Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
# Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

The Netherlands participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which was held on 24 November 2019 in Gliwice, Poland. Matheu was selected with his song "Dans met Jou". Their entry was selected through the national selection Junior Songfestival 2019.

## Background

Prior to the 2019 Contest, the Netherlands had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest sixteen times since its first entry in 2003. The Netherlands have won the contest on one occasion: in 2009 with the song "Click Clack" performed by Ralf Mackenbach. In the 2018 contest, Anne & Max represented their country in Minsk, Belarus with the song "Samen". They ended 13th out of 20 entries with 91 points.

## Before Junior Eurovision

### Junior Songfestival 2019

**Competing entries**

| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
| - | - | - |
| Matheu Hinzen | "Dans met jou" | Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms |
| 6Times | "End of Time" | Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms |
| Mannes Bakker | "Let Me Sing" | E. Struijlaart, P. Slager |
| Moves | "Make Your Move" | Mark van Tijn, Babet van Vugt, Jochem Fluitsma, Eric van Tijn |

**Final**

The final was held on 28 September 2019 at the Hanzehof Theater. Matheu was announced the winner and represented the Netherlands with "Dans met jou".

Final – 28 September 2019 :

| Draw | Artist | Song | Kids Jury | Jury | Televote | Total | Place |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Moves | "Make Your Move" | 10 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 3 |
| 2 | Mannes | "Let Me Sing" | 9 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 4 |
| 3 | 6Times | "End of Time" | 8 | 10 | 10 | 28 | 2 |
| 4 | Matheu | "Dans met jou" | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 | 1 |

* ↑ The members of the kids jury were Max & Anne and Anna.
* ↑ The members of the professional jury were Kaj van der Voot, Tabitha and Edsilia Rombley.

## Artist and song information

### Matheu

Matheu Hinzen (born 12 May 2006) is a Belgian-born Dutch singer and actor. He represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Dans met jou". He was born in Belgium, but he currently lives in Weert. He also played a young André Hazes in the movie Bloed, zweet & tranen.

### Dans met jou

"Dans met jou" (Dutch for Dance with you) is a song by Dutch singer Matheu Hinzen. He represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

## At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Netherlands was drawn to perform fourteenth on 24 November 2019, following Ukraine and preceding Armenia.

### Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs. They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

