"Waka Waka" by Shakira

It barely dented the American charts, but this World Cup anthem (backed up by the South African band Freshlyground) was inescapably the song of the summer across Europe, where it was No. 1 nearly everywhere. Its chorus, fittingly, is lifted straight from a pan-African standard: the Cameroonian group Golden Sounds' mid-'80s hit "Zangalewa."

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