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Nobody Sang the Saddest (And Most Viral) Song of the Year

150 million streams later, even the man behind Papaoutai’s remix thinks you deserved better. The most-shared song of 2026 began as a joke that got out of hand. In December, a reworking of “Papaoutai”—Stromae’s 2013 hit about his father, killed in the Rwandan genocide—appeared on streaming platforms.

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