The Netherlands in the Europe Song Festival

The Netherlands has participated in the European Song Festival 6 times since making its debut at the first contest. It did not participate in the fifth edition but returned afterwards.The Netherlands hosted the first contest and the third contest.

The Netherlands has won the second edition. It came seventeenth in the fourth edition, it's worst showing yet. It didn't participate in the fifth edition.

Hosting
Netherlands bid to host the first ever contest after the United Kingdom's withdrawal. It won the bid and hosted the first edition in Amsterdam - the nation's capital. The slogan was chosen to be "Love is Forever".

After the Netherlands' win at the second edition, questions were raised over whether they would host again for the second time in three editions. They did and it was decided internally that out of the candidate cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven, Rotterdam would be chosen. Rotterdam won and the slogan chosen was, "Discover Yourself"

Results
NNB stands for Nederland Nationale Beslissing.

Controversies

 * in Edition II, The originally chosen song from the national final was from Edition I representative, Kriss Kross Amsterdam. It was later disqualified only a week before the contest began for breaking the rules. Quickly, they chose a replacement in Blackbriar who later went on to win the contest for the Netherlands.