The 10 best Italian songs of 2024

She was one of the few notes out of the chorus of Sanremo 2024 by deciding to bring the Palestinian issue to Ariston. He did it elegantly, but with anger, going so far as to talk about genocide live on Rai 1 to the amazement of the country's ruling class. Unlike Tony Effe, however, he did not find solidarity from his colleagues, finding himself alone swimming against the waves of censorship. The fact is that My house it is a light song that intelligently and elegantly hides a (very) heavy theme. However, did those who sang it as a catchphrase in the following months really understand it? (MB)

Who knows, maybe Madame's signature was also needed, with her way of being pop and visceral at the same time, to make Angelina Mango take a step towards maturation as an artist. A large part of Italy noticed this on the evening of February 6th, when for the first time we heard her chant that “I die without dying”. Today we have become accustomed to Boredombut even listening to it for the umpteenth time one is not entirely immune to the popular intensity of this kind of imaginary folk endowed with the right post-adolescent boldness and a touch of pop existentialism. (CT)

Use irony to say things that are difficult to say. Falling madly in love is never a businessin addition to being a very true statement, is a song in which pop and songwriting blend together with a vocal interpretation as soft as a feather. A song that tells the story of adult life: you know how it ends but you fall for it every time. (FF)

Those who know him will be happy to see him in Sanremo, those who don't know him yet will soon discover the fairy world of this singer-songwriter capable of transporting the listener into a dreamlike and luminous universe. He also does it in this song, a perfect dedication for those you love. “You are the morning, a door to Mars. You are my pillow on the right side.” Because we all deserve someone to tell us. (FF)

It's a creed, like the ones you recite at mass, except that instead of there being the church and the holy spirit there are bad teachers and those who shout into records. It is the story of Sara who grows up dealing with love and other disasters. The composed and at the same time heartfelt tone of the interpretation pushes you to take her side and wish the best for her and for anyone who has a thirst for life and distorted guitars. Written with Pacifico and Federico Nardelli. (CT)

“He makes a chain with my name / I'm the best bitch ever”. Trap music, by nature, is entertainment music where swag and style always matter more than content. Anna understood this very well and in BBE it perfectly encapsulates the sound of the most loved genre in Italy and, at the same time, becomes its interpreter and standard-bearer. If there was a Duolingo to learn the lingo Gen Z, the guiding voice would be that of Anna Pepe. (MB)

“You don't need a bubble to see it's all flat,” Marracash raps in the intro of Crashesthe manifesto song of Peace is over. With the usual style, and the usual sharp pen, here Marra moves away from the conformism of Italian pop to launch into a social and political criticism, citing the “fascist government that says prehistoric phrases”, the “human cases make passages from Cruciani” , because “it is a question of power and not of gender”. Once again, when there is to put a weight (citing a previous song of his and his old clothing line), Marracash responds presently. (MB)

There is an image that says more than many words. Hidden by a column like a curious child, hands behind his back, Cesare Cremonini spies without being noticed Luca Carboni who returns to sing. Saint Lukehowever, is not here just for the joy of seeing the singer-songwriter around again We're wrong and not even just for the sake of listening to him duet with Cremonini (author with Davide Petrella). It is here because a pop prayer, a good song in the sense that it does good, one of those that no one writes anymore and which is itself a welcoming refuge where you can find yourself, like San Luca in Bologna. (CT)

Not only the song that won Sanremo (so to speak, we understand each other), but also the first real Italian hit of the year. Mahmood returns to the Festival and surprises everyone with this baile funk song that has everything: melody, lyrics full of very strong images and even choreography ready to be learned. The boy from Gratosoglio has grown up and is aiming for the stars. Don't compare him to a bitch like that. (FF)

Talponia is the name by which i local they call the West Residential Unit of Ivrea, an Olivettian architecture – functional and alien – dug under a hill on the sides of the small town. It is no coincidence that Cosmo, who was born and lives in Ivrea, used the term “alien” to define his music, a pop that is both futurist and, like Olivetti's architecture, functional. “And they told me about a trans girl / Yes, who lives there, who brought you gifts / To all the children / Only she brought them to you”, is the brilliant image that Marco sings on a production that plays like an Italian song from the 70s, with influences from MPB and the Mediterranean tradition; sometimes the best way to be in the future is by getting in touch with the past. (MB)