Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

The national selection consisted of one live show, which was held on 26 September 2020. For the first time in its history, the contest was held in Rotterdam Ahoy and without an audience (due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic).[1]

The four acts that were planned to compete in the national final were announced on 29 May.[8] However, before the show, it was announced that Robin and UNITY member Demi had tested positive for COVID-19 on the day of the final. Therefore, Robin could not participate and UNITY competed without their fourth member.[9]

409,000 viewers watched the final live on NPO 3, the highest since 2017, with a market share of 3.7%.[15]

With the release of T-Square's song "Count On Me", accusations of plagiarism of the song "Boy With Luv" by BTS emerged on social media. Due to these accusations, AVROTROS launched a formal investigation with several music experts. As a result of the investigation, AVROTROS responded to the allegations through the Junior Songfestival Instagram account rejecting the allegations, and that the K-Pop sound used in the song is common among international artists. They also said music should be a means to bring people together and not divide them, and that they firmly stand with T-Square regarding the song.[17]

UNITY is a Dutch girl group consisting of Naomi, Demi, Maud and Jayda. They represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Best Friends".[18]

"Best Friends" is a song by Dutch girl band UNITY. It represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

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.[21] The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 27 November 2020 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 29 November at 16:59 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 maximum of three songs.[22] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which was determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

During the live show, the Netherlands received 64 points from online voting, out of 697 total.[23]

Every participating country had national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two kids 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.[24] The results of the Dutch jury were announced during the liveshow by national finalist Robin de Haas.[25]

12 points	France
10 points	Spain
8 points	Kazakhstan
7 points	Malta
6 points	Georgia
5 points	Poland
4 points	Serbia
3 points	Russia
2 points	Ukraine
1 point	Belarus