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March 12, 2009

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 11, 2009, covering March 12, 2009.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Fearless by Taylor Swift

    Fearless

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16
  2. 2
    Album cover for Wrath by Lamb of God

    Wrath

    Lamb of God

    Last week
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for The 3D Concert Experience (Soundtrack) by Jonas Brothers

    The 3D Concert Experience (Soundtrack)

    Jonas Brothers

    Last week
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Slumdog Millionaire by Soundtrack

    Slumdog Millionaire

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    22
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    10
  5. 5
    Album cover for Dark Horse by Nickelback

    Dark Horse

    Nickelback

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    15

Historical Events

Bernie Madoff

2009Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.[†]

Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.

Historical Context for March 12, 2009

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