Sanremo, Geolier wins the cover night. Record share: 67.8%.
Second Angelina Mango, then Annalisa, Ghali and Alfa while the Ariston audience booed. Amadeus reads the tractors' announcement. The report cards
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The evening of the Sanremo 2024 covers (from 9.15pm to 1.59am) was watched on average by 11 million 893 thousand viewers equal to a 67.8% share. Last year, the evening dedicated to duets and the reinterpretation of past successes had gathered an average of 11 million 121 thousand viewers (from 9.25pm to 1.59am), equal to a 66.5% share. This 67.8% represents the best result for a Friday evening in the Auditel era, since 1987. In second place was precisely the 1987 edition, conducted by Pippo Baudo with Carlo Massarini, with a 67.50% share from the penultimate evening of the festival.
Before the festival began, the controversy about his use of Neapolitan was raging. Once it started, he camefirst in the Top 5 on the night he performed, placed at the top of the Fimi GfK singles chart, saw followers on social media like no other artist in the competition and now takes home the first title: Geolier, accompanied by Guè, Luchè and Gigi D'Alessio, won the cover night of Sanremo 2024 with a medley of Brivido, 'O primmo ammore and Chiagne, while the Ariston booed. Behind him Angelina Mango, Annalisa, Ghali and Alfa.
A mix of televote (34%), press room (33%) and radio jury (33%) determined the result of the fourth evening. Everything at this point suggests that the podium, in Saturday's final, will be contested by Geolier and Angelina Mango, with Annalisa acting as the crazy variable. Geolier is an absolute recording phenomenon, simply the author of the best-selling album of 2023 (The Courage of Children): he will be able to count on the televote. Angelina Mango is a talent phenomenon, but she is also a predestined one, twice a child of art and herself unquestionably talented: she will certainly find support in the press room and in the radio jury. Which, thinking in radio terms, will also look in Annalisa's direction.
At midnight you know the tractors' communiqué arrives
.At Sanremo it is the night of thoughts and covers, traditionally the longest and most fun night of the festival, a night of dreams, feats and tractors. Because this year, with protests going on all over Europe, the stone guest is them, those of the farmers' movement: at midnight comes the long-awaited unitary communiqué. Amadeus reads it: 'We demand a clear law that guarantees a fair distribution of value along the food chain,' it says. "Without agriculture there is no life, there is no food sovereignty, there is no freedom; we only ask for the possibility to continue to honour the teachings of our parents and grandparents, who with respect, love and dignity led us to cultivate the value of the land and what it represents, with the one and only aim of leaving a better world to our children. For a week we squabbled over the topic: it seemed like the storming of the Bastille and instead it was these 15 lines. A perfect metaphor for how Sanremo works. And of how the country works.
The Friday night in any case is long, the Ariston audience does not disdain standing up and clapping their hands, and even Albert of Monaco is in the audience. Of the series: you couldn't get Jannik Sinner at the Ariston, you bring the reigning monarch to where he resides. Joking aside, this time there is a co-hostess of consummate professionalism: Lorella Cuccarini. Very successful is her entrance choreography, a semi-serious number that traces her entire career as a showgirl between La notte vola, the reunion with Amadeus on the theme of Grease and Sugar Sugar, where Fiorello produces a memorable parody of Manuel Franjo, historical partner of the 1980s television ballets. TV authors are now meme generators: one can read the Jalisse's performance 27 years after their victory-meteora of Fiumi di parole directed by Beppe Vessicchio in this key. Not exactly the reunion of Pink Floyd at Live 8, but we are still in Italy and the same argument applies.
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