Welcome to 2005! (15 Jan 2005)

Another year of classic 2000s pop music begins on the podcast where every week we are reliving the 40 biggest selling singles of this week 40 years ago. It's 2005, and things are about to change in a big way as the download charts get added to the main chart.

Before that happens, however, we are in for some very weird, but very fascinating, top 40s. Where else would you see Elvis Presley, fully dead since 1977, battling it out with a 20-year-old metal song, a new track from 80s synth legends Erasure, a catchy piece of Eurotrance, an X Factor winner as well as new tracks from Kasabian and the Scissor Sisters, both desperate to get their second top 10 hits. Will they do it, and who will get the 999th UK number one.

Find out on another episode of The 2000s Chart Show as we count down, review and reveal the fascinating stories behind the biggest songs from this week in 2005. In this week's episode, we're talking about the following songs:

3rd Wish - Obsession (Si Es Amor)

100 Percent feat. Jennifer John - Just Can’t Wait (Saturday)

Avid Merrion, Davina McCall and Patsy Kensit - I Got You Babe/Soda Pop

Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It’s Christmas

Blue - Curtain Falls

Brian McFadden - Irish Son

Britney Spears - My Prerogative

Christina Aguilera feat. Missy Elliott - Car Wash

Dana Rayne - Object of My Desire

Destiny’s Child - Lose My Breath

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

Eminem - Just Lose It

Erasure - Breathe

Eric Prydz - Call On Me

Geri Halliwell - Ride It

Girls Aloud - I’ll Stand By You

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

Ice Cube feat. Mack 10 and Ms Toi - You Can Do it

Interpol - Evil

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Jamelia - DJ/Stop

Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Numb/Encore

Kasabian - Cutt Off

Kylie Minogue - I Believe in You

Lemar - If There’s Any Justice

Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Forward)

Michael Gray - The Weekend

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Nelly and Christina Aguilera - Tilt Ya Head Back

Robbie Williams - Misunderstood

Ronan Keating and Yusuf - Father and Son

Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous

Seagulls Ska - Tom Hark (We Want Falmer)

Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It’s Hot

Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds

U2 - Vertigo

Uniting Nations - Out of Touch

Urban Cookie Collective - The Key The Secret 2005

Usher - Confessions Part II/My Boo

Join host Samuel Spencer for this week's episode of The 2000s Chart Show, the pop music podcast where each week we revisit the 40 biggest selling songs of 20 years ago and reveal fascinating pop music trivia, forgotten stories from 2000s history and all the throwback tunes you could want.

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