Dunyah, Hidde and Saïda’s song for Junior Songfestival 2024 has been released, with all four competing songs now revealed.
The last of the four songs competing in Junior Songfestival 2024 has been released, “In M’n Prime“. The song was written and composed by Elke Tiel, Stas Swaczyna and Daniel van der Molen. Stas Swaczyna and Daniel van der Molen are also behind the song Ruben will be competing with in Junior Songfestival 2024.
Four acts are competing to represent the Netherlands in Madrid, the acts and their songs are:
- Veronika – “Dreams Are Built to Last“
- Ruben – “Colors of My Heart“
- Dunyah, Hidde, Saïda – “In M’n Prime“
- Stay Tuned (Inkar, Miucha, Niek and Chiara) – “Music“
The final of Junior Songfestival 2024 will take place on September 21.
The Netherlands was represented by Sep and Jasmijn at Junior Eurovision 2023 with “Holding On to You”. They placed 7th overall with 122 points. They were 7th with the juries and 5th with the online vote.
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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.