Festival di Sanremo, here are the 30 bigs in the competition
Among those chosen by artistic director Carlo Conti were Massimo Ranieri, Giorgia and Fedez. Big excluded Al Bano
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There will be 30 songs competing at the Sanremo Festival. It was the artistic director himself, Carlo Conti, who announced this during the 1.30 p.m. Tg1 segment in which he unveiled the names of the big names that will participate in the next Festival, scheduled from 11 to 15 February 2025.
Here are the names that will face each other on the Ariston stage from 11 to 15 February 2025: Achille Lauro, Gaia, Coma_Cose, Francesco Gabbani, Willie Peyote, Noemi, Rkomi, Modà, Rose Villain, Brunori Sas, Irama, Clara, Massimo Ranieri, Emis Killa, Sara Toscano, Fedez, Simone Cristicchi, Joan Thiele, The Kolors, Bresh, Marcella Bella, Tony Effe, Elodie, Olly, Francesca Michelin, Lucio Corsi, Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua, Tormento, Serena Brancale, Rocco Hunt and Giorgia. Al Bano is therefore excluded again this year, as happened in 2014.
During the evening of 18 December of Sarà Sanremo, broadcast live on Rai 1 from the Sanremo Casino, Conti will unveil the titles of the songs of the Bigs in the competition. As far as voting is concerned, there has also been a change to the regulations: foreign radio stations will be included in the Sala Stampa Jury as a 'guest' category.
Counts: there are many flavours in the cast, and ten other big names would have deserved to be there
"We have increased the number of protagonists to thirty, and ten more deserved to be there," Carlo Conti told Tg1. "A particularly varied cast, the songs will be important, but you can already tell from the names what this floral bouquet will be like". Right now, Conti adds, 'Italian music is going very well'. "I have to thank the singers, the record companies, both the majors and the independents, the producers who are so many, and the songwriters who really put me to the test: I had to make a choice,' Carlo Conti explains further.
According to the artistic director, in the cast that will compete at the Ariston there is 'a bit of everything, a lot of flavours: Italian music is going very well thanks to the young people, the younger ones who love Italian music above all, unlike what happened a few years ago'. Among the Bigs there are 'a few new names, a few confirmations: I hope that these songs will then fill the charts, as has happened in recent years,' Conti emphasises.


