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March 11, 2016

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2016, covering March 11, 2016.

  1. 1
    Album cover for 25 by Adele

    25

    Adele

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    14
  2. 2
    Album cover for ANTI by Rihanna

    ANTI

    Rihanna

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Purpose by Justin Bieber

    Purpose

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Art Of Hustle by Yo Gotti

    The Art Of Hustle

    Yo Gotti

    Last week
    ā€”
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for Traveller by Chris Stapleton

    Traveller

    Chris Stapleton

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    24

Notable Deaths

Iolanda Balaș

2016Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (born 1936)[ā€ ]

Iolanda Balaș was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest high jumpers of the twentieth century.

Doreen Massey (geographer)

2016Doreen Massey, English geographer and political activist (born 1944)[ā€ ]

Doreen Barbara Massey was a British social scientist and geographer. She specialized in Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography, as well as other topics. She was Professor of Geography at the Open University.

Historical Context for March 11, 2016

In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[ā€ ]