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October 23, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 20, 2010, covering October 23, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Bullets In The Gun by Toby Keith

    Bullets In The Gun

    Toby Keith

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hemingway's Whiskey by Kenny Chesney

    Hemingway's Whiskey

    Kenny Chesney

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  3. 3
    Album cover for Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars

    Doo-Wops & Hooligans

    Bruno Mars

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Recovery by Eminem

    Recovery

    Eminem

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16
  5. 5
    Album cover for You Get What You Give by Zac Brown Band

    You Get What You Give

    Zac Brown Band

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3

Notable Deaths

2010Fran Crippen, American swimmer (born 1984)[†]

Francis Crippen was an American long-distance swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006. In international competitions, Crippen won seven medals, five of which were in the open water and two in the pool. Crippen died during an open water swimming race in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 at the age of 26.

2010Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (born 1923)[†]

Stanley K. Tanger was an American businessman, philanthropist and pioneer of the outlet shopping industry. Tanger founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, which began with a single location in Burlington, North Carolina in 1981, and now has 45 shopping centers throughout the United States and Canada as of April 2015. In doing so, he invented "the very concept of the outlet mall", according to the News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina. Tanger Outlets grossed $270 million in 2009.

Historical Context for October 23, 2010

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