Anouk reached the 9th place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden on 18 May 2013 with her song Birds.
The result was broadly seen in her home country as a major achievement, since it was the best result for the Netherlands in 14 years and the first time in 9 years that any Dutch artist even made it to the finals.
Her 9th album wil be relaesed November 21st.