Sanremo 2025: Carlo Conti on the early evening is booming of listening (but watch out for total audience)

Although he said at the press conference not to undergo any pressure on the front listens for his fourth Sanremo Festival, Carlo Conti It can only be satisfied: The first evening of this edition totals 12,600,000 spectators with a 65.3% share. The data cannot, however, be compared to that of the other editions because, as the insiders know well, since December 2024 the Total audiencethat is, a system that also adds the consumption of the content to alternative platforms to listening to the television such as, in this case, Raiplay – you will have noticed that, tuning on the site during Sanremo during the evening, Streaming was slower than usual Because there was peak of users connected at the same time.

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We said that the data cannot be compared to that of past editions, however it is interesting to add that This is the best debut of a Carlo Conti Festival ever: In 2015 the first evening obtained, in fact, 49.34% of share, growing in 2016 with the 49.48 % share (11,135,000 Telespetatori) and even reaching 50.37% (11,354,000 spectators) In 2017, in the edition conducted together with Maria De Filippi. In 2024 there was no total audience, but for his latest Sanremo Amadeus had gathered 65.1% share with 10,561,000 spectatorsconquering The highest share reached by Sanremo since 1995when Pippo Baudo, Anna Falchi and Claudia Koll were running the festival.

Sanremo 75th Festival of Italian Song 2025 Primo evening. In the photo Carlo Conti
Sanremo, 75th Italian Song Festival 2025 – Primo evening. In the photo: Carlo ContiAlberto Terenghi / IPa-Agecy.net

In short, regardless of the value we want to give to listening, It is clear that the Sanremo Festival continues to be one of the very few moments of collective aggregation of our country. Even if there is always someone who boasts not to look at him because going countercurrent makes more and more news than those who indulge the flow, Sanremo effectively blocks Italy providing, for better or for worse, a greedy topic to talk about. And this is a fact.

Source: Vanity Fair

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