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The Best Music of 2005
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2005. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2005, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars | A Beautiful Lie | ☆ |
| 50 Cent | The Massacre | ☆ |
| Animal Collective | Feels | ☆ |
| Antony and The Johnsons | I Am a Bird Now | ☆ |
| Beck | Guero | ☆ |
| Bloc Party | Silent Alarm | ☆ |
| Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | ☆ |
| Carrie Underwood | Some Hearts | ☆ |
| Coheed and Cambria | Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of | ☆ |
| Coldplay | X&Y | ☆ |
| Common | Be | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Stand Up | ☆ |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | ☆ |
| Depeche Mode | Playing the Angel | ☆ |
| Dream Theater | Octavarium | ☆ |
| Dropkick Murphys | The Warrior's Code | ☆ |
| Fall Out Boy | From Under the Cork Tree | ☆ |
| Fiona Apple | Extraordinary Machine | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | In Your Honor | ☆ |
| Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | ☆ |
| Garbage | Bleed Like Me | ☆ |
| George Strait | Somewhere Down In Texas | ☆ |
| Gorillaz | Demon Days | ☆ |
| Jack Johnson | In Between Dreams | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | Angel of Retribution | ☆ |
| Kanye West | Late Registration | ☆ |
| LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | ☆ |
| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter II | ☆ |
| M.I.A. | Arular | ☆ |
| Madonna | Confessions On A Dance Floor | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | The Emancipation of Mimi | ☆ |
| Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough | ☆ |
| Miranda Lambert | Kerosene | ☆ |
| My Morning Jacket | Z | ☆ |
| New Order | Waiting for the Sirens' Call | ☆ |
| New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth | ☆ |
| Oasis | Don't Believe the Truth | ☆ |
| OK Go | Oh No | ☆ |
| Panic! at the Disco | A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | ☆ |
| Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | ☆ |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze | ☆ |
| Robyn | Robyn | ☆ |
| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | Cold Roses | ☆ |
| Shakira | Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 | ☆ |
| Sigur Ros | Takk | ☆ |
| Sleater-Kinney | The Woods | ☆ |
| Spoon | Gimme Fiction | ☆ |
| Sufjan Stevens | Illinois | ☆ |
| System of a Down | Mesmerize | ☆ |
| System of a Down | Hypnotize | ☆ |
| The Chemical Brothers | Push the Button | ☆ |
| The Decemberists | Picaresque | ☆ |
| The Mars Volta | Frances the Mute | ☆ |
| The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | ☆ |
| The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | ☆ |
| Weezer | Make Believe | ☆ |
| Wolfmother | Wolfmother | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars | The Kill (Bury Me) | ☆ |
| Amerie | 1 Thing | ☆ |
| Animal Collective | Grass | ☆ |
| Arctic Monkeys | I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor | ☆ |
| Avenged Sevenfold | Bat Country | ☆ |
| Beck | E-Pro | ☆ |
| Black Eyed Peas | My Humps | ☆ |
| Bloc Party | Banquet | ☆ |
| Bright Eyes | First Day of My Life | ☆ |
| Carrie Underwood | Before He Cheats | ☆ |
| Carrie Underwood | Jesus, Take the Wheel | ☆ |
| Cascada | Everytime We Touch | ☆ |
| Coheed And Cambria | Welcome Home | ☆ |
| Coheed and Cambria | The Suffering | ☆ |
| Coheed and Cambria | Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial) | ☆ |
| Coldplay | Speed of Sound | ☆ |
| Coldplay | Fix You | ☆ |
| Daft Punk | Technologic | ☆ |
| Daniel Powter | Bad Day | ☆ |
| Death Cab for Cutie | I Will Follow You Into The Dark | ☆ |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Soul Meets Body | ☆ |
| Depeche Mode | Precious | ☆ |
| Dolly Parton | Travelin Thru | ☆ |
| Dropkick Murphys | I'm Shipping Up To Boston | ☆ |
| Fall Out Boy | Sugar, We're Goin' Down | ☆ |
| Fall Out Boy | Dance, Dance | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | Best of You | ☆ |
| Franz Ferdinand | Do You Want To | ☆ |
| Garbage | Bleed Like Me | ☆ |
| Girls Aloud | Biology | ☆ |
| Goldfrapp | Ooh La La | ☆ |
| Gorillaz | DARE | ☆ |
| Gorillaz feat. De La Soul | Feel Good Inc. | ☆ |
| Jace Everett | Bad Things (Theme from True Blood) | ☆ |
| Jack Johnson | Better Together | ☆ |
| Jay Ferguson and The Scrantones | The Office Theme | ☆ |
| Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx | Gold Digger | ☆ |
| Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco | Touch The Sky | ☆ |
| KT Tunstall | Suddenly I See | ☆ |
| LCD Soundsystem | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House | ☆ |
| LCD Soundsystem | Disco Infiltrator | ☆ |
| Los Lonely Boys | Diamonds | ☆ |
| Madonna | Hung Up | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | We Belong Together | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Don't Forget About Us | ☆ |
| Mary J. Blige | Be Without You | ☆ |
| Mike Doughty | Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well | ☆ |
| Miranda Lambert | Kerosene | ☆ |
| Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop | Lose Control | ☆ |
| My Chemical Romance | The Ghost Of You | ☆ |
| Ne-Yo | So Sick | ☆ |
| New Order | Jetstream | ☆ |
| Nickelback | Photograph | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Hand That Feeds | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | Every Day Is Exactly the Same | ☆ |
| Panic! At the Disco | I Write Sins Not Tragedies | ☆ |
| Paramore | Emergency | ☆ |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Little Sister | ☆ |
| Rihanna | Pon de Replay | ☆ |
| Rob Thomas | Lonely No More | ☆ |
| Robyn | Be Mine! | ☆ |
| Sleater-Kinney | Modern Girl | ☆ |
| Spoon | I Turn My Camera On | ☆ |
| Sufjan Stevens | Chicago | ☆ |
| Sufjan Stevens | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | ☆ |
| Sufjan Stevens | Come On! Feel the Illinoise! | ☆ |
| Sufjan Stevens | Jacksonville | ☆ |
| System of a Down | B.Y.O.B. | ☆ |
| The All-American Rejects | Move Along | ☆ |
| The All-American Rejects | Dirty Little Secret | ☆ |
| The Bravery | An Honest Mistake | ☆ |
| The Darkness | One Way Ticket | ☆ |
| The Decemberists | Mariner's Revenge Song | ☆ |
| The Fray | How to Save a Life | ☆ |
| The Fray | Over My Head (Cable Car) | ☆ |
| The Pussycat Dolls (featuring Busta Rhymes) | Don't Cha | ☆ |
| The White Stripes | Blue Orchid | ☆ |
| The White Stripes | My Doorbell | ☆ |
| Weezer | Beverly Hills | ☆ |
| Weezer | Perfect Situation | ☆ |
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