1,600 young singers from across the Netherlands have applied to compete in Junior Songfestival 2026.
AVROTROS has revealed that 1,600 singers have applied to represent the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026. The applications have now been reviewed and the singers through to auditions later this month have been contacted.
Auditions will be held without cameras present on February 16, 17 and 21, after which point the acts that advance to the next phase of auditions will be contacted.
On March 7 and 8, in-person auditions, which will be filmed, will be held. On one day, the applicants will take part in one day of dance and one day of singing. The final round of auditions will then take place on March 22, to select the singers going through to the Junior Songfestival 2026 final.
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.
Source: AVROTROS
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.