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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2005

The year-end countdown for 2005 from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers at number one. The list features 68 different artists; Green Day has the most entries with six songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
2 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
3 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
4 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
5 E-Pro Beck 41 #2
6 Speed of Sound Coldplay 45 #2
7 Beverly Hills Weezer 56 #4
8 Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave 31 #4
9 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
10 Sugar, We're Goin' Down Fall Out Boy 43 #4
11 Precious Depeche Mode 35 #3
12 Little Sister Queens of the Stone Age 35 #2
13 Holiday Green Day 74 #2
14 B.Y.O.B. System of a Down 33 #1
15 Do You Want To Franz Ferdinand 34 #10
16 Give it All Rise Against 5 #16
17 DOA Foo Fighters 43 #9
18 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
19 Remedy Seether 14 #3
20 Helena My Chemical Romance 32 #4
21 Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Jack Johnson 28 #7
22 Happy? Mudvayne 16 #2
23 Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day 44 #2
24 Only Nine Inch Nails 44 #5
25 Evil Interpol 31 #5
26 Right Here Staind 19 #1
27 Fix You Coldplay 47 #13
28 Don't Tread on Me 311 27 #18
29 All These Things That I've Done The Killers 50 #2
30 Stricken Disturbed 17 #3
31 Swing Life Away Rise Against 20 #4
32 Why Do You Love Me Garbage 24 #26
33 Middle of Nowhere Hot Hot Heat 22 #6
34 Scars Papa Roach 29 #10
35 Can't Repeat The Offspring 10 #30
36 Talk Coldplay 37 #7
37 Be Yourself Audioslave 32 #4
38 My Doorbell The White Stripes 42 #7
39 Perfect Situation Weezer 36 #7
40 All Because of You U2 27 #6
41 The Widow The Mars Volta 28 #7
42 Good People Jack Johnson 23 #20
43 Dance, Dance Fall Out Boy 28 #9
44 The Clincher Chevelle 9 #15
45 Dakota Stereophonics 17 #17
46 Numb/Encore Linkin Park/Jay-Z 13 #35
47 Bat Country Avenged Sevenfold 24 #13
48 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
49 An Honest Mistake The Bravery 34 #3
50 So Far Away Crossfade 6 #21
51 The Ghost of You My Chemical Romance 14 #48
52 Photograph Nickelback 13 #9
53 Juicebox The Strokes 32 #12
54 Your Time Has Come Audioslave 12 #44
55 Jesus of Suburbia Green Day 35 #11
56 Goodnight Goodnight Hot Hot Heat 23 #15
57 Smile Like You Mean It The Killers 29 #10
58 Home Three Days Grace 12 #13
59 Move Along The All-American Rejects 10 #7
60 Twisted Transistor Korn 17 #14
61 Blue Orchid The White Stripes 35 #5
62 I Predict a Riot Kaiser Chiefs 31 #5
63 We Are All on Drugs Weezer 21 #28
64 Save Me Shinedown 16 #8
65 Finding Out True Love is Blind Louis XIV 25 #5
66 Under Pressure The Used / My Chemical Romance 2 #66
67 Passive A Perfect Circle 16 #41
68 Time To Waste Alkaline Trio 7 #33
69 Pieces Sum 41 17 #1
70 Pressure Point The Zutons 8 #17
71 A-100 Billy Corgan 2 #71
72 Not Now blink-182 9 #32
73 Club Foot Kasabian 21 #22
74 Colors Crossfade 6 #21
75 Give Me Novacaine Green Day 4 #22
76 Jigga What/Faint Linkin Park/Jay-Z 1 #76
77 The Bucket Kings of Leon 20 #28
78 Jenny Was a Friend of Mine The Killers 7 #65
79 Gangsters and Thugs Transplants 10 #46
80 Guarded Disturbed 4 #31
81 The Denial Twist The White Stripes 27 #1
82 Trees Lovehammers 1 #82
83 All That I've Got The Used 9 #19
84 Radio/Video System of a Down 4 #53
85 Dare Gorillaz 40 #1
86 Stars Switchfoot 12 #34
87 The Suffering Coheed and Cambria 11 #56
88 Girl Beck 36 #17
89 Banquet Bloc Party 34 #14
90 Falling Staind 6 #29
91 Ohio is for Lovers Hawthorne Heights 8 #41
92 Sooner or Later Breaking Benjamin 9 #17
93 Narc Interpol 14 #70
94 Walking Dead Z-Trip 6 #33
95 Save Me Unwritten Law 14 #23
96 Breakdown Jack Johnson 3 #96
97 Riot Radio The Dead 60s 5 #24
98 Give It Up Pepper 8 #44
99 Work Jimmy Eat World 28 #6
100 Cigaro System of a Down 4 #73
101 King Without a Crown Matisyahu 43 #1

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About this countdown

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2005 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Contributed by Kevin Biebel, Dave Ebzky, Tim Wojtowicz. Thank you!

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