Sanremo, the report cards of the final

Sanremo Festival 2026, final act: the winner will be decided tonight, with Fedez & Masini, Sal Da Vinci and Serena Brancale favourites, the outsider Sayf growing up. We will listen to the 30 big names in the competition, voted by all the juries: Televoting (34%), by the Press Room, TV and Web jury (33%) and the Radio jury (33%). The votes are added to those of the previous evenings, decreeing a top five which is then voted once again, determining the final winner. The announcement of the winner is expected around 2 am. Rockol, as always, is in the press room at the Ariston and is part of the press jury. Our votes are those of the reviews that we update below, by song, interpretation and performance.

Here is the lineup and release order:

Sal Da Vinci – “Forever Yes” – 5

A hit programmed to kill. The final ballet with Mara Venier is yet another meme moment.

Patty Pravo – “Opera” – 4

Total diva: capable of singing at the Ariston and at the same time being elsewhere.

Serena Brancale – “Here with me” – 7

However it goes, she was one of the protagonists of this edition: the more you listen to the piece, the more you perceive its courtly and slightly sugary side, but the interpretation remains sumptuous.

LDA & Aka 7even – “Clandestine Poems” – 6

The song grows a little and will be successful – it’s hyper-pop. But is Frassica right when he presents them as “LDA and Alka Seltzer”?

J-Ax – “Italy starter pack” – 4

“All cowboys!” he shouts at the end of the performance, saying he had fun. But it’s all too much.

Tommaso Paradiso – “The romantics” – 7

Another artist who made a growing Sanremo with a song perfectly placed in his pop-melancholy universe.

Malika Ayane – “Nocturnal Animals” – 7

We love her: for the class, for having brought a rhythmic and nostalgic song, completely different from what we listen to this year. We need pop done well.

Leo Gassmann – “Natural” – 5

Another of those pieces that didn’t puncture, getting lost among the waves. Leo also interprets it well, but it resembles too many things we’ve already heard.

Rag dolls – “Stay with me” – 6

A Sanremo in great growth for the rock band that has put sisterhood and fun at the center, knowing how to express itself through music and beyond.

Raf – “Now and Forever” – 6

Sanremo starts with three of the least televised songs. This is a classic ballad, well written and out of time, with Raf who is moved by looking at his wife (even if the direction first framed a few various presenters).

Chiello – “I always think of you” – 5

Chiello appears a little more comfortable on a stage that didn’t seem made for him, but the song remains better in the studio version, where it has another shot.

Francesco Renga – “The best of me” – 5

A “renga” with a slightly more modern feel, but it is a song that failed to make space in the sea of ​​songs of this edition.

• Elettra Lamborghini – “Voilà”
• Ermal Meta – “Stella Stellina”
• Toonellapaga – “How annoying!”
• Nayt – “Before That”
• Arisa – “Magical fairy tale”
• Sayf – “I like you a lot”
• Levante – “It’s you”
• Fedez & Masini – “Necessary evil”
• Samurai Jay – “Obsession”
• Michele Bravi – “Sooner or later”
• Thunderbolts – “Stupid bad luck”
• Luchè – “Labyrinth”
• Thirteen Peter – “Falling Man”
• Mara Sattei – “The things you don’t know about me”
• Dargen D’Amico – “Ai ai”
• Enrico Nigiotti – “Every time I don’t know how to fly”
• Marie Antoinette & Colombre – “Happiness and that’s it”
• Eddie Brock – “Vultures”