Eddie Brock: «Last in Sanremo? I don’t feel like a loser.”

Al Sanremo Festival 2026 has arrived lastwith “Vultures”: thirtieth out of thirty participants. In the aftermath of the Festival final Eddie Brock he quoted on social media “Reckless life” Of Vasco Rossi. But what she didn’t finish last, but penultimate, in 1983. Red pencil errorfor the experts of event. But Eddie Brock is like this: a cute little rascal. To whom one forgives, in one way or another, All. Even the discordances of the first performance on the Ariston stage. Emotion must have played tricks on him: «Until two months ago I worked as a tour operator, between check-in and carrying suitcases» says he, Roman, 28 years oldwhich he grew up listening to Pino Daniele, Lucio Dalla, Lucio Battisti and at the Festival, in cover nighthe decided to share the stage with Fabrizio Morowhich is also somewhat reminiscent in its timbre, on “Take me away”.

He arrived at the Festival directly among the greatseven without having grown-up numbersthanks to one of the most viral hits of last yearthat “It’s not you” what about Spotify in a few weeks he totaled it more streams — 26 million in total — of those totaled over the years since most streamed songs by Enrico Nigiotti and Leo Gassmann (who at the Festival, unlike him, they had been there several times in the past). “It’s not you” had gone out last Maycontained within the album “Loving each other is the revolution”, published forindependent label Sangita Recordsbut it was over totally unnoticed. Just like the entire album. It exploded in Octoberthanks to a trend on TikTok. Now the record has been republishedafter the signs with Warner Music, one of the multinationals in the recording industryin deluxe versionwith “Vultures“, The duet with Fabrizio Moro on “Take me away” And an unpublished one,”Your universe”.

While he is touring Italy to meet fans at album signings, Eddie Brock — real name Edoardo Iaschi: that of art is an homage to Spider-Man’s nemesis in Marvel comics — is taking a revenge in the real rankings towards the thirtieth place at the Festival.

On Spotifyto say, “Vultures” it was the twentieth most streamed song of the week among all the Sanremo songs: it surpassed “Prima o poi” by Michele Bravi, “Stella stellina” by Ermal Meta, “Nocturnal animals” by Malika Ayane, “The things you don’t know about me” by Mara Sattei, “Every time I don’t know how to fly” by Enrico Nigiotti, “Now and forever” by Raf, “Happiness and that’s it” by Marie Antoinette and Colombre, “Naturale” by Leo Gassmann, “The best of me” by Francesco Renga and “Opera” by Patty Pravo. The eighteen tracks on the album they touch 40 million total streams on Spotify. And in the meantime another old song of his,”Rome sleeps”, contained in theself-titled EP released in 2023it’s becoming viral on TikTok. More revenge than that: «But for me, what until two months ago I did something completely different in life and I didn’t live off musicunfortunately, it was already a success to have managed to participate in the Festival among the big namesa few weeks from boom of “It’s not you”. So I don’t consider myself a loser. I would have been very happy even if I had finished thirty-first».

The March 26 from the Tuscan Santeria from Milan will leave on club tour “Amarsi Live 2026”which will stop on April 3 at the Duel Club in Pozzuoli, on April 4th at the Vecchia Dogana in Catania, on March 29th at Largo Venue in Romebefore summer dates. Before Sanremo he used to meet up with fans for some surprise concerts at the Pincio, belvedere in the center of Rome: “Then the situation got out of hand: at some point it had become impossible to control all those people. Sooner or later, though, I’ll do it again».