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March 1, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 2015, covering March 1, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for If You're Reading This It's Too Late by Drake

    If You're Reading This It's Too Late

    Drake

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Soundtrack

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for In The Lonely Hour by Sam Smith

    In The Lonely Hour

    Sam Smith

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    35
  4. 4
    Album cover for x by Ed Sheeran

    x

    Ed Sheeran

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    34
  5. 5
    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16

Notable Deaths

Minnie Miñoso

2015Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (born 1922)[†]

Saturnino Orestes "Minnie" Armas Arrieta Miñoso, nicknamed "the Cuban Comet", was a Cuban professional baseball player. He began his baseball career in the Negro leagues in 1946 and became an All-Star third baseman with the New York Cubans. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB) after the 1948 season as baseball's color line fell. Miñoso went on to become an All-Star left fielder with the Indians and Chicago White Sox. The first Afro-Latino in the major leagues and the first black player in White Sox history, as a 1951 rookie he was one of the first Latin Americans to play in an MLB All-Star Game.

Historical Context for March 1, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]