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Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005

The year-end countdown for 2005 from Radio & Records in United States (national airplay chart) ranks 100 songs, with “The Hand That Feeds” by Nine Inch Nails at number one. The list features 69 different artists; Green Day has the most entries with four songs.

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1 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
2 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
3 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
4 Beverly Hills Weezer 56 #4
5 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
6 Holiday Green Day 74 #2
7 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
8 Cold Crossfade 20 #8
9 Remedy Seether 14 #3
10 Scars Papa Roach 29 #10
11 E-Pro Beck 41 #2
12 B.Y.O.B. System of a Down 33 #1
13 Pain Jimmy Eat World 47 #4
14 Right Here Staind 19 #1
15 Little Sister Queens of the Stone Age 35 #2
16 Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day 44 #2
17 Be Yourself Audioslave 32 #4
18 Sugar, We're Goin' Down Fall Out Boy 43 #4
19 So Cold Breaking Benjamin 26 #1
20 Helena My Chemical Romance 32 #4
21 Only Nine Inch Nails 44 #5
22 Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave 31 #4
23 Happy? Mudvayne 16 #2
24 Speed of Sound Coldplay 45 #2
25 Don't Tread on Me 311 27 #18
26 The Clincher Chevelle 9 #15
27 Home Three Days Grace 12 #13
28 Sooner or Later Breaking Benjamin 9 #17
29 It's Not Okay (I Promise) My Chemical Romance 5 #29
30 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
31 Work Jimmy Eat World 28 #6
32 An Honest Mistake The Bravery 34 #3
33 Getting Away With Murder Papa Roach 21 #11
34 Swing Life Away Rise Against 20 #4
35 All These Things That I've Done The Killers 50 #2
36 Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) Chevelle 29 #4
37 Breaking the Habit Linkin Park 36 #4
38 Let Me Go 3 Doors Down 8 #38
39 Ugly The Exies 5 #30
40 DOA Foo Fighters 43 #9
41 Hysteria Muse 40 #3
42 Save Me Unwritten Law 14 #23
43 Look What You've Done Jet 33 #23
44 Blue Orchid The White Stripes 35 #5
45 Fall to Pieces Velvet Revolver 24 #6
46 Girl Beck 36 #17
47 Photograph Nickelback 13 #9
48 Question! System of a Down 13 #12
49 The Widow The Mars Volta 28 #7
50 Stand Up Trapt 7 #18
51 Can't Repeat The Offspring 10 #30
52 Smile Like You Mean It The Killers 29 #10
53 Pieces Sum 41 17 #1
54 Reach for the Sky Social Distortion 32 #21
55 Vertigo U2 75 #4
56 We Are All on Drugs Weezer 21 #28
57 Save Me Shinedown 16 #8
58 Ocean Breathes Salty Modest Mouse 46 #5
59 Stricken Disturbed 17 #3
60 Attack 30 Seconds to Mars 8 #18
61 My Doorbell The White Stripes 42 #7
62 Passive A Perfect Circle 16 #41
63 Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Jack Johnson 28 #7
64 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
65 Do You Want To Franz Ferdinand 34 #10
66 Bat Country Avenged Sevenfold 24 #13
67 Wasteland 10 Years 14 #7
68 So Far Away Crossfade 6 #21
69 All Because of You U2 27 #6
70 Vermilion Slipknot 8 #6
71 Stars Switchfoot 12 #34
72 When I'm Gone No Address 4 #33
73 Middle of Nowhere Hot Hot Heat 22 #6
74 Burning Bright Shinedown 4 #51
75 Before I Forget Slipknot 9 #19
76 Evil Interpol 31 #5
77 Why Do You Love Me Garbage 24 #26
78 I Don't Know Lostprophets 5 #74
79 Dirty Little Thing Velvet Revolver 5 #26
80 Colors Crossfade 6 #21
81 All That I've Got The Used 9 #19
82 Your Time Has Come Audioslave 12 #44
83 Calling Taproot 5 #19
84 Personal Jesus Marilyn Manson 16 #16
85 Good People Jack Johnson 23 #20
86 No Surprise Theory of a Deadman 8 #15
87 Fix You Coldplay 47 #13
88 Finding Out True Love is Blind Louis XIV 25 #5
89 Twisted Transistor Korn 17 #14
90 I Predict a Riot Kaiser Chiefs 31 #5
91 Ohio is for Lovers Hawthorne Heights 8 #41
92 Take Me Papa Roach 5 #28
93 Lyla Oasis 14 #31
94 Goodnight Goodnight Hot Hot Heat 23 #15
95 Perfect Situation Weezer 36 #7
96 Juicebox The Strokes 32 #12
97 This Fire Franz Ferdinand 30 #21
98 Give it All Rise Against 5 #16
99 Make a Move Incubus 7 #48
100 The Bucket Kings of Leon 20 #28

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Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005 was broadcast by Radio & Records (United States (national airplay chart)). 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.

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