The following is a list of the MTV Europe Music Award winners and nominees for Best Italian Act.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Year | Artist | Ref |
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1994 | Irene Grandi [a] | [1] |
1998 | ||
Bluvertigo [b] | [2] | |
99 Posse | ||
Articolo 31 | ||
Ligabue | ||
Vasco Rossi | ||
1999 | ||
Elio e le Storie Tese | [3] | |
Alex Britti | ||
Jovanotti | ||
Negrita | ||
Vasco Rossi |
Year | Artist | Ref |
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2010 | ||
Marco Mengoni | [14] | |
Dari | ||
Malika Ayane | ||
Nina Zilli | ||
Sonohra | ||
2011 | ||
Modà | [15] [16] | |
Fabri Fibra | ||
Jovanotti | ||
Negramaro | ||
Verdena | ||
2012 | ||
Emis Killa | [17] | |
Cesare Cremonini | ||
Club Dogo | ||
Giorgia | ||
Marracash | ||
2013 | ||
Marco Mengoni | [18] [19] | |
Emma | ||
Fedez | ||
Max Pezzali | ||
Salmo | ||
2014 | ||
Alessandra Amoroso | [20] [21] | |
Caparezza | ||
Club Dogo | ||
Emis Killa | ||
Giorgia | ||
Pre-nominations: | ||
2015 | ||
Marco Mengoni | [22] [23] [24] | |
Fedez | ||
J-Ax | ||
Tiziano Ferro | ||
The Kolors † | ||
Pre-nominations: | ||
2016 | ||
Benji & Fede | [25] [26] [27] | |
Alessandra Amoroso | ||
Emma | ||
Francesca Michielin | ||
Salmo | ||
Pre-nominations: | ||
2017 | ||
Ermal Meta | [28] | |
Fabri Fibra | ||
Tiziano Ferro | ||
Francesco Gabbani | ||
Thegiornalisti | ||
2018 | ||
Annalisa | [29] | |
Calcutta | ||
Liberato | ||
Ghali | ||
Shade † | ||
Pre-nominations: | ||
2019 | ||
Mahmood | [30] | |
Elodie | ||
Coez | ||
Salmo | ||
Elettra Lamborghini † | ||
Pre-nominations: |
Lorenzo Cherubini, better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and DJ.
Elisa Toffoli , performing under the mononym Elisa, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of the few Italian musicians who write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica and trip hop. In Europe she is perhaps most recognised for the single "Come Speak to Me", while American audiences may recognise the song "Dancing" as featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. On 18 December 2012, her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, "Ancora qui", was featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained and on its soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Cesare Cremonini is an Italian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
Alessandra Amoroso is an Italian pop/soul singer, songwriter, producer and TV personality. She was the winner of the 2009 edition of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi. Since then, she has published nine studio albums and two live albums, topping the Italian Albums Chart eight times. Amoroso has also released successful singles and collaborations, including three number one hits, selling over 3 million records in Italy.
Malika Ayane is an Italian pop singer.
Marco Mengoni is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of Italian talent show X Factor. Since that he has sold over 2.8 million records in Italy, peaking the Italian albums chart seven consecutive times and entering the Top 10 Italian Singles Chart fifteen times. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2013 and again in 2023, therefore representing Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in both years, respectively.
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Francesca Michielin is an Italian singer-songwriter, music producer, writer and television presenter. She rose to fame after winning the fifth season of the Italian talent show X Factor, she published five studio album and several successful singles, peaking four times at number one on the Italian singles chart and selling over 1.3 million copies in Italy.
Maria Chiara Fraschetta, better known by her stage name Nina Zilli, is an Italian singer-songwriter. After releasing her debut single "50mila", she achieved commercial success with the album Sempre lontano, released after participating in the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2010. During the Sanremo Music Festival 2012, Zilli was chosen to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where she placed 9th with the song "L'amore è femmina ", included in her second studio album. Zilli returned to the Sanremo Music Festival in 2015, and competed with the song "Sola" from her upcoming album, Frasi&Fumo. She was also a judge of Italia's Got Talent from 2015 to 2017.
Annalisa Scarrone, better known as simply Annalisa or Nali, is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. After being part of two bands, Elaphe Guttata and leNoire, she rose to the fame after coming in second in the tenth season of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi (2010–2011). Subsequently, Annalisa participated for the first time at the Sanremo Music Festival 2013 with the song "Scintille".
Modà is an Italian pop band from Milan. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of lead singer Kekko Silvestre, guitarists Diego Arrigoni and Enrico Zapparoli, bass guitarist Stefano Forcella and drummer Claudio Dirani.
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Federico Leonardo Lucia, better known by the stage name Fedez, is an Italian rapper, singer-songwriter, social media personality, and businessman. In 2011, he released the albums Penisola che non c'è and Il mio primo disco da venduto, released as free digital downloads. His first studio album, Sig. Brainwash - L'arte di accontentare, was released in 2013, and it debuted at number one on the Italian Albums Chart. The album, which spawned three singles, including the top 10 hit "Cigno nero" featuring Francesca Michielin, was later certified 3× Platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. As of September 2024, Fedez has 5 No. 1 studio albums, 32 top ten singles and over 50 Platinum certifications.
Lorenzo Fragola is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the eighth season of the Italian talent show X Factor. His winner's single, "The Reason Why", debuted atop the Italian Singles Chart, and was later certified double platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Fragola competed both in the 65th and 66th Sanremo Music Festival, performing the songs "Siamo uguali" and "Infinite volte", and placing tenth and fifth, respectively. Both his debut album 1995, released in Italy on 31 March 2015, and its follow-up, Zero Gravity (2016) debuted atop the Italian Albums Chart.
Antonio Diodato, known simply as Diodato, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the 70th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fai rumore" and was scheduled to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam before the event's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Kolors is an Italian pop rock band founded in 2009 by lead vocalist Stash Fiordispino, drummer Alex Fiordispino and Daniele Mona who plays synthesizers. They are known for their hits "Everytime", lead single from their second studio album, and the collaboration "Pensare male" with Elodie. Their 2023 song "Italodisco" peaked at number one in Italy and charted in several European charts.
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Elodie Di Patrizi, known professionally as simply Elodie, is an Italian singer, actress, and model. She first rose to prominence as the runner-up of the fifteenth season of the show Amici di Maria De Filippi.