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Here Are the Billboard Hot 100’s Top Songs of 2005: Nos. 100 to 1

Count down the biggest hits on the 2005 year-end Billboard Hot 100, based on weekly performance on the chart.

Elsewhere, 50 Cent boasts four entries in the top 20; Carrie Underwood places with her American Idol coronation ballad, “Inside Your Heaven”; and hits dot the ranking from the debut solo albums from No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani and Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas. As of 2025, while the song holds the fifth-longest domination – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, leads with 56 weeks on top in 2017-18 – “La Tortura” remains the longest-leading No. Billboard noted in print that week, “Reggae songstress makes her chart debut, getting strong airplay at various formats in major markets like New York, Boston and Philadelphia.”

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