Best-Selling Music of 2005

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2005 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Coldplay's X&Y topped 2005, anchoring a list where earnest British guitar pop reigned. James Blunt's Back To Bedlam, KT Tunstall's Eye To The Telescope and Kaiser Chiefs' Employment all charted strongly, while Gorillaz's Demon Days brought art-pop invention. The crossover entries surprise: the classical-pop trio Il Divo's Ancora landed high, alongside Jeff Wayne's perennial The War of the Worlds and Kate Bush's long-awaited comeback Aerial. Antony and the Johnsons' Mercury-winning I Am A Bird Now and Arcade Fire's Funeral nodded to the year's critical darlings. Between Blunt's ballads and Tunstall's debut, 2005 captured a moment when sincere, songwriterly Britain dominated the racks.

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X&Y

3.9 · 579

Back To Bedlam

4.5 · 519

Intensive Care

4.1 · 133

Demon Days

4.4 · 177

Employment

4.0 · 179

Eye To The Telescope

4.5 · 142

Confessions on a Dance Floor

4.5 · 255

Piece By Piece

4.4 · 132

Now That's What I Call Music! 62

4.4 · 45

In Between Dreams

4.6 · 246

Life in Slow Motion

4.7 · 71

Hot Fuss

4.5 · 337

Aerial

4.4 · 402

Hopes and Fears

4.4 · 328

Tourist

4.0 · 86

Don't Believe the Truth

4.0 · 171

Ancora

4.5 · 93

American Idiot

4.5 · 474

In Your Honour

4.3 · 142

You Could Have It So Much Better

4.3 · 72

The Magic Numbers

4.1 · 88

Breakaway

4.8 · 160

Get Behind Me Satan

4.2 · 92

Face To Face

4.3 · 64

Keep On

4.2 · 86

The War of the Worlds

4.8 · 689

Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology

4.5 · 100

Careless Love

4.6 · 129

Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits

4.6 · 109

Ultimate Collection

4.7 · 260

Supernature

4.5 · 96

Amarantine

4.6 · 139

Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection

4.6 · 276

Franz Ferdinand

4.2 · 191

I Am A Bird Now

4.5 · 118

Monkey Business

4.4 · 57

Love Angel Music Baby

4.2 · 121

Kasabian

4.3 · 158

Taller In More Ways [Special Edition]

4.3 · 52

Funeral

4.6 · 204

Pop Party 3

4.4 · 14

Stars of CCTV

4.1 · 120

Daniel Powter (U.S. Release)

4.3 · 34

Dynamite

4.4 · 64

4.5 · 273

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

4.0 · 212

The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III

4.8 · 661

Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

4.1 · 77

It'S Time [U.S. Version]

4.6 · 119

Bullet in a Bible [CD + DVD]

4.8 · 132

Late Registration

4.5 · 86

Curtain Call - The Hits

4.6 · 207

Songs About Jane

4.6 · 248

Push the Button

4.1 · 61

Devils & Dust

4.0 · 63

Il Divo

4.7 · 208

Greatest Hits

4.5 · 172

4.1 · 114

Final Straw

4.5 · 169

(Is This the Way To) Amarillo (Comic Relief)

4.5 · 25

Now That's What I Call Music! 61

4.4 · 43

The Singles [2CD]

4.6 · 20

Some Cities

4.3 · 48

Silent Alarm

4.4 · 125

Dark Side of the Moon

4.6 · 6

Now That's What I Call Music! 60

4.6 · 39

Mind Body And Soul

4.4 · 61

Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005

4.4 · 41

G4 And Friends

4.8 · 47

Thanks For The Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume I...

4.6 · 78

The Bravery

4.3 · 48

John Peel - A Tribute

4.1 · 22

Brushfire Fairytales

4.6 · 61

Don't Believe The Truth

4.6 · 20

Up All Night

4.1 · 105

Get Lifted

4.7 · 138

Tissues and Issues

4.2 · 39

Catching Tales

4.6 · 32

Mezmerize

4.6 · 107

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

4.4 · 332

The Ultimate Collection

4.6 · 143

I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

4.6 · 58

Back to Bedlam

4.5 · 519

Intensive Care [CD + DVD]

4.1 · 133

One Way Ticket To Hell ... And Back

4.0 · 117

A Bigger Bang

4.4 · 68

Greatest Hits: Mariah Carey

4.4 · 88

Counting Down the Days

4.2 · 39

The Best Of The Mamas And The Papas

4.7 · 239

Takk...

4.7 · 155

Swinging The Blues, Dancing The Ska

4.7 · 66

On and On

4.7 · 67

Parachutes

4.4 · 412

Easy Weight Loss

4.1 · 58

Wonderland

4.6 · 67

Pushing The Senses [Limited Edition] [CD + DVD]

4.1 · 72

Sanctuary

4.8 · 37

Finally Woken

4.6 · 50

Acoustic Love

4.2 · 23

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