Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Country	Netherlands
National selection
Selection process	Junior Songfestival 2018 33% Jury 33% Kids Jury 34% Televoting
Selection date(s)	29 September 2018[1]
Selected entrant	Max and Anne
Selected song	"Samen"
Selected songwriter(s)	Babette Labeij Dimitri Veltkamp Robin van Veen
Finals performance
Final result	13th, 91 points
Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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The Netherlands participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 which took place in Minsk, Belarus on 25 November 2018. The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS was responsible for the organisation of their representative at the contest. Their entry was selected through the national selection Junior Songfestival 2018, which had four songs.

Background[]

Prior to the 2018 Contest, the Netherlands had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fifteen 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 2017, the Netherlands placed 4th out of 16 entries with the song "Love Me" performed by the boy band FOURCE.

Before Junior Eurovision[]

Junior Songfestival 2018[]

Competing entries[]

The artists were credited without their surnames.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Ref.
Remix	"What Girls Do"	Jazz Fafié, Mimi Geusebroek, Roula Bououd, Xanne van den Dool	[2]
Anna Grigorian	"Touch Each Other's Heart"	Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms	[3]
Max Albertazzi and Anne Buhre	"Samen"	Babette Labeij, Dimitri Veltkamp, Robin van Veen	[4]
Kiya van Rossum	"Butterflies"	Christina Monteiro, Douriz Monteiro, Garfaёila Jovanca Ethelina Brown, Milangchelo Junior Martina	[5]

Final[]

The final was held on 29 September 2018, hosted by Romy Monteiro.

Final – 29 September 2018
Draw	Artist	Song	Kids Jury	Jury[a]	Televote	Total	Place
1	Remix	"What Girls Do"	8	9	9	26	3
2	Max & Anne	"Samen"	12	10	12	34	1
3	Kiya	"Butterflies"	9	8	8	25	4
4	Anna	"Touch Each Other's Heart"	10	12	10	32	2

Artist and song information[]

Maxime
Background information
Birth name	Maxime Albertazzi
Born	(2004-08-17) 17 August 2004 (age 17) Houten
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals

Anne
Birth name	Anne Buhre
Born	(2004-03-31) 31 March 2004 (age 17) Voorschoten
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals

"Samen"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 entry
Country	Netherlands
Artist(s)	Max Albertazzi and Anne Buhre
As	Max & Anne
Languages	Dutch, English
Finals performance
Final result	{{{place}}}
Entry chronology
◄ "Love Me" (2017)

Max and Anne[]

Max Albertazzi and Anne Buhre are Dutch child singers. They represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Samen".^[7]. In July 2020, Albertazzi came out as transgender.^{[citation needed]}

Samen[]

"Samen" (Dutch for together) is a song by Dutch singers Max Albertazzi and Anne Buhre. It represented The Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Max and Anne performed on the big stage and their dancers Idaila Voorn and Marc Vermeulen performed on the extra stage. They finished thirteenth with 91 points (23 points from national juries and 68 points from the online voting).

At Junior Eurovision[]

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 19 November 2018, Netherlands was drawn to perform sixth on 25 November 2018, following Russia and preceding Azerbaijan.^[8]

Voting[]

The results of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be determined by national juries and an online audience vote. Every country will have a national jury that will consist of three music industry professionals and two kids aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. This jury will be asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury could be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The first phase of the online voting will start on 23 November 2018 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances will be shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant’s rehearsal. This first round of voting will stop on Sunday, 25 November, at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and will start right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers can vote for a minimum of three countries and a maximum of five. They can also vote for their own country’s song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 20% of the votes, thus it will receive 20% of the available points. The public vote will count for 50% of the final result, while the other 50% will come from the professional juries.

Detailed voting results[]

Detailed voting results from the Netherlands^[9] hide

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Ukraine	10	6	11	5	2	7	4
02	Portugal	19	17	18	19	12	19
03	Kazakhstan	8	4	7	10	3	6	5
04	Albania	9	14	15	9	15	13
05	Russia	7	8	3	13	9	8	3
06	Netherlands
07	Azerbaijan	18	16	12	14	14	17
08	Belarus	1	1	9	6	8	3	8
09	Ireland	6	18	13	12	17	14
10	Serbia	17	11	19	16	13	18
11	Italy	14	19	16	7	11	15
12	Australia	4	3	2	2	1	1	12
13	Georgia	16	15	6	3	10	9	2
14	Israel	3	7	8	17	16	10	1
15	France	5	2	4	11	6	4	7
16	Macedonia	11	10	14	18	5	11
17	Armenia	2	5	5	15	7	5	6
18	Wales	15	13	17	4	19	16
19	Malta	12	9	1	1	4	2	10
20	Poland	13	12	10	8	18	12

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