Twenty-four artists competing with as many unreleased songs and a renewed voting mechanism.
The regulation of the new Sanremo festival has been unveiled, the third entrusted to the artistic direction of Amadeus and scheduled from Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 February 2022.
Confirmed, as last year, the race without eliminations to get to the final evening of Saturday 5 with the announcement of the winner. In addition, the special evening dedicated to the Covers returns (scheduled for Friday 4 February), during which the artists will perform - alone or with a guest agreed with Rai and the artistic direction - a piece that can be taken not only from the Italian repertoire, but also from the international repertoire of the 60s, 70s or 80s.
As for the voting, during the first two evenings the jury of accredited journalists is expected to be divided into three independent voting components: a jury from print and TV, one from radio and one from the web. In the fourth and fifth evening, however, the Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web will vote as the only component, adding to the televoting and the "1000 Demoscopic Jury", composed of a thousand members selected according to balanced criteria of age and geographical origin. , who will vote remotely with an app dedicated to them.
On Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 February the 24 songs will be performed, 12 the first evening and 12 the second, with the percentage weight on the overall result of the vote which will be divided as follows: jury of print and TV 33 percent; 33 percent web jury; radio jury 34 percent.
In the third evening the 24 artists will propose the 24 songs in the competition that will be voted on by the public through televoting and by the 1000 Opinion Jury, which will have a 50% weight on the overall result. The average between the overall voting percentages obtained by the songs / artists in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking of the 24 songs / artists in the competition.
On the "Cover" evening of Friday 4 February each of the 24 artists competing will propose - alone or with a guest - a song from the Italian and international repertoire of the 60s, 70s and 80s that will be voted by all the juries with a percentage weight of 34% for televoting, 33% for the jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web, and 33% for the “Demoscopica 1000”. The average between the overall voting percentages obtained by the artists in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking of the 24 songs / artists in the competition. Finally, on the final evening, the 24 songs in the competition will be voted on by the public through televoting and the average between the voting percentages obtained in the evening and those obtained in the previous evenings will determine a new ranking.
The first three songs in the ranking will then be re-proposed and a new vote will be carried out as follows: televoting 34%; jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web 33%; "Demoscopic 1000" 33%.
(Unioneonline / vl)
