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December 15, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 2010, covering December 15, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Gift by Susan Boyle

    The Gift

    Susan Boyle

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  2. 2
    Album cover for Speak Now by Taylor Swift

    Speak Now

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for O Holy Night (EP) by Jackie Evancho

    O Holy Night (EP)

    Jackie Evancho

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Glee: The Music; Season Two: Volume 4 by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; Season Two: Volume 4

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Deaths

Blake Edwards

2010Blake Edwards, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)[†]

Blake Edwards was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Bob Feller

2010Bob Feller, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)[†]

Robert William Andrew Feller, nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians between 1936 and 1956. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average (ERA). His career 2,581 strikeouts were third all-time upon his retirement.

2010Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (born 1940)[†]

Eugene Victor Wolfenstein was an American social theorist, practicing psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles.

Historical Events

2010A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.[†]

A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as a result of who they are, what they believe in or say, or because of armed conflict, violence or serious public disorder." Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the UNHCR if they formally make a claim for asylum.

Historical Context for December 15, 2010

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