Tonight Italy will decide who wins the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 and who will represent Italy in Stockholm in May, at the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Night 5, with the Sanremo Final, is here…

The show

The time has come for Italy to proclaim its Campione dei Campioni. The sixteen finalists will compete tonight for the winning position in the Campioni category of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016. The winner will be given the option to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.

There will be two rounds of voting. In the first one a top three will emerge that will proceed to the second round, which will decide the winner. The results will be determined by the combination of the televoting, with 40% of the weight, the expert jury, with 30%, and the demoscopic poll, with 30%.

The 15 known acts that qualified in the previous gala and that will compete tonight are the following:

• Alessio Bernabei – Noi siamo infinito
• Annalisa – Il diluvio universale
• Arisa – Guardando il cielo
• Clementino – Quando sono lontano
• Deborah Iurato & Giovanni Caccamo – Via da qui
• Dolcenera – Ora o mai più
• Elio e le storie tese – Vincere l’odio
• Enrico Ruggeri – Il primo amore non si scorda mai
• Francesca Michielin – Nessun grado di separazione
• Lorenzo Fragola – Infinite volte
• Noemi – La borsa di una donna
• Patty Pravo – Cieli immensi
• Rocco Hunt – Wake up
• Stadio – Un giorno mi dirai
• Valerio Scanu – Finalmente piove

The 16th and final qualifier will be revealed at the beginning of night 5’s show where the results of the repechage round will be revealed.

How to watch

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You can follow the Night 5 of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 from 20:30 CET through:

• Rai 1
• Rai HD
• Rai Radio 2
• Live webcast via rai.it
• Live webcast via eurovision.tv

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Italy decides tonight. Watch the Final of Sanremo and learn the result through ESCToday.com.