It represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 held in Copenhagen, placing second with 238 points.

[1] On 25 November 2013, AVROTROS announced that it had internally selected singers Ilse DeLange and Waylon, under the name The Common Linnets, as its performers for the 59th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

[2] On 4 March 2014, the duo revealed during NPO's talk show De Wereld Draait Door that "Calm After the Storm" would be their Eurovision entry, becoming the Dutch entrant for the contest.

They first performed the song live, in an acoustic version, on 12 March 2014 on De Wereld Draait Door.

[8] On 18 May 2014, it reached number 9 in the UK singles chart, becoming 2014's highest charting Eurovision single,[9] and the fourth non-winning Eurovision song from outside the UK to enter the top ten, the other songs being "Nel blu dipinto di blu" (Italy 1958), "Si" (Italy 1974) and "I See a Star" (Netherlands 1974).