The Netherlands: AVROTROS opens songs submission and announces new Head of Delegation!

The national broadcaster of the Netherlands, AVROTROS, made two important Eurovision related announcements today.

The first announcement is about the selection method for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. For a 12th consecutive year, the broadcaster chooses the internal selection, with the songs submissions commencing today until the 30th of September. The only change this time is that the songs do not have to have set artists.

🇳🇱 Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has opened song submissions for #Eurovision 2024. For the 12th year in a row, they will opt for an internal selection.

Song submissions are open until 30 September. For the first time, songs can be submitted without having a set artist for the song pic.twitter.com/G4X40sJEO5

— ESC Discord (@ESCdiscord) July 12, 2023

The second announcement is about the position of the Head of Delegation. AVROTROS stated that the position of the Head of Delegation was appointed to Twan van de Nieuwenhuijzen who is also going to be the chairman of the Dutch selection committee.

In his previous position he was the Head of Contest for the EBU during Eurovision 2021, 2022, and 2023.

🇳🇱 Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has appointed Twan van de Nieuwenhuijzen as the new Head of Delegation and chairman of the Dutch selection committee

He previously worked as Head of Contest for the EBU during Eurovision 2021, 2022, and 2023. pic.twitter.com/bPmD54qU33

— ESC Discord (@ESCdiscord) July 12, 2023

This year the Kingdom of the Netherlands was represented in Liverpool by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper and the song “Burning Daylight”.  They ended up in the 13th place of the First Semi-Final, receiving only 7 points and thus failing to qualify to the Grand Final.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XAsam043OY&pp=ygUfZXVyb3Zpc2lvbiAyMDIzIHRoZSBuZXRoZXJsYW5kcw%3D%3D

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