Over 1,200 young singers have applied to take part in Junior Songfestival 2025, the Dutch selection for Junior Eurovision.
AVROTROS has announced that over 1,200 applications have been received for its selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. A panel will now review all of the applications and will inform all applicants of whether they will progress to the next round by February 11.
Junior Songfestival has been used as the Dutch selection process for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since its first edition in 2003. In the next round a number of applicants will be invited to an audition round, which will most likely be held in February or March 2025.
After the audition phase, a number of finalists will be chosen and sorted into four acts. Each act will get an original song and film a music video for it. The four acts will then compete in the live final of Junior Songfestival 2025, where the winner will represent the Netherlands at Junior Eurovision 2025.
Stay Tuned will represent the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid with the song “Music”. The Netherlands placed 10th scoring 91 points, they were 10th with the jury scoring 34 points and joint 7th in the online vote receiving 57 points.
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The Netherlands debuted at the first edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and is the only country to have taken part in every edition to date. To date the country has only won the competition once. Their only victory came in 2009 when Ralf Mackenbach performed “Click Clack” scoring a total of 121 points. This was just 5 points more than runners-up Armenia and Russia. The Netherlands narrowly lost the contest in 2011 when Rachel performed “Teenager”. She lost by 5 points. The Netherlands’ worst result came in 2021 when Ayana finished in 19th place out of 19 competing countries.
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