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September 13, 2008

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2008, covering September 13, 2008.

  1. 1
    Album cover for All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot

    All Hope Is Gone

    Slipknot

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for LAX by The Game

    LAX

    The Game

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock

    Rock N Roll Jesus

    Kid Rock

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    47
  4. 4
    Album cover for A Little Bit Longer by Jonas Brothers

    A Little Bit Longer

    Jonas Brothers

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Mamma Mia! by Soundtrack

    Mamma Mia!

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8

Historical Events

Delhi

2008Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.[†]

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. Delhi became a union territory on 1 November 1956 and the NCT in 1995. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million.

Historical Context for September 13, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]