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April 8, 2010

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 7, 2010, covering April 8, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

    My World 2.0

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Still Standing by Monica

    Still Standing

    Monica

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for NOW 33 by Various Artists

    NOW 33

    Various Artists

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

    Need You Now

    Lady Antebellum

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for My World (EP) by Justin Bieber

    My World (EP)

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    19

Notable Deaths

Antony Flew

2010Antony Flew, English philosopher and academic (born 1923)[†]

Antony Garrard Newton Flew was an English philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, Flew worked on the philosophy of religion. During the course of his career he taught philosophy at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele, and Reading in the United Kingdom, and at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Malcolm McLaren

2010Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter (born 1946)[†]

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English fashion designer and music manager. He was a promoter and a manager for punk rock and new wave bands such as New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow, and was an early commercial architect of the punk subculture.

Teddy Scholten

2010Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (born 1926)[†]

Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten was a Dutch singer and television presenter. She is known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Een beetje", representing the Netherlands.

Historical Events

Barack Obama

2010U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.[†]

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Historical Context for April 8, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]