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The Sanremo Music Festival 2023 (Italian: 73º Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2023) is the upcoming 73rd edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show will be held between 7 and 11 February 2023, and will be presented for the fourth time in a row by Amadeus, who also serves as the artistic director for the competition, with Gianni Morandi co-hosting.[1][2]

Sanremo Music Festival 2023
Dates
Semi-final 1	7 February 2023
Semi-final 2	8 February 2023
Semi-final 3	9 February 2023
Semi-final 4	10 February 2023
Final	11 February 2023
Host
Venue	Teatro Ariston (Sanremo, Liguria, Italy)
Presenter(s)	Amadeus and Gianni Morandi
Artistic director	Amadeus
Host broadcaster	Rai 1 Rai Radio 2 Rai Italia RaiPlay
Big Artists section
Number of entries	25
2022 ← Sanremo Music Festival

Format

The 2023 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, organized by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition will be Amadeus, for the fourth consecutive year.[3]

Presenters

On 24 March 2022, one month after the final of the 2022 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.[4][5] Together with Amadeus, Gianni Morandi will serve as co-host in all five nights of the festival.[2] Alongside Amadeus and Morandi, a number of co-hosts will alternate during the five evenings, of which one has been announced to date: Chiara Ferragni (first night and final).[6]

Voting

Voting will occur 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 300 music fans who vote from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.

Selections

Sanremo Giovani 2022

For the second time in a row, the Newcomers' section will not be included in the Festival, but a similar selection will be held to decree the three places reserved in the Big Artist section.[7] The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and Area Sanremo.

Standard selection

On 26 October 2022, the RAI commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2022 announced a list of 714 acts, but only 43 artists coming from all Italian regions – excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta – and from abroad were selected in the first phase.[8]

On 5 November 2022, the RAI commission announced the eight finalists.[9]

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, a RAI commission – composed by Amadeus, Federica Lentini, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo de Amicis – identified 4 finalists for the competition among the 549 acts:[9][10]

Final

On 16 December 2022, the twelve finalists will perform their songs on Sanremo Giovani 2022, broadcast on Rai 1 and presented by Amadeus.[11]

Big Artists

For the second year in a row, the traditional Big Artists section of the contest will be merged with the Newcomers' section, and will see the participation of 25 artists, 22 being selected among established artists and 3 qualifying from Sanremo Giovani.

Shows

First night

The first twelve or thirteen competing artists each perform their song.

Second night

The remaining twelve or thirteen competing artists each perform their song.

Third night

All competing artists perform their songs.

Fourth night

The competing artists each perform a cover of a song of their choice, alone or duetting with a guest performer.

Fifth night - Final

All of the competing artists performed their songs again, with the top three moving on to the final round of voting

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 will bring the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings will be also streamed online via the broadcaster's official website RaiPlay, which made it available in all member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, since the festival is broadcast on the Eurovision network.

Broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2023

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)
Italy	All shows	Rai 1, RaiPlay, Rai Italia	No commentary

Ratings

Live show	Timeslot (UTC+1)	Date	1st time (9:00 pm – 0:00 am)		2nd time (0:00 am – 1:30 am)		Overall audience		Ref(s)
			Viewers	Share (%)	Viewers	Share (%)	Viewers	Share (%)
1st	9:00 pm	7 February
2nd		8 February
3rd		9 February
4th		10 February
5th		11 February

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