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May 30, 2011

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 25, 2011, covering May 30, 2011.

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    Album cover for 21 by Adele

    21

    Adele

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    Peak
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    12
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    Album cover for NOW 38 by Various Artists

    NOW 38

    Various Artists

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    2
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    Album cover for Turtleneck & Chain by The Lonely Island

    Turtleneck & Chain

    The Lonely Island

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    Album cover for lovestrong. by Christina Perri

    lovestrong.

    Christina Perri

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    Album cover for Goblin by Tyler| the Creator

    Goblin

    Tyler| the Creator

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Notable Deaths

2011Isikia Savua, Fijian police officer and diplomat (born 1952)[†]

Isikia Rabici Savua was a senior Fijian diplomat who had a distinguished career in the military and police forces before taking up his last post as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations on 4 March 2003.

Saleem Shahzad

2011Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (born 1970)[†]

Syed Saleem Shahzad was a Pakistani investigative journalist who wrote widely for leading European and Asian media. He served as the Pakistan Bureau Chief of Asia Times Online and Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI).

Marek Siemek

2011Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (born 1942)[†]

Marek Jan Siemek was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy. He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy.

Clarice Taylor

2011Clarice Taylor, American actress (born 1917)[†]

Clarice Taylor was an American stage, film and television actress. She is best known for playing Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son; Anna Huxtable, the mother of Cliff Huxtable, on The Cosby Show; and Mrs. Brooks in Five on the Black Hand Side (1973).

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

2011Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)[†]

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman, and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Historical Context for May 30, 2011

In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]