Achille Lauro out of Eurovision, San Marino disappointed “but unprecedented return of image”
“The artist’s iconic performance is rewarded by the response of the media and audience figures but penalized by the voting mechanism”: great disappointment in San Marino due to the exclusion of Achille Lauro from the Eurovision 2022 final in Turin.
The artist, who brought to the stage the piece Stripper with which he had triumphed in “Una voce per San Marino”, “However, he amazed the music scene.declares the Secretariat of State for Tourism. “If on the one hand the Republic of San Marino will not have the opportunity to see its standard bearer on the stage of the PalaOlimpico tomorrow evening, on the other hand there is great satisfaction for the media coverage that Achille Lauro’s performance has guaranteed to the country “.
Achille Lauro remained among the trend topics of Twitter for the whole of Thursday evening, his performance attracted the attention of the Italian and international press which guaranteed him first pages and high-sounding and positive titles (with very few exceptions). Stripper’s video is among the most viewed on You Tube and streaming apps, and plays of the song on Spotify quickly “rocketed” over a million.
The RAI also communicated that from the auditel surveys the peak in audience was at 21.40, when Achille Lauro was on the stage, the report cards of the music experts on websites, newspapers and specialized magazines put the artist in the very first places who defended the colors of San Marino and one would think that from the vote of the Eurovision press room (which will be revealed only on Sunday) a very respectable result emerges. “It is probable that the mechanism that regulates the televoting of the Eurovision Song Contest which divides the votes of the” big five “(Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Great Britain) on the two evenings, denying the jury and the Italian televoting to express their preferences for Achille Lauro was decisive in excluding him from the final. In fact, it is known that the artist’s audience is mainly the Italian one ”.
“Despite the disappointment, in light of the data coming from the press, media, web and digital platforms in the last few hours, it is certain that the combination of the Republic of San Marino and San Marino RTV with the face, music, words and the iconic performance by Achille Lauro, the combination resulting from the artist’s victory in Una voce per San Marino, was for San Marino a guarantee of visibility and an unprecedented return of image “, conclude the Secretariat of State ..