List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2005

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2005, 34 albums advanced to the peak position in 53 issues of the magazine.

Mariah Carey's comeback album, The Emancipation of Mimi, sold the most copies in the United States, accumulating 4.866 million units in sale by the end of 2005. She became the first female recording artist to have topped the year-end chart since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 1996. The Emancipation of Mimi is Carey's first chart topper since she reached the summit of the Billboard 200 in 1997 with Butterfly. 50 Cent's The Massacre sold a total of 4.834 million units, only 32,000 copies behind The Emancipation of Mimi, becoming the second best-selling album of the year.

The Massacre spent six consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200, making it the longest-running number-one album of 2005. The album sold 1.14 million copies in its debut week, the biggest first-week figure in 2005. Coldplay's X&Y stayed at the top for three straight weeks; it gave the band their first number-one album. Coldplay is the only non-American act to have topped the Billboard 200 for an extended chart run since Shania Twain had a five-week reign with Up!, and the only British act with the longest stay at number one since The Beatles in 2000–2001.

2Pac's Loyal to the Game reached the top spot in the first issue of the chart, making it his third posthumous number-one album and his fifth chart topper. Another posthumous chart topper was Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company, which was released three months after his death. The album won Album of the Year at the 2005 Grammy Awards, spurring massive increase of sales. This gave Charles his first number-one album in more than four decades of his career.

Chart history

+KeyIndicates best performing album of 2005

Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales Loyal to the Game2PacAmaru330,000 EncoreEminemShady430,000 198,000 American IdiotGreen DayReprise100,000 100,000 The DocumentaryThe GameAftermath587,000 Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)BNA311,000 The DocumentaryThe GameAftermath198,000 Seventeen Days3 Doors DownRepublic231,000 Genius Loves CompanyConcord224,000 OOmarionSony Urban Music/Epic182,000 The Massacre 50 CentShady/Aftermath1,140,000 771,000 364,000 329,000 211,000 165,000 The Emancipation of MimiIsland404,000 ...Something to BeMelisma/Atlantic252,000 Devils & DustColumbia222,000 With TeethNine Inch NailsNothing/Interscope272,000 Stand UpRCA465,000 MezmerizeSystem of a DownAmerican/Columbia453,000 Out of ExileAudioslaveEpic263,000 The Emancipation of MimiMariah CareyIsland172,000 X&YColdplayCapitol737,000 323,000 181,000 Somewhere Down in TexasMCA Nashville245,000 TP-3: ReloadedJive491,000 139,000 Now 19Various ArtistsEMI Group/Universal/Sony BMG/Zomba436,000 236,000 FirefliesWarner Bros. Nashville329,000 Chapter VStaindFlip/Atlantic185,000 Most WantedHollywood208,000 101,000 Late RegistrationRoc-A-Fella/Def Jam860,000 283,000 The Peoples ChampSwishahouse/Atlantic176,000 Ten Thousand FistsDisturbedReprise239,000 All Jacked UpEpic Nashville264,000 All the Right ReasonsNickelbackRoadrunner317,000 UnpluggedJ196,000 I Am MeGeffen220,000 #1'sDestiny's ChildColumbia113,000 Now 20Various ArtistsSony BMG/Zomba/EMI378,000 The Road and the RadioKenny ChesneyBNA470,000 Confessions on a Dance FloorMadonnaWarner Bros.350,000 HypnotizeSystem of a DownAmerican/Columbia320,000 Now 20Various ArtistsSony BMG/Zomba/EMI158,000 Curtain Call: The HitsEminemShady/Aftermath/Interscope441,000 323,700

See also 2005 in music List of number-one albums (United States)

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