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November 20, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 2006, covering November 20, 2006.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Hannah Montana by Soundtrack

    Hannah Montana

    Soundtrack

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    Peak
    1
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    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties by Barry Manilow

    The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties

    Barry Manilow

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    Peak
    2
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    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Like Father; Like Son by Birdman & Lil Wayne

    Like Father; Like Son

    Birdman & Lil Wayne

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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Once Again by John Legend

    Once Again

    John Legend

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8

Notable Deaths

Robert Altman

2006Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)[†]

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts. Over his career he received several awards including an Academy Honorary Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for seven competitive Academy Awards.

Zoia Ceaușescu

2006Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (born 1950)[†]

Zoia Ceaușescu was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena and sister of Nicu Ceaușescu and Valentin Ceaușescu. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia.

2006Donald Hamilton, American author (born 1916)[†]

Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as The Big Country. He is known best for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: "Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told."

Historical Context for November 20, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]