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September 13, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 2015, covering September 13, 2015.

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    Album cover for Immortalized by Disturbed

    Immortalized

    Disturbed

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    Album cover for Kill The Lights by Luke Bryan

    Kill The Lights

    Luke Bryan

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    Album cover for Compton by Dr. Dre

    Compton

    Dr. Dre

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    Album cover for Wild Ones by Kip Moore

    Wild Ones

    Kip Moore

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    Album cover for x by Ed Sheeran

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    Ed Sheeran

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Notable Deaths

2015Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (born 1961)[†]

Welvis Dias Marcelino, better known as Vivinho, was an association football striker, who played in several Brazilian Série A clubs.

Erma Bergmann

2015Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (born 1924)[†]

Erma M. "Bergie" Bergmann was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder who played from 1946 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 155 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. She later served as one of the first commissioned police women in the city of St. Louis.

Brian Close

2015Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (born 1931)[†]

Dennis Brian Close, was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captaining them seven times to six wins and one drawn test. Close also captained Yorkshire to four county championship titles – the main domestic trophy in English cricket. He later went on to captain Somerset, where he is widely credited with developing the county into a hard-playing team, and helping to mould Viv Richards and Ian Botham into the successful players they became.

Moses Malone

2015Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)[†]

Moses Eugene Malone Sr. was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995. A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection. Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, Malone is also seen as one of the most underrated players in NBA history.

Historical Context for September 13, 2015

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