2009
The X Factor 3 public and Critics’ Award winner
Platinum disc for the EP Dove si vola, which went straight to the top of the best-selling album charts.
2010
Third place at the Sanremo Music Festival in the “Big” category
Platinum disc for the EP Re matto, which went straight to the top of the best-selling album charts and stayed there for four weeks
Re Matto Tour, 60 dates, sold out
Wind Music Awards platinum disc for Dove si vola and Re Matto
MTV Europe Music Award Winner in the category Best Italian Act
MTV Europe Music Award Winner in the category Best European Act, and first Italian artist ever to win the accolade
Platinum disc for sales of Re matto live, which went straight to the top of the best-selling album charts
Performed at the eighth edition of the O'Scià festival, organized by Claudio Baglioni on Lampedusa
2011
Wind Music Awards platinum disc for sales of the singles Credimi ancora and In un giorno qualunque
Double platinum disc for the EP Re matto
Gold record for sales of the Solo 2.0 album, which went straight to the top of the best-selling album charts
Sky.it users voted Solo, the album’s first single, best video of the year
Solo Tour date event preview with over 8,000 people at Milano Mediolanum Forum and over 7,000 people at Palalottomatica Rome
Performed at the seventh Festival Teatro Canzone Giorgio Gaber
2012
Voice actor with Danny DeVito in the Italian version of the 3D animated film The Lorax (Il guardiano della foresta), produced by Universal Pictures, released on 1 June. Winner of the Leggio D’Oro award as best non-professional voice actor of the year.
Theatre tour opened on 19 April at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan.
For the Olympics, star of the concert organized by Radio Italia, official partner of CONI, the Olympic team, and Casa Italia.
Took part in the ... io ci sono project performing the song Destra–Sinistra for a tribute album for Giorgio Gaber, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the great artist’s death.
2013
Winner of the 63rd Sanremo Festival of Italian Song with L’Essenziale, a song written by Marco Mengoni, Roberto Casalino and Francesco De Benedittis.
19 March, release of the album of new songs #PRONTOACORRERE (SonyMusic).
Video of L'Essenziale achieved millions of views and after winning multiple platinum discs, the single broke the absolute record for number of weeks at the top of the charts.
L’Essenziale Anteprima Tour 2013 kicked off on 8 May from Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan.
The Italian contestant at the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden with L’Essenziale, ranked seventh overall and top of the Big Five.
L’Essenziale Tour 2013 ended on 22 October at Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, after kicking off from Trento on 4 June and covering Italy with 40 sell-out concert dates and a total of over 100,000 spectators.
At the end of October, Marco went to Los Angeles to perform at the Billboard Film & TV Music Conference at the end of Hit Week, the most important Italian music festival in the world. The Ronciglione-born singer-songwriter was the only Italian ever invited in the history of a prestigious event attended over the years by artists like U2, Christina Aguilera, Linkin Park, Police, and many others.
In November, the MTV audience voted him Best Italian Act and the only Italian winner ever of Best European Act, endorsing him as one of the top ten names in the world competing for the Worldwide Act title.
On 12 November the release of #PRONTOACORREREILVIAGGIO, a triple set containing the live album, the DVD and behind-the-scenes of a rocking year, with excerpts from the concert at Taormina’s Teatro Antico, plus the full #PRONTOACORRERE CD. Wednesday 6 November, the special preview of the film-concert Marco Mengoni. L’evento al cinema, screened in 182 Italian cinemas to a total of about 20,000 spectators, and in one fell swoop taking second place in the leaderboard of most-viewed films that day, beaten only by Checco Zalone’s Sole a Catinelle.
Sony’s iBook Author #PRONTOACORREREILMIOVIAGGIO, was issued on 3 December, a virtual book whose totally innovative approach derived from Marco’s own concept and design. The iBook features 25 videos, including a minute of video clip previews from Bellissimo, and about 230 images, with 45 exciting pages making up eight chapters to document what went on behind the scenes in this spectacular year.
Following the enormous success of 2013, Mediaset invited Marco Mengoni to celebrate the end of the old year and the arrival of 2014 together. Marco was then the star performer at the New Year’s Eve party broadcast live from Rimini by Canale 5
2014
4 February 2014 was an ultra important date for his career: Incomparable, the Spanish version of L’Essenziale, made its debut in Spain, garnering excellent sales results.
21 February 2014, Marco opened the evening at the Sanremo Festival’s #SanremoClub with the superb Sergio Endrigo song Io che amo solo te.
18 May 2014, Marco and Laura Pausini performed Primavera Anticipada as a duet during Stasera Laura: ho creduto in un sogno, Rai1’s special gala evening, broadcast by the Italian network two days later.
Tuesday 10 June marks the official arrival of Marco Mengoni in Spain, with the release of the Spanish (and Italian) version of #PRONTOACORRERE, the record-breaking multi-platinum disc for number of weeks in the ten top-selling album charts (source Fimi/Gfk).
On 22 September, Marco Mengoni’s official app went live, packed with exclusive news. It peaked over 20,000 downloads and went straight into Italy’s top 50 most-downloaded only 24 hours after its release.
Along with the app, Marco announced the planned 2015 sports arena tour dates.
Exactly two months later, the University of Milan invited Marco to speak at a conference discussing “From the disc to the playlist. How music and its place in the digital age are changing.”
Friday 21 November, Marco’s new single Guerriero was released, whetting appetites for Parole in circolo, the first part of the two-stage project of new songs scheduled for release on 13 January.
Guerriero was a record-breaker in no time at all, going to the top spot in iTunes and Amazon rankings, with over five million views on VEVO and YouTube, and acquiring certified Platinum status.
2015
PAROLE IN CIRCOLO, the first part of the new album (Sony Music) was released on 13 January 2015. The work is in two sections, gathering together what the singer-songwriter calls “playlists still being written and developed”. The album shot to the top of the music charts and was a certified platinum record just two weeks from its launch.
Moreover, the album generated record figures on social platforms: on Twitter, over 63,000 tweets with the hashtag #PAROLEINCIRCOLO, for a total of 2.4 million views, while on Facebook more than 2 million users were reached by posts on the official wall in the week of the launch, and interaction with 250,000 people in 7 days.
The first single, Guerriero, is now certified triple platinum with the video reaching over 23 million views on VEVO and YOU TUBE
Esseri umani, written by Mengoni and Matteo Valicelli, was the follow-up to the hugely successful first single, Guerriero, and released on Friday 27 February. The video clip, released on Saturday 28 February, is based on an idea by Marco Mengoni, directed by Cosimo Alemà, and airing on all music channels, immediately becoming the no.1 video on iTunes.
Just two months from its release, the Parole in circolo album was certified as a double platinum disc, selling in excess of 100,000 copies, while the Essere umani single was given platinum certification.
On 5 May, at Palabam in Mantua, the new #MengoniLive2015 tour opened, selling out in many of the concert venues. The new show is ultra-interactive thanks to the singer-songwriter’s official app.
Io ti aspetto, written by Mengoni with Ermal Meta and Dario Faini, aired on radio from Friday 29 May, and was fast certified as a platinum disc. The song ushered in summer 2015 with the energy brewed up by the dance, pop and soul fusion, and was such a hit that on Friday 31 July Io ti aspetto – Remix (Sony Music) went live on all digital platforms: 7 remixes and 5 extended versions, each with a completely different sound to the single, which can boast names like Mauro Ferrucci, Tommy Vee, Keller, Edo Marani, DJ Ross & Max Savietto, Keejay Freaks, ReLoud, and the Grizzly Brothers. Not to mention that from Tuesday 28 July the official Mengoni app was given an extra track, not available on iTunes and unlocking the Ghost Track section.
On 16 July Marco was a guest judge for the second appointment with the Coca-Cola Summer Festival.
Just 7 months from the release of the Parole in circolo album it received triple platinum disc certification, establishing itself as the second top-selling album for the first semester of 2015.
September saw the start of the #MENGONIincircolo project with Marco travelling around Italy by car, inviting passers-by to jump in and help him choose the first single for the volume 2DUEdi2DUE!
Friday 16 October saw the radio release of TI HO VOLUTO BENE VERAMENTE, a preview single from the album of new tracks to be released by Sony Music, on sale from all digital stores along with the video of the same name, showing on all music channels, filmed in Island by Niccolò Celaia and Antonio Usbergo for Younuts.
On the same day, Mengoni was the opening guest on Twitter Italia’s #Blueroom, announcing his live dates while on air. Then a new special occasion for The Army thanks to an agreement signed with Shazam. From 16 October anyone “shazamming” Ti ho voluto bene veramente will be redirected straight to Italian Shazam’s first account page, which is for Marco Mengoni, and they will be able to get an even closer look at his professional life, understanding day by day what sort of music he’s looking for and where his musical inspiration lies.
Marco took his third Best Italian Act and Best Worldwide Act Europe awards at MTV EMA, and on Saturday 24 October he was the only Italian artist to perform in Piazza Duomo on the MTV WORLD STAGE.
On 4 December, release of LE COSE CHE NON HO, an album of new tracks already available for pre-order from Friday 30 October in all stores, and everyone placing a pre-order received instant gratifications, different for each distribution chain or platform. The album is the second chapter of the multiplatinum PAROLE IN CIRCOLO, the first volume of the “playlist in the making”, out last January.
In just five weeks the single Ti ho voluto bene veramente was a certified platinum disc, hitting record sales and shooting to the top of the music charts.
The dates have already doubled for Marco’s new show, #MENGONILIVE2016 at Milan’s Mediolanum Forum (6–7 May), at Rome’s Palalottomatica (12–13 May), and at the Arena di Verona (21–22 May), produced and distributed by Live Nation, opening in Turin on 28 April, at Pala Alpitour.