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The Hardest Thing (Toše Proeski song)

song performed by Toše Proeski

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ7738884 ↗
Source-derived summary

"The Hardest Thing" is the first posthumous single released by Macedonian pop musician, Toše Proeski, from his English-language album of the same name, The Hardest Thing. The song premiered on the 12th annual Croatian Radio Festival on 31 May 2008.

Music video

The music video for the song was created by Slovenians; director Jani Černe, Matej Kavčnik and Igor Nardin from seven hours of pre-recorded material. It premiered on MTV Adria on 1 June 2008 and was subsequently shown on MTV Europe and the Macedonian Radio-Television network.

Chart performance

The single peaked at number one on the MTV Adria Top 20 music chart and number three on the Croatian Top 20 Pop-Rock singles chart.

Editorial summary

“The Hardest Thing (Toše Proeski song)” enters the record as song performed by Toše Proeski. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hardest, Thing and Toše can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hardest, Thing and Toše.
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“The Hardest Thing (Toše Proeski song)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hardest, Thing and Toše provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7738884. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hardest Thing (Toše Proeski song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.