The Netherlands saw its smallest audience to date for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
An average of 169,000 viewers watched the final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025, the smallest audience the Netherlands has recorded for a Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The show broadcast reached an audience of 606,000 viewers and had a viewing share of 1%.
The figures represent a fall of 160,000 viewers compared to the 2024 final, and a fall in audience share of 1 percentage point. The previous smallest audience for Junior Eurovision in the Netherlands was 175,000 viewers for the 2021 final live from Paris.
The Netherlands’ Junior Eurovision viewing figures:
2003 – 1.066 million viewers
2004 – 1.149 million viewers
2005 – 1.031 million viewers
2006 – Unknown
2007 – 1.020 million viewers – 15.1% share
2008 – 545,000 viewers – 3.6% share
2009 – 867,000 viewers – 5.2% share
2010 – 754,000 viewers – 11% share
2011 – 772,000 viewers – 12.5% share
2012 – 855,000 viewers – 12.9% share
2013 – 642,000 viewers – 10.4% share
2014 – 676,000 viewers – 4.4% share
2015 – 339,000 viewers
2016 – 257,000 viewers
2017 – 286,000 viewers
2018 – 226,000 viewers – 1.4% share
2019 – 252,000 viewers – 2.0% share
2020 – 319,000 viewers – 2.0% share
2021 – 175,000 viewers – 1.1% share
2022 – 279,000 viewers – 1.7% share
2023 – 221,000 viewers – 1.4% share
2024 – 329,000 viewers – 2.0% share
2025 – 169,000 viewers – 1.0% share
Meadow represented the Netherlands at Junior Eurovision 2025 with “Freeze”. She placed 10th in the final scoring 93 points, the Netherlands were 10th with the jury and 13th with the public vote.
Image source: EBU/Corinne Cumming | Source: NMO
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 missed out on victory by 5 points. The Netherlands’ worst result came in 2021 when Ayana finished in 19th place out of 19 competing countries.
