The Netherlands was represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Music", written by and Willem Laseroms, and performed by . The Dutch participating broadcaster, AVROTROS, organised the national final 2024 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Prior to the 2024 contest, the Netherlands had participated in the contest twenty-one times since its first entry in the inaugural . Since then, the country has won the contest on one occasion in with the song "Click Clack" performed by Ralf Mackenbach. The Netherlands is the only country to have taken part in every edition of the contest. Since 2014, as the result of a merger between the AVROwhich had previously been in charge of the Netherlands' participation in the contestand TROS into the current AVROTROS, it is the latter who participates representing the Netherlands. In , competed for the Netherlands with the song "Holding On to You", which ended up in 7th place out of 16 entries with 122 points.
2024 was the twenty-first edition of , the national final format developed by AVROTROS to select Dutch entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The event was held on 21 September 2024 at the RTM Stage in Rotterdam, and was hosted by and Stefania. The show was broadcast on NPO Zapp via NPO 3, as well as on the broadcaster's streaming platform NPO Start.
The selection took place in four stages: the received applications were first assessed by an expert committee; 45 were selected to be performed at an audition round, excerpts of which were published to the competition's official YouTube channel on 5 and 19 April, and 3 May 2024, where a jury selected twenty artists to advance to the academy; at the academy, the singers had the opportunity to work with vocal coaches and choreographers, after which the nine finalists were determined, who were later grouped into four acts, each of them having an original song written and assigned; at the final, which was held on 21 September 2024, the winner was determined by a combination of votes from an kids jury (traditionally made up of past participants), a professional jury (made up of industry professionals) and an online voteeach awarding sets of 8âÂÂ10 and 12 pointswith the latter taking precedence in the event of a tie.
The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 23 September 2023 and 31 January 2024. All submissions required participants to enter one cover song and a separate introduction video. An expert committee reviewed the received submissions and selected 45 of them (including 29 which qualified directly, announced on 12 February 2024, and 16 which advanced from the preselectiona second chance round, where an additional 48 artists who hadn't advanced were invited to perform, after which some were invited for the audition, announced on 27 February 2024) to proceed to the audition round. Auditionee and eventual finalist Veronika had previously competed in the , placing third. The finalists were revealed on 31 May 2024, while the groupings were unveiled on 14 June 2024. One-minute snippets of the songs published on 29 June 2024, with the songs released daily between 2 and 5 July 2024.
The final took place on 21 September 2024. The kids jury panel consisted of 2023 participants Joy! and , while the professional jury panel, the members of which also provided feedback in regards to the performances during the show, consisted of singers , Jim Bakkum and . In addition to the competing entries, the finalists performed a common song entitled "Move On". Stay Tuneda group consisting of fourteen-year-old Chiara, twelve-year-olds Inkar and Miucha, and thirteen-year-old Niekwere declared the winners with the song "Music".
As part of the promotion of their participation in the contest, Stay Tuned performed at , a retrospective celebration event with performances by past participants of , in Rotterdam on 26 October 2024.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. The Netherlands will perform 12th, following and preceding .
At the end of the show, Netherlands received 34 points from juries and 57 points from online voting, placing 10th.
The following members comprised the Dutch jury: