Making comparisons with the past would be unfair: due to the pandemic, the renunciation of international guests, the health protocol that even prevents the conductors from delivering flowers to the women on stage and, of course, also the airing period (once it was February, now it’s March), it is clear that the Sanremo 2021 Festival is an edition in itself, in particular, the first with empty seats and with a shadow, that of Covid-19, which stretches over all the participants, questioning the participation of one of them (Irama, for the moment).
It remains that the first evening aired on Tuesday 2 March was followed in total by 8,363,000 and a share of 46.6%.
The ranking of the opinion poll for the 1st evening.
What do you think?# Sanremo2021 pic.twitter.com/yPwfz0K2N8– Sanremo Festival (@SanremoRai) March 3, 2021
In detail, the first part kept glued 11,176,000 viewers (46.3%) and the second 4,212,000 (47.77%). The result, to be honest, is surprising both because the television audience in principle has increased significantly compared to last year and because the anti-Covid measures such as the curfew at 22 o’clock should have incentivized the public to stay at home and, therefore, watching TV. The first evening of the Sanremo 2020 Festival was followed by 10,058,000 spectators (52.2%), making us understand how much the situation has contracted to just one year: in fact, the Amadeus and Fiorello Bis lost almost 2 million viewers, almost 6 percentage points.
This is the worst figure in absolute values since 2008 and this, of course, is surprising. In 2019, the last edition by Baglioni, that is a lifetime ago, when we could gather and the Ariston was packed, reached the prime time 49.5% share and 10,086,000 spectators – in detail, 49.4% (13,776,000) in the first part and 50.11% (5,120,000) in the second. It is difficult to say why the public at the first Sanremo Festival in times of pandemic proved uncertain, but there are still four evenings that could reshuffle the cards and surprise us.
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