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March 16, 2015

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Headlines from March 16, 2015

Many Buyers for Subprime Auto Loan Bundle

By Michael Corkery and Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Despite rising delinquencies and repossessions, Santander Consumer USA had little trouble finding buyers for a $712 million bond deal containing many automobile loans to those with tarnished credit.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 11, 2015, covering March 16, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dark Sky Paradise by Big Sean

    Dark Sky Paradise

    Big Sean

    Last week
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for First Kiss by Kid Rock

    First Kiss

    Kid Rock

    Last week
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
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    3
  4. 4
    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
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    18

Notable Deaths

Jack Haley (basketball)

2015Jack Haley, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)[†]

Jack Kevin Haley was an American professional basketball player.

Don Robertson (songwriter)

2015Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (born 1922)[†]

Donald Irwin Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, in country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. It sold more than one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Historical Context for March 16, 2015

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