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March 25, 2012

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 2012, covering March 25, 2012.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen

    Wrecking Ball

    Bruce Springsteen

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for 21 by Adele

    21

    Adele

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    55
  3. 3
    Album cover for NOW 41 by Various Artists

    NOW 41

    Various Artists

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for Own The Night by Lady Antebellum

    Own The Night

    Lady Antebellum

    Last week
    16
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    26
  5. 5
    Album cover for Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay

    Mylo Xyloto

    Coldplay

    Last week
    29
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20

Notable Deaths

2012Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (born 1921)[†]

Priscilla Langford Buckley was an American journalist and author who was the longtime managing editor of National Review.

2012Hal E. Chester, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)[†]

Hal E. Chester was an American film producer, writer, director, and former juvenile actor.

John Crosfield

2012John Crosfield, English businessman, founded Crosfield Electronics (born 1915)[†]

John Fothergill Crosfield CBE DSc MA was an English inventor and entrepreneur. He was a pioneer in the application of electronics to all aspects of colour printing and the inventor of the acoustic and subsonic mines during the World War II.

Edd Gould

2012Edd Gould, English animator and voice actor, founded Eddsworld (born 1988)[†]

Edward Duncan Ernest "Edd" Gould was a British animator, artist, and voice actor. He created Eddsworld, a media franchise consisting of flash animations and web comics featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and others. After Gould's death in 2012, production of Eddsworld was passed on to Ridgewell who directed a run of further episodes under the title of Eddsworld: Legacy. Following Ridgewell's departure from the series in 2016, it was passed to Hargreaves and Gould's family, returning in 2020 as Eddsworld Beyond.

Antonio Tabucchi

2012Antonio Tabucchi, Italian author and academic (born 1943)[†]

Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.

Historical Context for March 25, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]