The Italian artists in the Top 2000 of 2024

It is a tradition at the end of the year: listen to the Top 2000 or watch it on TV. Every year the question is how many Italian songs have been voted into the list of lists.

In fact, we see the same numbers returning every year. Over the years, a few songs have fallen off, no songs added. Despite the calls from, among others, The newspaper and Italy.nl.

Let's see which Italian songs made it to the list of lists in 2024. We have 11 Italian artists this year! Unfortunately, some hits from Zucchero, Laura Pausini and Eros Ramazzotti have disappeared from the list in recent years, making the pickings a bit thin.

Who knows, some may have a short-lived revival, like Ryan Paris with his Dolce Vita following a commercial.

Top 2000 Italian Artists

Here are the Italian artists in this year's Top 2000 and below that their positions in previous years:

• 1562 MAX–PAOLO CONTE–1988

• 660 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - ENNIO MORRICONE - 1976

• 990 MUSICA È – EROS RAMAZOTTI – 1988

• 893 CON TE PARTIRÒ – ANDREA BOCELLI – 1995

• 415 VIVO PER SLATE – ANDREA BOCELLI – 1996

• 1114 IL VOLO – ZUCCHERO FORNACIARI – 1996

• 1022 L'AMOUR TOUJOURS – GIGI D'AGOSTINO – 2001

• 668 TIME TO SAY GOODBYE (CON TE PARTIRÒ) – SARAH BRIGHTMAN & ANDREA BOCELLI – 1995

• SENZA UNA DONNA - ZUCCHERO FORNACIARI - 1988

• 1398 LA SOLITUDINE – LAURA PAUSINI – 1993

• DIAMANTE - ZUCCHERO FORNACIARI - 1990

• 1252 EROS RAMAZOTTI & TINA TURNER – COSE DELLA VITA – 1998

• RYAN PARIS - DOLCE VITA - 1983

Ryan Paris was already in it in 1999 and 2000 (so not really a new entry), but helped by the KPN commercial he was allowed to take his place in the list of lists again in 2021! The Italo disco hit from 1983! Unfortunately, it disappeared again after that.

• 964 MANESKIN – SIT E BUONI – 2021

The winner of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest was Maneskin with Shut up and good and it has held a stable position in the Top 2000 ever since.

Zucchero has only one song left in the Top 4 after his 2021 listings from previous years in 2000. Eros makes a big leap forward with Tina Turner to position 1092. And his Musica e is still in it.

Bocelli is still doing well with no less than 3 songs in the Top 2000. Although Bocelli does cheat a bit by releasing the same song again in English with Sarah Brightman and thus claiming 2 positions.

And yes, odd one out Gigi D'Agostino is Italian but L'Amour Toujours doesn't sound very Italian and it isn't. But because the above list revolves around Italian artists, he is in it anyway.

Paolo Nutini with his Iron Sky then not, because he is a Scot with an Italian name.

The Top 2000 with Italian artists over the years

'24	'23	'22	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	years	Title	Artist
			1560								1983	Dolce Vita	Ryan Paris
964	779	469	1021								2021	Shut up and Good	Maneskin
1562	1486	1297	1142	1182	1257	1102	478	468	501	503	1988	Max	Paolo Conte
990	879	921	815	914	909	891	747	761	559	561	1989	Musica E	Eros Ramazzotti
893	876	909	854	875	994	912	779	724	697	898	1996	Con Te Partiro	Andrea Bocelli
660	679	655	677	608	869	779	741	663	738	696	1968	Once Upon A Time In The West	Ennio Morricone
668	594	553	530	510	620	516	1081	828	535	426	1997	Time To Say Goodbye	Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman
415	421	430	441	624	525	776	888	852	923	1025	1996	Vivo Per Leic	Andrea Bocelli
1114	1074	999	1030	1066	1277	1226	1036	1157	878	756	1996	The Flight	Fornaciari sugar
							1558	1273	1189	1212	1988	Senza Una Donna	Fornaciari sugar
1398	1394	1313	1401	1313	1664	1490	1803	1810	1498	1458	1993	La Solitude	Laura Pausini
1022	1066	1004	988	1070	1211	1081	1065	1215	1139		1999	L'Amour Toujours	Gigi D'Agostino
									1466	1393	1986	Diamond	Fornaciari sugar
1252	950	1211	1092	1137	1304	1933			1783	1611	1998	Cose Della Vita	Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner
			1822	1829					1887	1987	1990	Se Bastasse Una Canzone	Eros Ramazzotti
									1958	1837	1994	Strani Amori	Laura Pausini
									1972	1831	2003	Un'Emozione Per Sempre	Eros Ramazzotti
										1709	1997	Cozy Celeste	Fornaciari sugar
										1816	1986	Ti Sento	Matia Bazaar
										1933	2005	I belong to you	Eros Ramazzotti & Anastacia
										1774	2000	Moon	Alessandro Safina

Top 2000 Fact: The Numbers'L'Italiano' by Toto Cutugno and 'Il mondo' by Jimmy Fontana, both were in the Top 2000 only once.

More (or other) Italian songs in the Top 2000 next year? Then you know what to do at the beginning of December!

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