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September 30, 1989

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 1989, covering September 30, 1989.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Girl You Know It's True by Milli Vanilli

    Girl You Know It's True

    Milli Vanilli

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hangin' Tough by New Kids on the Block

    Hangin' Tough

    New Kids on the Block

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    58
  3. 3
    Album cover for Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul

    Forever Your Girl

    Paula Abdul

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    63
  4. 4
    Album cover for Steel Wheels by The Rolling Stones

    Steel Wheels

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    12
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Repeat Offender by Richard Marx

    Repeat Offender

    Richard Marx

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20

Notable Births

Jasmine Thomas (basketball)

1989Jasmine Thomas, American basketball player[†]

Jasmine Thomas is an American former professional basketball player. She last played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

André Weis

1989André Weis, German footballer[†]

André Weis is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sportfreunde Siegen.

Notable Deaths

Drew Shafer

1989Drew Shafer, American LGBT rights activist from Missouri (born 1936)[†]

Drew Shafer was an American gay activist from Kansas City, Missouri.

Virgil Thomson

1989Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (born 1896)[†]

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".

Historical Context for September 30, 1989

In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]