First night Big Artists section During the first night, each act in the "Big Artists Section" performed for the first time the competing song. Immediately after the performance, each song was ranked by a jury composed of 300 people between the age of 16 and 85 years, selected by
Ipsos among music listeners. At the end of the night, the three songs receiving the lowest points—Toto Cutugno's "Aeroplani", Nino D'Angelo's "Jammo jà" and "Italia amore mio" by Pupo, Emanuele Filiberto and Luca Canonici—were eliminated from the competition.
Guests and other performances •
Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti opened the show, presenting the first part of the night and performing a comic piece. Laurenti also performed the song "
Crazy Little Thing Called Love". • Italian football player
Antonio Cassano was interviewed by Antonella Clerici during the first night of the show. • British singer
Susan Boyle performed the song "
I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical
Les Misérables. • American
burlesque dancer
Dita Von Teese performed her signature number, dancing in a giant champagne glass.
Second night Big Artists section On 17 February 2010, the acts in the Big Artists section that were not eliminated during the first night performed for the second time the competing song. As in the first night, the songs were ranked by a jury of 300 people selected by Ipsos.
Newcomers section At the end of the second night, the first five acts in the newcomers section performed their entries. A ranking was compiled, based on televoting and on the votes that each artist received by the Sanremo Festival Orchestra musicians. ;Notes • In the beginning, it was announced that Romeus would have performed during the night but he was replaced at the last moment by Jacopo Ratini, following a protest by recording label
Sugar Music, asking to allow to its two artists—Romeus and Mattia De Luca—to perform during two different nights.
Guests and other performances • Sixteen dancers from the popular French cabaret
Moulin Rouge opened the show, introduced by
Daniel Ezralow. They later danced the
can-can, together with presenter Antonella Clerici. • Italian
popera singers
Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble performed the song "
'O Sole Mio" in front of Queen Rania of Jordan. • The last guest of the night was American actress
Michelle Rodriguez, interviewed by Antonella Clerici. During the interview, some scenes from
James Cameron's film
Avatar were shown. The top two artists, Valerio Scanu and the trio composed of Pupo, Emanuele Filiberto and Luca Canonici, were reinstated in the competition.
Guests and other performances After the repechage round, the 60th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival was celebrated by several guests, performing popular songs which competed in the contests held during the previous year. This part of the night was titled
Quando la musica diventa leggenda (English:
When music becomes legendary). •
Riccardo Cocciante performed Modugno's
1958 winning entry, "
Nel blu dipinto di blu", his song "
Se stiamo insieme", which won the Sanremo Music Festival 1991, and some tracks from the soundtrack of his musical
Giulietta e Romeo. ;Notes • Fifteen years-old singer Jessica Brando could not perform live during the night, since the performances by the guest artists ended later than scheduled, and it is forbidden for people under the age of 18 to perform live during a TV show after midnight. For that reason, Brando's performance was replaced by a clip, recorded during the rehearsal of the show, in which she sang her entry.
Fourth night Big artists section During the fourth night, each one of the artists still in competition performed the competing song together with one or more guests. A ranking was compiled, based on televoting and on the preferences expressed by the Sanremo Festival Orchestra, and the ten artists receiving the most votes were admitted to the final of the show, held on 20 February 2010.
Newcomers section At the end of the night, the four finalists in the newcomers section performed their entries for the last time, and the final ranking was compiled, by combining the votes expressed by the Sanremo Festival Orchestra with televoting. • Actress
Cristiana Capotondi was interviewed during the night, promoting the TV series
Sisi.
Second round was the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival 2010, performing "Per tutte le volte che...". At the end of the night, the top three contestants performed for the last time their entries, and televoting determined the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival.
Guests and other performances • Actor
Emilio Solfrizzi appeared during the night, dancing to the song "Shava Shava" • The dancers who were supposed to appear in
Michael Jackson's
This Is It concerts starting from July 2009 performed a number during the show, dancing to a medley including some of Jackson's most popular songs. • Some of the singers competing in the previous series of the talent show
Ti lascio una canzone covered a few popular Italian song. • Italian TV presenter
Maurizio Costanzo appeared during the night, talking about current occupation problems in Italy and interviewing three employers working at
Fiat's manufacturing facility in
Termini Imerese. He also briefly interviewed politicians
Pierluigi Bersani and
Claudio Scajola, who were sitting in the audience. • Tony Maiello, who was declared the winner of the newcomers section during the previous night, performed again his entry, "Il linguaggio della resa". ==Other awards==