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September 17, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 16, 2015, covering September 17, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd

    Beauty Behind The Madness

    The Weeknd

    Last week
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Badlands by Halsey

    Badlands

    Halsey

    Last week
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Kill The Lights by Luke Bryan

    Kill The Lights

    Luke Bryan

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

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    45
  5. 5
    Album cover for Compton by Dr. Dre

    Compton

    Dr. Dre

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    4

Notable Deaths

2015Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (born 1944)[†]

Ingrīda Andriņa was a Latvian stage and film actress.

Dettmar Cramer

2015Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (born 1925)[†]

Dettmar Cramer was a German football manager who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. He was born in Dortmund. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and was a member of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class. He coached the Egypt national football team and also briefly coached the United States national team.

Milo Hamilton

2015Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (born 1927)[†]

Leland Milo Hamilton was an American sportscaster, best known for calling play-by-play for seven different Major League Baseball teams from 1953 to 2012. He received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.

Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)

2015Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (born 1937)[†]

Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.

David Willcocks

2015David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1919)[†]

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, which he directed from 1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols were published in the series of books Carols for Choirs which he edited along with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter. He was also director of the Royal College of Music in London.

Historical Context for September 17, 2015

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