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June 12, 2009

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 10, 2009, covering June 12, 2009.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Relapse by Eminem

    Relapse

    Eminem

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day

    21st Century Breakdown

    Green Day

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Hannah Montana: The Movie by Soundtrack

    Hannah Montana: The Movie

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for The High End Of Low by Marilyn Manson

    The High End Of Low

    Marilyn Manson

    Last week
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    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for The Fame by Lady Gaga

    The Fame

    Lady Gaga

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    31

Historical Events

2009 Iranian presidential election

2009A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.[†]

Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast. There were large irregularities in the results and people were surprised by them, which resulted in protests of millions of Iranians, across every Iranian city and around the world and the emergence of the opposition Iranian Green Movement.

Historical Context for June 12, 2009

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