The bookmakers gave you for favor and Olly. They took us with him, with her not. Indeed, Giorgia did not even enter the cinquina of the singers of Sanremo 2025 who played the final victory in the second vote on Saturday evening, among the whistles of the audience of the Ariston theater, the mutuals of the next day, the invectives, the inevitable controversies. In the year in which it was celebrated as a living monument of Italian pop, the year in which she had a better song than that of 2023, Giorgia remained on the edge of the ranking that counts.
Why didn't he even enter the top 5, but in the end he arrived sixth? There are two answers, one short and a much longer one. That short is this: it was not enough voted by people at home, she did not benefit her this year's regulation and perhaps was penalized by the location of the second performance on Wednesday instead of Thursday. It was appreciated both by the jury of the press room, TV and web, and from that of radio: both have always put it on number one. But he served an unexpectedly opaque performance on televoting, especially on Wednesday evening, the first of the two that expected the execution of half of the songs in the race. Not only that: Wednesday was an evening full of top 5 artists and it was therefore more difficult than Thursday to create high percentages that would allow her to get to Saturday with a nice treasure of votes. And so, given that this year the final cinquina and the absolute winner were proclaimed taking into account all the previous votes (with the exception of the cover of the covers, who made history in itself and was irrelevant for the final victory), Giorgia yes It is found behind Fedez and Simone Cristicchi, and Olly found himself in front of Lucio Corsi e Bunori.
That's what happened in detailfor those who have a lot of patience and do not hate numbers and voting mechanisms. On Tuesday evening he voted for the jury of the press room, TV and web. The journalists assigned a vote from 1 to 10 to each piece. Result: in the first place there was The cure for me Di Giorgia followed in the order by Simone Cristicchi, Bruori Sas, Lucio Corsi and Achille Lauro (the ranking was communicated to the public, but in scattered order). Olly who would then win was sixth, Fedez destined in fourth place was eleventh.
Giorgia also performed on Wednesday together with 14 other singers, including some very strong (but not Olly and not even Brunori). They voted with an equal weight the radio jury (with votes from 1 to 10) and televoting. The most voted song from the radio was that of Giorgia. Behind her, in order from second to fifth, Cristicchi, Lauro, Corsi, Kolors. Fedez was still eleventh.
The audience at home with the televoting, however, voted radically differently by assigning a very high percentage to Cristicchi and Fedez, more than 20% each and more than 19% the other. Behind them, detached, Lucio Corsi, Achille Lauro and Giorgia, the latter with less than 10%. The difference between Giorgia on one side and Cristicchi and Fedez must be underlined since the voting percentages were then integrated until they reach the final verdict. Not only that: for the purposes of victory, he also counted the difference between these percentages and those obtained on televoting by those who perform on Thursday, as we will see. In any case, the overall result of Wednesday evening, obtained by combining the responses of the two juries, saw Cristicchi Primo, Fedez Secondo, Giorgia Terzo, Lauro Quarto and Fifth Courses.
On Thursday the other 14 singers performed giving rise to a ranking of the evening obtained by putting together televoting and radio jury. The first five: Brunori Sas (preferred to Olly by both juries), Olly, Irama, Francesco Gabbani, Coma_cose (the latter first for radio). Perhaps something would have changed if Giorgia had sang on Thursday, when the televoting concentrated on two big names, namely Bruori Sas and Olly. If Giorgia had been there, would you have obtained more than 10% collected on Wednesday? She saw her with Cristicchi, Fedez, Corsi, Lauro, while Bruori and Olly with less dangerous competitors, so much so that between the second (Olly) and the third (Irama) there are 19 percentage points, a moat that He allowed the first two to arrive very strong at the final on Saturday. It is therefore possible that if Giorgia had ended in the Thursday group it would have had greater possibility of entering the top 5. And since in this Sanremo the votes never threw themselves away, he would have put aside a treasure to play at the end, as he did Olly with Lucio Corsi.
At this point, an overall ranking of the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday was drawn up, as if the 29 had made the second performances all together. Not unexpectedly to the first two places we found the artists of Thursday, or first Bruori Sas and according to Olly. Third was Cristicchi, Quarto Fedez, Quinta Giorgia, who was therefore still in the top 5 despite the location on Wednesday and the not very bright televoting.
You arrive thus on Saturday (The covers were irrelevant for the purposes of the designation of the winning song) when they return to sing all 29 competitors judged by the three juries with almost identical weights (34% televoting, 33% of the other two). A first vote is carried out. Giorgia is first for the radio (behind are Lucio Corsi, Achille Lauro, the Coma_Cose, Bruori Sas, Simone Cristicchi, Olly) and first also for the press room, TV and web (behind Lucio Corsi, Achille Lauro, Bruori Sas, Olly , Simone Cristicchi, Fedez). Instead, it is sixth for the televoting, with 8% against 17% of the first who is Bruori Sas. Between the two there are, in order from second to fifth, Olly, Lucio Corsi, Fedez and Achille Lauro. Cristicchi for televoting is seventh, with 3.75%. He will benefit him to have been first on Wednesday with 20.5%
Saturday Giorgia is not bad. By combining the rankings of the three juries, this ranking is in fact: Brunori Sas, Olly, Lucio Corsi, Giorgia, Achille Lauro, Fedez, Simone Cristicchi. As you can see, the two singers who took high percentages on Thursday remain in the lead. It is an important point. I repeat, the 2025 regulation provides that there is a drag effect from the previous episodes. The vote is never zeroed, but the judgments expressed in the first, second and third evening is also taken into account. The logic is double: reward those who have made a path of value and has not possibly had only a peak of popularity in the final, and do not throw away the votes expressed (and paid) from home on previous evenings.
A joint ranking is therefore produced that combines the votes of the first evening (100% printing), the second and third (50% televoting and 50% radio) and Saturday (34% televoting, 33% printing, 33% radio). And it is here that Giorgia leaves the top 5. The first five are communicated to the viewers, but not the order which is this: first Bruori Sas, according to Olly, third Lucio Corsi, fourth Simone Cristicchi, Quinto Fedez. The first two are again the singers of Thursday since the high percentages obtained with televoting are gradually “diluted” by joining the other votes, but in the case of a large gap they remain precious. Positions from sixth to 29th place are communicated to the public. When you arrive at Achille Lauro Settimo and Giorgia Sesta the whistles in the room start.
Someone could ask themselves: how is it possible that Giorgia was on Tuesday in first position, fifth in the joint ranking Wednesday-Junged and fourth in the joint ranking of the first phase on Saturday and slipped into sixth position when all these rankings were united? The answer has to do with the distribution of the votes within the juries of the press room and the radio and how this distribution is translated into percentage terms in order to combine it with televoting. If there are very large gaps on televoting (see the two leaders of Thursdays), it is unlikely that they are filled by the judgments of the other two juries even if they go in the opposite direction.
It is a question of variability and to understand it I make a simplified example, the extreme case in which the jury (press room or radio is not important) like a few songs to which it gives high votes, penalizing all the others. Another extreme hypothesis: all members of the press room vote in the same way. So let's assume that the press room gives 10 to one singer (say Giorgia), 9 with two singers, 8 to three singers, 7 with four singers, 6 to five singers and 1 to all the other 14. It means that the first, L The only one to have taken all 10, he will get 8% and the last ones, which everyone has given 1, will have 0.8%. Even in this case decidedly extreme between the first to the last there is a difference of just over 7%, between the first and fifth only 1.6%. The televoting instead gives rise to decidedly wider detachments. Between the first of Wednesday (Cristicchi) and the fifth (Giorgia) they ran almost 11 points. It is also a question of percentages in absolute terms: without reaching the incredible case of Geolier in 2024, those who are at the top of the televoting usually get much higher percentages than 8, which is even more true for the strongest artists (Brunori and Olly ) who performed on Thursday.
In other words, unless the press room and the Jury of the radio is expressed in a very compact way (i.e.: everyone voted in the same way or almost) and radical (i.e.: giving maximum votes to one or two singers and minimal to all the others), their judgment ends up having less impact on the final result of a televoting which by nature is more polarized and produces wider detachments.
Giorgia therefore did not manage to enter the final cinquina due to the voting effect and because it is less voted from home by that same televoting which however put it on the number one in the evening of the covers. It is true that it may have been penalized by the location on Wednesday instead of Thursday, but on Saturday it still took 8% against Bruori's 17.4% and Olly's 16.2%: the public preferred other songs. If the votes had zeroed and took into account the Saturday evening alone, he would have entered the top 5 in fourth place, playing the final. Having been the one integrated to the previous ones and Lauro, they slipped to sixth and seventh place, passed by Fedez and Cristicchi who were like her and Lucio Corsi on Wednesday, but they went better in the popular vote.
The ending is consumed with the same logic. Indeed, given that the press room and radio do not vote in the second phase of Saturday expressing themselves with numbers from 1 to 10, but from 1 to 5, further reduces the internal variability of their rankings and therefore the possibility that they can impact in a marked way once added to the televoting. Press room and the radio vote Lucio Corsi Primo, Olly Secondo, Bruori Terzo (for La Stampa Fedez is Quarto and Cristicchi Quinto, for the radio vice versa). For the televoting, on the other hand, Olly (31.1%) is in front of Lucio Corsi (25.7%). The two are followed by Fedez (20.5%), Bruori (16.6%) and Cristicchi (6.1%). When these rankings are put together in the first place, Lucio Corsi is followed, followed in the order by Olly, Brunori Sas, Fedez, Cristicchi.
If the votes had been reset before the judgment on the five finalists, as it happened in other festivals, he would have won courses. Instead, due to the transcination effect or if you prefer for the treasure of purchases votes during all performances, putting together this last joint ranking with the overall result of the previous votes, Olly won.
