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April 3, 2017

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 2017, covering April 3, 2017.

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    Album cover for ÷ (Divide) by Ed Sheeran

    ÷ (Divide)

    Ed Sheeran

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    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hardwired...To Self-Destruct by Metallica

    Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

    Metallica

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    1
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    17
  3. 3
    Album cover for Beauty And The Beast (2017) by Soundtrack

    Beauty And The Beast (2017)

    Soundtrack

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    3
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    1
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    Album cover for 24K Magic by Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    Bruno Mars

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    Peak
    2
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    17
  5. 5
    Album cover for Moana by Soundtrack

    Moana

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    17

Notable Deaths

2017Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (born 1931)[†]

Kishori Amonkar was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Jaipur Gharana, or a community of musicians sharing a distinctive musical style. She is considered to be one of the foremost classical singers in India. She was a performer of the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother, classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar also from the Jaipur Gharana, but she experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career.

Historical Events

2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing

2017A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.[†]

On 3 April 2017, a terrorist attack using an explosive device took place on the Saint Petersburg Metro between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations. Eleven people were initially reported to have died, and five more died later from their injuries, bringing the total to 15.

Historical Context for April 3, 2017

In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]