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March 27, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 2015, covering March 27, 2015.

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    Album cover for Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1 by Soundtrack

    Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1

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    Album cover for Rebel Heart by Madonna

    Rebel Heart

    Madonna

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    Album cover for Spring Break... Checkin' Out by Luke Bryan

    Spring Break... Checkin' Out

    Luke Bryan

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    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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Notable Deaths

2015Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (born 1935)[†]

John Newton "Johnny" Helms was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, and music educator from Columbia, South Carolina. He performed with Chris Potter, Tommy Newsom, Bill Watrous, Red Rodney, Woody Herman, Sam Most, and the Clark Terry Big Band among others. In 1989, he was featured along with Terry and Oscar Peterson as part of Clark Terry and Friends at Town Hall during the JVC Jazz Festival.

T. Sailo

2015T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (born 1922)[†]

Brigadier áčŹhenphunga Sailo, AVSM was an Indian military officer and politician who served as the 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram. He founded the Mizoram People's Conference, one of the major political parties in Mizoram. He was a recipient of Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and Padma Shri for his military service and humanitarian works, and the Mizo Award for his lifetime achievements.

Historical Events

Al-Shabaab (militant group)

2015Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.[†]

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as al-Shabaab, or by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Somalia, is a transnational Salafi Jihadist military and political organization based in Somalia and is also in a more limited capacity active elsewhere in East Africa. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War as an Islamist group, regularly invoking takfir to rationalize its terrorist attacks on Somali civilians and civil servants. Allied to the Militant Sunni Islamist organization al-Qaeda, it has also forged ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Historical Context for March 27, 2015

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