The Hardest Thing (Toše Proeski song)
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"The Hardest Thing" is the first posthumous single released by Macedonian
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The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

ian, Toše Proeski
Toše Proeski
Todor Toše Proeski was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and all around Eastern Europe, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene...

, from his English-language album of the same name, The Hardest Thing
The Hardest Thing (album)
The Hardest Thing is the eight and final studio album by Toše Proeski and the first album to be released posthumously. It was released on 25 January 2009, shipping 2.000.000-4.000.000 copies to countries from former Yugoslavia. Thereafter, the album will be released to other countries within Europe...

. The song premiered on the 12th annual Croatian Radio Festival
Croatian Radio Festival
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 on 31 May 2008.

Music video

The music video
Music video
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 for the song was created by Slovenia
Slovenia
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ns; director Jani Černe, Matej Kavčnik and Igor Nardin from seven hours of pre-recorded material. It premiered on MTV Adria
MTV Adria
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 on 1 June 2008 and was subsequently shown on MTV Europe
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 and the Macedonian Radio-Television
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Macedonian Radio Television is the public broadcasting organization of the Republic of Macedonia. It was founded in 1993 by the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia...

 network.

Chart performance

The single peaked at #1 on the MTV Adria Top 20 music chart and at #3 on the Croatian Top 20 Pop-Rock singles chart.

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