Our 2005 Week continues here with a look back at the Billboard Hot 100 chart’s top songs from that year, to go with the list of staff favorites our editorial team published earlier this week.

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around.

This is a recurring feature in celebration of the show’s 25th anniversary. A shortened version of this episode ran earlier in ...

But what songs from 2005 still deserve play this summer? We combed the charts and record releases of early 2005 and came up with at least 11 songs that are still great summer songs, even now.

Turn the clock back 20 years and let these timeless cuts from Kelly Clarkson, Dave Matthews Band and more shape your summer.

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