2005 in British music

This is a summary of the current year in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts.

Summary

The first number one of the year, displacing Band Aid 20's Do They Know It's Christmas?, was Steve Brookstein with his cover version of Phil Collins' Against All Odds.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of his birth, one of Elvis Presley's eighteen Number One singles was released each week from January until May. The first, Jailhouse Rock, entered at Number One in early January. The second, One Night, was the 1000th number one single in the UK charts, and also set the record for being the lowest-selling weekly sale ever to reach the top spot. The run did not extend to a third week with A Fool Such As I only making number two, having been beaten by the debut release by Ciara. Elvis returned to the top spot in the fourth week, with It's Now Or Never.

The Scissor Sisters topped the album chart in the second week of 2005 having had a very successful 2004. Their eponymous album Scissor Sisters was released on 9 February 2004 and went on to sell 1,594,000 copies by the end of that year.

On January 14 pop band Busted announced that they were to split. The band had released two albums and topped the singles chart four times.

The Chemical Brothers topped the album and download charts with Push the Button and Galvanize, respectively, with the single reaching the top ten. Keane returned to the top of the chart in the second week of February due to their success at the Brit Awards, while on the 6 February, Eminem got his sixth number one with Like Toy Soldiers, making him the most successful chart rap artist in the UK singles chart.

On 6 March, Stereophonics earned their first number one single with Dakota, the first single to be taken from their new album, Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, which topped the album chart two weeks later.

The Comic Relief single of the year, the double A-side of All About You and You've Got A Friend by McFly, reached the top of the chart on 13 March. It was knocked off by a second Comic Relief single – a rerelease of Tony Christie's Is This the Way to Amarillo with the associated video seeing comedian Peter Kay mime alongside various guest stars. Tony Christie topped the singles, album and download chart. The song spent seven weeks at the top of the singles charts, the longest stay at number 1 since Cher's "Believe" in 1998.

On 17 July 2005 James Blunt's single You're Beautiful went to number one six weeks after its release, having been in the top 15 for all the previous weeks. His album Back To Bedlam had hit the top spot the week previous.

Pussycat Dolls reached number 1 on 11 September, becoming the first American girl band to top the charts since Destiny's Child in 2001.

Chart calculation change

On 17 April, the first combined physical and downloaded singles sales chart was published, in an attempt by the record industry to boost flagging singles sales. It has been suggested that this will make a significant impact on the demographics of the people that buy the music – 96% of people downloading from the Internet are male [1].

Charts

Singles

Issue Date	Song Title	Artist	Sales
2 January	Against All Odds	Steve Brookstein	26,400
9 January	Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley	21,262
16 January	One Night/I Got Stung	Elvis Presley	20,463
23 January	Goodies	Ciara featuring Petey Pablo	21,128
30 January	It's Now or Never	Elvis Presley	21,887
6 February	Like Toy Soldiers	Eminem	29,496
13 February	Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own	U2	30,359
20 February	Get Right	Jennifer Lopez	49,928
27 February	Over and Over	Nelly featuring Tim McGraw	41,528
6 March	Dakota	Stereophonics	40,378
13 March	All About You/You've Got A Friend	McFly	158,000
20 March	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	266,844
27 March	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	261,031
3 April	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	130,700
10 April	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	99,636
17 April	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	69,000
24 April	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	57,810
1 May	Is This the Way to Amarillo	Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay	47,945
8 May	Lonely	Akon	87,695
15 May	Lonely	Akon	59,772
22 May	Lyla	Oasis	75,124
29 May	Axel F	Crazy Frog	149,466
5 June	Axel F	Crazy Frog	120,246
12 June	Axel F	Crazy Frog	72,281
19 June	Axel F	Crazy Frog	52,084
26 June	Ghetto Gospel	2Pac featuring Elton John	56,016
3 July	Ghetto Gospel	2Pac featuring Elton John	54,820
10 July	Ghetto Gospel	2Pac featuring Elton John	39,627
17 July	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	38,951
24 July	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	46,443
31 July	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	51,671
7 August	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	44,875
14 August	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	35,671
21 August	I'll Be OK	McFly	45,814
28 August	The Importance Of Being Idle	Oasis	47,235
4 September	DARE	Gorillaz featuring Shaun Ryder	26,661
11 September	Don't Cha	Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes	85,021
18 September	Don't Cha	Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes	65,120
25 September	Don't Cha	Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes	44,897
2 October	Push The Button	Sugababes	78,282
9 October	Push The Button	Sugababes	Albums Issue Date Album Title Artist Sales 2 January American Idiot Green Day 43,000 9 January Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters 38,174 16 January Hot Fuss The Killers 39,947 23 January Hot Fuss The Killers 49,433 30 January Push the Button (new release) The Chemical Brothers 58,364 6 February Tourist (new release) Athlete 83,370 13 February Hopes and Fears Keane 75,039 20 February Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters 75,213 27 February Some Cities (new release) Doves 59,819 6 March G4 (new release) G4 244,671 13 March The Massacre (new release) 50 Cent 95,000 20 March Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (new release) Stereophonics 106,837 27 March Definitive Collection Tony Christie 82,686 3 April Definitive Collection Tony Christie 49,416 10 April Counting Down The Days (new release) Natalie Imbruglia 41,290 17 April The Singles Basement Jaxx 38,457 24 April Trouble Akon 39,954 1 May Devils and Dust (new release) Bruce Springsteen 62,311 8 May Trouble Akon 38,003 15 May Heart & Soul (new release) Steve Brookstein 50,898 22 May Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits (new release) Faithless 70,282 29 May Demon Days (new release) Gorillaz 105,320 5 June Don't Believe the Truth (new release) Oasis 237,865 12 June X&Y (new release) Coldplay 464,471 19 June X&Y Coldplay 238,892 26 June X&Y Coldplay 100,198 3 July X&Y Coldplay 103,598 10 July Back To Bedlam James Blunt 97,694 17 July Back To Bedlam James Blunt 109,735 24 July Back to Bedlam James Blunt 110,932 31 July Back to Bedlam James Blunt 122,827 7 August Back to Bedlam James Blunt 100,813 14 August Back to Bedlam James Blunt 84,762 21 August Back to Bedlam James Blunt 70,000 28 August Back to Bedlam James Blunt 66,231 4 September Wonderland (new release) McFly 71,517 11 September Back to Bedlam James Blunt 43,477 18 September Life in Slow Motion (new release) David Gray 114,258 25 September Life in Slow Motion David Gray 71,599 2 October Piece by Piece (new release) Katie Melua 9 October You Could Have It So Much Better (new release) Franz Ferdinand Downloads Issue Date Track Title Artist 5 January Vertigo U2 12 January What You Waiting For? Gwen Stefani 19 January What You Waiting For? Gwen Stefani 26 January Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Green Day 2 February Galvanize The Chemical Brothers 9 February Galvanize The Chemical Brothers 16 February Galvanize The Chemical Brothers 23 February Galvanize The Chemical Brothers 2 March Dakota Stereophonics 9 March Dakota Stereophonics 16 March All About You McFly 23 March All About You McFly 30 March Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay 6 April Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay 13 April Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay 20 April Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay 27 April Speed of Sound Coldplay 4 May Speed of Sound Coldplay 11 May Speed of Sound Coldplay 18 May Don't Phunk With My Heart Black Eyed Peas 25 May Don't Phunk With My Heart Black Eyed Peas 1 June Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 8 June Feel Good Inc Gorillaz 15 June Feel Good Inc Gorillaz 22 June You're Beautiful James Blunt 29 June You're Beautiful James Blunt 6 July You're Beautiful James Blunt 13 July Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Paul McCartney & U2 20 July Electricity Elton John 27 July You're Beautiful James Blunt 3 August You're Beautiful James Blunt 10 August Bad Day Daniel Powter 17 August Bad Day Daniel Powter 24 August Bad Day Daniel Powter 31 August Bad Day Daniel Powter 7 September Bad Day Daniel Powter 14 September Don't Cha Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes 21 September Don't Cha Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes 28 September Don't Cha Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes 5 October Push The Button Sugababes Music awards Mercury Music Prize Antony and the Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now Popjustice £20 Music Prize "Wake Me Up" – Girls Aloud, from the album What Will The Neighbours Say? References Sherwin, Adam. 8 April 2005. "Move over, girls. The boys are back in town to buy up the charts". Accessed 10 April 2005.