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January 9, 2009

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 7, 2009, covering January 9, 2009.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Fearless by Taylor Swift

    Fearless

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for I Am...Sasha Fierce by Beyonce

    I Am...Sasha Fierce

    Beyonce

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for Circus by Britney Spears

    Circus

    Britney Spears

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for Dark Horse by Nickelback

    Dark Horse

    Nickelback

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6
  5. 5
    Album cover for 808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

    808s & Heartbreak

    Kanye West

    Last week
    11
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5

Notable Deaths

2009Rob Gauntlett, English mountaineer and explorer (born 1987)[†]

Robert Douglas "Rob" Gauntlett was an English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker. In 2006 he became the youngest British climber to reach the summit of Everest.

T. Llew Jones

2009T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (born 1914)[†]

Thomas Llewelyn Jones was a Welsh language author. Over a writing career of more than 50 years, he became one of the most prolific and popular authors of children's books in Welsh. He wrote, and was generally known, as T. Llew Jones.

Tan Chor Jin

2009Tan Chor Jin, Singaporean murderer and triad leader of Ang Soon Tong (born 1966)[†]

Tan Chor Jin, also known by his alias Tony Kia, was a Singaporean gang leader known for fatally shooting 41-year-old Lim Hock Soon, his former friend and nightclub owner, using a semi-automatic Beretta 0.22 calibre pistol on 15 February 2006. Tan, who had underworld affiliations and was a member of Ang Soon Tong since his early years, had also robbed the Lim family of their valuables before he escaped Singapore to Malaysia, where he was arrested ten days later. The media gave him the name "One-eyed Dragon" given that he was blind in the right eye.

Historical Context for January 9, 2009

In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]