List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2005

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day was the longest-running number-one single of 2005, spending seven weeks atop the chart. The band also reached number one with "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Holiday".

The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams.[1] In 2005, there were 23 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by American pop punk band Green Day, which spent the first two weeks of the year atop the chart at the end of a five-week run beginning in December 2004.[2][3] The final number-one single of the year was "One Way Ticket", the lead single from One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back, the second album by The Darkness, which spent the last six weeks of the 2005 (and the first four of 2005) at number one.[4]

The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2005 was "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day, which spent seven weeks at number one. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" also spent seven weeks at number one, while "Holiday" was number one for four weeks. "Somewhere Else" by Razorlight spent five weeks and "One Way Ticket" by The Darkness spent six weeks at number one, Iron Maiden spent four weeks at number one with "The Number of the Beast" and "The Trooper", and Foo Fighters spent three weeks at number one with "Best of You" (two weeks) and "DOA" (one week). Nine Black Alps topped the chart for three weeks "Unsatisfied" (One Week) and "Just Friends" (Two Weeks), Rammstein topped the chart with "Keine Lust" and "Benzin", Nine Inch Nails topped the chart with "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only", My Chemical Romance topped the chart with "Helena" and "The Ghost of You" and songs by HIM, and Nickelback all spent two weeks atop the chart.

Chart history

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Razorlight's "Somewhere Else" spent six weeks at number one.
The Darkness spent the last six weeks of 2005 (and the first four of 2006) at number one with "One Way Ticket".
Iron Maiden topped the chart with two songs in 2005, each for two weeks: "The Number of the Beast" and "The Trooper".
Foo Fighters spent three weeks at number one in 2005 with "Best of You" (two weeks) and "DOA" (one week).
Rammstein topped the chart in 2005 with "Keine Lust" and "Benzin".
Nine Inch Nails reached number one with "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only".
Nine Black Alps reached number one with "Unsatisfied" and "Just Friends".


Issue date Single Artist(s) Record label(s) Ref.
1 January "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Green Day Reprise [2]
8 January [3]
15 January "The Number of the Beast" Iron Maiden EMI [5]
22 January [6]
29 January "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Green Day Reprise [7]
5 February [8]
12 February "I Just Wanna Live" Good Charlotte Epic [9]
19 February "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Green Day Reprise [10]
26 February [11]
5 March [12]
12 March "Keine Lust" Rammstein Universal [13]
19 March "On a Noose" Towers of London TVT [14]
26 March "Holiday" Green Day Reprise [15]
2 April [16]
9 April [17]
16 April [18]
23 April "Somewhere Else" Razorlight Vertigo [19]
30 April "The Hand That Feeds" Nine Inch Nails Island [20]
7 May "Somewhere Else" Razorlight Vertigo [21]
14 May [22]
21 May [23]
28 May [24]
4 June "Helena" My Chemical Romance Reprise [25]
11 June "Best of You" Foo Fighters RCA [26]
18 June [27]
25 June "Wake Me Up When September Ends" Green Day Reprise [28]
2 July [29]
9 July [30]
16 July [31]
23 July [32]
30 July [33]
6 August "Only" Nine Inch Nails Island [34]
13 August "Wake Me Up When September Ends" Green Day Reprise [35]
20 August "Unsatisfied" Nine Black Alps Island [36]
27 August "The Trooper" Iron Maiden EMI [37]
3 September [38]
10 September "The Ghost of You" My Chemical Romance Reprise [39]
17 September "DOA" Foo Fighters RCA [40]
24 September "Wings of a Butterfly" HIM Sire [41]
1 October [42]
8 October "Photograph" Nickelback Roadrunner [43]
15 October [44]
22 October "So You Know" InMe Pandora's Box [45]
29 October "Benzin" Rammstein Universal [46]
5 November "Almost" Bowling for Soup Jive [47]
12 November "Just Friends" Nine Black Alps Island [48]
19 November [49]
26 November "One Way Ticket" The Darkness Atlantic [50]
3 December [51]
10 December [52]
17 December [53]
24 December [54]
31 December [4]

See also

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References

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