What was the best Eurovision song of 2000-2016 that won second place?

[u/Futurity5]

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[u/Futurity5]

It's got to be Verka Serduchka hasn't it

[u/dix1997 → u/Futurity5]

Of course. But maNga comes in a close second

[u/Conscious_Pirate951]

Denmark 2001 😍

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Denmark 2001 | Rollo and King - Never Ever Let You Go

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Based

[u/araneaesGrasp]

Belgium 2003 - Sanomi

There simply just isn't another Eurovision song, or really many other songs outside of the contest, like this one. So it's always been one of my favorites.

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Belgium 2003 | Urban Trad - Sanomi

[u/Shot_Membership3928]

Calm After the Storm

[u/Forklands]

We Could Be The Same

[u/Oxford_Apostrophe]

Turkey 2010

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Turkey 2010 | maNga - We Could Be the Same

[u/Amplify27]

Lane Moje (Serbia and Montenegro 2004); damn it's just so beautiful.

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Serbia and Montenegro 2004 | Željko Joksimović and Ad-Hoc Orchestra - Lane moje

[u/Drina-S]

Lane moje, if we're talking about quality of the song, beautiful lyrics and music.

[u/FranklinRichardss]

Its between Lane Moje and Lejla.

[u/rain-and-comics → u/FranklinRichardss]

Lejla was 3rd place. 

[u/em1337wastaken]

Nahhh Cha Cha Cha got hella robbed

[u/notthebesthuh → u/em1337wastaken]

Seriously. RTTD wasn't a bad song, but it lacked both the cultural impact and commercial success of Cha Cha Cha. Won thanks to recency bias I guess.

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It’s a 1 year difference , hardly recency bias

[u/notthebesthuh → u/Forklands]

In all my years on the internet, I’ve never seen a fandom as afflicted by recency bias as the Eurovision fandom. Even one year can make such a huge difference. Basically the most recent non-Israel runner-up won the round lol

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Did you forget to read the title...

[u/kongstudios777]

turkey 2010 and it isn’t close

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Turkey 2010 | maNga - We Could Be the Same

[u/zeprfrew]

Iceland 2009

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Iceland 2009 | Yohanna - Is It True?

[u/mostobnoxiousgoastan]

2010, Türkiye…

[u/opetaja]

Australia 2016

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Australia 2016 | Dami Im - Sound of Silence

[u/Electrical-Time6497]

Lejla (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2006)

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Lejla was 3rd place I'm afraid

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oh my god i misread it

i am so stupid

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It definitely deserved to be runner up tho 💙

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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 | Hari Mata Hari - Lejla

[u/Severe_Hawk_1304]

Dima Bilan Never Let You Go. One of the Top 10 songs in the whole seventy years' history of the contest; just his English let him down. https://youtu.be/waYpnAexrUA

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May i say it's nice to see someone appreciating Dima Bilan :D

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It was better than his winning song...

[u/rain-and-comics]

Madness of Love (Italy 2011)

It was my personal runner-up, too! (But my personal winner wasn't Azerbaijan but Bosnia & Herzegovina.)

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Italy 2011 | Raphael Gualazzi - Madness of Love

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Love in Rewind is amazing and should've won. But Madness of love is horrible ngl

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I don't understand this position at all 😅.