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August 2, 2020

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 July 29, 2020, covering August 2, 2020.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Legends Never Die by Juice WRLD

    Legends Never Die

    Juice WRLD

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon by Pop Smoke

    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

    Pop Smoke

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Gaslighter by The Chicks

    Gaslighter

    The Chicks

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Hamilton: An American Musical by Original Broadway Cast

    Hamilton: An American Musical

    Original Broadway Cast

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    252
  5. 5
    Album cover for My Turn by Lil Baby

    My Turn

    Lil Baby

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    21

Notable Deaths

Suzanne Perlman

2020Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (born 1922)[†]

Suzanne Perlman was a Hungarian-Dutch visual artist known for her expressionist portraits and landscape paintings. Her bold use of colour has its origins in her early paintings of the tropical island of Curaçao, where she moved with her husband in 1940 to escape Nazi persecution. Her expressionist style developed under the tutelage of Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka in the late 1950s, with whom she worked in Salzburg in the 1960s. Reviewing a 1993 Exhibition as his Critic’s Choice in The Times, John Russell Taylor, art critic and author, wrote that "(Perlman) captures the particular feel of the place while abating none of her expressionist dash".

Historical Context for August 2, 2020

In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]