The official music video for âDonât Touchâ, ICONICâs song for Junior Songfestival 2025, has been released.
ICONIC, who consist of LĂ©ana, Pari and Tiyana, will compete in Junior Songfestival 2025 with âDonât Touchâ. The song was written and composed by Nienke van der Velden, Rens Koppe & Tjeerd van Zanen. The trio wrote âDreams Are Built to Lastâ which came second in Junior Songfestival 2024, missing out on representing the Netherlands in Madrid by two points.
The acts competing to represent the Netherlands in Junior Eurovision 2025 are:
ICONIC â âDonât Touchâ
Level Up â âRule the Worldâ
Meadow â âFreezeâ
Coco & Tove â âStrong Girl Summerâ
They will compete in the live final of Junior Songfestival 2025 on September 20 in the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, where the winner will represent the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Tbilisi.
Stay Tuned represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid with the song âMusicâ. 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 âClick Clackâ, 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 âTeenagerâ. She missed out on victory by 5 points. The Netherlandsâ worst result came in 2021 when Ayana finished in 19th place out of 19 competing countries.
