For the first time since 1993, all three Benelux nations are competing at Eurovision. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg are all aiming to bring the Eurovision 2024 trophy back to the western European region.
Of course it’s Luxembourg who are finally back with their neighbours. The five-time winners have taken a three-decade-long break from the contest. For their grand return, the nation selected TALI and the song “Fighter” through the selection show Luxembourg Song Contest.
In Belgium, it was the turn of Walloon broadcaster RTBF to select an act for Eurovision. They returned to an internal selection this year, choosing Mustii to wave the flag. He’ll be singing “Before the Party’s Over” in Malmö, backed by a choir of pre-recorded vocals from his fans.
The Netherlands are the most recent Benelux nation to secure a Eurovision victory. Joost Klein is hoping to keep it that way by adding another win to the country’s tally. His entry “Europapa” has already racked up millions of streams and views — will he be able to turn them into points come May?
Benelux nations at Eurovision 2024
Belgium: Mustii – “Before the Party’s Over”
Netherlands: Joost Klein – “Europapa”
Luxembourg: TALI – “Fighter”
Poll: Which Benelux nation has the best entry at Eurovision 2024?
Time to make a decision. Remember: You’ll only be able to vote once, so choose wisely!
Who did you vote for? Are you happy to see all three Benelux nations competing together again at Eurovision 2024? Let us know in the comments below.
Belguim is a pure love!
I think Tali works the camera better than the other two combined. Though I may change my mind once I’ve seen Klein do a live performance of his track without the lead vocal effects.
Netherlands are a potential winner this year.
Any dutchies that want to go to Amsterdam pre-party this Saturday? My friend is sick so I’m giving away her ticket.
I’m kinda sad for Luxembourg. I think the song is pretty ok, but I’m not sure if it’s enough for this year. It’s a pretty good year imo and I worry they will be discouraged by the result.
Hoping for a qualification!
Of these, probably Belgium. I had Luxembourg high to begin with but the song wore off very quickly. I never found myself in the fandome of the Dutch entry as I find it silly…the emotional finish to the music video is not enough to make up for the actual song itself. Belgium has an amazing last minute, but I always tend to ask «what song is this again?» when it comes on, in other words the start of the song is extremely dull…it doesn’t grab your attention before 2 minutes into it….but then it becomes great at least !
Unpopular opinion: I like Europapa and Before the party’s over more than Rim Tim Tagi Dim and The Code.
For some reason I feel like that opinion is not THAT unpopular.
It was lowkey Luxembourg for me, until the revamp :-/ It kind of lost it’s French-iness and charm if you kno what i mean? Netherlands on the other hand, grew on me after the initial shock and now I really like it.
10 years ago Joost would have been the laughing stock of the year, and this year he is loved by so many? Pure insanity. My last place just behind Greece and Armenia. I hope it flops I really do.
I wanna see your crying face when NL ends up in the top 5 in the final, i really do.
Crying?! Please, I’ll be laughing at the insanity. Its soooo laughable. But I guess many are deprived of quality these days that anything goes. Remember that everyone disliked it until Joost went into PR-spamming squirrel mode? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Haha all those hate and lies.. please …
Jury will prevent that
I know that Europapa is going to receive next to no points from the juries. But I am counting on the public going for it en masse. Like 250 points from televote could be enough to slip in the top 5.
10 years prior to 2014 Conchita also would have been the laughing stock.
People thought it was insanity he was loved by so many.
Lo and behold they won ESC 2014.
Sometimes its nice seeing humanity making some moves forward.
Enjoy ESC24.
10 years on the road. Who knows what will happen?
“Its now or never”.
This is forward?! Damn thats a sad future right there. And comparing Conchita to Joost uhhhmmm yeah you are on your own there buddy. Joost don’t have the pipes to compare.
Darling at least Joost has much big shoulder parts on his outfit than Conchita back than!!
Only Luna is matching them untill so far!!
Armenia won’t be 25th, they’ll be top half.
They are really strong this year. I think Belgium is a bit overrated and will fall further close to the rehearsals. Mustii is really cute but the song will flop in televoting.
Belgium is great, but it runs out of steam at the end by repeating the same line over and over again. Luxembourg is okay-ish, but it has no spice. Just feels like 3 minutes of nothing. Krick would’ve been a much better choice, there would at least be a solid jury score there. Don’t even get me started on Netherlands. I’ve seen it, I’ve seen others explaining it and it’s still annoying and grating to my ears. The only thing saving it from my last place is the forced and inauthentic X factor winner’s single from israel, but I’ve come… Read more »
Belgium 2,1/10
Netherlands 1,9/10
Luxembourg 0,3/10…
the least group of this year in terms of quality
I think Luxembourg would be in my top 5 this year.
Belgium 10/12
Luxembourg 8/12
Netherlands 3,5/12
BE – NE – LUX: in that order
3) Luxembourg is good
2) Netherlands is fun
1) Belgium is amazing
Belgium is nice, Luxembourg is meh, The Netherlands is terrible.
Maybe you are missing some details?
this belgium guy explains it all perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2H7aRiOXSM
You know, we don’t have to catch all the details of a song to like it or not. Sometimes it just doesn’t match. Some people love, some don’t. I personnally don’t but I won’t forbid others to love it, the same way I don’t want people to tell me I’m wrong.
The message of the song is beautiful, it’s the way it’s done that I don’t like. My aim here is not to be disrespectful, but for me this kind of song is an ode to cheesiness.
Well said. Im with you on your words.
For me as a Joost fan its just marvellous a YT vlogger is posting such a vid.
Fans of BL, Italy, Windowman95, Nemo, Olly, Luna, Malta, Greece, Eden etc lets call out all the acts. Would have loved this either and sharing it.
Im not pushing it through your throat for that matter.
Its now or never…………………… ;-P
Greetings
It’s nice to agree to disagree in a respectful way sometimes. I nearly forgot how it feels in here xD What a beautiful place it would be if all discussed that way, all the time.
Yep Tino, Im with you on that.
Lets try to do our best and enjoying eachothers likes or dislikes.
Hey its eurovision, its one period in a year.
Enjoy the season, which is soo wide open this year.
Greetings
Luxembourg is the best of tge 3 for me it’s actually in my top 5 this year
NL, Lux, be
Has to be my Europapa, but I do like all of them
Luxembourg is my favourite and Belgium is decent-ish.
I won’t ever bother with the weird Dutch guy.
“Weird” is a compliment
For you, maybe yes. I’m not into this kind of weirdness.
At all.
In a world gone mad we should try and look in eachothers weirdness in understanding the others drive beter?
That doesnt mean you have to like or loving it.
At least we can do is acknowleding eachother in having diff takes on life.
Watch this vid, very interesting explanation of the belgium YT poster:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2H7aRiOXSM
Belgien are the best song this year
Överskattad.
1. Netherlands
2. Belgium
3. Luxembourg
Bronze star to Israel.
It’s certainly a good year for the BENELUX countries in ESC! Europapa is the banger of the year (along with Greece).
The Netherlands is the best among the 3.
Belgium has a nice song, but I am not sure about the live performance yet.
Tali is also charismatic, and I have loved the song and performance since the Luxembourgish national final. I feel she will qualify for the final.
Good luck BENELUX!
I think both the Dutch and Belgian entries are really strong and they’re both dark horses. Don’t feel Luxembourg.
I’m Dutch myself but my vote goes to Belgium! While it takes some time to get going, the ending of Before The Party’s Over is fantastic, and leans itself to great staging very well… Now to hope Belgium actually does that since… Sometimes they don’t
Indeed, it has a very gradual build-up. Generally speaking, and from an artistic point of view, this is interesting.
Not sure how long viewers wait until they say YES or NO to an entry.
I am also concerned about Mustii’s live vocals. Hope he nails it.
About the Netherlands, what a contrast between their poll results and their points in OGAE votes !
OGAE votes come from among the “most hardcore” fans, so they are not quite representative of the general public. Fans (including myself) have other criteria.
The same OGAE which was dominated by Malta in 2021?
Like it or hate it Europapa will probably win the televote once it hits the semi final and tv.
Marko might change that but I feel Europapa if staged well will storm the televote
I think that Europapa will either win the televote or totally flop, not because of the song but because of the risk of sounding and looking messy on stage. We have to wait and see for Joost Klein’s staging. Veel success Nederland!
There is a live performance of Europapa on You Tube it’s not disappointing, I agree with you on on the staging,
There’s a heavily edited live performance on YouTube which I found disappointing. If the staging is anything like that, I can’t see it qualifying.
Completely right on that.
It could be hot or miss for the NLD;s.
In the meantime we have had an amazing pre ESC24 season already.
Groeten uit Nederland.
Joost his stage presence at festivals is awesome. I was lucky enough to be able to experience that firsthand. Now he’s bringing the people he has worked with creating those sets along to Eurovision, so I have confidence in that. I liked what they did with the music video. It was the first time they had a decent budget to work with.
I prefer Luxembourg and Belgium because I like the new revamp for fighter and Belgium’s choice of getting another top 10 in my opinion
I must admit I like all of them. This is just that kind of a year. I like almost all songs this year. But I do have some favorites. Belgium is the song I listen to most (out of 3) but I am becoming worried and a bit skeptical after seeing him perform it live since I honestly thought the song might win the jury vote. But can0t see that happening now. But he’s still my favorite out of 3 and it should finish in TOP 10 for sure. I would love to see Luxembourg qualify. That would be considered… Read more »
I can’t stand the Europapa song, I am sorry.
This is not a song to make you stand but dance instead. Pun intended 🙂
Definitely Belgium and Holland.
Luxembourg is overhated. I really like the song and I hope it will qualify
I think it’s solid enough to qualify for the final and then come around 20th place. I would be very happy if LUX qualified in their first participation in 30 years.
Based of the song, Fighter would be a sure qualifier in semifinal 1, but Tali is what holds it back. Tali doesn’t have the performing quality to bring the song to life.
Good lord this is ridiculous. “To protect the safety and welfare” of myself, I’m not gonna choose a Benelux entry. Apparently, now, it’s not even possible to discuss let alone like the Israeli song anymore. I do and I love listening to it and my experience here is gonna give her my 20 votes. Well done!
Yeah this is unfair!!!! I can’t talk about a song representing a country who caused a man-made famine and k!lled +33k people!!!! This is so antisemitism!!!!
It has nothing to do with the song. You guys need to accept that Its participating and you cant do anything about it
NO Alex…. It’s YOU (!!!!!!!!!!) who caused ALL this. YOU (!!!!) (and unfortunately me too…) funded with our TAX money the H@m Ass infrastructure of t3r0r. If you don’t like the outcome – tell H@m ASS to be more brave and NOT to use their OWN people as Hum@n Shield (incl. schools, H0spitals etc…). Explain to all of us – Why they built T3r0r tunnels ONLY(!!) for themselves and not shelters to their population??? Why??
Lmao do you have proof? I am not affiliated with them.
Yes! My yearly TAX report. We in EU, funded for decades the H@m Ass governance (what a mistake…)
That’s just conspiracy.
Do you have proof to base your comment?? Show it !!!!
(Meanwhile – our Tax money went to H@m Ass governance.. – I’m NOT proud of it)
can I ask why you always are so aggressive when you respond to someone?
That’s the way to answer P0litical @ctivists (!!). They have NO right to shove their agenda in our throats here and abuse a Music platform. Period.
Yeah right, calling me a terr0rist is downright disgusting and stupid.
but you are doing that to everyone you dont agree with – including me in another article
The misuse of the platform for other purposes than Music will be answered accordingly… (you see Dane, we sure can have an educated discussion without hostility) 🙂
I dont think people will take you seriously when you are so aggressive. Just a little tip 🙂
Thanks for the tip Dane, but the focus it’s certainly not me.. It’s the message across 🙂
Even though I agree on the fact that it is stupid that we can’t discuss about or even like a song because of the country it represents, it’s not really better to give all your votes to it just because others decided to boycott. If you have favorites just vote for them and that’s all. And if Israel is among your favorites then go for it but knowing how you love Norway, I would find it incredibly ridiculous if you don’t cast a single vote for them.
That’s actually very true, I need to give at least one vote to Norway. They finally send something worth supporting after so many years of terrible novelty acts, I need to contribute to its success. If it doesn’t do well, they might go down that terrible route they’ve been on again.
Sadly, nobody can win. You’ve got folks who’ll harass Eurovision blogs and such to not post about Israel at all, and then the others that’ll be furious when Israel isn’t getting articles about their entry. Folks really should be civil and I definitely agree we should be able to at least review the song without people going absolutely nuts, regardless on where they stand. The song’s a 4 for me, and that’s me removing the current situation at hand. Eden’s voice is really great and definitely is the main positive of the entry, but the song personally doesn’t do too… Read more »
At least it’s marginally better than last year’s 😛
You literally never stop discussing it though. We’re all tired of it. Let’s see if they’ll still participate now that even their biggest allies in the US are turning against them.
Israel will participate, so maybe you should just accept it
What do I care about the US? It’s a song contest and this song is participating in it. Of course I’m discussing it.
I’m just saying that if the IDF keep doing things like purposefully murdering international aid workers I don’t know that they will be able to participate in the end. Hopefully not, we’ll see.
Are you “high” on something Rory?… WHAT pusposefully???… Try to STOP overdosing (Should I call Betty Ford Center fot you?) 🙂
Given all of your typos and bizarre punctuation I think you might need the centre more than I do. When even the US is criticising Israel for murdering aid workers it’s pretty bad news for Bibi (not to mention the huge protests by Israelis who are finally starting to realise the government has no intention of bringing the hostages back)
WHAT ON EARTH BIBI HAS TO DO IN THIS PLATFORM?????
This is MUSIC platform !!! Don’t be confused baby.
If you want to discuss OTHER matters try: CNN, ABC, BBC etc.!
And now… after all your pointless(!) lecture – where the “purposefully” is coming from?? On what “facts” are your argument based on?? Ludicrous!!….
Now – learn more about consequences of W@r:
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2780257/dod-august-29-strike-in-kabul-tragic-mistake-kills-10-civilians/#:~:text=The%20strike%20by%20a%20Hellfire,Central%20Command%2C%20Marine%20Corps%20Gen.
If you think that Israel doesn’t want to participate in order to spread their Zionist propaganda you are even more delusional than I thought. And that is directly connected to your beloved Bibi.
No less of “propaganda” – as you call it (ridiculously!!!!) – allowing the participation of UK (holding Malvinas Island from the Argentines), Spain (NOT giving independence to Catalunia), France (with Corsica aspirations)…. Should I go further?…. 🙂 :-). NOW better you SHUSH – before getting more embarrased (showing your p0litical illiteracy and t3r0r supporting @ctivism)… Hasta la Vista Fool!!
Oh yes we all remember the time when Spain decimated Barcelona and slaughtered 30,000 innocent Catalans, or when France murdered aid workers in Corsica last week, you’re right, those situations are exactly the same.
The EBU are not responsible for Wiwi coverage, so as long as Eden gets equal air time and equal treatment on all actual official Eurovision platforms, you should distribute your 20 votes fairly too?
You are of course right. The song is out there, random people will find it if they want to. I don’t even wanna distribute 20 votes, but the treatment Eden is getting will encourage me to give her more than planned. I wanna give some votes to the three entries I like and listen to and just maybe reserve an additional vote for 1 or 2 that surprise me with their live performance. I’m thinking I’ll only vote for Italy, Norway and Israel, though. Maybe Latvia because they’ll probably need it. Maybe Slovenia if she makes the final and is… Read more »
Don’t give up on Belgium. A month of hardcore rehearsals might save the day.
I was of course gonna name Belgium as my Benelux fave, the studio version certainly is, but I can’t I un-watch that performance. If it’s gonna be anything like this in Malmö, it might as well NQ. But I’m open for a positive surprise of course. Yes, it’s just a pre party performance but we’ve seen those become reality before. Austria 2022, North Macedonia 2017…
Same
fairly too?
back on topic Belgium, am a fan of Mustii’s work in general either so, i love the 80s synth vibes in his dark pop genre, his vocals come close to the singer in the band Talk Talk a close second for me Luxembourg, Tali and she seems so nice too btw, well composed and fun entry, the french verses especially save it for me the english though is very cheesy (and lucky for her i love cheesiness in esc songs, reminds me a bit of that Ylva/Linda afrimusic entry for Leota Taylor – Everybody which was one of the south… Read more »
Belgium, most likely. Netherlands I have warmed to, but Luxembourg is a no.
When it comes to the song itself I would say Belgium. When it comes to the chances of doing a great score then I guess it’s objectively The Netherlands even though I really don’t like Europapa. And Mustii is scaring me a bit with his last performance at the London party.
Why are the comments blocked for the Hurricane review article? It’s easily the best-produced song this year. Vocals are fantastic. No way it has a lower average than Georgia or Cyprus, I wish some people would put their political bias aside.
It’s not a good song, it’s a melfest reject with Hebrew lyrics at the end. It’s Israels weakest entry since 2013. And no that’s not bias or anything, it’s the simple truth.
it is not a melfest reject though? otherwise we would’ve had swedish songwriters in the credits
Not every Melfest entry has Swedish songwriters. And you missed the point I was making, the song sounds like something we would all pass on during Melfest. It’s not a good song period.
every song at eurovision needs to have Melfest vibes tbh
but we’ll see next month, and don’t cry when we see our queen Eden is victorious with a enormous landslide win
Who’s “our” I was not consulted into this.
One doesn’t count irrelevant people…. 🙂
On You Tube it has the highest percentage of dislikes of all songs.
In Eurovision, people vote FOR a song (NOT against it) 🙂
Forget the comment section, the bigger concern is that the Eden’s fans are so toxic and manipulative that Wiwi had to hide the names and the scores given. People like you are making this platform unsafe.
we aren’t the ones who are toxic though?
Then why are you silencing pro-Palestine users and call them antisemitic?
Because you are barking at the wrong tree….. The RIGHT one to bark to is H@m Ass… 🙂
…or maybe they should rate songs based on, you know, the song. there’s no world where hurricane is worth a lower score than firefighter or liar lol
easily the best song of this year yes, at least Israel doesn’t go for a joke act
at least israel will make the final, Georgia won’t lol
Georgia will 1000% make the final. What are you talking about?
no they won’t, that irrelevant non-existent country is just a filler for the semi’s every year
we don’t care about that fuego clone entry either
Neither do we all care about the ‘A Million Voices’ clone entry.
nothing similar to that vile song from the p.u.t.i.n. lover
It’s the exact same, an insincere propaganda fest
“Said the music expert”…. Ha ha ha 🙂 (you are a JOKE!!)
Calm down friend, sorry that I don’t like the boring propaganda song.
It has completely lost momentum anyway, people were interested when it first came out but it didn’t have any staying power.
11 May is the Due Date!! Till then it’s only your speculation…. right honey? 🙂 🙂
I love the song
Because we didn’t want people to harass the persons giving out scores and reviews. We don’t even know ourselves internally who made the reviews, just to be sure no-one would be blamed for making the review at all.
Exactly, look at all the harassing comment from Israel fans on a completely unrelated post, can you imagine the comments on the actual post? Hasbara bots are out in force.
And your prescription Today Rory darling is: Magnesium (400-420 mg daily for men and 310-320 mg for women (hope you don’t feel they/them today 🙂 ) and Potassium about 3,000 mg/day…. You are sure manifesting signs of a “Nervous Breakdown”… 🙂 🙂
You seem like the most mentally unstable Hasbara bot on this site, and that’s saying a lot. Sorry that no-one cared about the yawnfest cringe propaganda song after the initial couple of days.
“Nervous Breakdown” signs are getting worse!!! 🙂 . A Physician visit becomes essential due to a severe brains malfunction… Need any help to call assistance 🙂
The last time I checked, not liking a bland propaganda song promoting a country committing g e no cide is not a sign of a mental breakdown. Defending them to the hilt on the other hand seems pretty deranged.
I think the Wiwi team made a good decision with reviewing the israeli entry anonymous.
If you didnt chose reviewing, all big nasty comments would have been flying in.
If the Wiwi members with their names published ranked a low score, all hell would have been released.
Its selfcensoring for that matter.
Which is understandable, but this is also very sad indeed happeing on the platform of ESC24.
Lets hope and pray Peace and Sanity prevail in the end and next year we have some less discours amongst eachother.
So Nice Fizz…. Exactly describes the SPIRIT of THIS song 🙂 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KhPzTLQBJE
Also and moreso the other way around. Thats why many YouTubers are afraid to publish a reaction video , for fear of the pro-pal. boycotter mob.
Some actually ban Israel, but others say they decided not to make a reaction video for fear of the boycotters.
Some later did publish a reaction video and even apologized.
But the more mature esc youtubers reacted to all songs to begin with.
Luxembourg, hands down. The revamp really does work for the song and should qualify at least. Netherlands is just sheer televote bait that will inevitably tank with the juries and underperform. Lastly Belgium, the singular most overhyped song of this years contest. A song that is entirely DOA until the 2 minute mark and is considered a frontrunner due to the last minute of the song which is just the repeating of the songs title in a shouty, supposedly powerful vocal that just comes across as just pure noise. All of the online stans are getting their panties in a… Read more »
I’ll come back to this a month later.
Are people seriously voting for Netherlands? Isn’t April’s Fools’ over?
No doubt: Belgium. That said I like Luxembourg. The Netherlands are just nonsense!
Joost is a powerhouse. I’ve been listening a lot to his back catalogue and watching his live performances – check out the Lowlands video from last year. He reminds me of the acts/bands that I fell in love with in my youth – he feels like a once in a generation artist for Eurovision, that’s how excited I am about him.
“Its now or never”
This noon I came across of this YT poster with a sharp analyse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2H7aRiOXSM
Very clever and underlying the quality of Europapa.