Il Volo performed the song for the first time during the 65th Sanremo Music Festival on 11 February 2015 . During the final night of the song contest , held on 14 February 2015 , " Grande amore " finished in first place , receiving 39.05 % of votes on the last round of the competition , beating the remaining top three entries , Nek 's " Fatti avanti amore " ( 35.38 % ) and Malika Ayane 's " Adesso e qui ( nostalgico presente ) " ( 25.66 % ) . According to the final voting results , Il Volo won mostly thanks to the televotes ( 40 % of the final voting results share ) , receiving 56.1878 % of votes , while only 22.9167 % of votes by the experts jury ( 3rd ) , and 32.3333 % of votes by the popular jury ( 2nd )
65th Sanremo Music Festival
Sanremo Music Festival 2015
Grande amore