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December 26, 2017

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

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 20, 2017, covering December 26, 2017.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Songs Of Experience by U2

    Songs Of Experience

    U2

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for From A Room: Volume 2 by Chris Stapleton

    From A Room: Volume 2

    Chris Stapleton

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for reputation by Taylor Swift

    reputation

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for ÷ (Divide) by Ed Sheeran

    ÷ (Divide)

    Ed Sheeran

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    40
  5. 5
    Album cover for A Pentatonix Christmas by Pentatonix

    A Pentatonix Christmas

    Pentatonix

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    19

Notable Deaths

Irv Weinstein

2017Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and television news anchor (born 1930)[†]

Irwin B. "Irv" Weinstein was an American local television news anchor and occasional radio actor. He hosted WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast area. Weinstein was known for his powerful delivery and sense of humor. Weinstein, weatherman Tom Jolls and sports anchor Rick Azar fronted the broadcast from 1965 until Azar's retirement in 1989. Weinstein was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998 and the N.Y. State Broadcasters Association in 2006.

Historical Context for December 26, 2017

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