by Ilay Gaist Comment Closed




Italy at Eurovision 2025: A detailed look at Italian public voting in Eurovision 2025, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse at audience preferences and how they differed from the overall contest results.

The Italian national broadcaster, RAI, has published the full breakdown of the Italian public’s vote in Eurovision 2025, including precise data from both the first semi-final – where Italy participated as a voting country – and the grand final. This move towards transparency reveals which countries managed to captivate Italian viewers and highlights the significant differences between local preferences and the overall contest results.

The country that received the most love from Italians, both in the semi-final and the final, was San Marino, represented by Gabry Ponte with the song “Tutta l’Italia”. The fast-paced, catchy song, blending contemporary pop with a nod to Italian culture, garnered 54.65% of Italian votes in the semi-final – more than half of all votes – and no less than 34.16% in the final itself.




Italian Public Voting in the First Semi-Final

During the first semi-final, in which Italy was one of the voting countries, San Marino’s dominance was indisputable. Here are the full results:

  • San Marino – 54.65%
  • Albania – 12.43%
  • Estonia – 7.46%
  • Ukraine – 5.46%
  • Sweden – 3.00%
  • Netherlands – 2.88%
  • Iceland – 2.77%
  • Poland – 2.61%
  • Norway – 2.27%
  • Portugal – 1.52%
  • Slovenia – 1.23%
  • Croatia – 0.97%
  • Belgium – 0.96%
  • Cyprus – 0.92%
  • Azerbaijan – 0.86%

This result demonstrates just how popular San Marino’s entry was with the local audience, especially compared to other countries that received only a fraction of the votes.

Grand Final: San Marino Leads As Well

In the grand final, San Marino continued to top the Italian public vote, securing 34.16% of the votes. Albania climbed to second place with 16.52%, while Israel managed to reach third with 11.44% of the votes.

Below is the complete breakdown of the Italian public vote in the final:

  • San Marino – 34.16%
  • Albania – 16.52%
  • Israel – 11.44%
  • Estonia – 6.18%
  • Ukraine – 5.00%
  • Sweden – 2.58%
  • Austria – 2.18%
  • Poland – 2.15%
  • Norway – 1.90%
  • Greece – 1.90%
  • Netherlands – 1.77%
  • Germany – 1.53%
  • Spain – 1.51%
  • Iceland – 1.49%
  • France – 1.20%
  • Portugal – 1.14%
  • Latvia – 1.08%
  • Finland – 1.01%
  • Luxembourg – 0.99%
  • Lithuania – 0.95%
  • Malta – 0.89%
  • Armenia – 0.85%
  • Switzerland – 0.72%
  • United Kingdom – 0.45%
  • Denmark – 0.41%

Lucio Corsi Reaches the Top Five for Italy

At Eurovision 2025 itself, Italy was represented by Lucio Corsi with the song “Volevo essere un duro”. He finished in fifth place with a total of 256 points. From the jury vote, Italy received 12 points from Croatia, Georgia, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, and Switzerland. In the public vote, Italy received 12 points only from Slovenia.

Despite the high placement in the final rankings, it appears that the Italian entry did not receive as broad support from the local audience as neighboring countries did—especially San Marino, which enjoyed significant cultural identification and support.




Italy at Eurovision 2025

“Volevo essere un duro” (translated as: “I Wanted to Be Tough”) is the song performed by singer Lucio Corsi, which came second at the 75th edition of the Sanremo Festival. The song was written by the singer himself along with Tommaso Ottomano. This was the singer’s first-ever appearance at the festival. The song is performed in Italian. The song finished fifth in the grand final with 256 points.

Who is Lucio Corsi?

Lucio Corsi, born on October 15th, 1993, in Grosseto, Italy, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He grew up in the village of Vetulonia near where his family runs a restaurant. His mother is a painter, while his father has worked in various roles including as an employee of the Italian national broadcaster Rai and as an artist working with leather. Corsi’s love for music was sparked by watching the movie “The Blues Brothers” as a child, and he began writing songs at a very young age, performing in bars and squares of his hometown from 2011.

He began composing instrumental pieces of progressive rock before turning to lyrical writing. After finishing his high school studies in Grosseto, he moved to Milan with the aim of developing his musical career, initially living near Naviglio Pavese, then in Via Ripamonti, and eventually in Niguarda. This participation was the singer’s first ever in the Italian Sanremo Festival.

Source: Rai.

Eurovision 2025: This was Italy’s 50th participation in Eurovision. Italy joined the contest in 1956, was one of the seven founding countries, and has won three times over the years. Italy’s most recent victory was at Eurovision 2021 with the song “Zitti e buoni” performed by the band Måneskin.