Last June 18th, the day before the start of high school graduation, Antonello Venditti’s Notte prima degli exami returned to Spotify’s daily charts at 87th position. Here’s how many plays it collected.
Antonello Venditti, photo Press Release
A few evenings ago, in an appointment that has become canonical over the years, the graduates chose for the last hours before the first test of the 2024 Maturity, Night before exams by Antonello Venditti. The song, published in 1984, celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, with Venditti also choosing a re-edition of the album Heart in which it is contained. Spotify Italia has published the data relating to June 18th in the last few hours, underlining that the song returned to the platform’s daily ranking at 87th position with 96,414 valid streamsas reported by the It Parade profile on
The appointment in Piazza Sempione for the night before the exams in Rome
Almost 100 thousand listens for a song that has marked many generations of students, who have entrusted their anxieties and fears to Venditti’s 1984 words. And in fact, hundreds met last June 18th, in Piazza Sempione for the traditional appointment on the eve of the first test of the high school leaving exam. Sitting on the staircase, they all listened together to the notes of Night before exams: a moment that this year too photographed the partnership between Rome, Venditti and the students facing their final exams.
Venditti: “I am the anthem of Roma and I have written songs that will remain forever”
In the meantime, in the last few hours, interviewed by Leggo, Venditti himself spoke about how close the umbilical cord is that binds him to the city, but above all about how current his songs are even years after their publication: “I am one of the lucky ones who has always carried his story with him. My songs are still contemporary, timeless. I am the anthem of Roma and I have written songs that will remain forever. In a few years, in fact, they will forget about me and what will remain are the songs that will become by an anonymous Roman“.
Maturity 2024, all the traces of the first test
The concert event at the Verona Arena for the 40th anniversary of the Cuore album
A month has already passed since his concert event at the Verona Arena. In fact, last May 19th, the singer took to one of the most evocative stages in Italy to celebrate 40 years of Heart. The event, called “Night before exams 1984-2024 40th anniversary“, he retraced some of the key moments of the album released in 2024, from Piero and Cinzia to We need a friendending right with Night before examsalso performed on the Sanremo 2024 stage by Gazzelle and Fulminacci.
