THE’2026 edition of the Italian Song Festival is articulated as always in “classic” five evenings from Tuesday to Saturday, from 24 to 28 February 2026. The most important musical event of the year is staged at the Ariston Theater in Sanremo. Even if around Sanremo there is gossip, fashion, controversy, TV ratings and so on and so forth, we try to understand well how the essence of the show works, that is, the race. The competition includes:
There final ranking it is the result of votes spread over several evenings, different weights between juries of experts and the public and progressive aggregations of results. There are in fact three voting systems:
So let’s see how we vote night by night.
