanremo, with the showSanremo Giovani2021 broadcast onRai 1 and presented byAmadeus. The three winners of the night, i.e. Yuman, Tananai and Matteo Romano, participated in Sanremo 2022 with a new entry.^[11][7]

The traditional Big Artists section of the contest was merged with the Newcomers' section, and saw the participation of 25 artists, 22 being selected among established artists as before and 3 qualifying fromSanremo Giovani. The former 22, selected from 343 submissions received,^[12] were revealed on 4 December 2021, and also attended the night ofSanremo Giovani on 15 December, where their competing songs' titles were also made known.^{[13][14][15][16]}

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The first twelve artists each performed their song.

The remaining thirteen artists each performed their song.

All of the twenty-five artists performed their songs once again.

The artists each performed a cover of a song from the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s. They could either perform alone or duet with a guest performer.

All of the artists performed their songs one last time, with the top three moving on to the final round of voting.

On 31 January 2022, director ofRai 1Stefano Coletta [it] publicly announced through a press conference that there would be no vaccine mandate for the Sanremo Music Festival 2022 singers as it would have breached the singers' right to privacy on their health status.^[26] This was highly criticized by the Italian public, resulting into a second declaration by Coletta, claiming that there was a "misunderstanding" and that the singers would also be required to show their proof of vaccination upon entrance at the festival.^[27]

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2022 included:^{[4][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]}

• Singers / musicians:Arisa,Banda musicale della Guardia di Finanza [it],Cesare Cremonini,Colapesce &Dimartino,Ermal Meta,Gaia,Jovanotti,Laura Pausini,Malika Ayane,Måneskin,Marco Mengoni, Massimo Alberti,Meduza &Hozier,Mika,Orietta Berti,Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
• Actors / comedians / directors / models:Anna Valle,Checco Zalone,Claudio Gioè,Filippo Scotti,Gaia Girace,Lino Guanciale, Margherita Mazzucco,Maurizio Lastrico [it],Nino Frassica,Raoul Bova,Rosario Fiorello
• Sports people:Elisa Balsamo,Matteo Berrettini,National rhythmic gymnastics team [it] (Agnese Duranti,Alessia Maurelli,Daniela Mogurean,Martina Centofanti,Martina Santandrea)
• Other persons or notable figures:Alessandro Cattelan, cast ofBallo, ballo,Fabio Rovazzi,Mara Venier, Martina Pigliapoco,Roberto Saviano,Sergio Japino [it]

Rai 1 andRai Radio 2 brought the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings were also streamed online via the broadcaster's official websiteRaiPlay, which made it available in all member countries of theEuropean Broadcasting Union, since the festival is broadcast on theEurovision network.

Broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2023

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Italy	All shows	Rai 1	No commentary	[36]
		Rai Radio 2	Ema Stokholma andGino Castaldo [it]
		RaiPlay	No commentary
		Rai Italia (outside Italy)
Albania	All shows	RTSH Muzikë	No commentary	[37]
	Final	RTSH 1	Andri Xhahu and Blerina Shehu
Montenegro	All shows	TVCG 2	No commentary	[38]
Spain	Final	RTVE Play	Giuseppe di Bella and Fernando Macías	[39]
United Kingdom	Final	GlitterBeam	Eugenio Ceriello, Michael Walton-Dalzell and guests	[40]

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