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December 23, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 22, 2010, covering December 23, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Gift by Susan Boyle

    The Gift

    Susan Boyle

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Speak Now by Taylor Swift

    Speak Now

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for No Mercy by T.I.

    No Mercy

    T.I.

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for O Holy Night (EP) by Jackie Evancho

    O Holy Night (EP)

    Jackie Evancho

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    4

Notable Deaths

Fred Hargesheimer

2010Fred Hargesheimer, American soldier and pilot (born 1916)[†]

Major Fred Hargesheimer was a former pilot of the United States Army Air Forces who was shot down during World War II over Papua New Guinea in June 1943. He later became a philanthropist who helped out the village that had hidden him from the Japanese.

K. Karunakaran

2010K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (born 1918)[†]

Kannoth Karunakaran was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the chief minister of Kerala in 1977, from 1981 to March 1982, from May 1982 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1995. He is the founder of the Indian National Congress (INC)-led United Democratic Front (UDF) coalition, which governed the state in the periods of 1982-87, 1991-96, 2001-06 and 2011-16; and currently is the main opposition in Kerala since 2016. He has also served as the Union Minister for Industry from 1995 to 1996 and served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly for four terms- 1967 to 1969, 1978 to 1979, 1980 to 1981 and 1987 to 1991. He also has the distinction of being one of the longest serving Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Leaders in the country, holding that post from 1967 to 1995.

Historical Context for December 23, 2010

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