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September 21, 2019

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 18, 2019, covering September 21, 2019.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone

    Hollywood's Bleeding

    Post Malone

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  2. 2
    Album cover for Lover by Taylor Swift

    Lover

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    3
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    Album cover for K-12 (Soundtrack) by Melanie Martinez

    K-12 (Soundtrack)

    Melanie Martinez

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    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for So Much Fun by Young Thug

    So Much Fun

    Young Thug

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    4
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    Album cover for We Love You Tecca by Lil Tecca

    We Love You Tecca

    Lil Tecca

    Last week
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    4
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    2

Historical Events

2019 Albania earthquake

2019A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of DurrĂ«s. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.[†]

On 26 November 2019 at 03:54 CET (UTC+1), northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras. The earthquake lasted at least 50 seconds and was felt in Albania's capital Tirana, and in places as far away as Bari, Taranto and Belgrade, 370 kilometres (230 mi) northeast of the epicentre. The maximum felt intensity was VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. A total of 51 people were killed in the earthquake, with about 3,000 injured. It was the second earthquake to strike the region within three months. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Albania in more than 40 years, its deadliest earthquake in 99 years and the world's deadliest earthquake in 2019.

Historical Context for September 21, 2019

In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]