The song was performed sixteenth on the night, following Israel's Avi Toledano with "Hora" and preceding Ireland's The Duskeys with "Here Today Gone Tomorrow").
Ironically, while "Jij en ik" performed poorly at Eurovision and was forgotten immediately after, "Fantasie eiland", which had finished second in the Dutch national final, was picked up by British record producer Tim Friese-Greene, recorded in English (as "Fantasy Island") by the group Tight Fit, and became a top 5 hit in the UK and also a chart success in Ireland.