# Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

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

## 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. 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. 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.

## Before Junior Eurovision
### Junior Songfestival 2024

Junior Songfestival 2024 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, 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.

#### 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, 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, after which the nine finalists were determined, who were later grouped into four acts, each of them having an original song written and assigned; 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.

#### Competing entries

The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 23 September 2023 and 31 January 2024. All submissions required participants to enter one cover song and a separate introduction video. 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. Auditionee and eventual finalist Veronika had previously competed in the Ukrainian national final in 2021, placing third. The finalists were revealed on 31 May 2024, while the groupings were unveiled on 14 June. One-minute snippets of the songs published on 29 June 2024, with the songs released daily between 2 and 5 July 2024.
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
| Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah | "In m'n Prime" | Daniel van der MolenElke TielStas Swaczyna |
| Ruben | "Colors of My Heart" | Didier de RuyterKirsten Michel |
| Stay Tuned [nl] | "Music" | Jermain van der Bogt [nl]Willem Laseroms |
| Veronika | "Dreams Are Built to Last" | Nienke van der VeldenRens KoppeTjeerd van Zanen |

#### Final

The final took place on 21 September 2024. The kids jury panel consisted of Junior Songfestival 2023 participants Joy! and Sep & Jasmijn [nl], while the professional jury panel, the members of which provided feedback in regards to the performances during the show, consisted of singers Anne Appelo [nl], Jim Bakkum and Roxeanne Hazes [nl]. In addition to the competing entries, the finalists performed a rendition of the common song, "Move On". 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".
Final – 21 September 2024 :
| Draw | Artist | Song | Kids jury | Prof. jury | Online vote | Total | Place |
| 1 | Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah | "In m'n Prime" | 9 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 3 |
| 2 | Veronika | "Dreams Are Built to Last" | 10 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 2 |
| 3 | Stay Tuned | "Music" | 12 | 10 | 12 | 34 | 1 |
| 4 | Ruben | "Colors of My Heart" | 8 | 9 | 8 | 25 | 4 |

## At Junior Eurovision

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. The Netherlands will perform 12th, following Germany and preceding San Marino.

### Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country has a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.
The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 15 November 2024 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 16 November at 17:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for three songs. They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.
Points awarded to Netherlands :
| Score | Country |
| 12 points | |
| 10 points | |
| 8 points | |
| 7 points | Armenia |
| 6 points | |
| 5 points | San Marino |
| 4 points | Ireland San Marino |
| 3 points | Cyprus Georgia Italy Poland |
| 2 points | |
| 1 point | Albania Malta |
| Netherlands received 57 points from the online vote ||