The Sanremo Music Festival 2027 (), officially the 77th Italian Song Festival (), is set to be the 77th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by (RAI). It will be held between 16 and 20 February 2027, and will be presented by Stefano De Martino, who will also serve, together with Fabrizio Ferraguzzo, as the artistic director for the competition. The winner of the fourth night will represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027.
Format
The 2027 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the in Sanremo, Liguria, organised by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. Following a long dispute between RAI and the Sanremo municipality ahead of the preceding edition, an agreement was finally reached to keep the contest in Sanremo until 2029. A special "permanent observatory" was constituted by mutual agreement of both parties, which held its first meeting on 23 April 2026.
On 6 June 2026, RAI announced that the contest would be held from 16 to 20 February 2027.
Presenters
In January 2026, Carlo Conti, Sanremo's host and artistic director from 2025, announced that he would step down from his position after 2026. On 28 February 2026, during the final night of the 2026 edition, he announced Stefano De Martino as the artistic director and main host of the Sanremo Music Festival 2027.
Selections Sanremo Giovani 2026 The Newcomers' section of the Sanremo Festival was scrapped, with a single entrant to the main competition being determined through the format. The contest will be held across six episodes, with the final at Sanremo Casino airing live on Rai 1 on 18 December 2026.
Online submissions for the selection are open from 17 August 2026. Among these, 60 acts will be selected by a musical committee comprising artistic director De Martinoto take part in an initial audition round in Rome, where 15 of them will advance to a second audition phase in Sanremo, along with 15 entrants from the separate selection; there, six acts (three from the standard selection and three from ) will advance to the televised stage.
Shows First night Half of the competing artists will perform their competing songs.
Second night The remaining artists will perform their competing songs.
Third night The artists will perform an Italian or international song from the past, duetting with one or more guest performers.
Fourth night All artists will stage a Eurovision Song Contest–style performance of their competing songs. The winner of the night will be selected to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027.
Fifth night All artists will perform their competing songs.
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