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. 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. 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.
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
Issue dateSingleArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.1 January"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"Green DayReprise8 January15 January"The Number of the Beast"Iron MaidenEMI22 January29 January"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"Green DayReprise5 February12 February"I Just Wanna Live"Good CharlotteEpic19 February"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"Green DayReprise26 February5 March12 March"Keine Lust"RammsteinUniversal19 March"On a Noose"Towers of LondonTVT26 March"Holiday"Green DayReprise2 April9 April16 April23 April"Somewhere Else"RazorlightVertigo30 April"The Hand That Feeds"Nine Inch NailsIsland7 May"Somewhere Else"RazorlightVertigo14 May21 May28 May4 June"Helena" My Chemical Romance Reprise11 June"Best of You"Foo FightersRCA18 June25 June"Wake Me Up When September Ends"Green DayReprise2 July9 July16 July23 July30 July6 August"Only"Nine Inch NailsIsland13 August"Wake Me Up When September Ends"Green DayReprise20 August"Unsatisfied"Nine Black AlpsIsland27 August"The Trooper"Iron MaidenEMI3 September10 September"The Ghost of You"My Chemical RomanceReprise17 September"DOA"Foo FightersRCA24 September"Wings of a Butterfly"HIMSire1 October8 October"Photograph"NickelbackRoadrunner15 October22 October"So You Know"InMePandora's Box29 October"Benzin"RammsteinUniversal5 November"Almost"Bowling for SoupJive12 November"Just Friends"Nine Black AlpsIsland19 November26 November"One Way Ticket"The DarknessAtlantic3 December10 December17 December24 December31 December
See also 2005 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2005
References
External links Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1