Mahmood performed the song for the first time at the 69th Sanremo Musical Festival in February 2019 and won the competition , receiving the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 . " Soldi " was later confirmed as his Eurovision entry , eventually reaching second place in the final . The song is predominantly in Italian , with one line in Arabic , making it the fourth time that a Eurovision song features the Arabic language after entries by in , in and in . " Soldi " topped the charts in Italy , Israel and Greece and reached the top 10 in seven more countries
69th Sanremo Musical Festival
Sanremo Music Festival 2019
Soldi