page_title: Soldi
section_title: Eurovision Song Contest
hierarchical_section_title: Soldi / Song contests / Eurovision Song Contest
caption_attribution_description: English: At the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final Dress Rehearsal
context_page_description: "Soldi" is a song recorded by Italian singer Mahmood. It was released on 6 February 2019, as the fifth single from his debut studio album, Gioventù bruciata. Mahmood co-wrote the song with Dario "Dardust" Faini and Charlie Charles, who also produced it.
  Mahmood performed the song for the first time at the 69th Sanremo Musical Festival in February 2019 and won the competition, receiving the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
  "Soldi" was later confirmed as his Eurovision entry, eventually reaching second place in the final. The song is predominantly in Italian, with one line in Arabic, making it the fourth time that a Eurovision song features the Arabic language after entries by Morocco in 1980, Israel in 2009 and Bulgaria in 2012. "Soldi" topped the charts in Greece, Israel, Italy and Lithuania and reached the top 10 in five more countries. The song became the most-streamed Eurovision song ever on Spotify.
context_section_description: Following his win, it was confirmed by RAI and the European Broadcasting Union that Mahmood had accepted the invitation to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest, which is given to the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival, and that he'd be performing "Soldi" at Eurovision. As Italy is a member of the "Big Five", he automatically advanced to the final, held on 18 May 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The song finished second in final with 472 points, and won the Marcel Bezençon Composer Award.
caption: Mahmood performing "Soldi" during a Eurovision rehearsal in May 2019.
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