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December 26, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 2015, covering December 26, 2015.

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    Album cover for 25 by Adele

    25

    Adele

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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for A Head Full Of Dreams by Coldplay

    A Head Full Of Dreams

    Coldplay

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    Peak
    2
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    1
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    Album cover for Purpose by Justin Bieber

    Purpose

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for That's Christmas To Me by Pentatonix

    That's Christmas To Me

    Pentatonix

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    19
  5. 5
    Album cover for When It's Dark Out by G-Eazy

    When It's Dark Out

    G-Eazy

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    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Deaths

2015Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and academic (born 1922)[†]

Sidney Wilfred Mintz was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food. Mintz received his PhD at Columbia University in 1951 and conducted his primary fieldwork among sugar-cane workers in Puerto Rico. Later expanding his ethnographic research to Haiti and Jamaica, he produced historical and ethnographic studies of slavery and global capitalism, cultural hybridity, Caribbean peasants, and the political economy of food commodities. He taught for two decades at Yale University before helping to found the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, where he remained for the duration of his career. Mintz's history of sugar, Sweetness and Power, is considered one of the most influential publications in cultural anthropology and food studies.

Jim O'Toole

2015Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (born 1937)[†]

James Jerome O'Toole was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox during his 10-year career.

Historical Events

2015 Garland tornado

2015A violent EF-4 tornado hits Garland, Texas, killing nine and injuring almost 500 others.[†]

On the night of December 26, 2015, a violent EF4 tornado struck the Dallas suburbs of Sunnyvale, Garland, and Rowlett, located in Texas. It caused $20–26 million in damages, killed 10 people, making it the deadliest tornado in the United States in 2015, and injured 468 others. This was the third tornado to be rated an EF4 in the United States that year and the fourth such tornado worldwide.

Historical Context for December 26, 2015

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