The Common Linnets are a Dutch band that formed in 2013. The band members are individual artists Ilse DeLange and Waylon who have known each other for years before the formation of the duo. Their song "Calm After the Storm", which is on their debut album The Common Linnets, reached second place in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and was a hit in Europe. DeLange and Waylon are both from the eastern part of the Netherlands. In Dutch, people from this region are sometimes called heikneuters, referring to the songbird kneu.

In English this bird is called a common linnet. So in fact, DeLange and Waylon are both songbirds from the eastern Netherlands.

The name for the band is an idea from Dutch designer Rens Dekker, who is also responsible for the artwork design of their single and self-titled album.