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May 18, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2015, covering May 18, 2015.

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    Album cover for JEKYLL + HYDE by Zac Brown Band

    JEKYLL + HYDE

    Zac Brown Band

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    Album cover for Stages by Josh Groban

    Stages

    Josh Groban

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    Album cover for Furious 7 by Soundtrack

    Furious 7

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for Suffer In Peace by Tyler Farr

    Suffer In Peace

    Tyler Farr

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

    If You're Reading This It's Too Late

    Drake

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Notable Deaths

Halldór Ásgrímsson

2015Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1947)[†]

Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.

Raymond Gosling

2015Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (born 1926)[†]

Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and Gosling, together with others by Wilkins, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.

2015Jean-François ThĂ©odore, French businessman (born 1946)[†]

Jean-François Théodore was a French businessman, President, Chairman and CEO of Euronext N.V., deputy CEO and Head of Strategy of NYSE Euronext Inc. for Euronext N.V and chairman of its Managing Board.

Historical Events

2015 Colombian landslide

2015At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.[†]

On May 18, 2015 a major landslide hit the town of Salgar, in Antioquia, Colombia. At least 78 people died in the disaster, making it the deadliest single-event disaster in Colombia since the 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake.

Historical Context for May 18, 2015

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