Presenters

In August 2021, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Together with Amadeus, five co-hosts alternated during the five evenings: Ornella Muti, Lorena Cesarini, Drusilla Foer, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Sabrina Ferilli.^[2]

Besides these, Orietta Berti and Fabio Rovazzi hosted parts of the show (for sponsorship reasons) from the cruise ship Costa Toscana off the shore of Sanremo.^[3][4]

Voting

Voting occurred 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 1000 music fans who vote from their homes via an electronic voting system managed by Ipsos.

Their voting was articulated as follows:^[5]

• First two nights: half of the entrants were judged by three separate panels from the jury of the press room, TV, radio and web.
• Third night: all of the entrants were judged through a 50/50 split system by means of televoting and the demoscopic jury. The results were combined with those of the previous nights.
• Fourth night: the same systems used on the first three nights were put in place.
• Fifth night: the entrants were judged by televoting alone, to be added up to the results obtained that far; ultimately, a final voting round (again a sum of televoting and the two juries) was held among the top 3, which determined the winner.

Sanremo Giovani 2021

Unlike previous editions, the Newcomers' section was not included in the Festival, but a similar selection was held to decree the three places reserved in the Big Artist section.^[6][7] The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and Area Sanremo.

Big Artists

The traditional Big Artists section of the contest was merged with the Newcomers' section, and saw the participation of 25 artists, 22 being selected among established artists as before and 3 qualifying from Sanremo Giovani. The former 22, selected from 343 submissions received,^[12] were revealed on 4 December 2021, and also attended the night of Sanremo Giovani on 15 December, where their competing songs' titles were also made known.^{[13][14][15][16]}

First night

The first twelve artists each performed their song.

Second night

The remaining thirteen artists each performed their song.

Third night

All of the twenty-five artists performed their songs once again.

Fourth night

The artists each performed a cover of a song from the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s. They could either perform alone or duet with a guest performer.

Fifth night

All of the artists performed their songs one last time, with the top three moving on to the final round of voting.

Local broadcast

Rai 1 and Rai Radio 2 brought the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings were 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.

More information Country, Show(s) ...

Broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2023

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Italy	All shows	Rai 1	No commentary	[36]
		Rai Radio 2	Ema Stokholma [it] and Gino Castaldo [it]
		RaiPlay	No commentary
		Rai Italia (outside Italy)
Albania	All shows	RTSH Muzikë	No commentary	[37]
	Final	RTSH 1	Andri Xhahu and Blerina Shehu
Montenegro	All shows	TVCG 2	No commentary	[38]
Spain	Final	RTVE Play	Giuseppe di Bella and Fernando Macías	[39]
United Kingdom	Final	GlitterBeam Radio	Eugenio Ceriello, Michael Walton-Dalzell and guests	[40]

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