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August 11, 2015

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2015, covering August 11, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for DS2 by Future

    DS2

    Future

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    1
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    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    39
  3. 3
    Album cover for Black Rose by Tyrese

    Black Rose

    Tyrese

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    Peak
    1
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    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Currents by Tame Impala

    Currents

    Tame Impala

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    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for Angels And Alcohol by Alan Jackson

    Angels And Alcohol

    Alan Jackson

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    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Deaths

2015Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (born 1923)[†]

Serge Collot was a French violist and music educator.

Harald Nielsen

2015Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1941)[†]

Harald Ingemann Nielsen was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season. Harald Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald (Gold-Harald). He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Demark national team and the national league.

Richard Oriani

2015Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (born 1920)[†]

Richard A. Oriani was an El Salvador-born American chemical engineer and metallurgist who was instrumental in the study of the effects of hydrogen in metal. He also made significant contributions to the field of cold fusion.

Historical Context for August 11, 2015

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