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

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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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