Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014

The Netherlands selected their Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 entry through Junior Songfestival, a national selection consisting of eight songs. The competing songs were broken down into two semi-finals taking place on 13 and 20 September 2014. The winner was announced to be Julia van Bergen (credited as Julia) with her song "Around" on 27 September 2014. The expert jury consisted of Xander de Buisonjé, Niels Geusebroek, and Yvonne Coldeweijer.^[1]

Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Country	Netherlands
Selection process	Junior Songfestival 2014 33% Jury 33% Kids Jury 33% Televoting
Selection date	Semi-finals: 13 September 2014 20 September 2014 Final: 27 September 2014
Competing entry
Song	"Around"
Artist	Julia
Placement
Final result	8th, 70 points
Participation chronology
◄2013 • 2014 • 2015►

Before Junior Eurovision

Junior Songfestival 2014

From each semi-final two entries qualified for the final based on the decision of adult and kids juries as well as televoting. The fifth entry in the final was chosen by online voting (web wildcard).

Competing entries

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Anne & Anique	"Dromen"	Anne Loos, Anique Kamerik, Hansen Tomas, Robert Dorn
Beau	"De wind"	Beau van Cleef, Kirsten Schneider, Mark Erickson, Eric Van Tijn
Bobby & Ella	"Hard to Explain"	Bobby Hunter, Ella van den Hurk, Nando Eweg, Hansen Tomas, Joost Griffioen, Peter Kvint
Chelsea	"Waarom"	Chelsea Hegener, Stephan Geusebroek, Tjeerd Van Zanen
Julia	"Around"	Robert Dorn, Joost Griffioen, Julia van Bergen
Sebastiaan	"2gether We Are One"	Sebastiaan Reddering, Tjeerd Oosterhuis
Sem	"Jij staat op nummer 1"	Sem Blom, Ed Struijlaart
Suze	"Holiday"	Suze van der Meijden, Eric van Tijn, Jochem Fluitsma, Joos van Leeuwen, Rachel Vermeulen

Table key

  Participants who qualified to the final via jury and televoting.

  Participants who qualified to the final via wildcard

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 1 – 13 September 2014[2]
Draw	Artist	Song	Kids Jury	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Suze	"Holiday"	12	12	10	34	1
2	Sem	"Jij staat op nummer 1"	9	10	8	27	3
3	Chelsea	"Waarom"	10	8	12	30	2
4	Bobby & Ella	"Hard to Explain"	8	9	9	26	4

Semi-final 2

Semi-final 2 – 20 September 2014[3]
Draw	Artist	Song	Kids Jury	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Sebastiaan	"2gether We Are One"	10	10	8	28	2
2	Anne & Anique	"Dromen"	9	9	9	27	3
3	Beau	"De wind"	8	8	10	26	4
4	Julia	"Around"	12	12	12	36	1

Final

Final – 27 September 2014[1]
Draw	Artist	Song	Kids Jury	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Anne & Anique	"Dromen"	7	7	7	21	5
2	Suze	"Holiday"	8	9	9	26	3
3	Chelsea	"Waarom"	10	10	10	30	2
4	Julia	"Around"	12	12	12	36	1
5	Sebastiaan	"2gether We Are One"	9	8	8	25	4

At Junior Eurovision

At the running order draw which took place on 9 November 2014, the Netherlands were drawn to perform last on 15 November 2014, following host country Malta.^[4] The Netherlands finished 8th in the final with 70 points.^[5] The Netherlands placed 6th in the televoting with 69 points, while the jury vote placed the Netherlands 9th with 44 points.

Voting

Points awarded to the Netherlands[6] Score Country 12 points[a]  Sweden 10 points 8 points 7 points  Italy 6 points 5 points  Armenia  Belarus  Cyprus 4 points  Croatia  San Marino 3 points  Bulgaria  Serbia 2 points  Georgia  Kids Jury  Malta  Russia 1 point  Montenegro  Ukraine

Points awarded by the Netherlands[6] Score Country 12 points  Bulgaria 10 points  Armenia 8 points  Italy 7 points  Belarus 6 points  Cyprus 5 points  Sweden 4 points  Slovenia 3 points  Ukraine 2 points  Georgia 1 point  Malta

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Dutch jury:^[7]

• Rachel Traets
• Kirsten Schneider
• Guido van Gend
• Monique Smit
• Tim Douwsma

Detailed voting results from the Netherlands^[7]

Draw	Country	R. Traets	K. Schneider	G. van Gend	M. Smit	T. Douwsma	Average Jury Points	Televoting Points	Points Awarded
01	Belarus	8	8	6	8	7	8	5	7
02	Bulgaria	10	10	8	5	6	10	12	12
03	San Marino
04	Croatia
05	Cyprus	6	2	4	7	12	5	7	6
06	Georgia	4	4		6	2	4		2
07	Sweden	7	6	12	4	4	6	3	5
08	Ukraine	1	1	5		3	2	4	3
09	Slovenia				2			6	4
10	Montenegro
11	Italy	5	7	7	10	8	7	8	8
12	Armenia	12	12	10	12	10	12	10	10
13	Russia	2	5	2		5	3
14	Serbia	3		1	1	1		1
15	Malta		3	3	3		1	2	1
16	Netherlands

Julia van Bergen

Julia van Bergen (born 17 September 1999 in Harderwijk),^[8] also known as Julia, is a Dutch singer. She represented The Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Malta with the song "Around".^[9] Since then, singles have included "Round And Around" (2015), "Baby Come Home" (2015) and "The One" (2016). In 2017/2018, Julia was a contestant on The voice of Holland, reaching the Knock Out phase.

Notes

1. All countries received one set of 12 points to ensure no country finished with nul points.