American Top 40 2005 Year End Chart (Complete)

[Cerebro]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - DECEMBER 24 and 31, 2005
TOP 100 OF 2005 YEAR END CHART
100 Jennifer Lopez featuring Fat Joe - Hold You Down
099 Eminem featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent - Encore
098 Lenny Kravitz - Lady
097 Nelly - N Dey Say
096 Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana - Run It!
095 Simple Plan - Welcome To My Life
094 50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)
093 Destiny's Child - Girl
092 Ludacris - Get Back
091 Snoop Dogg featuring Uncle Charlie Wilson and Justin Timberlake - Signs
090 Ashanti - Only U
089 Good Charlotte - I Just Wanna Live
088 Frankie J. - More Than Words
087 Omarion - O
086 Seether featuring Amy Lee - Broken
085 Jennifer Lopez featuring Fabolous - Get Right
084 Trick Daddy featuring Lil' Jon and Twista - Let's Go
083 Ludacris featuring Bobby Valentino - Pimpin' All Over The World
082 Jet - Look What You've Done
081 Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
080 Pretty Ricky - Your Body
079 Bow Wow featuring Ciara - Like You
078 John Mayer - Daughters
077 Akon - Belly Dancer (Bananza)
076 Maroon5 - Sunday Morning
075 Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Home
074 Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending
073 Nickelback - Photograph
072 Usher and Alicia Keys - My Boo
071 Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
070 The Click Five - Just The Girl
069 Gorillaz featuring De La Soul - Feel Good Inc.
068 The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Lie
067 Mariah Carey featuring Fat Man Scoop and Jermaine Dupri - It's Like That
066 Switchfoot - Dare You To Move
065 Ryan Cabrera - On The Way Down
064 Pretty Ricky - Grind With Me
063 Bowling For Soup - Almost
062 The Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
061 Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
060 Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot
059 Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
058 Bow Wow featuring Omarion - Let Me Hold You
057 Ciara featuring Petey deleted - Goodies
056 Simple Plan - Untitled (How Can This Happen To Me?)
055 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
054 The Game featuring 50 Cent - Hate It Or Love It
053 Frankie J. - How To Deal
052 Maroon5 - She Will Be Loved
051 Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
050 The Game featuring 50 Cent - How We Do
049 Green Day - Holiday
048 Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You
047 Crossfade - Cold
046 Gwen Stefani - Cool
045 Lil' Jon and The East Side Boyz featuring Usher and Ludacris - Lovers And Friends
044 Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Numb/Encore
043 50 Cent - Just A Lil' Bit
042 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
041 Akon - Lonely
040 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words
039 Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
038 Baby Bash featuring Akon - Baby I'm Back
037 Howie Day - Collide
036 Fat Joe featuring Nelly - Get It Poppin'
035 Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fat Man Scoop - Lose Control
034 Ryan Cabrera - True
033 Nelly featuring Tim McGraw - Over And Over
032 Natalie - Goin' Crazy
031 Ciara featuring Ludacris - Oh
030 Destiny's Child featuring T.I. and Lil' Wayne - Soldier
029 50 Cent featuring Olivia - Candy Shop
028 Weezer - Beverly Hills
027 Eminem - Mockingbird
026 Mariah Carey - Shake It Off
025 The Killers - Mr. Brightside
024 Trick Daddy featuring Ludacris, Lil' Kim, and Cee-Lo - Sugar (Gimme Some)
023 Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
022 Alicia Keys - Karma
021 Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul
020 Rihanna - Pon De Replay
019 D.H.T. - Listen To Your Heart
018 Gavin DeGraw - I Don't Want To Be
017 Gwen Stefani featuring Eve - Rich Girl
016 Frankie J. featuring Baby Bash - Obsession (No Es Amor)
015 50 Cent - Disco Inferno
014 Lifehouse - You And Me
013 Will Smith - Switch
012 Papa Roach - Scars
011 The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart
010 Usher featuring Fabolous - Caught Up
009 The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes - Don't Cha
008 Mario - Let Me Love You
007 3 Doors Down - Let Me Go
006 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
005 Ciara featuring Missy Elliott - 1, 2 Step
004 Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
003 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
002 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
001 Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone  ** No. 1 Song of 2005 **

NOTES ON EDITED/SKIPPED SONGS:
Part I (thanks to Arson for the notes on this part):
• Edited songs (90 seconds or less):  "Encore" (#99), "Welcome To My Life" (#95), "Signs" (#91)
• Skipped songs (treated as "Optional Extras" and skipped on several stations):  "O" (#87), "Nobody's Home" (#75), "Almost" (#63), "How To Deal" (#53)
Part II:
• Edited songs (90 seconds or less):  "Cold" (#47), "Lonely" (#41), "Soldier" (#30)
• Skipped songs (treated as "Optional Extras" and skipped on several stations):  "Collide" (#37), "Mr. Brightside" (#25), "Scars" (#12)

[Hervard]

WKCS ran the show at a special time, starting at 6:00 this morning (it usually runs Sunday morning - hope they're planning to rebroadcast it then!), so I tuned in late at #67. But Ryan is starting to become more like Dees. First of all, he calls his gossip segment "Sleaze" and now, he's skipping over songs. The songs that I heard him give only the title and artist were "Almost" and "How To Deal" Naturally, they're songs we don't hear anymore! Why couldn't he have nixed "On The Way Down" or "She Will Be Loved", songs that had most of their chart life in 2004?
Because playing obscure songs is a no-no. I'll betcha anything that Dees skips over these songs too. Of course, maybe not. For the past few years, he's skipped over many of the holdovers from the previous year (I haven't heard Dees yet, so I haven't looked at that topic).

[Cerebro]

ulij20 said:

...and now, he's skipping over songs.  The songs that I heard him give only the title and artist were "Almost" and "How To Deal"  Naturally, they're songs we don't hear anymore! 

Odd. I heard both of those songs. All 50 are showing up on yes.com, indicating the Ryan isn't skipping anything. Perhaps some stations are skipping songs due to time contraints.

[Arson]

cerebro said:

I heard both of those songs.  All 50 are showing up on yes.com, indicating the Ryan isn't skipping anything.  Perhaps some stations are skipping songs due to time contraints.

Good that the songs aired in some stations... I hate it when they skip songs on year-end countdowns (unless they were holdovers from the previous year).

[Johnser]

gil said:

cerebro said:

I heard both of those songs.  All 50 are showing up on yes.com, indicating the Ryan isn't skipping anything.  Perhaps some stations are skipping songs due to time contraints.

Good that the songs aired in some stations... I hate it when they skip songs on year-end countdowns (unless they were holdovers from the previous year).

Why in the blue hell are "On The Way Down" and "She Will Be Loved" on this year's countdown? Will "Yeah!" be on here too after being #1 for all of last year?

[richie]

cerebro said:

ulij20 said:

...and now, he's skipping over songs.  The songs that I heard him give only the title and artist were "Almost" and "How To Deal"  Naturally, they're songs we don't hear anymore! 

Odd.  I heard both of those songs.  All 50 are showing up on yes.com, indicating the Ryan isn't skipping anything.  Perhaps some stations are skipping songs due to time contraints.

Maybe some of them are designated as "optional extras." LOL

[musicfan9383]

gil said:

Why in the blue hell are "On The Way Down" and "She Will Be Loved" on this year's countdown?  Will "Yeah!" be on here too after being #1 for all of last year?

I hope Yeah isn't on the countdown i got enough of that song in 2004.

[Diablo Cody™]

wtf at goodies and on the way down

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

Compared to Dees' chart this looks pretty good. I don't see "In da Club", "Someday", "The Reason", "With You" or anything else from the past 2 preceding years on here.

It also bugs me that they don't play the newer/lesser-known songs. Part of why I wanted to hear the countdowns is to hear the new stuff on the lower part, but they come on so damn early that I guess the point is moot.

[jasonharper2004]

were there any extra songs

I will check it today when it airs on KIIS FM LA At 8am-noon

[jasonharper2004]

Some of the songs were only played for 90 seconds 

#99 Eminem
#95 Simple plan 

[richie]

jasonharper2004 said:

were there any extra songs 

I will check it today when it airs on KIIS FM LA At 8am-noon

It sounded like he was going to a commercial break after he played O by Omarion. No commercials. Then he repeated that Omarion was at #87, and played #86. This was at the end of hour 1, so this allowed for some songs to be dropped out. I guess he did the same thing at the beginning of hours 3 and 4.

[Arson]

jasonharper2004 said:

Some of the songs were only played for 90 seconds 

#99 Eminem
#95 Simple plan 

Arrghh... that's not good either (unless, again, it was on last year's countdown).  Casey Kasem never did that, did he?  I will listen to the show later this afternoon.

[Hervard]

computerfreak said:

wtf at goodies and on the way down

Those songs were on the chart in early 2005. They're ranked so high because they apparently got enough airplay.
Several people have asked about "Yeah!" by Usher. If this chart is anything like the Mediabase 24/7 Year-To-Date chart, "Yeah!" will probably be somewhere in the 40s.

[Arson]

I just listened to Part I of the yearend countdown... I usually enjoy #51-100 more than #1-50, but I found myself still very bored of almost all the songs on the countdown.

I think richie was right that there was a choice for stations to drop songs at the top of each hour, probably as this week's "optional extras."  Unfortunately, my local station opted to cut these songs out, which is disappointing.  I don't think they play optional extras ordinarily, though I can't say since I don't listen to this show on a weekly basis.

Last year, there seemed to be more segments with 5 songs played between commercials.  This year, segments were mostly 4 songs long, or 3 songs long (especially in the final hour).  I guess this also depends on the station, and on whether the optional extras were played.

90-SECONDS OR LESS OF SONGS

The strategy for the first hour was to play only the first verse and the chorus of certain songs (as jasonharper mentioned above).

Eminem - "Encore" (#99)
(talk about abrupt interruption... Ryan Seacrest just cut in as the second verse was starting.)

Simple Plan - "Welcome To My Life" (#95)
(played first verse, chorus, and then the final "Welcome to My Life", so at least it was a tad less intrusive)

Snoop Dogg - "Signs" (#91)
(another abrupt interruption)

SKIPPED SONGS FOR SOME STATIONS

Omarion - "O" (#87)
(at the top of the 2nd hour - and right afterward, he played the full sleep-inducing 2004 hit from Seether f/ Amy Lee)

Avril Lavigne - "Nobody's Home" (#75)
(at the top of the 3rd hour, he says, "Avril Lavigne has #75 with "Nobody's Home" AND #74 with this song, "My Happy Ending".  Smooth transition, eh?   )

Bowling For Soup - "Almost" (#63)
(at the top of the 4th hour - so we can hear "My Humps" again, since we don't hear enough of it now)

Frankie J - "How To Deal" (#53)
(near the end of the 4th hour, to kick off the final segment of this week's show - but don't worry, you do get to hear "She Will Be Loved" instead)

SONGS ALSO ON TOP 100 OF 2004 COUNTDOWN

I counted 8 songs which also made the countdown last year.

Songs that placed higher last year
Avril Lavigne - "My Happy Ending" (57 spots lower this year)
Ryan Cabrera - "On The Way Down" (39 spots lower this year)
Maroon Five - "She Will Be Loved" (37 spots lower this year)
Seether - "Broken" (26 spots lower this year)
Ciara - "Goodies" (20 spots lower this year)
Usher f/ Alicia Keys - "My Boo" (8 spots lower than last year)

If any songs had to be shortened or cut out, it should have been these.

He even said "Goodies" by Ciara was a "big one this year."  

There were also interview clips from Ashanti, Frankie J., Ludacris, Bow Wow, Fall Out Boy, Ryan Cabrera, and Kanye West which could have been cut (sorry, but I would rather have heard another song).

Songs that placed higher this year, barely
Destiny's Child - "Lose My Breath" (2 spots higher this year)
Switchfoot - "Dare You To Move" (5 spots higher this year)

[top40dj]

You know what though...OTWD and Goodies are on R7R's Top 100 of 2005 too.

[Slinky]

richie said:

Maybe some of them are designated as "optional extras."  LOL

You're probably right actually. AT40 does the optional extras because some stations want to put in extra commercials. Since there are no extras to take out for commercials this countdown, they just made some of the countdown songs optional.

Most CC stations probably didn't skip songs.

[johnnywest]

computerfreak said:

wtf at goodies and on the way down

"On The Way Down" was on the countdown until April and "Goodies" was on until March. If you include December (which is what R&R includes in their tracking period), then each song would've been on the countdown for at least 3 months. It would've been more out of place if these songs had NOT been included.

By contrast, "Hold You Down" (Song #100) was only in the Top 40 for 8 weeks.

[soulster]

Will the Top 50 songs be played this weekend?
Any guesses on the Top 5?

I'd say SUBG, BTHE, WBT, GD and... hmm... maybe Run It...

[Hervard]

If anyone gets their hands on a copy of this show and would like to do a trade, please PM me. Thanks in advance.

[Cerebro]

Bumping this thread up instead of starting a new one. Part II is being added to my initial post as I listen to the show. Might as well keep the whole chart together.

[iloveleannrimes]

Sweet Kelly!!!!!

[johnnywest]

Ryan mentioned that Natasha Bedingfield was in the Guinness Book of Records for being the only sister to hit #1 in the U.K. whose brother also hit #1 (Daniel).

Destinys Child have had 3 #1s this decade, have sold 14 million albums, and had a #1 album this year called "#1s."

"Caught Up" jumped 16 spots in February.

"Don't Cha" hit #1 in Australia, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and the U.K.

"Hollaback Girl" was the first song to be downloaded legally a million times.

Both Ciara and Kelly Clarkson spent every week on the chart in 2005.

"Dreamlover" spent 9 weeks at #1 and was the #1 song of 1993; "We Belong Together" became Mariah's 13th #1.

At #1, Clarkson talks about when she met Mariah.

[Johnser]

I am very surprised that "Yeah!" wasn't on Ryan's YE countdown. Pleasantly though. On Dees's countdown, I'm surprised it wasn't in the Top 30!

[Cerebro]

johnser said:

I am very surprised that "Yeah!" wasn't on Ryan's YE countdown.  Pleasantly though.   On Dees's countdown, I'm surprised it wasn't in the Top 30!

I guess they must have limited the chart to songs that were in the top 40 for the given chart year. AT40 did have that unexplainable "recurrent purge" the first week of November '04 of which "Yeah!" was among the many casualties. If that hadn't happened, the song would, surely, have bled into the '05 chart year and we would have probably heard it here. Songs like "Unwell", "Where Is The Love?", and "In Da Club" returned to the chart in '04 when Ryan took over and the show abandoned the R&R chart which is, probably, why they made his year end chart last year.

[richie]

cerebro said:

johnser said:

I am very surprised that "Yeah!" wasn't on Ryan's YE countdown.  Pleasantly though.   On Dees's countdown, I'm surprised it wasn't in the Top 30!

I guess they must have limited the chart to songs that were in the top 40 for the given chart year.  AT40 did have that unexplainable "recurrent purge" the first week of November '04 of which "Yeah!" was among the many casualties.  If that hadn't happened, the song would, surely, have bled into the '05 chart year and we would have probably heard it here.  Songs like "Unwell", "Where Is The Love?", and "In Da Club" returned to the chart in '04 when Ryan took over and the show abandoned the R&R chart which is, probably, why they made his year end chart last year.

He did play Yeah as the #1 song of '04 right before the top two songs of '05. The commercial break was after #3.

[BillboardBoy]

cerebro said:

johnser said:

I am very surprised that "Yeah!" wasn't on Ryan's YE countdown.  Pleasantly though.   On Dees's countdown, I'm surprised it wasn't in the Top 30!

I guess they must have limited the chart to songs that were in the top 40 for the given chart year

I just checked and couldn't find any songs that had fallen off in 2004 that made the top 100 list.