The Netherlands: AVROTROS commences its search for Eurovision 2023

The Netherlands: AVROTROS commences its search for Eurovision 2023
Monday, 16 May 2022

  • The Dutch national broadaster, AVROTROS, has kicked off the selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. 

    AVROTROS is one of the first broadcasters to launch its search for Eurovision 2023 and the next Dutch representative. The country will be using the same selection formula according to which the act is selected through a special committee. 

    The selection committee strives for an entry with a preferably contemporary, but in any case authentic sound. A song that is able to survive in a competition. By a Dutch artist who is willing and able to convey his own personal song and, if possible, a personal story in a distinctive way, in whatever genre.

    A song can be brought to the attention of the selection committee by sending it directly to the following email address: [email protected].  The process will be supervised by Head of Delegation of the Netherlands, Lars Lourenco. Questions can also be shared via this email address.

    AVROTROS or the selection committee will not set up a trajectory (s) with an artist / songwriter to come to a (final) product. It is expected that a (demo) song of artist / songwriter with the above criteria will be brought to the attention of the selection committee at an advanced stage.

     

    Terms and Conditions

    • Song is convincingly distinctive and meets the above description
    • More than one song? Send a maximum of the 3 best songs, which seem to fit the Eurovision Song Contest concept.
    • Duration of the song not more than 3 minutes. 
    • Song has not been (commercially) released before September 1, 2022
    • Submission period ends on August 31, 2022

     

    The Netherlands in Eurovision

    The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 60 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in 1956, and has missed only four contests so far (1985, 1991, 1995 and 2002).

    The Netherlands has won the contest four times, with Corry Brokken in 1957, Teddy Scholten in 1959, Lenny Kuhr in a four-way tie in 1969 and Teach-In in 1975,  The country has achieved some remarkable results in the past finishing 4th with Sandra & Andres (1972), 3rd with Mouth & MacNeal (1974), 5th with Maggie MacNeal (1980), 5th with Marcha (1987) and fourth with Edsilia Rombley (1998). Its worst results were in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1968, when it finished last and in 2011 when ending up last in the semifinal.

    Eurovision 2020 was set to take place in Rotterdam  after Duncan Lawrence’s Eurovision 2019 victory in Tel Aviv, with Jeangu Macrooy set to perform 'Grow" for the country. However the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and never had the chance to perform on home soil. Last year Rotterdam made it happen with the host nation being represented by last year's hopeful, Jeangu Macrooy who sang 'Birth of a new age' which finished 23rd in the overall score with only 11 points. 

    This year S10 was internally selected to represent the country with her song 'De Diepte' which after qualifying to the final achieved to finish 11th in the Grand final.

     

    News Source: AVROTROS

    Image: EBU/SARAH LOUISE BENNETT