Gold Digger
2005 · From Late Registration
Foxx sang the Ray Charles hook fresh from his Oscar for playing him, and it held number one ten weeks.
★ 7.7
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Showing 38 songs from 2005
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
2005
Cee-Lo cut the vocal in one take over a 1968 spaghetti western sample. Nine weeks at UK number one.
★ 7.6
Feel Good Inc.Gorillaz
Feel Good Inc.
Gorillaz and De La Soul
2005
Maseo's cackle, Danger Mouse at the desk, and a song Albarn dreamed up driving past California windmills toward Coachella.
★ 7.6
Wake UpArcade Fire
Wake Up
2005 · From Funeral
A wordless chorus half of indie rock then copied, and Bowie sang it onstage with the band in 2005.
★ 7.4
We Belong Together
2005
Fourteen weeks at number one, two soul interpolations underneath, and Carey singing softly rather than belting.
★ 7.1
Chicago
2005 · From Illinois
Sleigh bells, trumpets and a choir stacked into one crescendo, and Stevens cut five different versions of it.
★ 6.7
Welcome to Jamrock
2005
An Ini Kamoze sample under it, Stephen Marley at the desk, and verses answering the postcard version of Jamaica.
★ 6.5
Hate It Or Love It
2005
Cool and Dre's Trammps flip earned two Grammy nominations and stalled at two, blocked by 50 Cent's own 'Candy Shop'.
★ 6.2
Casimir Pulaski Day
2005 · From Illinois
Four guitar chords never change while Stevens sings a Bible study, a friend's death, and a question for God.
★ 6.1
I Turn My Camera On
2005 · From Gimme Fiction
Daniel wrote it late for Gimme Fiction, cut it first, and sang in a Prince falsetto over Eno's hi-hat.
★ 6.0
Hollaback Girl
2005
Courtney Love called her a cheerleader, so Stefani and the Neptunes built the taunt into pop's first million-selling download.
★ 5.7
Girl
2005 · From Guero
Thirteen seconds of chiptune open it, and the Dust Brothers built the rest around Beck jamming acoustic guitar.
★ 5.6
Wake Me Up When September Ends
2005 · From American Idiot
Armstrong's father died in September 1982; by his account the words he said that day waited twenty years.
★ 5.5
Temperature
2005
Rohan Fuller's Applause riddim, a Hot 100 number one, and dancehall running American radio through 2006.
★ 5.3
Candy Shop
2005 · From The Massacre
Scott Storch's synth strings borrow from Middle Eastern melody, and nine weeks at number one followed for 50 Cent.
★ 4.9
Holiday (Green Day)
2005 · From American Idiot
Armstrong spent two months doubting the lyrics until Cavallo pushed him; it went to number one on modern rock radio.
★ 4.9
Soul Meets Body
2005 · From Plans
Gibbard wrote it for his girlfriend, Walla produced at a Massachusetts farm studio, ten weeks atop Adult Alternative.
★ 4.7
My Doorbell
2005 · From Get Behind Me Satan
Piano and Meg's drums instead of a riff, cut at White's Detroit house, thematically the album's one cheerful track.
★ 4.7
Don't Cha
2005
CeeLo Green produced it for Tori Alamaze first, and the Dolls took her taunt to number one in fifteen countries.
★ 4.6
Jacksonville
2005 · From Illinois
Two competing stories about who the town was named for, one a Black preacher, and Stevens sounds delighted by both.
★ 4.6
Get Back
2005
Cartoon-sized arms in a men's room, courtesy of Spike Jonze, and Tom Cruise dancing to it in Tropic Thunder.
★ 4.4
Lovers and FriendsLil Jon
Lovers and Friends
2005
Lil Jon slowed crunk to a crawl, interpolated Michael Sterling's 1990 ballad, and rode Usher's hook to number three.
★ 4.3
Perfect Situation
2005 · From Make Believe
Cuomo re-recorded it after crowds sang his original melody back at him, and it topped alternative radio for four weeks.
★ 4.3
Alcohol
2005
Paisley wrote it from the drink's own point of view, a 6/8 country shuffle sung with a wink.
★ 3.9
Landed
2005
Folds went back to a trio for Songs for Silverman, and made its lead single a phone call home.
★ 3.7
Outta Control
2005 · From The Massacre
Dre and Mike Elizondo built it spare, clipped piano and low thump; the Mobb Deep remix reached number six.
★ 3.6
When I Get Where I'm Going
2005
George Teren and Rivers Rutherford wrote it; Dolly Parton's harmony carries a song about grief and the afterlife.
★ 3.5
Run It!
2005
Cut at Criteria in Miami by Scott Storch and Sean Garrett, with Brown topping the Hot 100 at sixteen.
★ 3.3
Beverly Hills
2005 · From Make Believe
Rick Rubin produced it, the video was shot at the Playboy Mansion, and Cuomo swears the longing was sincere.
★ 3.0
Bless the Broken Road
2005
A decade after the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cut it first, Rascal Flatts rode it to five weeks at number one.
★ 2.9
Over My Head (Cable Car)
2005
A fight with his brother Caleb, a Denver station spinning the demo, and Slade's chorus everywhere by 2006.
★ 2.7
You and Me
2005
Cut at John Alagia's home studio in Maryland, it topped Adult Pop Songs for nine weeks and became a wedding standard.
★ 2.7
You're Beautiful
2005
A glimpse of an ex on the London Underground, her new man beside her, and a transatlantic number one.
★ 2.6
Beer In Mexico
2005
Chesney wrote it alone in Cabo San Lucas at Sammy Hagar's birthday party, and it topped the country chart.
★ 1.3
Bad Day
2005
Powter sketched it on the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver; American Idol adopted it and Billboard called it 2006's biggest.
★ 1.2