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July 23, 2017

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 2017, covering July 23, 2017.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Grateful by DJ Khaled

    Grateful

    DJ Khaled

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 by Calvin Harris

    Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1

    Calvin Harris

    Last week
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

    DAMN.

    Kendrick Lamar

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    12
  4. 4
    Album cover for Evolve by Imagine Dragons

    Evolve

    Imagine Dragons

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for ÷ (Divide) by Ed Sheeran

    ÷ (Divide)

    Ed Sheeran

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    18

Notable Deaths

John Kundla

2017John Kundla, American basketball coach (born 1916)[†]

John Albert Kundla was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its predecessors, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL), serving 12 seasons, from 1947 to 1959. His teams won six league championships, one in the NBL, one in the BAA, and four in the NBA. Kundla was the head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul for one season in 1946–47, and at the University of Minnesota for ten seasons, from 1959 to 1968. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Historical Context for July 23, 2017

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