We Could Be the Same

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"We Could Be the Same"
Single by maNga
Released3 March 2010 (digital download)
20 May 2010 (CD single)
Recorded2010
Genre
Length3:01
LabelSony Music Entertainment
Songwriters
MaNga singles chronology
"Cevapsız Sorular"
(2009) 		"We Could Be the Same"
(2010) 		"Fly to Stay Alive"
(2010)
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry
Country
Artist
Language
English
Composers
Lyricists
Finals performance
Semi-final result
1st
Semi-final points
118
Final result
2nd
Final points
170
Entry chronology
◄ "Düm Tek Tek" (2009)
"Live It Up" (2011) ►
Official performance video
"We Could Be the Same" on YouTube
File:MaNga - We Could be the Same (2nd Semi-final).jpg
maNga in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

"We Could Be the Same"[1] (Turkish: Aynı Olabiliriz) is a song by Turkish band maNga. It represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 held in Oslo, placing second.

There are 3 versions available on official CD single, called as Brussels (Eurovision version), Istanbul (Single version), and Stockholm (Extended version).

Selection

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On 7 January 2010, Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT) announced that it had internally selected maNga as its representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.[2][3] In February 2010, maNga submitted three songs to TRT, all of them in English.[4][5] TRT announced "We Could Be the Same" as the selected song on 3 March.[6][7]

Music video

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The music video for the song was filmed on the Bosphorus Strait opposite the Golden Horn on board an oil tanker. Then unknown top model Zeynep Arı appears in the video.

Charts

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Chart (2010) Peak
position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[8] 29
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 56
Turkey (Türkiye Single Top 100)[10] 1
United Kingdom (UK Singles Chart)[11] 129

See also

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References

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  8. ^ "maNga – We Could Be the Same". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  9. ^ "maNga – We Could Be the Same". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  10. ^ Turkish Singles Chart Archived 1 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ UK Singles Chart
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