Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024
CountryFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
National selection
Selection process Junior Songfestival 2024
Selection date(s)21 September 2024
Selected artist(s)Stay Tuned
Selected song"Music"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • Jermain van der Bogt
  • Willem Laseroms
Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
◄2023 •2024

The Netherlands is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with "Music" performed by Stay Tuned. The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS organised the national final Junior Songfestival 2024 in order to select the Dutch entry for the contest.

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Background

Prior to the 2024 contest, the Netherlands had participated in the contest twenty-one times since its first entry in the inaugural 2003 contest. Since then, the country has won the contest on one occasion in 2009 with the song "Click Clack" performed by Ralf Mackenbach. The Netherlands is the only country to have taken part in every edition of the contest. [1] Since 2014, as the result of a merger between the AVRO  –which had previously been in charge of the Netherlands' participation in the contest –and TROS into the current AVROTROS, it is the latter who participates representing the Netherlands. [2] [3] In 2023, Sep & Jasmijn  [ nl ] competed for the Netherlands with the song "Holding On to You", which ended up in 7th place out of 16 entries with 122 points. [4]

Before Junior Eurovision

Junior Songfestival2024

Junior Songfestival2024 was the twenty-first edition of Junior Songfestival , the national final format developed by AVROTROS to select Dutch entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The event was held on 21 September 2024 at the RTM Stage in Rotterdam, [5] and was hosted by Matheu and Stefania. The show was broadcast on NPO Zapp via NPO 3, as well as on the broadcaster's streaming platform NPO Start. [6] [7]

Format

The selection took place in four stages: the received applications were first assessed by an expert committee; 45 were selected to be performed at an audition round, exerpts of which were published to the competition's official YouTube channel on 5 and 19 April, and 3 May 2024, [8] [9] [10] where a jury selected twenty artists to advance to the academy; at the academy, the singers had the opportunity to work with vocal coaches and choreographers, [11] after which the nine finalists were determined, who were later grouped into four acts, each of them having an original song written and assigned; [12] at the final, which was held on 21 September 2024, the winner was determined by a combination of votes from an kids jury (traditionally made up of past Junior Songfestival participants), a professional jury (made up of industry professionals) and an online vote –each awarding sets of 8–10 and 12 points –with the latter taking precedence in the event of a tie. [13]

Competing entries

The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 23 September 2023 and 31 January 2024. [14] All submissions required participants to enter one cover song and a separate introduction video. [15] An expert committee reviewed the received submissions and selected 45 of them (including 29 which qualified directly, announced on 12 February 2024, and 16 which advanced from the preselection –a second chance round, where an additional 48 artists who hadn't advanced were invited to perform, after which some were invited for the audition, announced on 27 February 2024) to proceed to the audition round. [16] [17] [18] Auditionee and eventual finalist Veronika had previously competed in the Ukrainian national final in 2021, placing third. [19] The finalists were revealed on 31 May 2024, [20] while the groupings were unveiled on 14 June. [21] One-minute snippets of the songs published on 29 June 2024, [22] with the songs released daily between 2 and 5 July 2024. [23] [24]

ArtistSongSongwriter(s)
Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah"In m'n Prime"
  • Daniel van der Molen
  • Elke Tiel
  • Stas Swaczyna
Ruben"Colors of My Heart"
  • Didier de Ruyter
  • Kirsten Michel
Stay Tuned"Music"
  • Jermain van der Bogt
  • Willem Laseroms
Veronika"Dreams Are Built to Last"
  • Nienke van der Velden
  • Rens Koppe
  • Tjeerd van Zanen

Final

The final took place on 21 September 2024. The kids jury panel consisted of Junior Songfestival2023 participants Joy! and Sep & Jasmijn  [ nl ], while the professional jury panel, the members of whom provided feedback in regards to the performances during the show, consisted of singers Anne Appelo  [ nl ], Jim Bakkum and Roxeanne Hazes  [ nl ]. [13] [25] In addition to the competing entries, the finalists performed a rendition of the common song, "Move On". [26] Stay Tuned –a group consisting of fourteen-year-old Chiara, twelve-year-olds Inkar and Miucha, and thirteen-year-old Niek –were declared the winners with the song "Music". [27] [28]

Final –21 September 2024 [29]
DrawArtistSongKids juryProf. juryOnline voteTotalPlace
1Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah"In m'n Prime"989263
2Veronika"Dreams Are Built to Last"101210322
3Stay Tuned"Music"121012341
4Ruben"Colors of My Heart"898254

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