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December 10, 2019

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2019, covering December 10, 2019.

  1. 1
    Album cover for A Love Letter To You 4 by Trippie Redd

    A Love Letter To You 4

    Trippie Redd

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for 9 by Jason Aldean

    9

    Jason Aldean

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Frozen II by Soundtrack

    Frozen II

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    15
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone

    Hollywood's Bleeding

    Post Malone

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    12
  5. 5
    Album cover for When We All Fall Asleep; Where Do We Go? by Billie Eilish

    When We All Fall Asleep; Where Do We Go?

    Billie Eilish

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    35

Notable Deaths

Philip McKeon

2019Philip McKeon, American actor (born 1964)[†]

Philip Anthony McKeon was an American child actor and radio personality, best known for his role as Tommy Hyatt, the son of the title character on the television sitcom Alice from 1976 to 1985.

Gershon Kingsley

2019Gershon Kingsley, American composer and musician (born 1922)[†]

Gershon Kingsley was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. Kingsley is most famous for his 1969 influential electronic instrumental composition "Popcorn".

Emily Mason (painter)

2019Emily Mason, American painter (born 1932)[†]

Emily Mason was an American abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color and spontaneous gestural mark. Mason was born and raised in New York City, where she lived and worked until her death.

Historical Events

Ostrava hospital attack

2019The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.[†]

The Ostrava hospital attack was a mass shooting that occurred on 10 December 2019 at the Ostrava University Hospital in Ostrava, Czech Republic. A total of seven people were killed in the attack, and two others were injured. The illegally armed perpetrator, 42-year-old Ctirad VitĂĄsek, left the scene before the police arrived and committed suicide as police closed in on him later during the day. The perpetrator had three previous criminal convictions, including one for a violent crime, and a previous hospitalization in a psychiatric ward.

Historical Context for December 10, 2019

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