Division between 24 “champions” and four “new proposals”, fewer songs in the competition, confirmation of the three juries (televoting, radio and press room/TV/web), proclamation of the winner taking into account the votes expressed on all the evenings of the festival, but not on the cover evening.
Rai has released the rules for Sanremo 2025. The first festival of the post-Amadeus era, with Carlo Conti as artistic director, will be held from 11 to 15 February (slogan: “Tutti sing Sanremo”).
On Tuesday, February 11, all 24 competing champions will perform. Their songs will be judged by a jury of press, TV and web only. This will give a clear indication of the preferences of the press room. An initial ranking will be drawn up, but only the top five positions will be communicated to the public, without the relative order of placement.
The mechanism for Wednesday and Thursday evenings is the same: 12 champions will perform, judged 50% by televoting and the remaining 50% by the radio jury. Also in this case, only the five first positions will be communicated to the public, without the relative order of placement.
Also on Wednesday and Thursday, there will be two new proposals competing each evening from Sanremo Giovani 2024. They will compete judged by televoting, a jury from the press room/TV/web and a jury from the radio stations. Each evening will therefore produce a finalist in the new proposals category.
The fourth evening, on Friday 14 February, will be dedicated to covers. The big names “will have to perform covers alongside guest artists (Italian or international) from the world of music or art (interpreters, soloists or groups, performers or various artists) who have characteristics of clear fame, recognisability and/or acclaimed and particular originality”. The covers will be judged by all three juries, with the usual weight of 34% for televoting and 33% for both press/TV/web and radio. The winner of the evening will then be announced.
Also on Friday, the songs of the two artists belonging to the category of new proposals who emerged from the semifinals on Wednesday and Thursday will be voted by the three juries. The winner will then be proclaimed among the new proposals.
In the final on Saturday, the 24 champions will perform their songs again. They will be voted on by the three juries. The result will be added to the first evening's votes (press room) and to the combined result of the votes in the second and third evenings (televoting and radio). The average percentage of the votes will produce a ranking of the 24 songs in the competition.
The first five, whose positions will not be communicated, will be subjected to a new vote by the three juries. The result of this last vote will not be valid in itself, but will be added to the overall result of the previous votes, except for the cover night. The new percentage average of the votes of these five artists will lead to the proclamation of the winner of the 75th Italian Song Festival. The positions of the other four finalist songs that came in from second to fifth place will obviously also be communicated.
The regulation also states that Rai and Conti reserve the right during the fourth and fifth evenings, “for editorial and entertainment needs”, to communicate or not the general rankings of the 24 songs and to communicate or not the order of placement of the first five of the evenings. In the final, the order of repetition of the five songs that will compete for the victory will be defined by a draw.
In any case, at the end of the festival, the evening rankings will be made known in full by Rai through their publication on the website www.sanremo.rai.it.