List of UK top-ten singles in 2005

2000s in music in the UK
Events
Charts
Tony Christie had the best-selling single of the year with "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo", re-released in aid of Comic Relief. The music video featured the comedian Peter Kay (who was credited on the release) and the single topped the chart for seven weeks. When it was initially released in 1971, the song peaked at number 18 in the UK.
Elvis Presley had seventeen singles in the UK top 10 this year, setting a record, which still stands to this day, as the artist with the most UK top 10 entries in a single year. These entries were re-issues of all his UK number-one singles. The re-released singles were issued to mark what would have been Presley's 70th birthday. Three of these topped the chart: "Jailhouse Rock", "One Night"/"I Got Stung" (which became the 1000th number-one in the UK Singles Chart) and "It's Now or Never".
Crazy Frog spent four weeks at number-one with its cover version of "Axel F", which became the third biggest-selling single of 2005. Crazy Frog scored a second top 10 hit later in the year with "Jingle Bells/U Can't Touch This", which peaked at number five in December.
James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" was the fourth best selling single of this year, spending 13 consecutive weeks in the top 10, with five straight weeks at number-one.

The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom.[1] Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical singles and digital downloads, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart.[2][3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2005, as well as singles which peaked in 2004 and 2006 but were in the top 10 in 2005. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).

Two hundred and twenty-eight singles were in the top ten in 2005. Ten singles from 2004 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while "When I'm Gone" by Eminem was released in 2005 but did not reach its peak until 2006.[4] Fifty-two artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 2005. Akon, Arctic Monkeys, James Blunt, Rihanna, Kaiser Chiefs and The Pussycat Dolls were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 2005.

To mark Elvis Presley's 70th birthday, all eighteen of his UK number-one singles were re-released. The first single, "All Shook Up", came with a collectors' box that made it ineligible to chart again; each of the other seventeen reissues hit the UK top 5.[5] Two of the three re-released singles which topped the chart - "One Night"/"I Got Stung" and "It's Now or Never" - were also the first and second singles in chart history to spend their only week in the top 10 at number-one before dropping out.

The 2004 Christmas number-one, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid 20, remained at number-one for the first week of 2005.[6] The first new number-one single of the year was "Against All Odds" by 2004 X Factor winner Steve Brookstein.[7] Overall, twenty-eight different singles peaked at number-one in 2005, with Elvis Presley (3) having the most singles hit that position.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ "The Official UK Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 14. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.
  3. ^ "New singles formats to save the charts". BBC News. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Shayne tops chart for third week". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 8 January 2006. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  5. ^ "New Presley Reissue Campaign Aimed at U.K." Billboard. 3 August 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Band Aid 20 holds on to top slot". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 26 December 2004. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  7. ^ "X Factor star ends Band Aid reign". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 January 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Elvis regains top chart position". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 9 January 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  9. ^ "Elvis claims 1,000th number one". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 16 January 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Elvis returns to No 1 in charts". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 31 January 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2017.