The public broadcaster AVROTROS continues with preparations for the Grand finale of the Junior Songfestival 2024your preselection for Junior Eurovision.
On this occasion, the station has published the videoclip oficial of «Music»the song with which Stay Tuned will compete in the Grand finale from the children’s contest.
The group is made up of Denial (11 years), Miucha (11 years), Nick (12 years) and Chiara (13 years old). The theme with which he hopes to represent Netherlands in it Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 has been composed by Jermain van der Bogt y Willem Laseroms.
Enjoy the videoclip oficial of «Music»the proposal of Stay Tuned for the grand finale of Junior Songfestival 2024next:
The candidate proposals for the Junior Songfestival 2024
Veronika, Stay Tuned, Hidden | Said | Dunyah y Ruben will compete with the next Saturday, September 21 starting at 19:20 CEST in it RTM Stage Ahoy Rotterdam for winning the Junior Songfestival 2024.
The public broadcaster of Netherlands is still immersed in the search for her representative who will take the stage at the Magic Box of Madrid Spain) in it Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 which will take place on Saturday, November 16th.
One more year, AVROTROS bets again on its mythical national final that reaches its 21st edition. Thus, maintaining the format of previous years, through its official YouTube channelthe Dutch broadcaster He will show us the preparations for his competition every two weeks.
Enjoy all the songs of the Junior Songfestival 2024 at our playlist:
This is what Junior Songfestival 2024 will be like
Just after finishing the edition of 2023AVROTROS started the Call for registration for 2024. This way, Netherlands was the first country to confirm its participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024when the edition of Series 2023.
Interested boys and girls They were able to sign up through the web form between September 23, 2023 and the January 31, 2024.
Those interested had to upload a video a YouTube (public or hidden) with a presentation and singing one cover accompanied by instrumental music. Once registrations are closed, a jury was in charge of examine the candidates. Thus, the public channel was getting in touch with all the candidates to inform them whether they had been selected or not.
After the face-to-face castings, AVROTROS introduced the candidates and the best rated by the radio station’s music committee they went through the Academia Junior Songfestival 2024. From there, the following were selected: 9 finalists of the edition.
Junior Songfestival 2024 finalists | AVROTROS
AVROTROS maintains the successful format which has been consolidating in recent editions. In fact, in 2023, the legendary Dutch preselection He once again proved to be tireless, obtaining a great follow up by the spectators.
He Junior Songfestival 2023 was followed by an average of 308,000 viewers. This data represents a 8.40% sharewhich is located in the 1,9% of screen share between the target objective of the channel. In total, the broadcast achieved 542,000 cumulative viewers. If the edition of 2022 stopped the downward trend of recent years, the Junior Songfestival 2023 experienced a outstanding climb in its audience reaching the highest figure since 2015.
He blow of fresh air which meant the Luna’s participation (2022) y Sep & Jasmine (2023) together with the changes carried out in the preselection have made the Junior Song Festival continue to consolidate its prominence as the great national final model for Junior Eurovision.
This will be the 22nd participation of Netherlands in it Junior Eurovision Song Contestbeing a record uninterrupted attendance in the popular European children’s competition.
Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Netherlands was one of the 16 countries that inaugurated the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003Since then, he is the only one who has participated in all of them. uninterruptedly. The public chainAVROTROS is responsible for organizing participation in the children’s competition.
In his 21 participations, Netherlands Has got a single victoryat the festival of 2009 which took place in kyiv (Ukraine), con Ralf and his «Click Clack» who scored 121 points. Among his best resultsis the second place achieved in Yerevan 2011 and the fourth place in the final classification that they achieved in the editions of 2017, 2019 y 2020.
In the contest of 2022 held in Yerevan (Armenia), Luna con “The party” It was positioned as one of the favorite proposals of the edition, reaching the 7th place con 128 points.
For its part, in the last edition held in Nice (France), Sep & Jasmine con «Holding On To You» maintained a meritorious result in 2022 by receiving 122 points (7th place).
AVROTROS organizes one of the preselections with the longest run in the history of Junior Eurovision: the Junior Song Festivalwhose first edition it took place in 2003. And since then, it has been the selection method of AVROTROS to choose their representative in the children’s contest. This is one of the programs most successful from his children’s channel Zapp.
Los spectatorsand children’s jury and other professional are in charge of choosing the winner. Over the years, the contest has suffered changes in its format and in the way of selecting the participating singers and songs, first with semi-finals and a grand final, until reaching the current format of a unique gala after several months of auditions and internal selection processes.
In recent editions, The Netherlands has recovered he competitive spirit in Junior Eurovisionespecially after the excellent role of Luna in Yerevan 2022 who, after opening the proceedings in the Karen Demirchyan Complex from the Armenian capital, he got the best result of the country since Poland 2020. Netherlands He fought for victory again and returned to the high ranking positions as we are used to. In addition, the Dutch public reconnected with the festival and his mythical preselection.
For its part, The Netherlands has hosted the event twice he Junior Eurovision Song Contest. In 2007held in the Ahoy of Rotterdam and in 2012 in it Heineken Music Hall of Amsterdam.
Madrid, host of Junior Eurovision 2024
Spain assumes for the first time the Junior Eurovision Organization. In the coming months, announcements will be made more details of the 22nd edition of Junior Eurovision which will take place in Madrid he Saturday, November 16th.
Ana Maria Bordashead of the Spanish Delegation at Junior Eurovision and member of the Steering Group, confirms that RTVE welcomes with “great illusion” the EBU invitation for the festival to be held in Spain.
Madrid is the Spanish capital. It is the largest city in Spain. Currently, Madrid reaches the 3,332,035 inhabitants. In addition, it exceeds the 7 million people in its metropolitan area of influence which includes towns from almost all of the Madrid’s communitybeing one of the largest in the European Union.
Junior Eurovision 2024 joins the long and successful list of events that have taken place in MadridThe truth is that the city maintains his ambition and his vocation of being the seat of great cultural events.
Junior Eurovision 2024 brings the festival back to Saturday, its original broadcast day
The Magic Box of Madrid it’s a multipurpose space for all types of musical and sporting events. It is a sports complex located in the San Fermin neighborhoodin the district of UseraOn the banks of Manzanares River. It is known for hosting tennis sporting eventsAs the Mutua Madrid Openas well as concerts and others cultural events.
Count with one modern and versatile architectural design makes it a emblematic place of the city. It was designed by the French architect Dominique Perrault and was inaugurated in 2009. It has a total built area of the main building is 83,500 square meters. Thanks to Its high-quality mobile covers allow multiple possibilities At any time of year. It is a construction of concrete and steel which makes it stand out for its Versatile and functional design.
The head of the Spanish corporation highlights that the Organisation of Junior Eurovision 2024 in Madrid it is “un step further in the effort that the public chain has been carried out in recent years for promote Eurovision in Spain and give more relevance to our music”.
“We want the young artists and all the delegations to enjoy a fantastic week in Madrid. Spain is a welcoming country and we welcome you with open arms. Let’s have fun and enjoy the music. Welcome to Spain!”
Ana Maria Bordas, Head of Delegation of Spain
He also adds that will be launched All creative, technical and human resources for “to offer a festival designed for young artists in a festive and safe environment”.
