Rockol Awards 2025, partial ranking: first Caparezza, Mengoni

The ninth edition of the Rockol Awards and voting is underway to elect the winners in the Best Italian Album and Best Italian Live categories. If you haven’t already done so, click here to view the shortlists of the candidates in the running and vote. You have until January 18, 2026!

Today, Tuesday 2 December, we are publishing the first partial ranking to inform you about the progress of the vote. A week after the opening of the voting, Caparezza with his album “Orbit Orbit” is prevailing in the Best Album category, while Marco Mengoni is in first position in the Best Live category.

To constitute the panel of eligible candidates, we took into consideration new albums and concerts/tours by Italian artists released or performed in the period from 1 November 2024 to 31 October 2025.
Within this time frame, 40 albums and 40 concerts were selected by the Rockol editorial staff. For the album category, only publications with new songs were considered. Reissues, special editions of albums originally released outside the period, live records, collections and EPs were not considered. For the concert section, however, both tours and single concerts were considered.

Below you can view the Top Ten of the two categories.

Best Album

1. Caparezza – Orbit Orbit

2. Cesare Cremonini – Alaska Baby

3. Lucio Corsi – I wanted to be tough

4. Annalisa – But I am fire

5. Damiano David – Funny Little Fears

6. Angelina Mango – caramel

7. Nuclear Tactical Penguins – Hello World

8. Tiziano Ferro – I’m Great

9. Carmen Consoli – Amuri lights

10. Niccolò Fabi – Freedom in the eyes

Best live

1. Marco Mengoni
2. Cesare Cremonini
3. Lucio Corsi
4. Olly
5. Damiano David
6. Max Pezzali
7. Alpha
8. Diodate
9. Emma Brown
10. Nuclear Tactical Penguins

Voting in progress

Voting opened at 10 am on November 24, 2025, and will continue until 10 am on January 18, 2026. The voting mechanism is really very basic. To have access to voting, all you need is a Facebook account or a Rockol account. However, a few simple warnings should be kept in mind:

• it is not possible to change a vote once it has been assigned
• it is possible to complete the vote at different times (for example voting for Best Live on one day and Best Album on a later day, and vice versa).
• only one vote can be expressed for each category: the multiplication of identities through fictitious email accounts carried out in a systematic and organized manner may result in the cancellation of the vote expressed through them.

Every week we will publish a partial ranking so as to allow you to follow the progress of the voting in the two categories, that of Best Album and that of Best Live.

In the following lines you can consult the lists of musicians, in alphabetical order, who can be voted for in the two categories.

Best Italian album

Achille Lauro – Ordinary mortals
Annalisa – BUT I AM FIRE
Baustelle – El Galactico
Bresh – Mediterranean
Brunori sas – The Walnut Tree
Caparezza – Orbit Orbit
Casino Royale – Smoking
Coez – 1998
Carmen Consoli – Amuri lights
Lucio Corsi – I wanted to be tough
Cesare Cremonini – Alaska Baby
Damiano David – Funny Little Fears
Andrea Laszlo De Simone – A Very Long Shadow
Edda – Dirty Masses
Ele A – Pixels
Hernia – For money and for love
Niccolò Fabi – Freedom in the eyes
Fabri Fibra – While Los Angeles burns
Tiziano Ferro – I’m Great
Frah Quintale – Self-Love
Francesco Gabbani – On your side
Geolier – GOD KNOWS – ACT II
Geneva – FEMALE
Giorgio Poi – Splinters
Dogs – post-mortem
Jovanotti – The Human body
La Niña – Furèsta
Laila Al Habash – Time
Angelina Mango – caramel
Marie Antoinette and Colombre – Honeymoon
Marracash – PEACE IS OVER
Nada – Neigh
Neffa – Canerandagio Part 1
Negrita – Songs For Ruthless Years
Emma Nolde – Nuovospaziotempo
Nuclear Tactical Penguins – Hello World
Rose Villain – Radio Vega
Psalm – RANCH
Joan Thiele – Joanita
Zen Circus – Evil

Best Italian live

Afterhours
Alpha
Almamegretta
Anna
Baustelle
Brunori sas
35 caliber
Vinicio Capossela
Anna Castiglia
Carmen Consoli
Lucio Corsi
Cesare Cremonini
Damiano David
Francesco De Gregori
Diodate
Elisa
Niccolo Fabi
Fabri Fibra
Fast Animals and Slow Kids
Georgie
Jovanotti
La Nina
Lacuna Coil
Ligabue
Marracash
Emma Brown
Marco Mengoni
Francesca Michielin
Motta
Negrita
Emma Nolde
Olly
Piero Pelù
Max Pezzali
Nuclear Tactical Penguins
Rose Villain
Vasco Rossi
Psalm
Tananai
Last

To constitute the panel of eligible candidates, we took into consideration new albums and concerts/tours by Italian artists released or performed in the period from 1 November 2024 to 31 October 2025.
Within this time frame, 40 albums and 40 concerts were selected by the Rockol editorial team. For the album category, only publications with new songs were considered. Reissues, special editions of albums originally released outside the period, live records, collections and EPs were not considered. For the concert section, however, both tours and single concerts were considered.

The Rockol Awards 2025 are created in partnership with NEWIMAIE And SIAE.

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