Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country	Netherlands
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	Semi-finals 20 January 2005 27 January 2005 3 February 2005 10 January 2005 Final 13 February 2005
Selected entrant	Glennis Grace
Selected song	"My Impossible Dream"
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (14th)

The Netherlands were present at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, held in Kiev, the Ukraine.

To select their entry, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), the Dutch broadcaster, decided to continue with their format of a televised national selection, consisting of four semi-finals and a final. 24 songs in total competed in these semi-finals, with the top two chosen by televoting and by an expert jury progressed to the final. At the final the winner was decided by 50% televoting and 50% from the different juries, with 30% coming from an expert jury, 10% from an international jury and another 10% coming from the listeners of Dutch radio station Radio 2.

The winner was Glennis Grace with the song "My Impossible Dream".

National final

Draw	Artist	Song	Lyrics (l) / Music (m)	Points	Place
1	Trinity United	"Go"	Gregor Hamilton (m), Jerry Rijstenbil (m & l)	32	6
2	Renée & Dennis	"One Look"	Arjen Langen (m), Renée van Wegberg (l)	23	10
3	Chastity	"Baby It's You"	Kees Rietveld (m & l)	33	5
4	Meänder	"Tusken skimer en ljocht"	Douwe Bouma (m), Wiebe van der Mei (l)	31	7
5	Femme Vocale	"Stay"	Kees Koedooder (m & l)	10	12
6	Barbara Lok	"Tranen in de stilte"	Mark Groot Kormelink (m), Rowin Schumm (l)	25	9
7	Yvette	"Someone Like You"	Robert D. Fisher (m), Bruce Smith (l)	14	11
8	Johnny Rosenberg	"When Forever Ends"	Alan Michael (m & l), Johnny Rosenberg (m & l)	47	3
9	Glennis Grace	"My Impossible Dream"	Robert D. Fisher (m), Bruce Smith (l)	170	1
10	Darre	"De liefde"	Darre van Dijk (m), Lars Boom (l)	28	8
11	Tiffany	"Tomorrow"	Tiffany Maes (m & l), Harry Maes (m)	34	4
12	Airforce	"How Does It Feel?"	Johnny Logan (m & l), Andreas Linze (m & l)	133	2

At Eurovision

Grace performed her song "My Impossible dream" at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, after Re-Union's 20th place in the 2004 contest. One of the favourites to qualify to the final from the bookmakers, Grace only managed to pick up 53 points, placing 14th of 25 and failing to qualify.

The spokesperson who revealed the Netherland's votes for other countries was national final host Nance.^[1]

References

1. ^ Philips, Roel (2005-05-17). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/4409. Retrieved 2009-04-28.