Song Festival Contest 16

 participated in the Song Festival Contest in Turku, Finland. The Dutch entry was selected through an national selection by the broadcaster of the country, AVROTROS. 10 acts participated in the "Nationaal Song Festival". In the end Caro Emerald won with a marge of 27 points with the runner-up. Caro Emerald represented the Netherlands with the song "I Belong to You", which qualified from the third heat of the competition and won the contest with 308 points, making the first win for the Netherlands.

Nationaal Song Festival
Final The running order draw was announced on 25th December 2013. The final started on the same day.

Voting
Each country/jury awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs, with 12 points for their favourite song and 1 for their least favourite.

At Song Festival Contest
During the semi-final allocation draw, the Netherlands was drawn to compete in the second half of the third heat. the Netherlands performed eigth in the heat and qualified, placing 1st and scoring 87 points while the country was announced as the fourth qualifier. Caro chose to perform in the second half of the final and was later drawn to perform fourteenth. The Netherlands won the contest for the first time, scoring 308 points.

Points awarded by the Netherlands
Heat 3 votes

Final votes