#1 Album on December 31, 2004

The Red Light District
Ludacris

Ludacris reached #1 in the winter of 2004. Almost every track on Red Light features a different producer. Featured producer guests on the album include DMX, Sleepy Brown, Bobby V. and Trick Daddy. Ludacris was born Christopher Bridges in Champaign, Illinois, and grew up in suburban Atlanta.
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#1 Album on December 29, 2005

Curtain Call: The Hits
Eminem

Curtain Call is a greatest hits compilation plus three new songs from rapper Eminem. The album gave Eminem his fourth straight #1 record. With Curtain Call came speculation that Eminem would transition from performer to producer and record label front man.

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#1 Album on December 28, 1968

The Beatles (White Album)
Beatles

The White Album is the band's best-selling album of all and is ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums. Most of the album's songs were conceived during the group's visit to Rishikesh, India in the spring of 1968. The White Album is noted by many as the beginning of the end for the Beatles.
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#1 Album on December 27, 1980

Double Fantasy
John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Fans eagerly welcomed John and Yoko back after a five year recording hiatus. The album produced several hit singles and won the 1982 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Double Fantasy was released three weeks before the murder of John Lennon.
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#1 Album on January 1, 1972

Music
Carole King

Carole King and husband Gerry Goffin wrote over 100 chart hits during the 1960s, including the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", the Chiffons' "One Fine Day", the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday", and Aretha Franklin's "Like a Natural Women".
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#1 Album on December 24, 1983

Thriller
Michael Jackson

Seven singles from Thriller were top ten singles, and the album earned seven Grammy Awards. Jackson wrote four songs for Thriller: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "The Girl Is Mine", "Beat It" and "Billie Jean". Jackson and producer Quincy Jones worked on over 300 songs for the album.

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#1 Album on December 23, 2000

1
Beatles

In all, The Beatles compiled 27 #1 songs in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1970. The album 1 features the remastered edition of all of these songs. The album sold 3.6 million copies in its first week, and reached #1 in over 35 countries. 1 was the best-selling album of the year 2000.

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