List of UK top 10 singles in 2005

2000s in music in the UK
Number-one singles
Number-one albums
Best-selling singles
Best-selling albums
Events 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Charts 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
←1999	2010→
Top 10 singles 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
←1999	2010→

The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2005, as well as songs which peaked in 2004 and 2006 but were in the top 10 in 2005. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).

Two-hundred and twenty-eight songs were in the top ten in 2005. Ten singles from 2004 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year. "When I'm Gone" by Eminem was the only song from 2005 that did not reach its peak until 2006. artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 2005. Akon, Arctic Monkeys, James Blunt, Kaiser Chiefs and The Pussycat Dolls were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 2005.

The 2004 Christmas number-one, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid 20 remained at number-one for the first week of 2005. The first new number-one single of the year was "Against All Odds" by 2004 X Factor winner Steve Brookstein. Overall, twenty-eight different songs peaked at number-one in 2005, with Elvis Presley (3) having the most songs hit that position.

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