It determines the country 's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest , and has been staged almost every year since 1958 .

The festival has produced Manufacturing six Eurovision winners and twenty-four top-five placings for Sweden at the contest Competition .

Usually referred Adducing to as Festival di Sanremo , or outside Italy as Sanremo Music Festival or Sanremo Music Festival Award , it was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest .

The festival is used as the way of choosing Choosing the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest and it has launched Process_start the careers of some of Italy 's most successful singers , including Andrea Bocelli , Paola e Chiara , Il Volo , Giorgia , Laura Pausini , Eros Ramazzotti , and Gigliola Cinquetti .