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October 16, 1967

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 11, 1967, covering October 16, 1967.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry

    Ode To Billie Joe

    Bobbie Gentry

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  3. 3
    Album cover for Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits by Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits

    Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Last week
    15
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Doors by The Doors

    The Doors

    The Doors

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    30
  5. 5
    Album cover for Aretha Arrives by Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Arrives

    Aretha Franklin

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

1967Michael Laffy, Australian footballer[†]

Michael Laffy is a former Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club, and was also a contestant on the second season of the Australian version of The Mole where he was revealed as The Mole.

Davina McCall

1967Davina McCall, English television host and actress[†]

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter. She has presented various television shows for Channel 4, including Streetmate, Big Brother (2000–2010), The Million Pound Drop (2010–2015), Five Minutes to a Fortune (2013), and The Jump (2014–2017), as well as the ITV shows The Biggest Loser (2011–2012), Long Lost Family (2011–present), and This Time Next Year (2016–2019). McCall was a regular co-presenter of the Comic Relief annual telethons from 2005 to 2015. Since 2020, she has been a judge on the ITV singing competition show The Masked Singer.

Historical Context for October 16, 1967

In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]