Sanremo Music Festival 2025

The Sanremo Music Festival 2025 (Festival di Sanremo 2025), officially the 75th Italian Song Festival (75º Festival della canzone italiana), is set to be the 75th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. It is scheduled to be held between 11 and 15 February 2025 and presented by Carlo Conti, who will also serve as the artistic director for the competition.

As has been the case since 2015, the festival will additionally serve as the for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

Presenters
In June 2023, Amadeus, Sanremo's host and artistic director from 2020, announced that he would step down from his position after 2024. Despite proposals by RAI to remain for 2025, Amadeus confirmed during a press conference on 5 February 2024 that the 2024 edition would be his final time in the role.

On 22 May 2024, RAI announced Carlo Conti – who had previously taken on the role in 2015, 2016 and 2017 – as the artistic director and main host of the 2025 and 2026 editions.

Format changes
On 13 June 2024, Conti announced the first changes in the rules and the organisation of the contest: these include the reintroduction of the separate Newcomers' section, which was last featured in 2018, and that of the special DopoFestival broadcast after each of the shows, which will be reduced in length compared to previous editions; the "cover night" will be retained, and once again none of the entries will be eliminated before the final.

Stage design
In June 2024, it was announced that the Sanremo 2025 stage will be designed by Riccardo Bocchini, the same designer of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions.

Sanremo Giovani 2024
The four artists competing in the Newcomers' section will be determined through the Sanremo Giovani format, with the contestants, aged 16 to 26, being selected via a standard selection and the separate Area Sanremo competition. The contest will be held from 12 November to 18 December 2024, and will take place in three stages:
 * four weekly "challenges" on 12, 19, 26 November and 3 December, airing on Rai 2, each seeing six contestants, three of them advancing to the next stage based on the votes of the musical committe;
 * a semi-final on 10 December, also airing on Rai 2, where six of the remaining twelve contestants will be eliminated by the musical committee;
 * a final on 18 December 2024, held at the Sanremo Casino Theatre and presented by Carlo Conti, airing live on Rai 1; the six finalists will compete for three spots in the festival, while another two, selected from Area Sanremo, will compete for an additional place; the results will be determined by a 50/50 combination of televoting and votes from the musical committee.

Standard selection
Online submissions for the standard selection are open between 10 July and 8 October 2024. At least 40 acts will be selected by a musical committee – composed of professionals and chaired by the artistic director (Conti) – to take part to an audition round in Rome, where 24 artists will be selected to compete.

Area Sanremo 2024
Area Sanremo will be an internal selection whereby the musical committee will choose two artists to take part in the final of Sanremo Giovani.

Competing entries
The contest will feature a Big Artists section and a Newcomers' section. A total of 24 entries will compete in the former, which will be selected by the artistic director both from public submissions and by direct invitation; 4 acts, as determined through the Sanremo Giovani format, will compete in the latter. Upon the announcement of the new artistic director, Italian consumers association Codacons issued a statement requesting that Conti establish a professional committee to select the competing entries, to ensure that they meet musical standards and that their selection is not based on the artists' "number of social media followers, web views or temporary fame deriving from their participation in singing talent shows", as well as the inclusion of a Codacons representative in each phase of the preparations in order to guarantee public transparency.

First night
All 24 artists will perform their competing songs. The top 5 will be announced in a random order.

Second night
Twelve of the competing artists will perform their competing songs for a second time. The top 5 will be announced in a random order.

Third night
The remaining twelve artists will perform their competing songs for a second time. The top 5 will be announced in a random order.

Fourth night
The artists each will perform an Italian or international song from the past (or a medley thereof), duetting with one or more guest performers. Unlike the previous years, a winner of the night will be proclaimed, rather than adding the results to the overall score.

Fifth night
All 24 artists will perform their competing songs. The top 5 artists of the combined rankings of this and the first three shows will advance to the superfinal. Here they will get to perform their song for a second time, while juries and televote will vote to determine the winner.

Local broadcast
Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 will bring the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings will also be streamed online via the broadcaster's official online platform RaiPlay.