Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest

Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 50 times since its debut in . RAI is the Italian broadcaster. Italy had missed only nineteen contests: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  and . Italy would return to the contest in  after thirteen years.

The Sanremo Music Festival is the inspiration of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Italy's three victories was achieved with the following songs:
- Gigliola Cinquetti — Non ho l'età ()
- Toto Cutugno — Insieme: 1992 ()
- Måneskin — Zitti e buoni ()

## Participation overview

|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|1|First place|
| --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|Second place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|Third place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|◁|Last place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#A4EAA9;"|**X**|Entry selected but did not compete|

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Final|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Points|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Semi|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Franca Raimondi|""|Italian|rowspan="2"|rowspan="2"|colspan="2" rowspan="35"|||||||||||
|Tonina Torrielli|""|Italian||||||||||||||
|Nunzio Gallo|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|7||||||||||
|Domenico Modugno|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|13||||||||||
|Domenico Modugno|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|9||||||||||
|Renato Rascel|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|5||||||||||
|Betty Curtis|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|12||||||||||
|Claudio Villa|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|3||||||||||
|Emilio Pericoli|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|37||||||||||
|Gigliola Cinquetti|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|49||||||||||
|Bobby Solo|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|15||||||||||
|Domenico Modugno|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|17 ◁|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|0||||||||||
|Claudio Villa|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|11|style="text-align:center;"|4||||||||||
|Sergio Endrigo|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|7||||||||||
|Iva Zanicchi|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|5||||||||||
|Gianni Morandi|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|5||||||||||
|Massimo Ranieri|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|91||||||||||
|Nicola Di Bari|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|92||||||||||
|Massimo Ranieri|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|74||||||||||
|Gigliola Cinquetti|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|18||||||||||
|Wess and Dori Ghezzi|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|115||||||||||
|Romina and Al Bano|"We'll Live It All Again"|English, Italian|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|69||||||||||
|Mia Martini|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|33||||||||||
||""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|53||||||||||
|Matia Bazar|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|15|style="text-align:center;"|27||||||||||
|Alan Sorrenti|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|87||||||||||
|Riccardo Fogli|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|11|style="text-align:center;"|41||||||||||
|Alice and Franco Battiato|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|70||||||||||
|Al Bano and Romina Power|"Magic Oh Magic"|Italian, English|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|78||||||||||
|Umberto Tozzi and Raf|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|103||||||||||
|Luca Barbarossa|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|52||||||||||
|Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|56||||||||||
|Toto Cutugno|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|149||||||||||
|Peppino di Capri|""|Neapolitan|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|89||||||||||
|Mia Martini|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|111||||||||||
|Enrico Ruggeri|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|45|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Jalisse|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|114|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Raphael Gualazzi|"Madness of Love"|Italian, English|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|189|colspan="2" rowspan="15"|||||||||
|Nina Zilli|"<span lang="it">L'amore è femmina</span> (Out of Love)"|English, Italian|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|101||||||||||
|Marco Mengoni|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|126||||||||||
|Emma|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|21|style="text-align:center;"|33||||||||||
|Il Volo|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|292||||||||||
|Francesca Michielin|"No Degree of Separation"|Italian, English|style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"|124||||||||||
|Francesco Gabbani|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|334||||||||||
|Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|308||||||||||
|Mahmood|""|Italian|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|472||||||||||
|Diodato|""|Italian|colspan="2"  **X**|||||||||||||
|Måneskin|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|524||||||||||
|Mahmood and Blanco|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|268||||||||||
|Marco Mengoni|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|350||||||||||
|Angelina Mango|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|268||||||||||
|Lucio Corsi|""|Italian|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|256||||||||||

## Hostings

Italy has hosted the contest three times, one time in Naples (), one time in Rome () and one time in Turin ().
|Year|Location|Venue|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Naples|Auditorium RAI||
|Rome|Teatro 15 di Cinecittà||
|Turin|PalaOlimpico||

## Related pages

- Sanremo Music Festival

## Infobox (song contest country)

- **name**: Italy
- **contest**: ESC
- **broadcaster**: (RAI)
- **apps**: 50
- **highest**: 1st: , ,
- **host**: , ,
- **website**: [https://www.rai.it/programmi/eurovisionsongcontest/ RAI page]
- **current**: 2025