Fifty years ago, I made my first appeared on the Earth. In celebration, we are going to take a look at the year-end Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for each year of my life and see what songs resonated with me at the time and if they continue to do so to this day.
We continue our look back at the music of my lifetime with 2005, the year Michael was born, I went to Europe for the first time, I celebrated my 31st birthday, and the White Sox won the World Series. 22 of these songs remain familiar to me today, with just nine of them appearing in my collection in one way or another.
#77: Ludacris – Get Back
iTunes stats: 36 plays
Featured as the ending theme to Tropic Thunder, the song peaked at #13 in January.
#68: Foo Fighters – Best of You
iTunes stats: 31 plays
Topping the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks and the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks, it was their highest charting single on the Hot 100, reaching #18.
#46: Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
iTunes stats: 31 plays
Written about the death of frontman Billy Joe Armstrong’s father when he was 10, it went to #6 and remains their final top ten hit.
#43: Nickelback – Photograph
iTunes stats: N/A
The lead single from their fifth studio album, it became the band’s third top ten hit, going to #2.
#39: Green Day – Holiday
iTunes stats: 26 plays
Topping both the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, it peaked at #19 on the Hot 100.
#35: DHT featuring Edmee – Listen to Your Heart
iTunes stats: 21 plays
This cover of the Roxette hit reached #8.
#32: Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
iTunes stats: 26 plays
The 2007 Grammy winner for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, it topped out at #3.
#31: Gwen Stefani featuring Eve – Rich Girl
iTunes stats: 11 plays
Produced by Dr. Dre, it spent more than six months on the Hot 100, going as high as #7.
#23: Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot
iTunes stats: 27 plays
Featuring on the year-end chart for the second time, it spent three weeks at #1.
#20: Weezer – Beverly Hills
iTunes stats: 18 plays
The band’s most successful single on the Hot 100, it peaked at #10 and was their first charting track since 1994.
#16: The Killers – Mr. Brightside
iTunes stats: 35 plays
First released in 2003, it was re-released in 2004, where it went to #10.
#13: Black Eyed Peas – Don’t Phunk with My Heart
iTunes stats: 26 plays
The 2007 Grammy winner for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, it topped out at #3.
#9: The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes – Don’t Cha
iTunes stats: 26 plays
The track spent three weeks at #2 and remains the group’s highest-charting song.
#7: Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
iTunes stats: 20 plays
Peaking at #2, it is still the highest-charting sone of the band’s career.
#6: Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx – Gold Digger
iTunes stats: 26 plays
The Grammy winner for Best Rap Solo Performance, it spent ten weeks at #1 in the fall of 2005.
#4: Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
iTunes stats: 35 plays
The lead single from the American Idol winner’s sophomore effort, it topped out at #2 while spending 20 weeks in the top ten.
#2: Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
iTunes stats: 24 plays
Nominated for the two Grammys, the song spent four weeks atop the Hot 100 in the spring.
No, this is not the same picture we used to kick off the month, but the theme is the same. Unfortunately, due to illness, we don’t have a lot of choices for Michael pictures these days. So, we celebrate Michael’s 19th birthday with another shot prior to his high school graduation last May.
On April 10, 1994, while watching 120 Minutes in my dorm room late on a Sunday night, I saw the video for Liz Phair’s Never Said, the lead single from her debut album, for the first time. Nearly 30 years later, she came to the Chicago Theatre for the 30th anniversary of the release of Exile in Guyville.
