Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Country	Italy
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 22 January 2014 Song: 24 January 2014
Selected artist(s)	Emma
Selected song	"La mia città"
Selected songwriter(s)	Emma Marrone
Finals performance
Final result	21st, 33 points
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2013 • 2014 • 2015►

Italy participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their entry was selected internally by the Italian broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). Emma represented Italy with the song "La mia città". In the final, Italy placed 21st, scoring 33 points.

Prior to the 2014 contest, Italy had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty times since its first entry during the inaugural contest in 1956.^[1] Since then, Italy has won the contest on two occasions: in 1964 with the song "Non ho l'età" performed by Gigliola Cinquetti and in 1990 with the song "Insieme: 1992" performed by Toto Cutugno. Italy has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. Their return in 2011 with the song "Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—their highest result, to this point, since their victory in 1990. The nation saw further success in 2012 and 2013, placing ninth and seventh, respectively.

The Italian broadcaster for the 2014 Contest, who broadcast the event in Italy and organised the selection process for its entry, was RAI. Italy has previously organised national finals and internal selections to select their Eurovision entry. Between 2011 and 2013, the broadcaster used the Sanremo Music Festival as an artist selection pool where a special committee would select one of the competing artist, independent of the results in the competition, as the Eurovision entrant. The selected entrant was then responsible for selecting the song they would compete with. This method was again used for 2014.

On 22 January 2014, RAI announced that they had internally selected Emma Marrone to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.^[2][3] On 24 January 2014, RAI revealed that Emma would perform "La mia città" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.^[4]

As a member of the "Big Five", Italy automatically qualified for a place in the final, held on 10 May 2014. In addition to their participation in the final, Italy was assigned to vote in the second semi-final on 8 May 2014.^[5] During the Italian delegation's press conference on 6 May 2014, Italy was allocated to compete in the second half of the final.^[6] In the final, the producers of the show decided that Italy would perform 16th, following Russia and preceding Slovenia.^[7]

Italy placed 21st in the final out of 26, scoring 33 points.^[8] This represented one of the lowest placements in Italy's Eurovision Song Contest history – its lowest ever by absolute finishing position, but not its lowest relative finish or score (having previously finished 17th and joint-last with 0 points in the 1966 contest with Domenico Modugno's "Dio, come ti amo").

On stage, Emma was joined by two guitarists, one keyboard player, one drummer and one backing vocalist, Arianna Mereu.^[9] The Italian performance is based on a concept of glam rock from the 70s combined with futuristic elements.^[10]

In Italy, the broadcast of the first and second semi-finals aired on Rai 4 with commentary by Marco Ardemagni and Filippo Solibello, while the final aired on Rai 2 with commentary by Linus and Nicola Savino.^[11][12] The Italian spokesperson revealing the result of the Italian vote in the final was Linus.^[13]

Points awarded to Italy (Final)^[14]

Score	Country
12 points	Malta
10 points	Albania
8 points
7 points
6 points	Montenegro
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points	Macedonia   Switzerland
1 point	France

Points awarded by Italy (Semi-final 2)[15] Score Country 12 points  Austria 10 points  Poland 8 points  Finland 7 points  Slovenia 6 points  Greece 5 points  Malta 4 points  Romania 3 points   Switzerland 2 points  Macedonia 1 point  Lithuania

Points awarded by Italy (Final)[14] Score Country 12 points  Austria 10 points  Ukraine 8 points  Poland 7 points  Iceland 6 points  Finland 5 points  Romania 4 points  Netherlands 3 points  Greece 2 points   Switzerland 1 point  Malta

The following members comprised the Italian jury:^[16]

• Luca de Gennaro [it] (jury chairperson) – Vice president Talent & Music of MTV Italy
• Andrea Laffranchi – journalist
• Paola Folli [it] – singer
• Andrea Mirò [it] – songwriter, composer, musician
• Francesco Pasquero – music manager

Detailed voting results from Italy (Semi-final 2)^[17]

Draw	Country	L. de Gennaro	A. Laffranchi	P. Folli	A. Mirò	F. Pasquero	Jury Rank	Televote Rank	Combined Rank	Points
01	Malta	2	2	4	4	1	2	11	6	5
02	Israel	8	5	11	12	11	10	9	12
03	Norway	10	8	6	14	10	11	14	13
04	Georgia	11	11	2	1	9	5	13	11
05	Poland	4	7	15	11	2	6	3	2	10
06	Austria	3	3	3	2	5	3	2	1	12
07	Lithuania	7	10	7	3	13	7	10	10	1
08	Finland	1	1	1	5	3	1	8	3	8
09	Ireland	15	15	13	15	14	15	15	15
10	Belarus	13	13	14	13	15	14	12	14
11	Macedonia	6	6	12	10	12	9	7	9	2
12	Switzerland	14	12	8	6	8	12	4	8	3
13	Greece	9	9	10	9	6	8	5	5	6
14	Slovenia	5	4	5	7	4	4	6	4	7
15	Romania	12	14	9	8	7	13	1	7	4

Detailed voting results from Italy (Final)^[18]

Draw	Country	L. de Gennaro	A. Laffranchi	P. Folli	A. Mirò	F. Pasquero	Jury Rank	Televote Rank	Combined Rank	Points
01	Ukraine	8	6	5	5	3	4	4	2	10
02	Belarus	13	21	15	13	19	19	20	23
03	Azerbaijan	14	20	16	12	17	18	25	24
04	Iceland	4	2	2	4	2	2	10	4	7
05	Norway	20	12	10	16	14	12	19	16
06	Romania	22	25	8	14	4	13	1	6	5
07	Armenia	19	19	24	24	18	24	7	14
08	Montenegro	11	10	18	10	25	14	21	20
09	Poland	9	4	21	9	1	6	3	3	8
10	Greece	18	13	14	7	13	11	8	8	3
11	Austria	2	3	3	3	6	3	2	1	12
12	Germany	17	16	12	6	12	10	22	17
13	Sweden	12	14	9	23	20	17	13	12
14	France	25	15	23	15	24	23	24	25
15	Russia	10	17	20	18	23	20	11	15
16	Italy
17	Slovenia	7	7	4	19	9	7	18	11
18	Finland	1	1	1	2	5	1	12	5	6
19	Spain	15	22	19	21	16	21	15	21
20	Switzerland	24	11	17	11	11	15	5	9	2
21	Hungary	5	18	11	20	21	16	17	19
22	Malta	23	5	7	8	8	8	14	10	1
23	Denmark	3	8	22	17	7	9	23	18
24	Netherlands	6	9	6	1	10	5	9	7	4
25	San Marino	21	23	25	25	15	25	6	13
26	United Kingdom	16	24	13	22	22	22	16	22