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September 23, 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 23, 2019.

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

    Hollywood's Bleeding

    Post Malone

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    1
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    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Lover by Taylor Swift

    Lover

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
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    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for K-12 (Soundtrack) by Melanie Martinez

    K-12 (Soundtrack)

    Melanie Martinez

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    3
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    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for So Much Fun by Young Thug

    So Much Fun

    Young Thug

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    4
  5. 5
    Album cover for We Love You Tecca by Lil Tecca

    We Love You Tecca

    Lil Tecca

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    2

Historical Events

2019 Papua protests

2019Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.[†]

The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arrests of 43 Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag. Many of the protests involved thousands of participants, and some grew from local protests in Surabaya to demanding an independence referendum for the whole region. In several locations, the protests turned into general riots, resulting in the destruction of government buildings in Wamena, Sorong and Jayapura. Clashes between protesters and police resulted in injuries, with over 30 people killed from both the clashes and the rioting.

Historical Context for September 23, 2019

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