Italy: Sanremo 2019 first night song performances and results

The 69th edition of “Festival di Sanremo” kicked off tonight in Italy as the 24 artists performed their competing entries for the very first time on stage. 

THE SONG PERFORMANCES

Check out the 24 on stage performances of Sanremo Festival’s first night show:

1. Francesco Renga – Aspetto che torni
2. Nino D’Angelo e Livio Cori – Un’altra luce
3. Nek – Mi farò trovare pronto
4. The Zen Circus – L’amore è una dittatura
5. Il Volo – Musica che resta
6. Loredana Bertè – Cosa ti aspetti da me
7. Daniele Silvestri – Argentovivo
8. Federica Carta e Shade – Senza farlo apposta
9. Ultimo – I tuoi particolari
10. Paola Turci – L’ultimo ostacolo
11. Motta – Dov’è l’Italia
12. Boomdabash – Per un milione
13. Patty Pravo con Briga – Un po’ come la vita
14. Simone Cristicchi – Abbi cura di me
15. Achille Lauro – Rolls Royce
16. Arisa – Mi sento bene
17. Negrita – I ragazzi stanno bene
18. Ghemon – Rose viola
19. Einar – Parole nuove
20. Ex-Otago – Solo una canzone
21. Anna Tatangelo – Le nostre anime di notte
22. Irama – La ragazza con il cuore di latta
23. Enrico Nigiotti – Nonno Hollywood
24. Mahmood – Soldi

THE HOSTS – THE GUESTS AND VOTING PROCESS

This evening’s show took place at Teatro Ariston in Sanremo and for a second consecutive year “Festival di Sanremo 2019” was hosted by Claudio Baglioni, who is also the competition’s artistic director, Claudio Bisio and Virginia Raffaele. Andrea and Matteo Bocelli, Giorgia, Michelle Hunziker, Pierfrancesco Favino and Claudio Santamaria were among the guest performers of the this night’s show.

Tonight’s results were determined 40% by televoting , 30% by a demoscopic jury (composed of a sample of 300 music fans) and the remaining 30% by the jury of the accredited press that watched the show from the Roof Hall of Teatro Ariston.

THE RESULTS

Below you can take a look at first night’s results , according which the competing acts have been split up in three colored categories. In the Blue color category are the acts in the first 8 places of the scoreboard, in the Yellow category are the next 8 acts  and in the Red color category are the 8 acts with the less points after the first night of the show. 

BLUE CATEGORY

• Francesco Renga – Aspetto che torni
• Nek – Mi farò trovare pronto
• Il Volo – Musica che resta
• Loredana Bertè – Cosa ti aspetti da me
• Daniele Silvestri – Argentovivo
• Ultimo – I tuoi particolari
• Simone Cristicchi – Abbi cura di me
• Irama – La ragazza con il cuore di latta

YELLOW CATEGORY

• Federica Carta e Shade – Senza farlo apposta
• Paola Turci – L’ultimo ostacolo
• Boomdabash – Per un milione
• Patty Pravo con Briga – Un po’ come la vita
• Arisa – Mi sento bene
• Negrita – I ragazzi stanno bene
• Anna Tatangelo – Le nostre anime di notte
• Enrico Nigiotti – Nonno Hollywood

RED CATEGORY

• Nino D’Angelo e Livio Cori – Un’altra luce
• The Zen Circus – L’amore è una dittatura
• Motta – Dov’è l’Italia
• Achille Lauro – Rolls Royce
• Ghemon – Rose viola
• Einar – Parole nuove
• Ex-Otago – Solo una canzone
• Mahmood – Soldi

Sanremo festival gows on tomorrow with the first 12 acts performing their entries for a second time while the 2nd set of 12 act will perform on Thursday.

Judging from first night’s performance which ones are your favorite? Is there one that already stands out from the rest?