Follia d'amore

Follia d'amore
Raphael Gualazzi
publication	February 16, 2011
length	3:35
Genre (s)	Pop , jazz
text	Raphael Gualazzi
music	Raphael Gualazzi
Label	Sugar Music
album	Reality and Fantasy

Follia d'amore is a song by the Italian jazz musician Raphael Gualazzi . Under the English title Madness of Love , he took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and took second place behind the winners from Azerbaijan.

background

Follia d'amore was written by Raphael Gualazzi as a stride piano song. It contains elements of swing , rhythm and blues and soul . The song was produced by Ferdinando Arnò . On February 18, 2011, Raphael Gualazzi won the newcomer category of the Sanremo Festival with the title . Shortly afterwards he was selected as a participant for Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf.

Italy returned to the Eurovision Song Contest after 13 years of abstinence and immediately took second place in the final with the English-Italian version Madness of Love with 189 points, behind the winning entry from Azerbaijan . Before the last ranking, Italy was still in third place, but with 12 points from Latvia they were able to overtake the Swedish contribution. Italy was the fifth member of the Big Five , the largest donor, to automatically qualify for the finals.

ESC points for Italy:

number	Points	country
4 ×	12 points	Albania , Latvia , San Marino , Spain ,
5 ×	10 points	Greece , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Portugal ,
1 ×	8 points	France ,
2 ×	7 points	Georgia , UK
6 ×	6 points	Armenia , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Estonia , Austria , Romania
1 ×	5 points	Ireland
2 ×	4 points	Switzerland , Hungary
5 ×	3 points	Germany , Finland , Iceland , Slovenia , Belarus ,
1 ×	2 points	Serbia
3 ×	1 point	Azerbaijan , Macedonia , Cyprus
12 ×	0 points	Bulgaria , Denmark , Israel , Croatia , Moldova , Netherlands , Norway , Russia , Slovakia , Sweden , Turkey , Ukraine

Chart successes

While only the original Italian version was able to make it into the charts in Italy, the ESC version was launched in other countries.

Charts	Top position	Weeks
Italy	8th	14th
Austria	40	1
Switzerland	52	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eurovision website , accessed on June 14, 2013.
2. ↑ Chart sources: Madness of Love at Hitparade.ch; Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 99 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Fiumi di parole ( Jalisse )	Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011	L'amore è femmina ( Nina Zilli )