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September 21, 2015

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 16, 2015, covering September 21, 2015.

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

    Beauty Behind The Madness

    The Weeknd

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

    Badlands

    Halsey

    Last week
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    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

Yoram Gross

2015Yoram Gross, Polish-Australian director and producer (born 1926)[†]

Yoram Jerzy Gross was a Polish-born, Australian film and television producer, animation director, and writer of children's and family entertainment. He founded the animation studio Flying Bark Productions.

2015Ray Warleigh, Australian-English saxophonist and flute player (born 1938)[†]

Raymond Kenneth Warleigh was an Australian alto saxophonist and flautist.

2015Richard Williamson, American footballer and coach (born 1941)[†]

Richard Williamson was an American football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Memphis State University—now known as the University of Memphis—from 1975 to 1980. Williamson served as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1990 to 1991.

Historical Events

AdventHealth

2015Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.[†]

AdventHealth is a Seventh-day Adventist nonprofit organization headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 9 states across the United States. It is the largest not-for-profit Protestant health care provider in the country. In 2021, it was the second largest hospital network in Florida. In February 2023, it was the fifteenth largest in the country. Currently AdventHealth operates 55 hospitals on fifty-three campuses as of May 2025.

Historical Context for September 21, 2015

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