Tonight, after three nights of Sanremo, the festival takes a little break with its cover night, while elsewhere in Europe, Germany begins its new selection show, Chefsache ESC 2025. And on the same evening, Poland will select its Eurovision entry.
🇵🇱 Poland – Wielki Finał Polskich Kwalifikacji 2025 – Final
When?
20:45 CET, until 22:30 CET approximatively
Where?
- Online, either on
- Physically, at the Telewizja Polska studios, in Warsaw
Who?
Eleven acts will perform for the right to represent Poland at Eurovision, in the following running order.
- Chrust – “Tempo“
- Kuba Szmajkowski – “Pray“
- Justyna Steczkowska – “Gaja“
- Tynsky – “Miracle“
- Daria Marx – “Let It Burn“
- Sw@da & Niczos – “Lusterka“
- Janusz Radek – “In Cosmic Mist“
- Marien – “Can’t Hide“
- Teo – “Immortal“
- Sonia Maselik – “Rumours“
- Dominik Dudek – “Hold The Light“
The show will be hosted by Artur Orzech, Michał Szpak (Poland 2016), Grzegorz Dobek and Aleksandra Budka.
Baby Lasagna will also feature as a guest.
Format
The winner will be selected by televote only.
🇵🇱 Germany – Chefsache ESC 2025 – Heat 1
When?
20:15, until 22:55
Where?
- Online on RTL+
- Physically, at EMG Studio 8, Köln
Who?
Twelve of the twenty-four acts will perform in this first round. They will not perform their potential Eurovision songs, but either a cover or one of their previously released songs.
- Abor & Tynna
- Benjamin Braatz
- Cage
- Chase
- COSBY
- Enny-Mae x Paradigm
- Equa Tu
- FANNIE
- Feuerschwanz
- Janine
- Jonathan Henrich
- JULIKA
The show will be hosted by Barbara Schöneberger.
Format
Seven artists will qualify for the semi-finals, chosen by a jury alone. The jury will be composed of :
- Stefan Raab (Germany 2000, TV host and producer, in charge of the selection)
- Yvonne Catterfeld (singer-songwriter)
- Elton (comedian, TV host)
- Max Mutzke (Germany 2004)
🇮🇹 Italy – Festival di Sanremo 2025 – Cover/duet night (fourth night)
When?
20:40 CET, until 01:30 CET approximatively
Where?
- Online, either on
- Rai1 on RaiPlay for the TV stream
- Rai Radio 2 on RaiPlaySound for the radio stream (which includes special interviews)
- Physically, at the Ariston Theatre, in Sanremo
Who?
Tonight, all the acts will perform covers of Italian or international songs, in duet with another artist each. For the first time, they will be able to perform not only with artists outside the festival, but also with one of their fellow competitors, and some have selected to do so.
The covers will be performed in the following order (in bold are the names of Sanremo competitors):
- Achille Lauro with Elodie – “Tributo a Roma” (mix di A mano a mano di Riccardo Cocciante e Folle città di Loredana Bertè)
- Giorgia with Annalisa – “Skyfall” (Adele)
- Tony Effe with Noemi – “Tutto il resto è noia” (Franco Califano)
- Bresh with Cristiano De André – “Crêuza de mä” (Fabrizio De André)
- Brunori Sas with Dimartino and Riccardo Sinigallia – “L’anno che verrà” (Lucio Dalla)
- Clara with Il Volo – “The sound of silence” (Simon and Garfunkel)
- Coma_Cose with Johnson Righeira – “L’estate sta finendo” (Righeira)
- Fedez with Marco Masini – “Bella stronza” (Marco Masini)
- Francesca Michielin with Rkomi – “La nuova stella di Broadway” (Cesare Cremonini)
- Francesco Gabbani with Tricarico – “Io sono Francesco” (Tricarico)
- Gaia with Toquinho – “La voglia, la pazzia” (Ornella Vanoni)
- Irama with Arisa – “Say something” (A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera)
- Joan Thiele with Frah Quintale – “Che cosa c’è” (Gino Paoli)
- Lucio Corsi with Topo Gigio – “Nel blu dipinto di blu” (Domenico Modugno)
- Marcella Bella with The Violin Twins – “L’emozione non ha voce” (Adriano Celentano)
- Massimo Ranieri with Neri per caso – “Quando” (Pino Daniele)
- Modà with Francesco Renga – “Angelo” (Francesco Renga)
- Olly with Goran Bregovic and the Wedding and Funeral Band – “Il pescatore” (Fabrizio De André)
- Rocco Hunt with Clementino – “Yes, I Know My Way” (Pino Daniele)
- Rose Villain with Chiello – “Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco” (Lucio Battisti)
- Sarah Toscano with Ofenbach – “Overdrive” (Ofenbach)
- Serena Brancale with Alessandra Amoroso – “If I Ain’t Got You” (Alicia Keys)
- Shablo, Guè, Joshua, Tormento with Neffa – “Aspettando il sole” (Neffa)
- Simone Cristicchi with Amara – “La cura” (Franco Battiato)
- The Kolors with Sal Da Vinci – “Rossetto e caffè” (Sal Da Vinci)
- Willie Peyote with Tiromancino and Ditonellapiaga – “Un tempo piccolo” (Franco Califano)
The show will be hosted by the new Sanremo artistic director Carlo Conti, who held the role between 2015 and 2017, replacing Amadeus, who had directed Sanremo since 2020. He will co-host the evening with Mahmood (Italy 2019 and 2022) and Geppi Cucciari.
Format
The cover night is now a separate competition, which will have no bearing on the final results. It is like a mini-Sanremo, which will use the same split used in the Nuove Proposte or the Sanremo super-final:
- 33% of the votes coming from the TV, web and press jury
- 33% of the votes coming from the radio jury
- 34% of the votes coming from the televote
What will you be watching tonight? Are you ready for a “chill” fourth night of Sanremo, for the start of a new selection, or for another final, less than a week after last Super Saturday? Tell us more in the comments below or on social media at @escxtra!
