Italy in the Mlovision Song Contest

Italy has participated in the Mlovision Song Contest eight times. They made their debut in 2015 with two entries: "Guerriero" by Marco Mengoni and "Occhi Profondi" by Emma Marrone. They have won twice: in 2016 with "Una Finestra Tra le Stelle" by Annalisa and in 2019 with "Bolivia" by Francesca Michielin.

2015 debut
In 2015, Mlo chose two entries from Italy: Italian singers Emma Marrone and Marco Mengoni, both had previously been in the Eurovision Song Contest. Their songs "Occhi Profondi" (translated as "Deep Eyes") by Marrone and "Guerriero" (translated as "Warrior") by Mengoni, were the songs chosen.

Mengoni performed 7th and scored 44 points and came 12th, while Marrone performed 14th and scored 62 points and was placed 8th in a field of 16 entries.

2016
Next year, two more entries were chosen for the Mlovision Song Contest. This time, both songs were from the Sanremo Music Festival. Italian singers Valerio Scanu and Annalisa Scarrone performed "Finalmente Piove" and "Una Finestra tra le Stelle" in the 12th and 14th positions, respectively.

Final results gave to Scanu 25 points from Mlo and only 1 point from jury, giving him a total of 26 points and placing the song 14th; while Scarrone got 120 points from Mlo and 62 points from Jury, scoring 182 points and placing first, giving the country their first victory.

"Una Finestra tra le Stelle" broke a new record of the highest amount of points for a first place in the Mlovision Song Contest history.

2017
In 2017, they participated with "Nel Mezzo di un Applauso" by Italian singer Alessio Bernabei, which scored 34 points placing 13th in a field of 14 songs.

2018
In the next edition, they participated with Italian pop duo Benji & Fede featuring previous winner Annalisa with the song "Tutto per una Ragione", which was placed second, despite not receving any points from Mlo.

2019
In 2019, they sent singer Francesca Michielin, who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, with the song "Bolivia". The song was performed fifth in the event and at the end of the whole show, the entry got the first place by Mlo, making the second song from Italy that got the prize for the best song of the year in the contest.

2020
In 2020, the country participated with the song "Tikibombom" by pop singer Levante. The song took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 2020.

In the contest, the entry received 113 points from the jury and 62 from Mlo, finishing with a total of 175 points and getting the sixth place in a field of eleven songs.