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 2024, Stay Tuned[nl] competed for the Netherlands with the song "Music", which ended up in 10th place out of 17 entries with 91 points.[4]
Before Junior Eurovision
Junior Songfestival2025
Junior Songfestival2025 will be the twenty-second edition of Junior Songfestival, the national final format developed by AVROTROS to select Dutch entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The event will be held on 20 September 2025 at the RTM Stage in Rotterdam,[5] and will be hosted by Matheu and Stefania. The show will be broadcast on NPO Zapp via NPO 3, as well as on the broadcaster's streaming platform NPO Start.
Format
The selection took place in four stages: the received applications were first assessed by an expert committee; 72 were selected to be performed at an audition round,[6] excerpts of which were published to the competition's official YouTube channel on 4 and 18 April, 2 and 16 May 2024,[7][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 eleven finalists were determined,[12] who were later grouped into four acts, each of them having an original song written and assigned;[13] at the final, which will be held on 20 September 2025, the winner will be 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.
Competing entries
The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 22 September 2024 and 31 January 2025.[14] All submissions required participants to enter one cover song and a separate introduction video. An expert committee reviewed the received submissions and selected 72 of them to proceed to the audition round.[6] The finalists were revealed on 6 June 2025,[15][16] while the groupings were unveiled on 14 June.[17] One-minute snippets of the songs were released on Junior Songfestival Instagram page between 2 and 6 July 2025,[18][19][20][21] with the songs released daily between 8 and 11 July 2025.[22][23][24][25]
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