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• During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.

January

• January 1 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, including Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", and "Only You" by The Platters.^[1]
• January 7 - Welsh punk band mclusky officially announce their disbanding via their website. Weeks later, Welsh noisecore/punk band Jarcrew disband due to their drummer becoming a Jehovah's Witness - remnants of the two bands later went on to join forces and become Future of the Left.
• January 17 - Prior to missing 2 live shows Mike Tempesta is officially no longer part of Powerman 5000 due fights with the band.
• January 22 - Tsunami Relief concert held at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales - the largest live music event in the UK since the Live Aid concert of 1985. Performers included Madonna, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Manic Street Preachers, Lulu, Aled Jones, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Feeder, Snow Patrol, Liberty X.
• January 29 - Avril Lavigne, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Barenaked Ladies, Raine Maida, and Sarah McLachlan conducted a concert in Vancouver, British Columbia for tsunami relief.
• January 31 - Jon Levasseur leaves Cryptopsy, saying he has lost interest in Extreme Music.

February

• February 7 - BRIT Awards are held in London. Scissor Sisters, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, and Joss Stone are among the winners.
• February 15 - Sonny Mayo replaces Clint Lowery in Sevendust.
• February 22
  • The pop punk group Blink-182 announce that they will be taking an indefinite hiatus, but will not become completely inactive, according to guitarist Tom DeLonge.
  • Brian Welch, guitarist of KoЯn, leaves the band after converting to Christianity.
• February 28 - Static-X fires Tripp Eisen because of his arrest for sex offences involving a minor.
• Spring - All Ends Hired Fredrik Johansson.

March

• March 7 - Koichi Fukuda immediately replaces Tripp Eisen in Static-X & rejoins them after 5 years.
• March 26 - Australian drummer of Crowded House, Paul Hester, is found dead in Melbourne's Park.

April

• April - Country music legend Kenny Rogers signs a major worldwide record deal with Capitol Records.
• April 3 - Alice in Chains original bass player Mike Starr is arrested for "investigation of property destruction and theft". He was also sentenced to 30 days for misdemeanor drug possession in April 1994, two years after being replaced from the group during the recording of Dirt.
• April 9 - Destiny's Child launch their World Tour Destiny Fulfilled ... And Lovin' It in Hiroshima, Japan.
• April 26 - Propagator Records is launched in Birmingham, UK.

May

• May/June - Operation Ivy/Rancid bassist Matt Freeman is diagnosed with lung cancer.
• May 2 - Legendary blues-rock group Cream reunites for four shows in London's Royal Albert Hall.
• May 6 - Audioslave becomes the first American rock group to perform a free outdoor concert in Cuba.
• May 21 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 13th Annual Weenie Roast show with Alkaline Trio, Audioslave, Bloc Party, The Bravery, The Dead 60s, Foo Fighters, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, The Killers, The Mars Volta, Mötley Crüe, MxPx, My Chemical Romance, Queens of the Stone Age and The Transplants.
• May 25 - Carrie Underwood wins the fourth season of American Idol.

June

• June 9–11 - Download Festival 2006. Tool, Metallica and Guns N' Roses headline the main stage.
• June 12 - Pink Floyd announce that they will reunite with former bassist Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, on July 2 for the Live 8 London concert. This will be the first time the band played together as a quartet since The Wall tour in 1981, and the first public performance by Pink Floyd since 1994.
• June 13 - Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation.
• June 15 - Destiny's Child announce they will disband upon completion of their world tour.
• June 16 - Motörhead celebrate their 30th anniversary with a concert in the Hammersmith Apollo, which is later released on DVD.
• June 18–19 - Green Day films their first ever live CD/DVD Bullet in a Bible at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England. They played to over 130,000 fans in two days.
• June 21 - Billy Corgan announces that he wants to reform his popular alternative rock group The Smashing Pumpkins, which disbanded on December 2, 2000.
• June 25 – Patti Smith curates the Meltdown festival.
• Summer
  • Crazy Frog ringtone "Axel F" is released as a single.
  • Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" remains atop the Hot 100 for 14 weeks. Follow-up "Shake It Off" reaches #2 while "We Belong Together" is #1, making Carey the first female artist to hold the #1 and #2 spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously.

July

• July 2 - Live 8 benefit concerts are held around the world, as part of the Make Poverty History campaign.
• July 11 - The Chemical Brothers release their single, "The Boxer".
• July - The Blackbirds form in Auckland, New Zealand.

August

• August - The Cure frontman Robert Smith announces that the band plans to record their 13th studio album in the fall for release in the following year.

September

• September - A statue of Edward Elgar by Jemma Pearson is unveiled near Hereford Cathedral.
• September 9 - The band Scooter perform at the All-State Arena in Chicago, IL, their first performance in the United States.
• September 10 - The Italian rocker Luciano Ligabue attracts a European record number of spectators with a concert at Campovolo, in Reggio Emilia.^{[citation needed]}
• September 14 - Britney Spears gives birth to her first child, a baby boy named Sean Preston with husband Kevin Federline.

October

• 1 October - Sentenced Plays Their Final Show.
• October - Jeff Martin leaves The Tea Party due to Creative Differenecs, also ending the band's 15 year stretch.
• October 15 - Media reported that Latin star Luis Miguel released his own vintage of wine, "Unico. Luis Miguel", a Cabernet Sauvignon.
• October 21 - Nightwish perform at the Hartwall Areena, later to be released as the End of an Era DVD. The following day, singer Tarja Turunen is dismissed in an open letter.^[2]

November

• November 6 - Madonna earns her 36th Top Ten single with Warner Bros. Records-based, ABBA-sampled "Hung Up". This ties her with Elvis Presley for the most Top Ten singles. The Beatles have 34. "Hung Up" is also Madonna's 47th Top Forty single – the most for any female artist.
• November 15 - All female group Danity Kane is formed on MTV show Making The Band.
• November 20 - Madonna's Warner Bros. Records-based (Festival Mushroom Records in Australia) single, "Hung Up" takes the title as the ARIA #1 single.
• November 21 - Kate DeAraugo takes the title as Australian Idol 2005, ahead of Emily Williams.
• November 22
  • The 33rd annual American Music Awards are held. Multiple winners are Destiny's Child, Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, The Black Eyed Peas, and Green Day.
  • System of a Down becomes the third musical act to have two number 1 albums in the same year. The other two to do this record were DMX & The Beatles.
• November - Madonna's new album Confessions On A Dance Floor hits #1 in 40 countries, a new record. The Beatles previously held this record when The Beatles 1 went to #1 in 36 countries in 2000.
• November 30 - Apocalyptica change locations of the shoot of their DVD "The Life Burns Tour" from Erfurt, Germany (Dec. 2) to Düsseldorf, Germany (Dec. 4) due to Technical Reasons.

December

• December 8 - The nominations for the 48th Grammy Awards are announced. The top-nominated artists include Mariah Carey, John Legend, and Kanye West, with eight nominations each. Other nominated artists include Gwen Stefani, Beyoncé Knowles (two of her own, plus four with Destiny's Child), Kelly Clarkson, and 50 Cent.
• December 10
  • Amnesty International launches its "Make Some Noise" music initiative.
  • The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 16th annual Acoustic Christmas. On November 10, 2005, KROQ's official website announced that it will include Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, Rise Against, System of a Down and Thrice for the first night. The second night is held the following day, as also announced at KROQ's official website on November 15, 2005 and includes The Bravery, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Hot Hot Heat, Jack Johnson, Nada Surf and The White Stripes.
• December 11 - Peter Wichers, Quits Soilwork
• December 15
  • Madonna's Warner Bros. Records-based single, "Hung Up" sets a new record in the download charts by staying at #1 for 7 consecutive weeks. The single first appears on Z100 New York, closely followed by 2day FM (Sydney), Fox FM (Melbourne) and Nova 96.9 (Sydney) other stations follow including: Mix 106.5 (Sydney), Mix 101.1 (Melbourne), Vega 95.3 (Sydney), Vega 91.5 (Melbourne) and the rest of the MIX FM stations.
  • Nelly Furtado's final single, "All Good Things (Come To An End)" is released and takes the title as the last single to be on the Loose album which is to be released in June 2006.
• December 21 - Elton John marries David Furnish in London. This marriage comes in the wake of new British laws affording gay unions the same legal protection enjoyed within straight marriages.
• December 31 - Mariah Carey earns her 17th #1 single with "Don't Forget About Us", tying with Elvis for second as the act with the most #1 singles. The Beatles have 20. She also becomes the first act to perform live in Times Square on the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve television special on this day.
• Glue Gun reforms after eight years, with frontman Bob Oedy the only original member. The new line-up is Bob Oedy (vocals), Joey Rimicci (guitars), Brian Priess (bass) and Andy Alverez (drums). Rimicci and Priess were previously members of Jughead's Revenge.

Bands formed

See Category:Musical groups established in 2005

Bands disbanded

• Ace Troubleshooter
• Atomic Kitten
• Autopilot Off
• Avoid One Thing
• Bear vs. Shark
• Beloved
• Blink-182 (Reformed in 2009)
• Busted
• The Calling
• Canvas (hiatus)
• Curl Up and Die
• Dirtie Blonde
• Do As Infinity
• Destiny's Child
• Dynamite Boy (Reformed in 2008)
• Eiffel 65 (Reformed in 2010)
• The Get Up Kids (Reformed in 2008)
• Gluecifer
• Hey Mercedes
• Home Grown (hiatus)
• Hot Snakes
• Ikara Colt
• JamisonParker
• Jump, Little Children
• Leftover Salmon
• Mclusky
• Million Dead
• Motor Ace
• The O.C. Supertones
• O-Zone
• One Dollar Short
• Play
• Q and Not U
• Quarashi
• Riddlin' Kids
• Rocket from the Crypt
• Roper
• S Club 8
• Sentenced
• Silkworm
• Skulker
• Snapcase
• Tambalane
• The Tea Party
• Trust Company (Reformed in 2007)
• The Urge
• XTC (hiatus?)
• Zone

Bands reformed

• Alice in Chains
• Backstreet Boys (Hiatus since 2002)
• Devourment
• Luv'
• Junior M.A.F.I.A.
• Van der Graaf Generator

Albums released

January

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Tage Mahal	Jon Oliva's Pain
4	Osirus	Ol' Dirty Bastard
11	EP	The Fiery Furnaces	EP
	Live from CBGB's	Living Colour
	Live! Thirty Days Ago	Phoenix	Live
	Rebelde	RBD
	A Brief History...	The Waifs
	Gold	Aerosmith	compilation
18	Black Mountain	Black Mountain
	The Documentary	The Game
19	Signs of Life	Poets of the Fall	Debut, IFPI-certified Platinum
24	Apocalyptica	Apocalyptica
25	Worlds Apart	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
	Side One	Adrian Belew
	Digital Ash in a Digital Urn	Bright Eyes
	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	Bright Eyes
	Life Begins Again	Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
	Controversy Sells	Chamillionaire & Paul Wall
	Push the Button	The Chemical Brothers
	Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)	Kenny Chesney
	Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits	Cinderella	Compilation
	Happiness in Magazines	Graham Coxon
	Knuckle Down	Ani DiFranco
	Nightbird	Erasure
	Curtains	John Frusciante
	Soul Mover	Glenn Hughes
	Far Away	Lasgo
	The Way Up	Pat Metheny Group
	This Woman	LeAnn Rimes
31	The Very Best of East Seventeen	East 17	Compilation
	Octane	Spock's Beard
	Rapt. Dept.	yourcodenameis:milo	EP

February

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Never Take Friendship Personal	Anberlin
	Red, White & Crüe	Mötley Crüe	Compilation
	Ultimate Kylie	Kylie Minogue	Compilation
	Best of Sweetbox	Sweetbox
	Here's to the Mourning	Unwritten Law
	¿Dónde Está La Luz?	WarCry
2	Love Songs	Harry Watters
8	Almost Here	The Academy Is...
	Feel Like Jumping! Greatest Hits Live!	Bad Manners	Live
	Room Noises	Eisley
	The Golden Republic	The Golden Republic
	Seventeen Days	3 Doors Down
	There's More Where That Came From	Lee Ann Womack
13	Raw Treasures Volume 1	Sweetbox
14	Silent Alarm	Bloc Party
15	The Feeding	American Head Charge
	Señor Smoke	Electric Six
	Disconnection Notice	Goldfinger
	Here Come the ABCs	They Might Be Giants
21	Some Cities	Doves
22	The Beekeeper	Tori Amos
	What to Do When You Are Dead	Armor For Sleep
	Solarized	Ian Brown
	Burn the Flags	By Night
	Master of the Flying Gullotine	Jumpsteady
	Picture	Kino
	Burn the Priest	Burn the Priest
	Awake Is the New Sleep	Ben Lee
	1984	Roger Miret and the Disasters
	Live! Thirty Days Ago	Phoenix	Live
	Real Illusions: Reflections	Steve Vai
	Atticus: ...dragging the lake, Vol. 3	Various Artists	Compilation
	Ashes to Dust	William Elliott Whitmore

March

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	In Between Dreams	Jack Johnson
	Angel of Retribution	Judas Priest
	Strong Tower	Kutless
	Rebirth	Jennifer Lopez
	Frances the Mute	The Mars Volta
3	The Massacre	50 Cent
7	Anniemal	Annie
	Employment	Kaiser Chiefs
8	Meltdown	Ash
	MAFIA	Black Label Society
	Warts and All: Volume 4	Moe.
	My Kind of Livin'	Craig Morgan
	Who's Your New Professor	Sam Prekop
	Drake & Josh: Songs from and inspired by the hit TV show	Various Artists	Compilation
9	Withering to Death.	Dir en grey
15	Hearts on Parade	American Hi-Fi
	Strange and Beautiful	Aqualung
	Human After All	Daft Punk
	Soundtrack to a Headrush	Emanuel
	Everything's OK	Al Green
	Devil's Playground	Billy Idol
	Kerosene	Miranda Lambert
	The Best Little Secrets Are Kept	Louis XIV
	Hotel	Moby
	Prince of Darkness	Ozzy Osbourne	Box
	Lullabies to Paralyze	Queens of the Stone Age
	Origin Vol. 1	The Soundtrack of Our Lives
	Language. Sex. Violence. Other?	Stereophonics
	Alien	Strapping Young Lad
	True Parallels	Trust Company
	Now That's What I Call Music! 18 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	Of Hands and Hearts: Music for the Tsunami Disaster Fund	Various Artists	2-Disc Compilation
21	Now That's What I Call Music! 60 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
22	Songs About Me	Trace Adkins
	Road Fools	Anybody Killa
	Arular	M.I.A.
	Fine Upstanding Citizen	Maia Sharp
	It's Me Again	Tweet
28	Waiting for the Sirens' Call	New Order
	Deadwing	Porcupine Tree
29	Guero	Beck
	The Bravery	The Bravery
	Pushing the Senses	Feeder
	The B. Coming	Beanie Sigel
	Counting Down the Days	Natalie Imbruglia
	Elements of Persuasion	James LaBrie
	Lifehouse	Lifehouse
	Lost and Found	Will Smith
	The Everglow	Mae
	Joe Perry	Joe Perry
	Songs Not to Get Married To	Reggie and the Full Effect
	If We Could Only See Us Now	Thrice

April

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Live on KUCI	The Littlest Man Band	Live
5	Planets	Adema
	Open Season	British Sea Power
	In the Arms of God	Corrosion of Conformity
	Suspended Animation	Fantômas
	Avant que l'ombre...	Mylène Farmer
	Odyssey	Fischerspooner
	Elevator	Hot Hot Heat
	Girl's Mind	Play	Compilation
	We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy	Reel Big Fish
	...Something to Be	Rob Thomas	Solo debut
11	Beautiful Intentions	Melanie C
12	Against All Authority / Common Rider	Against All Authority and Common Rider	Split EP
	Before the Robots	Better Than Ezra
	The Emancipation of Mimi	Mariah Carey
	The New Normal	Cog
	Bleed Like Me	Garbage
	Safety Second, Body Last	The Locust	CDEP
	Silver Rain	Marcus Miller
	Lost and Found	Mudvayne
	Alligator	The National
	Matter + Form	VNV Nation
18	Ignoto	yourcodenameis:milo
19	Cold Roses	Ryan Adams and the Cardinals	2-Disc
	Untilted	Autechre
	Ohmwork	Geezer Butler
	Outlaw 4 Life: 2005 A.P.	Outlawz
	The Milk of Human Kindness	Caribou
	Greetings From Cairo, Illinois	Stace England
	Who Is Mike Jones?	Mike Jones
	Wreck of the Day	Anna Nalick
25	Mighty ReArranger	Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation
	Present	Van der Graaf Generator
26	Phantoms	Acceptance
	Atomic Soul	Russell Allen
	Paper Tigers	Caesars
	Faith: Deluxe Edition	The Cure	Reissue (2-Disc)
	Pornography: Deluxe Edition	The Cure	Reissue (2-Disc)
	Seventeen Seconds: Deluxe Edition	The Cure	Reissue (2-Disc)
	Blinking Lights and Other Revelations	Eels
	Family Guy: Live in Vegas	Family Guy
	Songs for Silverman	Ben Folds
	The Essential Barry Manilow	Barry Manilow	Compilation
	Ghetto Bill	Master P
	Waiting for the Sirens' Call	New Order
	Ocean of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996	Screaming Trees	Compilation
	Devils & Dust	Bruce Springsteen
	If God Had Curves	David Usher
29	In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America	Tiësto	Compilation

May

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	The Collection	Atomic Kitten
	Lichtgestalt	Lacrimosa
	The Ultra Selection	Spandau Ballet	Compilation
3	Perception	Blessid Union of Souls
	From Under the Cork Tree	Fall Out Boy
	Rock of Ages...Hymns and Faith	Amy Grant
	The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)	Limp Bizkit
	The Forgotten Arm	Aimee Mann
	With Teeth	Nine Inch Nails
	Complicated	Nivea
	A Sides Win: Singles 1992–2005	Sloan
	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	John Williams	Soundtrack
10	Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips	The Flaming Lips
	What I Really Mean	Robert Earl Keen
	Stand Up	Dave Matthews Band
	Pray for the Soul of Betty	Pray for the Soul of Betty
	Gimme Fiction	Spoon
	Big Bang Theory	Styx
	State of Discontent	The Unseen
	Make Believe	Weezer
17	Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection	Def Leppard
	The Calm	Insane Clown Posse	EP
	Magic Time	Van Morrison
	Mezmerize	System of a Down
	Hello, Good Friend	The Rocket Summer
19	Live from the N.E.C.	Spandau Ballet	Live
23	The Best of Natacha Atlas	Natacha Atlas	Compilation
	Tyranny of Souls	Bruce Dickinson
	Demon Days	Gorillaz
	L'Heure d'été	Marc Lavoine
24	Out of Exile	Audioslave
	Crimson	Alkaline Trio
	Be	Common
	Twenty	Robert Cray
	All or Nothing	Fat Joe
	Warriors of the Rainbow Bridge	Molly Hatchet
	Naked	Marques Houston
	Karma and Effect	Seether
	A Retrospective: 1995–2000	Son Volt	Compilation
	Rebel, Sweetheart	The Wallflowers
25	Bluestars	Pretty Ricky
30	Don't Believe the Truth	Oasis
31	The Dead 60s	The Dead 60s
	Everything Ecstatic	Four Tet
	Catch Thirtythree	Meshuggah
	Stereo-Typical: A's, B's and Rarities	The Specials	Compilation
	Dust Off and Dance	Tiffany

June

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
6	Here I Am	Marion Raven	Solo debut
	X&Y	Coldplay
	Passion	Geri Halliwell
	Tales from Turnpike House	Saint Etienne
	Here Come the Tears	The Tears
7	Anastacia	Anastacia
	Anniemal	Annie
	Charge!!	The Aquabats
	City of Evil	Avenged Sevenfold
	Monkey Business	The Black Eyed Peas
	Octavarium	Dream Theater
	Death for Life	Death by Stereo
	Demanufacture	Fear Factory	Rereleased/Remastered
	Say Hello to Sunshine	Finch
	Commit This to Memory	Motion City Soundtrack	Soundtrack
	Panic	MxPx
	Sleeping in the Nothing	Kelly Osbourne
	That's What I Say	John Scofield
	Fijación Oral Vol. 1	Shakira
	Choose Love	Ringo Starr
	Get Behind Me Satan	The White Stripes
13	Dirty Words	The Departure
	Jagged Little Pill Acoustic	Alanis Morissette	Re-edition acoustic
	Who You Fighting For?	UB40
14	Never Gone	Backstreet Boys
	Twelve Year Silence	Dark New Day
	Another Day on Earth	Brian Eno
	Gold	Eric B. & Rakim	Compilation
	In Your Honor	Foo Fighters	2-Disc
	Hours	Funeral for a Friend
	Bloom	Eric Johnson
	Broken Valley	Life of Agony
	Start a War	Static-X
20	Dynamite	Jamiroquai
21	Blink the Brightest	Tracy Bonham
	Robot Hive/Exodus	Clutch
	The Way It Is	Keyshia Cole
	TheFutureEmbrace	Billy Corgan	Solo debut
	Catch Without Arms	Dredg
	The Warrior's Code	Dropkick Murphys
	Killadelphia	Lamb of God	DVD
	Greatest Hits	The Offspring	Compilation
	De Nova	The Redwalls
	Angel Milk	Télépopmusik
	Haunted Cities	Transplants
	Look at All the Love We Found	Various Artists	Tribute to Sublime
24	Back 2 Basics	Sway & King Tech
27	Teen Dance Ordinance	A
	Layers of Lies	Darkane
28	The Curse	Atreyu	Re-release
	Wanted	Bow Wow
	Live at the Greek Theatre	Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire	Concert DVD
	An Answer Can Be Found	CKY
	Undoing Ruin	Darkest Hour
	Ever Since	Lesley Gore
	Every Kind of Light	The Posies
	Somewhere Down in Texas	George Strait
	Man's Myth Vol. 1	Twiztid

July

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
4	Nympho	Armand van Helden
	The Essential Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden	Compilation
	Young for Eternity	The Subways
	Stars of CCTV	Hard-Fi
5	Shadowbox	The Crüxshadows	DVD+EP
	The Cookbook	Missy Elliott
	Illinois	Sufjan Stevens
12	Move Along	The All-American Rejects
	Covering the Bases	Bronson Arroyo	EP
	Side Two	Adrian Belew
	Fused	Tony Iommi
	Already Platinum	Slim Thug
	Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes	The Violent Femmes	Compilation
18	Devoted	Kristy Lee
	Who You Fighting For?	UB40
19	B5	B5
	Honeycomb	Frank Black
	Listen to Your Heart	D.H.T.
	Moonlight Serenade	Carly Simon
	El Sexto Sentido	Thalía
	Now That's What I Call Music! 19 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
24	All We Know Is Falling	Paramore
25	Drawing Restraint 9	Björk
	Trainwreck	Boys Night Out
	The Back Room	Editors
	Now That's What I Call Music! 61 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
26	Before the Blackout	Allister
	Layourbattleaxedown	The Concretes	Compilation
	American Apathy	Dope
	Body of Song	Bob Mould
	Mr. A-Z	Jason Mraz
	Mutant Vol. 2	Twiztid
29	Angels & Vampires - Volume I	Sananda Maitreya	Only available through Webshop

August

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Unwritten	Natasha Bedingfield
	Dirty Diamonds	Alice Cooper
	Fireflies	Faith Hill
	Roc-A-Fella Presents: Teairra Marí	Teairra Marí
	Nympho	Armand van Helden
	Platinum Underground	Vanilla Ice
4	Peace, Love & Truth	John Lennon	Compilation
9	Chimaira	Chimaira
	Looking for Lucky	Hootie & the Blowfish
	Tommyland: The Ride	Tommy Lee
	Why Should the Fire Die?	Nickel Creek
	The Fuse	Pennywise
	Chapter V	Staind
	War Profiteering Is Killing Us All	The Suicide Machines
	Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen	Various Artists	Tribute to Queen
11	Doomsday Machine	Arch Enemy
15	Road to Rouen	Supergrass
16	Into the Rush	Aly & AJ
	Most Wanted	Hilary Duff
	The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1	Madness	Cover album
	Furious	Soopa Villainz
	Blue-Sky Research	Taproot
	Discovering the Waterfront	Silverstein
	A Beautiful Lie	30 Seconds to Mars
	Don't Tread on Me	311
	Ruiner	A Wilhelm Scream
22	Supernature	Goldfrapp
23	We Are the Radio	The Brian Jonestown Massacre
	Bayside	Bayside
	Found in the Flood	The Bled
	Transgression	Fear Factory
	Everything in Transit	Jack's Mannequin
	Twin Cinema	The New Pornographers
	Rebirth of a Nation	Public Enemy
	So Long, Scarecrow	Scarling.
29	Silent Alarm Remixed	Bloc Party
	Ghost Reveries	Opeth
	Peace, Love & Truth	John Lennon
	Wonderland	McFly	Also available as limited edition
30	Hillbilly Deluxe	Brooks & Dunn
	Back Home	Eric Clapton
	A Different Kind of Pain	Cold
	Plans	Death Cab for Cutie
	Music of the Sun	Rihanna	Debut
	Late Registration	Kanye West
	Healthy in Paranoid Times	Our Lady Peace
	Kezia	Protest the Hero
	Blue Guitars	Chris Rea
	Sisters of the Red Death	Vendetta Red
	Oh No	OK Go

September

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Heartbeats - Chris Rea's Greatest Hits	Chris Rea	Japan, Compilation
	La Vie Théodore	Alain Souchon
6	Searching for a Former Clarity	Against Me!
	A Bigger Bang	The Rolling Stones
7	Kimi to no Distance	Zard
9	…Waltzing Alone	The Guggenheim Grotto
12	Welcome to Jamrock	Damian Marley
	Chaos and Creation in the Backyard	Paul McCartney
	Black & White 050505	Simple Minds
	Noima	Peggy Zina
13	Apollo Sunshine	Apollo Sunshine
	¡Bastardos!	Blues Traveler
	'Til the End of Forever	Michael Bolton	Europe
	Where You Live	Tracy Chapman
	How To Save A Life	The Fray
	Distort Yourself	Institute
	The Naked Truth	Lil' Kim
	PCD	Pussycat Dolls
	Return of the Champions	Queen
	Souls Alike	Bonnie Raitt
	What the Game's Been Missing!	Juelz Santana
	Takk...	Sigur Rós
	Dark Ages	Soulfly
	Nothing Is Sound	Switchfoot
	Someone in Control	Trapt
	Jasper County	Trisha Yearwood
14	Real Live Thing	Kingston Wall
19	Sideshow Symphonies	Arcturus
	Tender Buttons	Broadcast
	Safe as Fuck	Goldie Lookin Chain
20	Hefty Fine	Bloodhound Gang
	Have a Nice Day	Bon Jovi
	Bring 'Em In	Buddy Guy
	You Stand Watching	Ryan Cabrera
	Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	Coheed and Cambria
	Ten Thousand Fists	Disturbed
	Siberia	Echo & the Bunnymen
	BBC Live & In-Session	Motörhead	Live
25	Alice's Inferno	Forever Slave
26	Piece by Piece	Katie Melua
	EXODUS	Utada	UK
27	Telegraph	Drake Bell
	Libra	Toni Braxton
	Wildflower	Sheryl Crow
	A Collision	David Crowder Band
	Dark Light	HIM
	Live It Out	Metric
	Nexterday	Ric Ocasek
	A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	Panic at the Disco
	Raydiation	Ray J
	Ça Ira	Roger Waters
	Prairie Wind	Neil Young

October

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon	John Lennon	Compilation
	Singles	New Order
	Relentless	Jo O'Meara
4	Extraordinary Machine	Fiona Apple
	Back to Bedlam	James Blunt
	Broken Social Scene	Broken Social Scene
	Real Fine Place	Sara Evans
	You Could Have It So Much Better	Franz Ferdinand
	Limelight	Colin James
	Generations	Journey
	All the Right Reasons	Nickelback
	Under Cover	Ozzy Osbourne
	Somebody's Miracle	Liz Phair
	Nuestro Amor	RBD
10	Imaginary Lines I	Imaginary Lines
	X	Liberty X
	Un Monde parfait	Ilona Mitrecey
	The All-Star Sessions	Roadrunner United
	Taller in More Ways	Sugababes
11	Tough All Over	Gary Allan
	Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1	Jackson Browne	Live
	Cheetah-licious Christmas	The Cheetah Girls	Christmas
	One Thing Remains	Default
	The Mouse and the Mask	DANGERDOOM
	Life	Ricky Martin
	Next	Sevendust
	In the Wake of Determination	Story of the Year
	Dangerous and Moving	t.A.T.u.
	As Is Now	Paul Weller
12	Come and Get It	Rachel Stevens
14	Vermin	Old Man's Child
17	The Campfire Headphase	Boards of Canada
18	Downtown Science	Blockhead
	Once Was Not	Cryptopsy
	Playing the Angel	Depeche Mode
	Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled	Melissa Etheridge	Compilation
	The Greatest Holiday Classics	Kenny G	Compilation
	Photographs	Mest
	I Am Me	Ashlee Simpson
	Vheissu	Thrice
	What I Really Want for Christmas	Brian Wilson
	A Time to Love	Stevie Wonder
19	Lyudi Invalidy	t.A.T.u.
21	Ecdysis	Miho Hatori
24	?	Neal Morse
	Intensive Care	Robbie Williams
25	Rockin' the Joint	Aerosmith	Live
	Enter the Chicken	Buckethead
	The Legend of Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	Compilation
	#1's	Destiny's Child	Compilation
	The Hard and the Easy	Great Big Sea
	Rehearsing My Choir	The Fiery Furnaces
	Concert for Bangladesh	George Harrison and Friends	Reissue
	Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook	Bette Midler
	The Beauty of Letting Go	Socialburn
	This Could Be a Possibility	Valencia
	This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul	Various Artists	Tribute album
31	Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy	Helloween
	Croftwork	Peatbog Faeries
	Rosenrot	Rammstein
	Face to Face	Westlife

November

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Greatest Hits	Blink-182	Compilation
	Lost at Sea	Bounding Main
	Rapture of the Deep	Deep Purple
	The Long Road Home	John Fogerty	Compilation
	For the Love of It	Bradley Joseph
	Resolve	Lagwagon
	All That I Am	Santana
	9.0: Live	Slipknot	Live
	Wolfmother	Wolfmother
	Now That's What I Call Music! 20 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	What's New! DVD	Various Artists	DVD
4	Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?	Scooter
6	Ma Vérité	Johnny Hallyday
7	Aerial	Kate Bush	Double CD
	The Mission Bell	Delirious?
8	The Road and the Radio	Kenny Chesney
	Ultimate Collection	Eurythmics	Compilation
	Greatest Hitz	Limp Bizkit	Compilation
	Apathetic EP	Relient K	EP
	Live in São Paulo	Sepultura	Live
	Horses/Horses Legacy Edition	Patti Smith	Live
11	Stormblåst MMV	Dimmu Borgir	re-recording
	Those Once Loyal	Bolt Thrower
	Wallstreet Voodoo	Roine Stolt	Double album
14	Boxed	Eurythmics	Box Set
	One World	Uniting Nations
15	Bullet in a Bible	Green Day	Live
	Confessions on a Dance Floor	Madonna
	The Collection	Alanis Morissette	Compilation
	Fire and Glory	Kardinal Offishall	Canada
	The Warriors EP, Volume 2	P.O.D.	EP
	Gold	Sublime	Compilation
	Some Hearts	Carrie Underwood
21	Neverless	Roedelius & Morgan Fisher
22	Live	The Bouncing Souls	Live
	The Sound of Revenge	Chamillionaire	EP
	12 Songs	Neil Diamond
	Amarantine	Enya
	The Rising Tied	Fort Minor
	Rarities 1971–2003	The Rolling Stones	Compilation
	B in the Mix: The Remixes	Britney Spears	Remix Album
	The Great Divide	Scott Stapp
	Hypnotize	System of a Down
	Now That's What I Call Music! 62 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
23	Son of a Plumber	Son of a Plumber
25	Kinetic	Violent Silence
28	One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back	The Darkness
	Switch	INXS
29	Chris Brown	Chris Brown
	Forgotten Freshness Volume 4	Insane Clown Posse	Compilation
	Living Legend: Certified D-Boy	Master P
	Oral Fixation Vol. 2	Shakira

December

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Ta Prota Chronia	Peggy Zina	Compilation
5	SuperJunior05 (TWINS)	Super Junior
	Un Autre Univers	Tina Arena
6	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem	Compilation
	Tha Carter II	Lil Wayne
	See You On The Other Side	Korn
12	A Place I've Never Been	Kate DeAraugo
13	Killadelphia	Lamb of God	Live
	Barrio Fino en Directo	Daddy Yankee
	A Little More Personal (Raw)	Lindsay Lohan
20	The Breakthrough	Mary J. Blige
27	Unpredictable	Jamie Foxx

Charts

Billboard Top 200 number-one albums

Main article: Number-one albums of 2005 (U.S.)

Billboard Hot 100 Number one hits of 2005

Main article: Hot 100 number-one hits of 2005 (United States)

Top 100 best-selling albums of the year (U.S.)

#	Album	Artist	U.S. sales in 2005
1.	The Emancipation of Mimi	Mariah Carey	4,968,606
2.	The Massacre	50 Cent	4,852,744
3.	Breakaway	Kelly Clarkson	3,496,192
4.	American Idiot	Green Day	3,360,394
5.	Monkey Business	The Black Eyed Peas	3,037,251
6.	X&Y	Coldplay	2,615,280
7.	Feels Like Today	Rascal Flatts	2,511,209
8.	Love. Angel. Music. Baby.	Gwen Stefani	2,505,390
9.	Late Registration	Kanye West	2,413,580
10.	The Documentary	The Game	2,275,646
11.	Now That's What I Call Music! 20	Various artists	2,059,767
12.	Hot Fuss	The Killers	2,040,933
13.	Now That's What I Call Music! 19	Various artists	1,971,716
14.	All the Right Reasons	Nickelback	1,957,189
15.	The Road and the Radio	Kenny Chesney	1,817,196
16.	In Between Dreams	Jack Johnson	1,758,058
17.	Be Here	Keith Urban	1,713,571
18.	From Under the Cork Tree	Fall Out Boy	1,654,320
19.	Mezmerize	System of a Down	1,645,980
20.	Some Hearts	Carrie Underwood	1,636,689
21.	Rebirth	Jennifer Lopez	1,561,032
22.	Fireflies	Faith Hill	1,531,656
23.	Goodies	Ciara	1,530,368
24.	Demon Days	Gorillaz	1,528,489
25.	Twice the Speed of Life	Sugarland	1,510,879
26.	Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101	Young Jeezy	1,500,000
27.	Honkytonk University	Toby Keith	1,446,821
28.	Now That's What I Call Music! 18	Various artists	1,400,063
29.	Encore	Eminem	1,385,256
30.	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem	1,381,896
31.	Get Lifted	John Legend	1,377,246
32.	Stand Up	Dave Matthews Band	1,333,781
33.	Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101	Young Jeezy	1,314,291
34.	Who Is Mike Jones?	Mike Jones	1,288,377
35.	It's Time	Michael Bublé	1,229,916
36.	Here for the Party	Gretchen Wilson	1,214,383
37.	Confessions	Usher	1,210,379
38.	…Something to Be	Rob Thomas	1,206,436
39.	Seventeen Days	3 Doors Down	1,204,330
40.	Genius Loves Company	Ray Charles	1,196,040
41.	In Your Honor	Foo Fighters	1,144,881
42.	Most Wanted	Hilary Duff	1,125,198
43.	TP-3: Reloaded	R. Kelly	1,110,854
44.	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (soundtrack)	Various artists	1,103,354
45.	Confessions on a Dance Floor	Madonna	1,102,802
46.	Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)	Kenny Chesney	1,078,559
47.	Il Divo	Il Divo	1,053,483
48.	Red Light District	Ludacris	1,041,939
49.	Greatest Hits 2	Toby Keith	1,023,188
50.	Greatest Hits	Shania Twain	1,018,991
51.	Make Believe	Weezer	995,790
52.	Fijacion Oral Vol. 1	Shakira	995,236
53.	Destiny Fulfilled	Destiny's Child	987,393
54.	Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	My Chemical Romance	982,117
55.	Greatest Hits	Guns N' Roses	974,315
56.	Beautiful Soul	Jesse McCartney	972,672
57.	Free Yourself	Fantasia Barrino	972,230
58.	Out of Exile	Audioslave	968,981
59.	All Jacked Up	Gretchen Wilson	947,388
60.	Crunk Juice	Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz	945,990
61.	I Am Me	Ashlee Simpson	944,501
62.	Timeless	Martina McBride	929,512
63.	The Breakthrough	Mary J. Blige	922,397
64.	Songs About Jane	Maroon 5	894,767
65.	Songs About Me	Trace Adkins	882,850
66.	U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta)	Ying Yang Twins	874,038
67.	PCD	Pussycat Dolls	857,952
68.	Horse of a Different Color	Big & Rich	857,945
69.	Trouble	Akon	852,673
70.	The Legend of Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	847,645
71.	Ten Thousand Fists	Disturbed	844,525
72.	Live Like You Were Dying	Tim McGraw	840,385
73.	With Teeth	Nine Inch Nails	838,920
74.	Amarantine	Enya	836,052
75.	Wanted	Bow Wow	833,430
76.	Hypnotize	System of a Down	831,680
77.	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	U2	828,722
78.	The One	Frankie J	817,792
79.	Unpredictable	Jamie Foxx	799,425
80.	Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook 4	Rod Stewart	791,351
81.	Have a Nice Day	Bon Jovi	785,268
82.	The Phantom of the Opera	Soundtrack	773,150
83.	Lyfe 268-192	Lyfe Jennings	767,954
84.	#1's	Destiny's Child	766,058
85.	Guero	Beck	758,023
86.	Urban Legend	T.I.	751,894
87.	Mind, Body & Soul	Joss Stone	751,222
88.	When the Sun Goes Down	Kenny Chesney	750,004
89.	Barrio Fino	Daddy Yankee	747,412
90.	Modern Day Drifter	Dierks Bentley	745,924
91.	Time Well Wasted	Brad Paisley	744,893
92.	Lifehouse	Lifehouse	740,100
93.	Be	Common	734,944
94.	Ray	Soundtrack	727,143
95.	Somewhere Down in Texas	George Strait	722,059
96.	Bluestars	Pretty Ricky	712,279
97.	50 Number Ones	George Strait	710,833
98.	Getting Away with Murder	Papa Roach	706,798
99.	Never Gone	Backstreet Boys	703,827
100.	Crossfade	Crossfade	702,319

Alphabetical list of top hits

• "1, 2 Step" — Ciara featuring Missy Elliott
• "1 Thing" — Amerie
• "All About Us" — t.A.T.u.
• "All Because of You" — U2
• "All These Things That I've Done" — The Killers
• "American Baby" — Dave Matthews Band
• "Axel F" — Crazy Frog
• "B.Y.O.B." — System of a Down
• "Because of You" — Kelly Clarkson
• "Behind These Hazel Eyes" — Kelly Clarkson
• "Bend and Break" — Keane
• "Best of You" — Foo Fighters
• "Better Days" — Goo Goo Dolls
• "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" — Green Day
• "Boyfriend" — Ashlee Simpson
• "Breakaway" — Kelly Clarkson
• "Breathe (2 AM)" — Anna Nalick
• "Call on Me" — Eric Prydz
• "Candy Shop" — 50 Cent featuring Olivia
• "C'est les vacances" — Ilona Mitrecey
• "Change Your Mind" — The Killers
• "City of Blinding Lights" — U2
• "Cool" — Gwen Stefani
• "Dakota" - Stereophonics
• "Dance, Dance" — Fall Out Boy
• "DARE" — Gorillaz
• "Determined" — Mudvayne
• "Dirty Little Secret" — The All-American Rejects
• "DOA" — Foo Fighters
• "Don't Bother" — Shakira
• "Don't Cha" — Pussycat Dolls
• "Don't Forget About Us" — Mariah Carey
• "Don't Lie" — The Black Eyed Peas
• "Don't Phunk with My Heart" — The Black Eyed Peas
• "Don't Tread on Me" — 311
• "Everybody's Changing" — Keane
• "Feel Good Inc." — Gorillaz
• "Fix You" — Coldplay
• "Four to the Floor" — Starsailor
• "Fuck Them All" — Mylène Farmer
• "Galang" — M.I.A.
• "Gasolina" — Daddy Yankee
• "Get Right" — Jennifer Lopez
• "Good Is Good" — Sheryl Crow
• "Grillz" — Nelly
• "Happy?" — Mudvayne
• "Hard to Beat" - Hard-Fi
• "Hate It or Love It" — The Game featuring 50 Cent
• "Have a Nice Day" — Bon Jovi
• "Helena" — My Chemical Romance
• "Holiday" — Green Day
• "Hollaback Girl" — Gwen Stefani
• "Hung Up" — Madonna
• "Hypnotize" — System of a Down
• "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" — My Chemical Romance
• "Incomplete" — Backstreet Boys
• "Inside Your Heaven" — Carrie Underwood
• "La Tortura" — Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz
• "Le Casse de Brice" — Jean Dujardin
• "Let Me Love You" — Mario
• "Lonely" — Akon
• "Lonely No More" — Rob Thomas
• "Lose Control" — Missy Elliott featuring Ciara
• "Lyla" — Oasis
• "Ma Philosophie" — Amel Bent
• "Mind's Eye" — Wolfmother
• "Mon Plus Beau Noël" - Johnny Hallyday
• "My Humps" — The Black Eyed Peas
• "Numb/Encore" — Jay-Z and Linkin Park
• "Obsession" — Frankie J featuring Baby Bash
• "Oh" — Ciara featuring Ludacris
• "Ohio Is for Lovers" — Hawthorne Heights
• "Only" — Nine Inch Nails
• "Perfection" — Dannii Minogue
• "Photograph" — Nickelback
• "Pieces" — Sum 41
• "Pon de Replay" — Rihanna
• "Popcorn" — Crazy Frog
• "Precious" — Depeche Mode
• "Pretty Vegas" — INXS
• "Radio/Video" — System of a Down
• "Rich Girl" — Gwen Stefani featuring Eve
• "Run It!" — Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana
• "San ou (la rivière)" - Dezil'
• "Santiano" - Star Academy 5
• "Scars" — Papa Roach
• "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil" — Schnappi
• "Shake It Off" — Mariah Carey
• "Since U Been Gone" — Kelly Clarkson
• "Soldier" — Destiny's Child featuring T.I. and Lil Wayne
• "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" — U2
• "Somewhere Only We Know" — Keane
• "Speed of Sound" — Coldplay
• "Start the Fire" — Alcazar
• "Stay Fly" — Three 6 Mafia featuring Young Buck & 8Ball & MJG
• "Stickwitu" — Pussycat Dolls
• "Sugar, We're Goin Down" — Fall Out Boy
• "Talk" — Coldplay
• "The Ghost of You" — My Chemical Romance
• "The Hand That Feeds" — Nine Inch Nails
• "The Importance of Being Idle" — Oasis
• "The Suffering" — Coheed and Cambria
• "These Words" — Natasha Bedingfield
• "This Is How a Heart Breaks" — Rob Thomas
• "Trapped in the Closet" — R. Kelly
• "Twisted Transistor" — KoЯn
• "Un Monde parfait" — Ilona Mitrecey
• "Unwritten" — Natasha Bedingfield
• "Wake Me Up When September Ends" — Green Day
• "We Belong Together" — Mariah Carey
• "What Car" - Cliff Richard
• "When I'm Gone" - Eminem
• "Wordplay" — Jason Mraz
• "You and Me" - Lifehouse
• "You Raise Me Up" - Westlife (UK)
• "You're Beautiful" — James Blunt
• "Your Time Has Come" — Audioslave

Classical music

• Louis Andriessen - De Opening
• Joël-François Durand - String Quartet
• Lorenzo Ferrero - Maciulli Mexihcateteouch - Five Aztec Gods
• Christian Forshaw - Mortal Flesh
• Philip Glass - Symphony No. 8
• Alun Hoddinott - Celebration Fanfare (one-off composition for the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales)
• Karl Jenkins - Requiem: In These Horizons Stones Sing
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Naxos Quartet No. 6
  • Naxos Quartet No. 7
• Krzysztof Penderecki - Symphony No. 8 Lieder der Vergänglichkeit
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • Book of Visions for orchestra
  • Manhattan Trilogy for strings
• Karlheinz Stockhausen –
  • Freude (Joy) for two harps
  • Himmels-Tür (Heaven's Door) for a percussionist and a little girl
• Stephen Warbeck - Peter Pan (ballet)
• Ian Wilson - Sullen Earth (concerto)

Opera

• Mark Adamo - Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess
• John Coolidge Adams - Doctor Atomic
• Philippe Boesmans - Julie
• Richard Danielpour - Margaret Garner
• Matthew Dewey - The Death of Chatterton
• Lorenzo Ferrero - La conquista
• Nicholas Lens - The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Amor Aeternus - Hymns of Love
• Lorin Maazel - 1984
• Roger Waters - Ça Ira

Musical theater

• Acorn Antiques: The Musical! opens at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February.
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Broadway production opens at the Circle in the Square Theatre on May 2.
• All Shook Up (Joe DiPietro) - The Broadway production opens at the Palace Theatre on March 24 and runs for 213 performances.
• Billy Elliot the Musical (Elton John & Lee Hall) opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, in March.
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - The Broadway production opens at the Foxwoods Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre) on April 28 and runs for 285 performances.
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Broadway production opens at the Imperial Theatre on March 3 and runs for 627 performances
• Good Vibrations opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 2 and runs for 94 performances
• Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar opens at the Rialto Theatre, Madrid.
• Lennon (John Lennon, Don Scardino) opens in San Francisco in April. The Broadway production opens at the Broadhurst Theatre on August 14 and runs for 49 performances
• The Light in the Piazza (Craig Lucas & Adam Guettel) - The Broadway production opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on April 18 and runs for 504 performances.
• Little Women (Allan Knee, Mindi Dickstein & Jason Howland) - The Broadway production opens at the Virginia Theatre on January 23 and runs for 137 performances
• Monty Python's Spamalot opens at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago on January 9.
• One Life: A Musical Story of the Life of Joseph Smith - Written by Kari Skousen & Rebecca Thompson-Duvall; Directed by Skousen
• The Woman in White Broadway production opens at the Marquis Theatre on November 17 and runs for 109 performances.

Musical films

• Boss'n Up (December 6)
• Mrs Henderson Presents starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Will Young
• The Producers (December 16)
• Rent (November 23)

Births

• August 3 - Owen Isabelle Landau, daughter of Michelle Branch and husband Teddy Landau
• September 14 - Sean Preston Federline, son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
• September 24 - Aiden Michael Bice, son of Bo Bice and wife Caroline Fisher.

Deaths

January

• January 11
  • Spencer Dryden, American drummer of Jefferson Airplane, 61
  • Jimmy Griffin, co-founder of Bread, 61
  • Miriam Hyde, Australian composer, 91
• January 15 - Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano, 81
• January 24 - June Bronhill, Australian soprano, 75
• January 28 - Jim Capaldi, British drummer and vocalist, 60
• January 30 - Martyn Bennett, Scottish bagpiper, 33 (cancer)

February

• February 1 - Franco Mannino, Italian composer, 80
• February 3 - David Hönigsberg, composer and conductor, 45
• February 8
  • Helmut Eder, Austrian composer, 88
  • Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist, 77
• February 9 - Tyrone Davis, American soul singer, 66
• February 13 - Sixten Ehrling, Swedish conductor, 86
• February 16 - Marcello Viotti, Swiss conductor, 50 (stroke)
• February 28 - Chris Curtis, British drummer and vocalist, 63
• February 29 - Edward Patten, R&B/soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips), 65

March

• March 4 - Una Hale, soprano, 82
• March 6 - Tommy Vance, DJ, 63
• March 9
  • Chris LeDoux, country music singer, 56
  • Kathie Kay, big band singer, 86
• March 10 - Danny Joe Brown, former lead singer of Molly Hatchet, 53 (kidney failure)
• March 21 - Bobby Short, singer, 80
• March 22 - Rod Price, guitarist, 57 (Foghat)
• March 26 - Paul Hester, drummer for Crowded House and Split Enz, 46 (suicide)
• March 27
  • Grant Johannesen, pianist, 83
  • Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer and composer, 58
• March 28 - Moura Lympany, pianist, 88
• March 30 - Derrick Plourde, former drummer Lagwagon and the Ataris, 33 (suicide)

April

• April 2 - Alexander Brott, conductor and composer, 90
• April 7 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer, 82
• April 10 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist, 82
• April 12 - Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, 63
• April 13 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist, 80
• April 14 - John Fred, pop singer, 64
• April 18 - Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor, 75
• April 19
  • Bryan Ottoson, guitarist of American Head Charge, 27 (overdose)
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist, 58
• April 23 - Robert Farnon, composer, arranger, 87
• April 25 - Hasil Adkins, American rockabilly musician, 67
• April 28 - Percy Heath, jazz musician, 81

May

• May 8 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghan singer, 36 (murdered)
• May 10 - David Wayne, former singer of Metal Church, 47 (injuries resulting from car crash)
• May 14 - Jimmy Martin, bluegrass musician, 77
• May 22 - Thurl Ravenscroft, US singer, 91
• May 25
  • Ruth Laredo, pianist, 67
  • Domenic Troiano, guitarist The Guess Who, 59
• May 29 - George Rochberg, composer, 86

June

• June 13 - David Diamond, American composer, 89
• June 14 - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor, 91
• June 17 - Karl Mueller, bassist of Soul Asylum, 41
• June 30 - Clancy Eccles, ska/reggae singer, 64 (complications after heart attack)

July

• July 1
  • Luther Vandross, R&B singer, 54
  • Renaldo "Obie" Benson, R&B/soul singer (Four Tops), 69
• July 11 - Frances Langford, US singer and actress, 91
• July 17 - Laurel Aitken, ska singer, heart attack, 78
• July 18 - John Herald songwriter, musician, member of The Greenbriar Boys, 65
• July 21 - Long John Baldry, R&B singer, 64
• July 23 – Myron Floren, accordionist, 85
• July 27 - Robert Wright, songwriter, 90
• July 29 - Hildegarde, US singer, 99

August

• August 4 - Little Milton, blues musician,70
• August 6 - Carlo Little, British studio musician, drummer, 67
• August 13 - Arnold Cooke, British composer, 98
• August 21 - Robert Moog, electronic music pioneer, 71
• August 22 - Luc Ferrari, composer, 76
• August 26 - Denis D'Amour, guitarist of Voivod, 45

September

• September 1 - R. L. Burnside, blues musician, 78
• September 10 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, blues musician, 81
• September 15
  • Jeronimas Kačinskas, Lithuanian-born composer and conductor, 98
  • Sidney Luft, ex-husband of Judy Garland, father of Lorna Luft, and producer of A Star Is Born, 89
• September 17 - Alfred Reed, American composer of concert band music, 84
• September 18
  • Chas Smit, vocalist and guitarist of Plush, 23
  • Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter, 66
• September 19 - William Vacchiano, trumpet player, 93

October

• October 18 - Marshall Rohner, guitarist for TSOL, The Cruzados, 42
• October 22 - Franky Gee (Captain Jack), 43 (cerebral haemorrhage)
• October 31 - John "Beatz" Holohan, drummer for Bayside, 31

November

• November 4 - Mana Nishiura, drummer (Shonen Knife, DMBQ), 34 (car accident)
• November 6 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer, 38 (leukemia)
• November 10 - Gardner Read, American composer, 92
• November 20 - Chris Whitley, singer-songwriter, 45 (lung cancer)
• November 26
  • Mark Craney, drummer (Jethro Tull, Jean-Luc Ponty), 53
  • Joe Jones, 79
• November 28 - Tony Meehan, former drummer of The Shadows, 62
• November 29 - Deon van der Walt, tenor, 47 (shot)

December

• December 8 - Danny Williams, singer, 63
• December 24 - Constance Keene, American pianist, 84
• December 25
  • Derek Bailey, guitarist, 75
  • Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano, 87

Awards

• ARIA Music Awards of 2005
• 2005 BRIT Awards
• Eurovision Song Contest 2005
• Grammy Awards of 2005
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005
• Juno Awards of 2005
• Mercury Prize 2005
• Triple J Hottest 100, 2005

Glenn Gould Prize

• André Previn (laureate), Roman Potkoló (protégé)

See also

• 2005 in British music
• 2005 in country music
• 2005 in heavy metal music

References

1. ^ http://www.idmonsters.com/archives/2004/07/copyright_law_a.php
2. ^ Nightwish - The Official Website

External links

• Pause & Play's Past 2005 Releases