Explore recurring dates of interest in Italian songs, based on lookups on Italian Wikipedia. These are article visits, not plays, not streams, not sales, not airplay, not chart position.
Recurring interest around holidays and seasons.
Recurring interest around anniversaries and historical events.
The 129 entries are grouped by their listed occasion, not by the shape of their lookup peaks.
Dates reflect Wikipedia lookups. Dates come from lookups on Italian Wikipedia. These are article visits, not plays, not streams, not sales, not airplay, not chart position.
New Year's Day — the Concerto di Capodanno from La Fenice in Venice, broadcast nationally on 1 January, traditionally closes with this Verdi chorus.
Death of Pino Daniele, 4 January 2015.
Death of Pino Daniele, 4 January 2015.
Epiphany (6 January), the Befana holiday.
Anniversary of the single's release by Checco Zalone in January 2019.
Giorno della Memoria, Italy's Holocaust remembrance day marking the liberation of Auschwitz.
Anniversary of Luigi Tenco's death, 27 January 1967 — De André wrote it for him.
The Festival di Sanremo runs for a week, and the week moves from year to year, so no date on this page belongs to the festival. The day beside each song is the day that song is looked up, measured one row at a time. The reason is the same one for all of them, and what each line adds is what that song did there.
The song competed at Sanremo 1970.
The song is a Sanremo Festival entry (1982) revived in coverage each festival.
The 2020 winning entry.
Past Sanremo winner (1971 edition).
Irama's 2019 Sanremo entry.
Winner of Sanremo 2022.
Giorgia's 2001 Festival-winning entry.
1972 winning entry.
Italians revisit past Festival winners (this was the 1967 winning song) while the current edition airs in early February.
Riccardo Fogli's 1982 Festival-winning entry resurfaces each year as the contest runs in early-to-mid February.
The song won the Festival di Sanremo (2007), so it resurfaces each year as the festival runs in early February.
The song was a Sanremo entry (2021).
1974 winning entry.
Mahmood's Sanremo run.
Winning song of the 1983 Festival di Sanremo.
1952 contest winner and runner-up.
The song was a Sanremo 2022 competition entry.
Competed in the 2016 Festival di Sanremo.
Festival di Sanremo 2011 entry (Giovani winner).
The song competed at Sanremo 1995.
Elisa's 2001 Festival-winning entry, re-searched each year as the festival airs in early-to-mid February.
The song was a Sanremo 2022 competing entry.
Song was a Sanremo 2021 competing entry.
2021 winning entry.
The song was a 2019 Festival di Sanremo entry (Simone Cristicchi).
1962 winning song, final night 10 February 1962.
It won the 1957 Festival di Sanremo.
The record that won the first Sanremo (1951).
The song won the Nuove Proposte section of the Festival di Sanremo in 1984, and interest recurs during the festival's February run.
2021 competition entry.
The song's Sanremo entry.
Elisa's 2022 Sanremo entry.
Irama's 2022 Festival entry.
2010 Festival entry.
Winner of the 1999 Festival di Sanremo.
Winner of Sanremo 2019.
The song was Elodie's 2020 Sanremo competition entry.
The song competed at Sanremo 2019.
Rancore's 2020 competing entry.
Sanremo Festival 2009 winning song.
Povia's controversial 2009 Festival entry gets re-looked-up each Sanremo.
Malika Ayane's 2010 Sanremo entry.
1998/2008 competition entry resurfaces each February.
The 2012 Festival winner resurfaces each year as the contest runs.
A 2022 Festival di Sanremo competition entry.
The song competed at Sanremo 2010.
Madame's 2021 competing entry.
Winner of the Festival di Sanremo 1986.
Winner of the first Festival di Sanremo, 1951.
A 1974 Festival entry (Iva Zanicchi), looked up as the contest runs each February.
2022 competition entry.
Giorno del Ricordo (10 February), the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus remembrance day Cristicchi's piece is tied to.
Death of Lucio Dalla, 1 March 2012.
Birthday of Lucio Dalla, born 4 March 1943 — marked annually, especially since his 2012 death.
Birthday of Lucio Dalla, born 4 March 1943.
Birthday of Lucio Dalla, born 4 March 1943, marked yearly in Italy.
Festa della Donna / International Women's Day, marked in Italy every 8 March.
Festa della Donna, International Women's Day playlists.
Festa della Donna (International Women's Day), when this Ligabue track is a standard Italian playlist pick.
Festa della Donna, 8 March — standard of Italian Women's Day playlists.
Festa della donna, 8 March — its perennial Women's Day anthem in Italy.
Festa del Papà (19 March), the standard sung on Italian Father's Day.
First day of spring in Italy (21 March), when spring-titled songs are looked up.
Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — sung as part of the Italian anarchist/Resistance-adjacent protest repertoire.
Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — sung at Liberation Day commemorations alongside Resistance songs.
Festa della Liberazione, the Resistance anthem.
Festa della Liberazione, Italian Resistance commemoration.
Festa della Liberazione, the partisan Resistance anthem.
Festa della Liberazione — bugle call sounded at Italian commemoration ceremonies for the fallen.
Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — sung and shared as an antiwar/Resistance-day standard.
Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — national patriotic anthem played at civic commemorations.
Festa della Liberazione — sung as a Resistance song.
Festa della Liberazione — part of the antifascist/Resistance song repertoire sung on 25 April.
Anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death at Imola, 1 May 1994 — the Lucio Dalla song dedicated to him.
Festa dei Lavoratori, Italy's 1 May Labour Day holiday and its annual Concerto del Primo Maggio.
Festa dei Lavoratori (1 May), the emblematic song of the Italian workers' and student movement.
Start of May — Primo Maggio, when this May-titled Neapolitan classic recirculates.
Adunata Nazionale degli Alpini, the mid-May national gathering of the Alpini, whose marching-song repertoire this belongs to.
Italy's civic Day of Remembrance for the victims of terrorism, marked every 9 May.
Festa della Mamma, Italian Mother's Day in mid-May.
Festa della Mamma, Italian Mother's Day (second Sunday of May).
Festa della Mamma, Italian Mother's Day (second Sunday of May).
Birthday of Luca Barbarossa (born in Rome, 11 May).
Festa della Mamma, Italy's Mother's Day (second Sunday of May).
Eurovision Song Contest final week — Italy's 2011 entry, final held 14 May 2011.
Eurovision Song Contest final night (mid-May), as Italy's 1990 winning entry.
Eurovision Song Contest week — the Italian entry of 2012, looked up as each May's contest airs.
Eurovision Song Contest final — Italy's 2016 entry, sung at the Stockholm final on 14 May 2016; spikes each year with Eurovision final week.
Eurovision Song Contest final week (mid-May), Italy's first winning entry.
Eurovision Song Contest week, Italy's 2021 winning entry.
Anniversary of the Capaci bombing (Giovanni Falcone, 23 May 1992) — the song is a standard at anti-mafia commemorations.
Anniversary of the Capaci bombing (Giovanni Falcone, 23 May 1992) and Italy's Giornata della Legalità, which this Sanremo 1994 song is associated with.
Anniversary of Italy's entry into WWI, 24 May 1915 — the patriotic anthem of that war.
Festa dell'Arma dei Carabinieri, 5 June — official march of the Carabinieri.
Eve of the maturità written exams, the traditional students' anthem for that night.
Start of July / Italian summer season.
Anniversary of the police killing of five demonstrators in Reggio Emilia, 7 July 1960, during the anti-Tambroni protests.
Notte di San Lorenzo, the 10 August night-of-wishes tradition.
Notte di San Lorenzo, 10 August — the Italian shooting-star night people mark every year.
Notte di San Lorenzo, 10 August — the annual feast day/Perseid night the title names.
Faradda di li Candelieri in Sassari, held every 14 August.
Peak August holiday season in Italy (Ferragosto week), when this Sardinian-seaside summer hit gets replayed.
Anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 23 August 1927 — the song was written by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez for Giuliano Montaldo's film "Sacco e Vanzetti".
End of the Italian summer holidays, late August.
Feast of St Francis of Assisi, 4 October, patron saint of Italy.
Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which began 23 October 1956.
Anniversary of Trieste's return to Italy, 26 October 1954 — the city's emblematic song.
Halloween (31 October), when Italian children's-repertoire witch songs are sought out.
Start of November — the month-named song is revived each 1 November (Ognissanti holiday weekend).
Anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, 2 November 1975 — song associated with his annual Roman commemoration.
Anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, 2 November 1975, which the song was written in connection with.
4 November, Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e delle Forze Armate — anniversary of the WWI armistice taking effect; the song is a staple of the ceremonies.
4 November, Giornata dell'Unità Nazionale e delle Forze Armate — anniversary of the WWI armistice; the best-known Italian WWI anti-war song.
Giornata internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne (25 November) — Ermal Meta's Sanremo 2017 entry is a fixture of that day's campaigns and commemorations.
Christmas season lookups in the run-up to 25 December.
Christmas season — a Neapolitan Christmas-time standard.
Christmas Eve — sung as a Christmas-season standard (Bocelli/Dion duet on holiday albums and broadcasts).
Christmas season — the canonical Italian Christmas carol.
New Year's Eve (Capodanno) party playlists and end-of-year TV recaps of the year's viral hits.
New Year's Eve (Capodanno) party and TV playlists.
New Year's Eve (Capodanno) party playlists and year-end recaps of 2016's hits.
Capodanno / New Year's Eve playlists.
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