Sanremo Music Festival 2019
| Sanremo Music Festival 2019 | |
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| Dates and venue | |
| Semi-final 1 |
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| Semi-final 2 |
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| Semi-final 3 |
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| Semi-final 4 |
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| Final |
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| Venue | Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Italy |
| Production | |
| Broadcaster | Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) |
| Director | Duccio Forzano |
| Musical director | Geoff Westley |
| Artistic director | Claudio Baglioni |
| Presenters | Claudio Baglioni and Claudio Bisio, Virginia Raffaele |
| Big Artists section | |
| Number of entries | 24 |
| Voting system | Televoting, demoscopic voting, press jury, Expert Jury |
| Winner | Mahmood "Soldi" |
The Sanremo Music Festival 2019 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2019), officially the 69th Italian Song Festival (69ยบ Festival della canzone italiana), was the 69th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was held between 5 February 2019 and 9 February 2019. Claudio Baglioni was the artistic director of the contest, and co-hosted it with Virginia Raffaele and Claudio Bisio.
24 entries competed in one section only, contrarily to previous editions which featured at least two sections. Mahmood emerged as the winner of the festival with his song "Soldi", earning the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.