User:Sergecross73/2005 in rock

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2005.

January

 * Green Day's single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" starts its fourteen consecutive weeks atop the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart. The song finds crossover success as well, eventually peaking as number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
 * Feeder releases their fifth studio album, Pushing the Senses. The album debuts at a career-high number 2 on the national UK albums chart, though critical reception is mixed, with some criticizing the band's temporary move to a more piano-based, Coldplay influenced sound.

February

 * Bloc Party - Silent Alarm #2 UK/Ireland
 * Doves - Some Cities UK/Ireland
 * Three Doors Down - Seventeen Days - #1

March

 * QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze

April

 * Audioslave - Be Yourself - 7 weeks rock
 * Rob Thomas - ...Something to Be
 * Garbage - Bleed Like Me
 * Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

May

 * Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
 * Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
 * Weezer - Make Believe
 * System of a Down - Mezmerize
 * Audioslave - Out of Exile
 * Green Day's single "Holiday" peaks at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

July

 * Foo Fighters - "Best of You" 4 weeks rock

October

 * Green Day's single "Wake Me Up When September Ends" peaks at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

November

 * Shinedown - "Save Me" 12 weeks rock

Deaths

 * Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, One of the most influential figures in Argentine music, he was a forerunner of Argentine rock and Argentine heavy metal.
 * Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, dies of throat cancer.