# List of 2005 albums

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2005. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2005 in music.

## First quarter
### January

List of albums released in January 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| January 4 | Ol' Dirty Bastard | Osirus | Hip hop | Sure Shot Recordings | |
| January 5 | Firewind | Forged by Fire | Power metal | Century Media | |
| January 10 | Adam Green | Gemstones | Anti-folk, alternative country | Rough Trade | |
| January 10 | Kreator | Enemy of God | Thrash metal | SPV/Steamhammer | |
| January 11 | Cass McCombs | PREfection | | 4AD | |
| January 11 | The Fiery Furnaces | EP | Indie rock | Rough Trade | |
| January 11 | Living Colour | Live from CBGB's | Hard rock, funk, thrash metal | Epic | |
| January 11 | Trembling Blue Stars | The Seven Autumn Flowers | | Bar/None | |
| January 11 | Various artists | Coach Carter: Music from the Motion Picture | Hip hop, R&B | Capitol | |
| January 13 | The Chemical Brothers | Push the Button | Electronica | Virgin, Freestyle Dust, EMI | |
| January 17 | Arena | Pepper's Ghost | Progressive rock | Inside Out Music | |
| January 17 | Grave Digger | The Last Supper | Heavy metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| January 18 | Black Mountain | Black Mountain | Psychedelic rock, alternative rock, stoner rock | Jagjaguwar | |
| January 18 | Fozzy | All That Remains | Heavy metal, hard rock, alternative metal | Ash Records | |
| January 18 | The Game | The Documentary | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap | Aftermath, G-Unit, Interscope | |
| January 24 | Apocalyptica | Apocalyptica | Symphonic metal, neoclassical metal, progressive metal | Universal Music Germany, Vertigo | |
| January 24 | Dark Tranquillity | Character | Melodic death metal | Century Media | |
| January 24 | Erasure | Nightbird | Synth-pop | Mute | |
| January 24 | Glenn Hughes | Soul Mover | Hard rock, blue-eyed soul, funk rock | Frontiers, Yamaha, Sanctuary | |
| January 24 | LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | Dance-punk, electronica, indie rock | DFA, Capitol, EMI | |
| January 24 | Lou Barlow | Emoh | Folk rock, lo-fi | Merge, Domino | |
| January 24 | M83 | Before the Dawn Heals Us | Electronic, shoegaze, dream pop | Mute, Virgin, Gooom | |
| January 24 | Mercury Rev | The Secret Migration | Alternative rock | V2 | |
| January 25 | Adrian Belew | Side One | Rock | Sanctuary | |
| January 25 | ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Worlds Apart | Alternative rock, art rock, indie rock | Interscope | |
| January 25 | Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | Indie rock, folk rock | Righteous Babe | |
| January 25 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney | Superwolf | | Drag City | |
| January 25 | Bright Eyes | Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | Electronica, pop, synth-pop | Saddle Creek | |
| January 25 | Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | Folk, indie folk, folk rock | Saddle Creek | |
| January 25 | Chamillionaire & Paul Wall | Controversy Sells | Southern hip hop | Paid in Full | |
| January 25 | Geto Boys | The Foundation | Gangsta rap, Southern hip hop | Rap-A-Lot, Asylum, Elektra | |
| January 25 | Jimmy Chamberlin Complex | Life Begins Again | Jazz fusion | Sanctuary | |
| January 25 | Kenny Chesney | Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) | Country, Gulf and Western | BNA | |
| January 25 | LeAnn Rimes | This Woman | Country | Asylum, Curb | |
| January 25 | Low | The Great Destroyer | Slowcore | Sub Pop | |
| January 25 | The Octopus Project | One Ten Hundred Thousand Million | Indie rock, electronica | Peek-A-Boo | |
| January 25 | Plain White T's | All That We Needed | Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop | Fearless | |
| January 25 | Spock's Beard | Octane | Progressive rock | Inside Out Music | |
| January 31 | Athlete | Tourist | Soft rock | Parlophone | |
| January 31 | Feeder | Pushing the Senses | Alternative rock, power pop, post-Britpop | Echo | |
| January 31 | Masterplan | Aeronautics | Power metal | AFM | |

### February

List of albums released in February 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| February 1 | Anberlin | Never Take Friendship Personal | Alternative rock, emo | Tooth & Nail | |
| February 1 | Antony and the Johnsons | I Am a Bird Now | Chamber pop | Secretly Canadian | |
| February 1 | Brazilian Girls | Brazilian Girls | Alternative dance, downtempo, electronic | Verve | |
| February 1 | High on Fire | Blessed Black Wings | Stoner metal, sludge metal | Relapse | |
| February 1 | John Frusciante | Curtains | Acoustic, rock, indie folk | Record Collection | |
| February 1 | Mötley Crüe | Red, White & Crüe | Heavy metal, glam metal | Mötley | |
| February 1 | Unwritten Law | Here's to the Mourning | | Lava | |
| February 1 | WarCry | ¿Dónde Está La Luz? | Heavy metal, power metal | Jaus, Avispa | |
| February 2 | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm | Indie rock, post-punk revival, dance-punk | Wichita | |
| February 7 | Karnivool | Themata | Nu metal, progressive metal, alternative metal | Bieler Bros. | |
| February 8 | 3 Doors Down | Seventeen Days | Alternative rock, post-grunge | Universal | |
| February 8 | The Academy Is... | Almost Here | Pop, pop-punk, pop rock | Fueled by Ramen | |
| February 8 | Andrew Bird | Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs | Baroque pop, indie folk | Righteous Babe | |
| February 8 | Brian McKnight | Gemini | | Motown | |
| February 8 | Crowbar | Lifesblood for the Downtrodden | Sludge metal | Candlelight | |
| February 8 | Eisley | Room Noises | Indie rock | Reprise | |
| February 8 | Lee Ann Womack | There's More Where That Came From | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| February 8 | Michael Bublé | It's Time | Vocal jazz, traditional pop | 143, Reprise | |
| February 8 | Sage Francis | A Healthy Distrust | Hip hop | Epitaph | |
| February 11 | The Mars Volta | Frances the Mute | Progressive rock | Gold Standard Laboratories | |
| February 14 | The Boy Least Likely To | The Best Party Ever | Twee pop | Too Young to Die | |
| February 14 | Electric Six | Señor Smoke | Alternative rock, funk rock | Warner Bros., Metropolis | |
| February 15 | American Head Charge | The Feeding | Industrial metal, nu metal, alternative metal | DRT Entertainment, Nitrus | |
| February 15 | Goldfinger | Disconnection Notice | Pop-punk, punk rock, alternative rock | Maverick | |
| February 15 | Mary Gauthier | Mercy Now | Country, folk | Lost Highway | |
| February 15 | The Sound of Animals Fighting | Tiger and the Duke | Experimental rock | Stars and Satellites Records | |
| February 15 | They Might Be Giants | Here Come the ABCs | Children's music | Disney Sound, Idlewild Records | |
| February 20 | Tori Amos | The Beekeeper | Alternative rock | Epic | |
| February 21 | Doves | Some Cities | Indie rock | Heavenly | |
| February 22 | Armor for Sleep | What to Do When You Are Dead | Emo, progressive rock, punk rock | Equal Vision | |
| February 22 | Ben Lee | Awake Is the New Sleep | Indie pop | New West, Inertia Distribution | |
| February 22 | Bone Brothers | Bone Brothers | Hip hop, gangsta rap | Koch | |
| February 22 | Chely Wright | The Metropolitan Hotel | Country | Painted Red, Dualtone | |
| February 22 | Comeback Kid | Wake the Dead | Hardcore punk | Victory | |
| February 22 | Crooked Fingers | Dignity and Shame | Indie rock | Merge | |
| February 22 | Heartless Bastards | Stairs and Elevators | | Fat Possum | |
| February 22 | M. Ward | Transistor Radio | Folk | Merge, Matador | |
| February 22 | Omarion | O | R&B, hip hop | Epic, Sony Urban | |
| February 22 | Roger Miret and the Disasters | 1984 | Punk | Hellcat | |
| February 22 | Steve Vai | Real Illusions: Reflections | Instrumental rock, progressive metal, heavy metal | Epic | |
| February 22 | Thievery Corporation | The Cosmic Game | Dub, trip hop, downtempo | ESL | |
| February 22 | TRU | The Truth | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | The New No Limit, Koch | |
| February 22 | William Elliott Whitmore | Ashes to Dust | Alternative country | Southern | |
| February 23 | Jennifer Lopez | Rebirth | Dance, hip hop, R&B | Epic | |
| February 23 | Judas Priest | Angel of Retribution | Heavy metal | Epic, Columbia | |

### March

List of albums released in March 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| March 1 | Emanuel | Soundtrack to a Headrush | Post-hardcore | Vagrant | |
| March 1 | Jack Johnson | In Between Dreams | Folk rock, acoustic | Brushfire | |
| March 1 | Jessi Alexander | Honeysuckle Sweet | Country | Columbia | |
| March 1 | Kathleen Edwards | Back to Me | Country | MapleMusic, Zoë | |
| March 1 | Kutless | Strong Tower | Christian rock, alternative rock, contemporary worship music | BEC | |
| March 3 | 50 Cent | The Massacre | Hardcore hip hop, gangsta rap | Shady, Aftermath, Interscope | |
| March 4 | HammerFall | Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken | Heavy metal, power metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| March 7 | Idlewild | Warnings/Promises | College rock, folk rock | Parlophone | |
| March 7 | Kaiser Chiefs | Employment | Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk revival | B-Unique | |
| March 8 | Black Label Society | Mafia | Heavy metal, Southern metal, groove metal | Artemis | |
| March 8 | Craig Morgan | My Kind of Livin' | Country | Broken Bow | |
| March 8 | Deana Carter | The Story of My Life | Country | Vanguard | |
| March 8 | Gratitude | Gratitude | Emo | Atlantic | |
| March 8 | Impaled | Death After Life | | Century Media | |
| March 8 | Into the Moat | The Design | Mathcore, metalcore | Metal Blade | |
| March 8 | Marcus Miller | Silver Rain | Jazz fusion | Koch | |
| March 8 | Sam Prekop | Who's Your New Professor | Post-rock | Thrill Jockey | |
| March 9 | Dir En Grey | Withering to Death | Gothic metal, alternative metal, industrial metal | Free-Will, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Gan-Shin | |
| March 14 | Al Green | Everything's OK | Soul, Rhythm and blues | Blue Note | |
| March 14 | The Bravery | The Bravery | Indie rock, post-punk revival, dance-punk | Island | |
| March 14 | Brendan Benson | The Alternative to Love | Rock | V2 | |
| March 14 | Daft Punk | Human After All | Dance-rock | Virgin | |
| March 14 | Moby | Hotel | Alternative rock, electronica, downtempo | V2, Mute | |
| March 14 | Stereophonics | Language. Sex. Violence. Other? | Rock, Britpop | V2 | |
| March 15 | Brooke Valentine | Chain Letter | R&B | Virgin, Subliminal Entertainment | |
| March 15 | Cephalic Carnage | Anomalies | Deathgrind, technical death metal | Relapse | |
| March 15 | Dr. Dog | Easy Beat | Psychedelic rock | Park the Van | |
| March 15 | Great Lake Swimmers | Bodies and Minds | | Weewerk | |
| March 15 | Miranda Lambert | Kerosene | Country | Epic Nashville | |
| March 15 | Origin | Echoes of Decimation | Technical death metal | Relapse | |
| March 15 | Trivium | Ascendancy | Metalcore, thrash metal | Roadrunner | |
| March 17 | Paradise Lost | Paradise Lost | Gothic metal, gothic rock | BMG, GUN | |
| March 21 | Louis XIV | The Best Little Secrets Are Kept | Alternative rock, garage rock, glam rock | Atlantic | |
| March 21 | Ocean Colour Scene | A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad | Alternative rock | Sanctuary | |
| March 21 | Starbreaker | Starbreaker | Hard rock, heavy metal | Frontiers Music | |
| March 21 | Trust Company | True Parallels | Nu metal, alternative metal, post-grunge | Geffen | |
| March 21 | Tweet | It's Me Again | R&B, soul, neo soul | The Goldmind, Atlantic | |
| March 22 | Billy Idol | Devil's Playground | Punk rock, hard rock, pop-punk | Sanctuary | |
| March 22 | C-Murder | The Truest Shit I Ever Said | Gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | TRU Records, Koch | |
| March 22 | The Decemberists | Picaresque | Indie rock, folk rock, baroque pop | Kill Rock Stars | |
| March 22 | Frankie J | The One | | Columbia | |
| March 22 | Jars of Clay | Redemption Songs | Christian rock, folk rock | Essential | |
| March 22 | Lifehouse | Lifehouse | Pop rock, alternative rock, post-grunge | Geffen | |
| March 22 | M.I.A. | Arular | World, hip hop, dancehall | XL, Interscope | |
| March 22 | Maia Sharp | Fine Upstanding Citizen | Pop, rock | Koch | |
| March 22 | Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze | Stoner rock, alternative rock | Interscope | |
| March 22 | Strapping Young Lad | Alien | Extreme metal, industrial metal, thrash metal | Hevy Devy, Century Media | |
| March 22 | Trace Adkins | Songs About Me | Country, Southern rock | Capitol Nashville | |
| March 24 | Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | Progressive rock, progressive metal, alternative metal | Lava | |
| March 28 | New Order | Waiting for the Sirens' Call | Alternative rock, synth-pop | London, Warner Bros. | |
| March 29 | Beanie Sigel | The B. Coming | Hip hop | Dame Dash, Def Jam | |
| March 29 | Beck | Guero | Alternative rock, alternative hip hop, sampledelia | Interscope | |
| March 29 | Edan | Beauty and the Beat | Hip hop, psychedelic rap | Lewis | |
| March 29 | Hammock | Kenotic | Post-rock, ambient, shoegaze | Hammock Music | |
| March 29 | James LaBrie | Elements of Persuasion | Alternative metal, progressive metal | Inside Out | |
| March 29 | Mae | The Everglow | Indie rock, emo | Tooth & Nail | |
| March 29 | Morrissey | Live at Earls Court | Alternative rock | Sanctuary | |
| March 29 | Reggie and the Full Effect | Songs Not to Get Married To | Post-hardcore, metalcore, pop-punk | Vagrant | |
| March 29 | Theory of a Deadman | Gasoline | Hard rock, post-grunge, alternative metal | 604, Roadrunner | |
| March 29 | Three 6 Mafia | Choices II: The Setup | Crunk, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | Sony Music | |
| March 29 | Will Smith | Lost and Found | Pop-rap | Overbrook, Interscope | |

## Second quarter
### April

List of albums released in April 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| April 4 | Better Than Ezra | Before the Robots | Alternative, country rock, Southern rock | Artemis | |
| April 4 | British Sea Power | Open Season | Post-punk revival, indie rock | Rough Trade | |
| April 4 | Hot Hot Heat | Elevator | Indie rock | Sire | |
| April 4 | Natalie Imbruglia | Counting Down the Days | Pop rock | Brightside Recordings | |
| April 4 | Nerina Pallot | Fires | Pop rock, alternative rock | Idaho Records, 14th Floor | |
| April 4 | Tom Vek | We Have Sound | Indietronica, indie rock, dance-punk | Tummy Touch, Go! Beat, Startime International | |
| April 4 | VNV Nation | Matter + Form | Futurepop, electro-industrial, electropop | Metropolis | |
| April 5 | Adema | Planets | Alternative metal, post-grunge, nu metal | Earache | |
| April 5 | Architecture in Helsinki | In Case We Die | Indie pop | Bar/None, Moshi Moshi | |
| April 5 | Corrosion of Conformity | In the Arms of God | Stoner rock, sludge metal, Southern metal | Sanctuary | |
| April 5 | Despised Icon | The Healing Process | Deathcore | Century Media | |
| April 5 | Faith Evans | The First Lady | R&B | Capitol | |
| April 5 | Fantômas | Suspended Animation | Avant-garde metal, plunderphonics, grindcore | Ipecac | |
| April 5 | Fischerspooner | Odyssey | Electroclash, synth-pop, electropop | EMI, Capitol | |
| April 5 | Lisa Marie Presley | Now What | Rock, pop rock | Capitol | |
| April 5 | Okkervil River | Black Sheep Boy | Indie rock, folk rock | Jagjaguwar | |
| April 5 | Reel Big Fish | We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy | Ska punk | Mojo, Jive, Zomba | |
| April 5 | The Residents | Animal Lover | | Mute, EMI | |
| April 5 | Rob Thomas | ...Something to Be | Pop rock, alternative rock | Atlantic | |
| April 5 | Serena Ryder | Unlikely Emergency | Alternative pop | Redbird Records | |
| April 5 | A Static Lullaby | Faso Latido | Post-hardcore, alternative rock | Columbia | |
| April 11 | Garbage | Bleed Like Me | Alternative rock, post-grunge, electronic rock | A&E, Warner Bros. | |
| April 11 | I Am Kloot | Gods and Monsters | Indie rock | The Echo Label | |
| April 11 | The Locust | Safety Second, Body Last | Mathcore, noise rock, avant-garde metal | Ipecac, Southern | |
| April 11 | Marc Leclair | Musique pour 3 Femmes Enceintes | | Mutek Records | |
| April 11 | Melanie C | Beautiful Intentions | Pop rock, rock | Red Girl Records | |
| April 12 | Against All Authority and Common Rider | Against All Authority / Common Rider | Punk rock, ska punk | Hopeless | |
| April 12 | American Hi-Fi | Hearts on Parade | Alternative rock, power pop, pop-punk | Maverick | |
| April 12 | Cog | The New Normal | Progressive rock | Difrnt Music | |
| April 12 | Mariah Carey | The Emancipation of Mimi | R&B, pop, hip hop | Island Def Jam | |
| April 12 | Martha Wainwright | Martha Wainwright | Folk, pop | MapleMusic, Zoë | |
| April 12 | Mudvayne | Lost and Found | Nu metal, alternative metal, hard rock | Epic | |
| April 12 | The National | Alligator | Indie rock, post-punk revival | Beggars Banquet | |
| April 12 | of Montreal | The Sunlandic Twins | Indie pop, funk, synth-pop | Polyvinyl | |
| April 15 | Amy Ray | Prom | Folk rock | Daemon Records | |
| April 18 | Autechre | Untilted | Electronic, IDM, glitch | Warp | |
| April 18 | Caribou | The Milk of Human Kindness | Folktronica | The Leaf Label, Domino | |
| April 18 | yourcodenameis:milo | Ignoto | Post-hardcore | Fiction, Polydor | |
| April 19 | Anna Nalick | Wreck of the Day | Pop rock | Columbia | |
| April 19 | The Cat Empire | Two Shoes | Latin, ska, jazz | Virgin | |
| April 19 | Circa Survive | Juturna | Post-hardcore, emo, alternative rock | Equal Vision | |
| April 19 | Loudon Wainwright III | Here Come the Choppers | Folk rock | Sovereign Records | |
| April 19 | Mike Jones | Who Is Mike Jones? | Hip hop | Swishahouse, Asylum, Warner Bros. | |
| April 19 | Outlawz | Outlaw 4 Life: 2005 A.P. | Gangsta rap | 33rd Street, 1Nation | |
| April 19 | Stace England | Greetings from Cairo, Illinois | Folk, rock, country | Gnashville Sounds Records | |
| April 19 | Steel Train | Twilight Tales from the Prairies of the Sun | | Drive-Thru | |
| April 25 | Ben Folds | Songs for Silverman | Alternative rock | Sony Music, Epic | |
| April 25 | Napalm Death | The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code | Grindcore, death metal | Century Media | |
| April 25 | Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation | Mighty ReArranger | Progressive rock, hard rock, worldbeat | Sanctuary, Es Paranza | |
| April 25 | Van der Graaf Generator | Present | Progressive rock, art rock | Charisma | |
| April 26 | Acceptance | Phantoms | Pop-punk, emo, alternative rock | Columbia | |
| April 26 | Amerie | Touch | R&B | Columbia, Sony Urban, Richcraft | |
| April 26 | Bruce Springsteen | Devils & Dust | Rock, folk rock | Columbia | |
| April 26 | Caesars | Paper Tigers | Indie rock | Toshiba-EMI, Virgin, Astralwerks | |
| April 26 | Eels | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations | Indie rock | Vagrant | |
| April 26 | Family Guy | Family Guy: Live in Vegas | Comedy jazz | Geffen | |
| April 26 | Johnathan Rice | Trouble Is Real | | One Little Indian | |
| April 26 | Lyrics Born | Same !@$ Different Day | Hip hop | Quannum Projects | |
| April 26 | The Mountain Goats | The Sunset Tree | Folk rock | 4AD | |
| April 26 | Russell Allen | Atomic Soul | Hard rock, heavy metal | Inside Out Music | |
| April 27 | Robyn | Robyn | Synth-pop, dance-pop, Europop | Konichiwa | |

### May

List of albums released in May 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| May 2 | Lacrimosa | Lichtgestalt | Gothic metal | Hall of Sermon | |
| May 2 | Limp Bizkit | The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) | Nu metal, alternative metal, rap metal | Flip, Geffen | |
| May 3 | Aimee Mann | The Forgotten Arm | Pop, rock | SuperEgo Records | |
| May 3 | Fall Out Boy | From Under the Cork Tree | Pop-punk, emo | Island | |
| May 3 | The Go-Betweens | Oceans Apart | Rock | LO-MAX Records, EMI | |
| May 3 | The Hold Steady | Separation Sunday | Indie rock, post-punk revival, heartland rock | Frenchkiss | |
| May 3 | Joe Perry | Joe Perry | Hard rock, instrumental rock | Sony BMG | |
| May 3 | John Williams | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Classical | Sony Classical | |
| May 3 | Mike Doughty | Haughty Melodic | Rock | ATO | |
| May 3 | Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth | Industrial rock, alternative rock, electronic rock | Nothing, Interscope | |
| May 3 | Nivea | Complicated | R&B | Jive | |
| May 3 | Oneida | The Wedding | Krautrock, electronic, noise rock | Jagjaguwar, Three Gut, Rough Trade | |
| May 3 | The Raveonettes | Pretty in Black | Indie rock | Columbia | |
| May 3 | Ryan Adams and the Cardinals | Cold Roses | Alternative country, country rock | Lost Highway | |
| May 9 | Teenage Fanclub | Man-Made | Alternative rock | Merge | |
| May 9 | The Unseen | State of Discontent | Punk rock | Hellcat | |
| May 10 | Dave Matthews Band | Stand Up | Alternative rock, folk rock | RCA | |
| May 10 | Dierks Bentley | Modern Day Drifter | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| May 10 | FannyPack | See You Next Tuesday | Hip hop | Tommy Boy | |
| May 10 | GZR | Ohmwork | Nu metal, groove metal | Sanctuary | |
| May 10 | John Cena & Tha Trademarc | You Can't See Me | Hip hop | WWE, Columbia | |
| May 10 | Kate Earl | Fate Is the Hunter | | Record Collection, Warner Bros. | |
| May 10 | Kevin Devine | Split the Country, Split the Street | Indie rock, alternative rock | Triple Crown, Defiance | |
| May 10 | Lucinda Williams | Live @ The Fillmore | Americana, alternative country, country rock | Lost Highway | |
| May 10 | Pray for the Soul of Betty | Pray for the Soul of Betty | Hard rock | Koch | |
| May 10 | Prince Paul | Itstrumental | Hip hop | Female Fun Records | |
| May 10 | Robert Earl Keen | What I Really Mean | Folk | Koch | |
| May 10 | Spoon | Gimme Fiction | Indie rock, art rock, indie pop | Merge, Matador | |
| May 10 | The Starting Line | Based on a True Story | Emo, pop-punk | Drive-Thru, Geffen | |
| May 10 | Styx | Big Bang Theory | Rock | New Door | |
| May 10 | Van Zant | Get Right with the Man | Country | Columbia | |
| May 10 | Weezer | Make Believe | Alternative rock, power pop, pop-punk | Geffen | |
| May 11 | Gorillaz | Demon Days | Alternative rock, hip hop, trip hop | Parlophone, Virgin | |
| May 16 | Maxïmo Park | A Certain Trigger | Indie rock, post-punk revival, new wave | Warp | |
| May 16 | Meshuggah | Catch Thirtythree | Avant-garde metal, progressive metal, groove metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| May 16 | Tracy Bonham | Blink the Brightest | Rock, post-grunge | Zoë, Rounder | |
| May 17 | Cowboy Troy | Loco Motive | Country rap | Warner Bros. | |
| May 17 | C-Rayz Walz | Year of the Beast | Hip hop | Definitive Jux | |
| May 17 | Kem | Album II | | Motown | |
| May 17 | Memphis Bleek | 534 | Hip hop | Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam | |
| May 17 | The Red Chord | Clients | Deathcore, technical death metal, grindcore | Metal Blade | |
| May 17 | The Rocket Summer | Hello, Good Friend | Rock, power pop | Militia | |
| May 17 | System of a Down | Mezmerize | Nu metal, alternative metal | Columbia, American | |
| May 17 | Toby Keith | Honkytonk University | Country | DreamWorks | |
| May 17 | Van Morrison | Magic Time | Celtic rock, blues, R&B | Geffen | |
| May 23 | Audioslave | Out of Exile | Hard rock, alternative metal, alternative rock | Epic, Interscope | |
| May 23 | Bruce Dickinson | Tyranny of Souls | Heavy metal, progressive metal | Sanctuary, Victor | |
| May 23 | Four Tet | Everything Ecstatic | Electronic, folktronica, krautrock | Domino | |
| May 24 | Alkaline Trio | Crimson | Punk rock, pop-punk | Vagrant | |
| May 24 | Amber Pacific | The Possibility and the Promise | Emo, pop-punk | Hopeless | |
| May 24 | Common | Be | Hip hop, conscious hip hop, hip hop soul | GOOD Music, Geffen | |
| May 24 | Maria Taylor | 11:11 | Folktronica | Saddle Creek | |
| May 24 | Marques Houston | Naked | | Ultimate, Universal | |
| May 24 | Molly Hatchet | Warriors of the Rainbow Bridge | Southern rock | SPV | |
| May 24 | Nikka Costa | Can'tneverdidnothin' | | Virgin | |
| May 24 | Pretty Ricky | Bluestars | R&B, hip hop | Atlantic, Bluestar Entertainment | |
| May 24 | Robert Cray | Twenty | Blues | Sanctuary | |
| May 24 | Seether | Karma and Effect | Post-grunge, alternative metal, nu metal | Wind-up | |
| May 24 | Shelby Lynne | Suit Yourself | Country | Capitol | |
| May 24 | Sleater-Kinney | The Woods | Alternative rock, hard rock, noise pop | Sub Pop | |
| May 24 | Various artists | Motown Remixed | Funk, soul | Motown, Universal | |
| May 24 | The Wallflowers | Rebel, Sweetheart | Alternative rock, roots rock | Interscope | |
| May 25 | Black Eyed Peas | Monkey Business | Hip hop, pop | A&M, Interscope, will.i.am | |
| May 30 | Art Brut | Bang Bang Rock & Roll | Indie rock, art punk, garage punk | Fierce Panda | |
| May 30 | Oasis | Don't Believe the Truth | Alternative rock, indie rock | Big Brother | |
| May 31 | The Dead 60s | The Dead 60s | Ska punk | Deltasonic, Epic | |
| May 31 | Paul Anka | Rock Swings | Swing | Verve | |
| May 31 | Smog | A River Ain't Too Much to Love | Indie folk, alternative country, lo-fi | Drag City, Domino | |
| May 31 | Vivian Green | Vivian | R&B | Columbia | |

### June

List of albums released in June 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| June 3 | Shakira | Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 | Latin pop | Epic | |
| June 6 | Avenged Sevenfold | City of Evil | Heavy metal, progressive metal, hard rock | Warner Bros., Hopeless | |
| June 6 | Coldplay | X&Y | Alternative rock, space rock | Parlophone, Capitol | |
| June 6 | Geri Halliwell | Passion | Pop, jazz, dance-pop | Innocent, EMI | |
| June 6 | Gotthard | Lipservice | Hard rock, rock | Nuclear Blast | |
| June 6 | The Hellacopters | Rock & Roll Is Dead | Garage rock, punk rock, garage punk | Liquor and Poker Music, Sacred Heart Recordings | |
| June 6 | Isolée | We Are Monster | Microhouse | Playhouse | |
| June 6 | Marion Raven | Here I Am | Pop rock, hard rock | Atlantic Records | |
| June 6 | MxPx | Panic | Pop-punk, punk rock | SideOneDummy | |
| June 6 | The Tears | Here Come the Tears | Pop | Independiente | |
| June 7 | The Aquabats | Charge!! | Rock, new wave, synth-pop | Nitro | |
| June 7 | Death by Stereo | Death for Life | Heavy metal, hardcore punk | Epitaph | |
| June 7 | Dream Theater | Octavarium | Progressive rock, progressive metal | Atlantic | |
| June 7 | Finch | Say Hello to Sunshine | Post-hardcore | Drive-Thru, Geffen | |
| June 7 | John Scofield | That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles | Jazz | Verve | |
| June 7 | Kelly Osbourne | Sleeping in the Nothing | New wave, synth-pop, dance-rock | Sanctuary | |
| June 7 | Motion City Soundtrack | Commit This to Memory | Emo, pop-punk | Epitaph | |
| June 7 | Novillero | Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives | Indie rock, pop | Mint | |
| June 7 | Ringo Starr | Choose Love | Rock | Koch, CNR | |
| June 7 | Ry Cooder | Chávez Ravine | Chicano rock, Tex-Mex, Latin jazz | Nonesuch | |
| June 7 | The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | Garage rock, alternative rock, blues rock | V2, XL | |
| June 13 | Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill Acoustic | Acoustic rock | Maverick, Warner Bros. | |
| June 13 | Brian Eno | Another Day on Earth | Ambient | Hannibal | |
| June 13 | The Departure | Dirty Words | Indie rock | Parlophone | |
| June 13 | Funeral for a Friend | Hours | Post-hardcore, emo | Atlantic | |
| June 13 | Jamie Lidell | Multiply | Electronic, soul, funk | Warp | |
| June 13 | Nine Black Alps | Everything Is | Alternative rock, post-grunge, grunge | Island | |
| June 13 | Saint Etienne | Tales from Turnpike House | Alternative dance, dream pop, synth-pop | Sanctuary | |
| June 14 | 54-40 | Yes to Everything | Alternative rock | True North | |
| June 14 | Backstreet Boys | Never Gone | Pop | Jive | |
| June 14 | Dwight Yoakam | Blame the Vain | Country | New West | |
| June 14 | Eric Johnson | Bloom | Rock, instrumental rock | Favored Nations | |
| June 14 | Fat Joe | All or Nothing | Hip hop | Terror Squad, Atlantic | |
| June 14 | Foo Fighters | In Your Honor | Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock | RCA | |
| June 14 | Life of Agony | Broken Valley | Alternative metal, grunge, hard rock | Epic | |
| June 14 | Static-X | Start a War | Industrial metal, nu metal, alternative metal | Warner Bros. | |
| June 15 | Jamiroquai | Dynamite | Nu-funk, acid jazz, post-disco | Epic | |
| June 20 | The Cribs | The New Fellas | Indie rock, post-punk revival, garage rock | Wichita | |
| June 21 | Billy Corgan | TheFutureEmbrace | Alternative rock, shoegaze, electronic rock | Reprise | |
| June 21 | Boyz n da Hood | Boyz n da Hood | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Bad Boy South, Block, Atlantic | |
| June 21 | Buckshot & 9th Wonder | Chemistry | Hip hop | Duck Down Music | |
| June 21 | Canibus | Mind Control | Hip hop | Gladiator Music, Tommy Boy | |
| June 21 | Clutch | Robot Hive/Exodus | Stoner rock, hard rock, blues rock | DRT | |
| June 21 | Dredg | Catch Without Arms | Alternative rock, post-rock, progressive rock | Interscope | |
| June 21 | Dropkick Murphys | The Warrior's Code | Celtic punk | Hellcat | |
| June 21 | Eric Benét | Hurricane | | Friday Records, Reprise | |
| June 21 | John Hiatt | Master of Disaster | Heartland rock, roots rock, Americana | New West | |
| June 21 | Keyshia Cole | The Way It Is | R&B | A&M, Interscope | |
| June 21 | Laura Cantrell | Humming by the Flowered Vine | Country | Matador | |
| June 21 | Master P | Ghetto Bill | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | The New No Limit, Koch | |
| June 21 | The Redwalls | De Nova | Rock | Capitol | |
| June 21 | Télépopmusik | Angel Milk | Electronic, trip hop, downtempo | Capitol | |
| June 21 | Transplants | Haunted Cities | Rap rock, punk rock, Alternative hip hop | LaSalle, Atlantic | |
| June 21 | Various artists | Look at All the Love We Found | Punk rock, ska, reggae | Cornerstone RAS | |
| June 22 | Röyksopp | The Understanding | Electronica, Europop, electropop | Wall of Sound | |
| June 25 | A | Teen Dance Ordinance | Alternative rock, pop punk, hard rock | London, Hollywood | |
| June 27 | Darkane | Layers of Lies | Melodic death metal, thrash metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| June 27 | Melanie Brown | L.A. State of Mind | Pop | Amber Café | |
| June 28 | Bif Naked | Superbeautifulmonster | Indie rock | Her Royal Majesty's, Warner | |
| June 28 | Bizarre | Hannicap Circus | Hip hop | Sanctuary Urban | |
| June 28 | Cassidy | I'm a Hustla | East Coast hip hop | J, Full Surface | |
| June 28 | CKY | An Answer Can Be Found | Alternative metal, alternative rock, stoner rock | Island | |
| June 28 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Indie rock | Wichita | |
| June 28 | Darkest Hour | Undoing Ruin | Melodic death metal, metalcore | Victory | |
| June 28 | DevilDriver | The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | Groove metal, melodic death metal | Roadrunner | |
| June 28 | Esthero | Wikked Lil' Grrrls | Electronica, hip hop, R&B | Reprise | |
| June 28 | George Strait | Somewhere Down in Texas | Neotraditional country | MCA Nashville | |
| June 28 | Hate Eternal | I, Monarch | Death metal | Earache | |
| June 28 | Lesley Gore | Ever Since | Pop | Engine Company | |
| June 28 | Longwave | There's a Fire | Indie rock, shoegaze | RCA | |
| June 28 | The Posies | Every Kind of Light | Rock | Rykodisc | |
| June 28 | PSC | 25 to Life | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap, trap | Grand Hustle, Atlantic | |
| June 28 | Scary Kids Scaring Kids | The City Sleeps in Flames | Post-hardcore, screamo | Immortal | |
| June 28 | The String Cheese Incident | One Step Closer | | SCI Fidelity | |
| June 28 | Ying Yang Twins | U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta) | Hip hop, Southern hip hop, crunk | TVT | |

## Third quarter
### July

List of albums released in July 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| July 4 | Alice Cooper | Dirty Diamonds | Rock, hard rock, heavy metal | New West, Spitfire | |
| July 4 | Armand van Helden | Nympho | House, electronica, nu-disco | Southern Fried | |
| July 4 | Brakes | Give Blood | Indie rock | Rough Trade | |
| July 4 | Hard-Fi | Stars of CCTV | Indie rock, post-punk revival | Necessary, Atlantic | |
| July 4 | Missy Elliott | The Cookbook | Hip hop, R&B | Goldmind, Atlantic | |
| July 4 | The Subways | Young for Eternity | Garage rock | Infectious Music | |
| July 5 | R. Kelly | TP.3 Reloaded | | Jive | |
| July 5 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinois | Indie folk, chamber folk, indie rock | Asthmatic Kitty, Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade | |
| July 11 | Charlotte Church | Tissues and Issues | Dance-pop, pop rock, R&B | Daylight, Epic, Sony BMG | |
| July 11 | Tony Iommi with Glenn Hughes | Fused | Heavy metal | Sanctuary | |
| July 12 | Adrian Belew | Side Two | Rock, experimental rock, avant-garde | Sanctuary | |
| July 12 | The All-American Rejects | Move Along | Pop punk, power pop, alternative rock | Interscope, Doghouse | |
| July 12 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Miasma | Melodic death metal | Metal Blade | |
| July 12 | Bow Wow | Wanted | Hip hop | Columbia, Sony Urban | |
| July 12 | Brandi Carlile | Brandi Carlile | Folk rock | Columbia | |
| July 12 | Bronson Arroyo | Covering the Bases | Grunge, alternative rock | Asylum | |
| July 12 | Carole King | The Living Room Tour | R&B, pop | Rockingale, Hear Music | |
| July 12 | Felt | Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet | Hip hop | Rhymesayers | |
| July 12 | Just Surrender | If These Streets Could Talk | Pop-punk, emo, post-hardcore | Broken English | |
| July 12 | Slim Thug | Already Platinum | Hip hop, Southern hip hop | Boss Hogg Outlawz, Star Trak, Geffen | |
| July 12 | Truckfighters | Gravity X | Stoner rock, desert rock | Fuzzorama Records, MeteorCity | |
| July 12 | Various artists | Hustle & Flow: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture | Crunk, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | Grand Hustle, Atlantic | |
| July 18 | Imogen Heap | Speak for Yourself | Electronic, alternative rock | Megaphonic, RCA Victor, White Rabbit | |
| July 18 | UB40 | Who You Fighting For? | Reggae | DEP | |
| July 19 | Carly Simon | Moonlight Serenade | Pop standards | Columbia | |
| July 19 | Frank Black | Honeycomb | Americana, alternative country, Southern soul | Back Porch, Cooking Vinyl | |
| July 19 | Number One Gun | Promises for the Imperfect | Christian rock, alternative rock | Tooth & Nail | |
| July 19 | Thalía | El Sexto Sentido | Latin pop, dance-pop | EMI Latin | |
| July 25 | Björk | Drawing Restraint 9 | | One Little Indian | |
| July 25 | Crazy Frog | Crazy Hits | Electronica, Eurodance | Universal | |
| July 25 | Editors | The Back Room | Post-punk revival, gothic rock, indie pop | Kitchenware | |
| July 26 | Ana Popović | Ana! Live in Amsterdam | Electric blues, blues rock | Ruf | |
| July 26 | Arch Enemy | Doomsday Machine | Melodic death metal | Century Media | |
| July 26 | Babyface | Grown & Sexy | Crunk, hip hop | Arista | |
| July 26 | Bob Mould | Body of Song | Alternative rock | Granary Music, Yep Roc | |
| July 26 | Boys Night Out | Trainwreck | Emo, pop rock | Ferret Music | |
| July 26 | The Concretes | Layourbattleaxedown | Indie pop | Astralwerks | |
| July 26 | Daniel Powter | Daniel Powter | Indie pop, pop rock | Warner Bros. | |
| July 26 | Dope | American Apathy | Nu metal, industrial metal | Artemis | |
| July 26 | Jason Aldean | Jason Aldean | Country | Broken Bow | |
| July 26 | Jason Mraz | Mr. A–Z | Pop rock | Atlantic | |
| July 26 | Nevermore | This Godless Endeavor | Progressive metal, thrash metal | Century Media | |
| July 26 | Paramore | All We Know Is Falling | Pop-punk, emo, pop rock | Fueled by Ramen | |
| July 26 | Trey Songz | I Gotta Make It | R&B, hip hop soul | Atlantic | |
| July 26 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Unleash the Fury | Neoclassical metal, heavy metal | Spitfire | |
| July 26 | Young Jeezy | Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 | Hip hop, Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Corporate Thugz, Def Jam, Corporate Thugz | |

### August

List of albums released in August 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| August 1 | Hermitude | Tales of the Drift | Australian hip hop | Elefant Traks | |
| August 1 | Madball | Legacy | | | |
| August 2 | Blindside | The Great Depression | | Wasa Recordings, DRT | |
| August 2 | Faith Hill | Fireflies | Country | Warner Bros. Nashville | |
| August 2 | Houston Calls | A Collection of Short Stories | | Rushmore | |
| August 2 | Michael Penn | Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 | Rock | Mimeograph Records | |
| August 2 | Teairra Marí | Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Marí | | Roc-A-Fella | |
| August 2 | Willie Nelson | Countryman | Reggae, country | Lost Highway | |
| August 8 | Hayley Westenra | Odyssey | pop | Decca | |
| August 8 | Nickel Creek | Why Should the Fire Die? | Progressive bluegrass | Sugar Hill | |
| August 9 | Chimaira | Chimaira | Groove metal | Roadrunner | |
| August 9 | Gogol Bordello | Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike | Folk punk, worldbeat, gypsy punk | SideOneDummy | |
| August 9 | Hootie & the Blowfish | Looking for Lucky | Soft rock | Vanguard | |
| August 9 | Juliana Hatfield | Made in China | Alternative rock | Ye Olde Records | |
| August 9 | Pennywise | The Fuse | Punk rock, skate punk, melodic hardcore | Epitaph | |
| August 9 | Proof | Searching for Jerry Garcia | Hip hop, hardcore hip hop | Iron Fist Records | |
| August 9 | Richard Thompson | Front Parlour Ballads | Contemporary folk | Cooking Vinyl | |
| August 9 | Staind | Chapter V | Post-grunge, alternative metal, nu metal | Flip, Atlantic | |
| August 9 | Stephen Stills | Man Alive! | Rock | Titan/Pyramid Records | |
| August 9 | The Suicide Machines | War Profiteering Is Killing Us All | Punk rock, ska punk, hardcore punk | SideOneDummy | |
| August 9 | Tommy Lee | Tommyland: The Ride | Hard rock, alternative rock, post-grunge | TL Education Services Inc. | |
| August 9 | Various artists | Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Rock, hard rock | Hollywood | |
| August 15 | The Rakes | Capture/Release | Post-punk revival | V2 | |
| August 15 | Supergrass | Road to Rouen | Alternative rock, art rock, psychedelic | Parlophone | |
| August 16 | 311 | Don't Tread on Me | | Volcano Entertainment | |
| August 16 | Aly & AJ | Into the Rush | Pop rock, alternative rock | Hollywood | |
| August 16 | Brad Paisley | Time Well Wasted | Country | Arista Nashville | |
| August 16 | The Click Five | Greetings from Imrie House | Power pop, pop rock, new wave | Atlantic, Lava | |
| August 16 | Cowboy Junkies | Early 21st Century Blues | Alternative country | Latent, Zoë, Cooking Vinyl | |
| August 16 | The Fall of Troy | Doppelgänger | Emo, post-hardcore, progressive metal | Equal Vision | |
| August 16 | Fun Lovin' Criminals | Livin' in the City | | Sanctuary | |
| August 16 | Madness | The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 | Ska, reggae, 2 tone | Live and Intensified | |
| August 16 | Pras Michel | Win Lose or Draw | Hip hop, pop-rap, reggae fusion | Universal | |
| August 16 | Silverstein | Discovering the Waterfront | Emo, post-hardcore | Victory | |
| August 16 | Stryper | Reborn | Christian metal, nu metal | Big 3 Records | |
| August 16 | Taproot | Blue-Sky Research | Post-grunge, alternative metal, nu metal | Atlantic, Velvet Hammer | |
| August 16 | Todd Agnew | Reflection of Something | Christian rock, contemporary Christian music | Ardent, SRE, Epic | |
| August 16 | The Trews | Den of Thieves | Hard rock, alternative rock | Epic, RED Distribution | |
| August 16 | A Wilhelm Scream | Ruiner | Melodic hardcore, punk rock, math rock | Nitro | |
| August 17 | Goldfrapp | Supernature | Electroclash, synth-pop, glam rock | Mute | |
| August 22 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Howl | Folk rock, blues rock, Americana | RCA, Echo | |
| August 22 | Fear Factory | Transgression | Industrial metal, groove metal, alternative metal | Calvin Records | |
| August 22 | Super Furry Animals | Love Kraft | Indie rock | Epic | |
| August 23 | Bayside | Bayside | Emo, pop-punk, post-hardcore | Victory | |
| August 23 | Beautiful Creatures | Deuce | Hard rock | Spitfire | |
| August 23 | The Bled | Found in the Flood | Hardcore punk, mathcore, metalcore | Vagrant | |
| August 23 | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | We Are the Radio | Rock | Tee Pee | |
| August 23 | Hush | Bulletproof | Hip hop, rap rock | Geffen | |
| August 23 | I Wayne | Lava Ground | Reggae | VP | |
| August 23 | Jack's Mannequin | Everything in Transit | Pop rock, power pop | Maverick | |
| August 23 | Jim Jones | Harlem: Diary of a Summer | East Coast hip hop | Diplomat, Koch | |
| August 23 | June | If You Speak Any Faster | Pop-punk, emo | Victory | |
| August 23 | Laura Veirs | Year of Meteors | Folk | Nonesuch | |
| August 23 | Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon | Sixty Six Steps | Folk, Americana, new acoustic | RCA Victor | |
| August 23 | The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | Indie rock, power pop, pop rock | Mint, Matador, P-Vine | |
| August 23 | Scarling. | So Long, Scarecrow | Noise pop, gothic rock, shoegaze | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| August 23 | Trick Pony | R.I.D.E. | Country | Asylum-Curb | |
| August 24 | Swallow the Sun | Ghosts of Loss | Death-doom, melodic death metal, gothic metal | Firebox | |
| August 29 | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm Remixed | Dance-punk, indie rock | Wichita | |
| August 29 | Eric Clapton | Back Home | Blues rock, reggae, folk rock | Reprise | |
| August 29 | Journey | Generations | Rock, hard rock | Sanctuary, Frontiers Music, King | |
| August 29 | McFly | Wonderland | Pop rock, baroque pop | Island | |
| August 29 | Opeth | Ghost Reveries | Progressive metal, progressive death metal | Roadrunner | |
| August 29 | Rihanna | Music of the Sun | Dance-pop, dancehall, R&B | Def Jam | |
| August 30 | Biohazard | Means to an End | Hardcore punk, rapcore | SPV/Steamhammer | |
| August 30 | Brooks & Dunn | Hillbilly Deluxe | Neotraditional country | Arista Nashville | |
| August 30 | Casting Crowns | Lifesong | Christian rock, pop rock | Beach Street, Reunion | |
| August 30 | The Clientele | Strange Geometry | Indie rock | Merge, Pointy | |
| August 30 | Cold | A Different Kind of Pain | Post-grunge, alternative rock, alternative metal | Flip, Atlantic, Lava | |
| August 30 | Death Cab for Cutie | Plans | Indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock | Atlantic, Barsuk | |
| August 30 | From Autumn to Ashes | Abandon Your Friends | Screamo, metalcore, emo | Vagrant | |
| August 30 | Heather Nova | Redbird | Indie rock | | |
| August 30 | Kanye West | Late Registration | Hip hop, pop rap, progressive rap | Def Jam, Roc-A-Fella | |
| August 30 | OK Go | Oh No | Alternative rock, power pop | Capitol | |
| August 30 | Our Lady Peace | Healthy in Paranoid Times | Alternative rock, post-grunge | Columbia | |
| August 30 | Protest the Hero | Kezia | Progressive metal, mathcore, skate punk | Underground Operations, Vagrant | |
| August 30 | Thirty Seconds to Mars | A Beautiful Lie | Alternative rock, hard rock, post-hardcore | Immortal, Virgin | |
| August 30 | Vendetta Red | Sisters of the Red Death | Emo, post-hardcore, screamo | Epic | |

### September

List of albums released in September 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| September 1 | Jonathan Coulton | Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms | | | |
| September 2 | Alain Souchon | La Vie Théodore | Pop | | |
| September 2 | Shaggy | Clothes Drop | | Geffen | |
| September 5 | Stratovarius | Stratovarius | Heavy metal, progressive metal, hard rock | Sanctuary | |
| September 6 | Against Me! | Searching for a Former Clarity | Punk rock, folk punk | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| September 6 | AZ | A.W.O.L. | East Coast hip hop | Fast Life, Quiet Money, Koch | |
| September 6 | Between the Buried and Me | Alaska | Progressive metal, technical death metal, progressive metalcore | Victory | |
| September 6 | Blood on the Wall | Awesomer | Indie rock | Social Registry | |
| September 6 | George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars | How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent? | Funk, dance, hip hop | The C Kunspyruhzy | |
| September 6 | Heaven 17 | Before After | Synth-pop | Ninthwave | |
| September 6 | Ion Dissonance | Solace | Mathcore, deathcore, grindcore | Abacus | |
| September 6 | James McMurtry | Childish Things | Country, Americana | Compadre | |
| September 6 | The Proclaimers | Restless Soul | Alternative rock, folk rock, rhythm and blues | Persevere Records | |
| September 6 | The Rolling Stones | A Bigger Bang | Rock | Virgin | |
| September 6 | Ron Sexsmith & Don Kerr | Destination Unknown | | V2 | |
| September 6 | Socratic | Lunch for the Sky | | Drive-Thru | |
| September 9 | The Guggenheim Grotto | ...Waltzing Alone | Folk, alternative rock | Rykodisc | |
| September 12 | Apoptygma Berzerk | You and Me Against the World | Futurepop, alternative rock, electronic rock | Metropolis | |
| September 12 | Damian Marley | Welcome to Jamrock | Reggae, dancehall, ska | Universal | |
| September 12 | David Gray | Life in Slow Motion | Folk rock | Atlantic, ATO | |
| September 12 | dEUS | Pocket Revolution | Indie rock | Universal, V2 | |
| September 12 | Paul McCartney | Chaos and Creation in the Backyard | Rock | Parlophone, Capitol | |
| September 12 | Rob Dickinson | Fresh Wine for the Horses | Alternative rock | Sanctuary | |
| September 12 | Sigur Rós | Takk... | Post-rock | Geffen, EMI | |
| September 12 | Simple Minds | Black & White 050505 | Pop rock | Sanctuary | |
| September 13 | Apollo Sunshine | Apollo Sunshine | Indie rock | SpinART | |
| September 13 | Blues Traveler | ¡Bastardos! | Rock | Vanugard | |
| September 13 | Bonnie Raitt | Souls Alike | Rock | Capitol | |
| September 13 | The Dandy Warhols | Odditorium or Warlords of Mars | Neo-psychedelia | Capitol | |
| September 13 | Devendra Banhart | Cripple Crow | Indie folk, Latin, psychedelia | XL | |
| September 13 | The Fray | How to Save a Life | Alternative rock, pop rock | Epic | |
| September 13 | Institute | Distort Yourself | Hard rock | Interscope | |
| September 13 | KMFDM | Hau Ruck | Industrial rock, industrial metal | Metropolis | |
| September 13 | The Like | Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? | Indie rock | Geffen | |
| September 13 | Little Brother | The Minstrel Show | Hip hop, jazz rap | Atlantic | |
| September 13 | Lonestar | Coming Home | Country | BNA | |
| September 13 | Paul Wall | The Peoples Champ | Hip hop, Southern hip hop | Atlantic, Asylum, Swishahouse | |
| September 13 | The Pussycat Dolls | PCD | Pop, dance-pop, R&B | A&M | |
| September 13 | Queen + Paul Rodgers | Return of the Champions | Rock, hard rock | Parlophone, Hollywood | |
| September 13 | Spin Doctors | Nice Talking to Me | Pop rock | Ruff Nation Records | |
| September 13 | Switchfoot | Nothing Is Sound | Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock | Columbia, Sony BMG | |
| September 13 | Tracy Chapman | Where You Live | | Elektra | |
| September 13 | Trapt | Someone in Control | Nu metal, alternative metal, alternative rock | Warner Bros. | |
| September 13 | Trisha Yearwood | Jasper County | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| September 14 | Children of Bodom | Are You Dead Yet? | Melodic death metal, power metal | Spinefarm, Century Media | |
| September 19 | Arcturus | Sideshow Symphonies | Avant-garde metal, progressive metal, symphonic black metal | Season of Mist | |
| September 19 | Broadcast | Tender Buttons | Electronic pop, dream pop | Warp | |
| September 19 | Goldie Lookin Chain | Safe as Fuck | | Warner Music | |
| September 20 | The 88 | Over and Over | Indie rock, power pop | EMK, Mootron | |
| September 20 | The American Analog Set | Set Free | Indie rock | Arts & Crafts, Morr Music | |
| September 20 | Barbra Streisand | Guilty Pleasures | Pop, soul | | |
| September 20 | Bon Jovi | Have a Nice Day | Pop rock, hard rock | Island, Mercury | |
| September 20 | Burning Spear | Our Music | Roots reggae | Burning Music | |
| September 20 | Coheed and Cambria | Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | Progressive rock, progressive metal, emo | Columbia | |
| September 20 | David Banner | Certified | Hip hop, hardcore hip hop, dirty rap | SRC, Universal | |
| September 20 | Disturbed | Ten Thousand Fists | Alternative metal, heavy metal, nu metal | Reprise | |
| September 20 | Earth, Wind & Fire | Illumination | R&B, funk, neo soul | Sanctuary | |
| September 20 | Echo & the Bunnymen | Siberia | Alternative rock, post-punk, neo-psychedelia | Cooking Vinyl | |
| September 20 | Maroon 5 | Live – Friday the 13th | | A&M Octone | |
| September 20 | Motörhead | BBC Live & In-Session | Heavy metal | Sanctuary | |
| September 20 | Municipal Waste | Hazardous Mutation | Crossover thrash | Earache | |
| September 20 | Nada Surf | The Weight Is a Gift | Alternative rock | Barsuk | |
| September 20 | Ryan Cabrera | You Stand Watching | Pop rock | Atlantic | |
| September 26 | Forever Slave | Alice's Inferno | | Armageddon Music | |
| September 26 | HIM | Dark Light | Gothic rock, pop rock | Sire, Heartagram | |
| September 26 | Jamie Cullum | Catching Tales | Vocal jazz, blue-eyed soul | UCJ, Candid, Verve Forecast | |
| September 26 | Katie Melua | Piece by Piece | Jazz, pop, blues | Dramatico | |
| September 26 | Roger Waters | Ça Ira | Classical, opera | Sony Classical | |
| September 26 | Ryan Adams | Jacksonville City Nights | Country rock, alternative country | Lost Highway | |
| September 26 | Tokyo Dragons | Give Me the Fear | Hard rock | | |
| September 27 | Big Star | In Space | Power pop | Rykodisc | |
| September 27 | Bloodhound Gang | Hefty Fine | Rap rock, comedy rock, dance-rock | Geffen | |
| September 27 | Buddy Guy | Bring 'Em In | Chicago blues, electric blues | Jive, Silvertone | |
| September 27 | David Crowder Band | A Collision or (3+4=7) | Christian rock, worship | sixsteps | |
| September 27 | Gojira | From Mars to Sirius | Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal | Listenable, Prosthetic | |
| September 27 | Gretchen Wilson | All Jacked Up | Country, rock | Epic Nashville | |
| September 27 | Hinder | Extreme Behavior | Hard rock, post-grunge | Universal | |
| September 27 | King's X | Ogre Tones | Hard rock, progressive metal | Inside Out Music | |
| September 27 | Lil' Kim | The Naked Truth | Hip hop | Queen Bee, Atlantic | |
| September 27 | Metric | Live It Out | Indie rock, new wave, post-punk revival | Last Gang | |
| September 27 | Neil Young | Prairie Wind | Country rock, folk rock, Americana | Reprise | |
| September 27 | Panic! at the Disco | A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | Pop-punk, emo pop, emo | Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen | |
| September 27 | Ric Ocasek | Nexterday | New wave | Sanctuary | |
| September 27 | Sean Paul | The Trinity | Dancehall, reggae | VP, Atlantic | |
| September 27 | Sheryl Crow | Wildflower | Pop rock, country rock | A&M | |
| September 27 | Stevie Wonder | A Time to Love | | Motown | |
| September 27 | Toni Braxton | Libra | R&B, pop, hip hop | Blackground | |
| September 27 | Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary | Indie rock | Sub Pop | |
| September 28 | Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | Indie rock, post-punk revival, dance-punk | Domino | |
| September 30 | U.D.O. | Mission No. X | Heavy metal | AFM | |

## Fourth quarter
### October

List of albums released in October 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| October 3 | Andy Bell | Electric Blue | Pop | Sanctuary | |
| October 3 | The Herd | The Sun Never Sets | Australian hip hop | Elefant Traks | |
| October 3 | Jo O'Meara | Relentless | Pop | Sanctuary | |
| October 3 | Ladytron | Witching Hour | Synth-pop, electronic rock, post-punk | Island | |
| October 3 | Ms. Dynamite | Judgement Days | R&B, hip hop | Polydor | |
| October 3 | Shakra | Fall | | | |
| October 4 | Anita Baker | Christmas Fantasy | Christmas, jazz, R&B | Blue Note | |
| October 4 | Atmosphere | You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having | Hip hop | Rhymesayers | |
| October 4 | Broken Social Scene | Broken Social Scene | Indie rock | Arts & Crafts | |
| October 4 | Chris Cagle | Anywhere but Here | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| October 4 | Exodus | Shovel Headed Kill Machine | Thrash metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 4 | Fiona Apple | Extraordinary Machine | Art pop | Epic | |
| October 4 | Flyleaf | Flyleaf | Alternative metal, nu metal, Christian rock | Octone, Polydor | |
| October 4 | Little Big Town | The Road to Here | Country | Equity | |
| October 4 | Liz Phair | Somebody's Miracle | Pop rock, alternative rock | Capitol | |
| October 4 | Look What I Did | Minuteman for the Moment | Progressive metal, math rock | Combat, Koch | |
| October 4 | My Morning Jacket | Z | Alternative country, indie pop, indie rock | ATO | |
| October 4 | Nickelback | All the Right Reasons | Post-grunge, alternative rock, hard rock | Roadrunner, EMI | |
| October 4 | The Reverend Horton Heat | We Three Kings | Christmas, rock | Yep Roc | |
| October 4 | Sara Evans | Real Fine Place | Country | RCA Nashville | |
| October 4 | Sinéad O'Connor | Throw Down Your Arms | Reggae | Chocolate and Vanilla | |
| October 4 | Soulfly | Dark Ages | Thrash metal, groove metal, death metal | Roadrunner | |
| October 4 | Trina | Glamorest Life | Southern hip hop, R&B | Slip-n-Slide, Atlantic | |
| October 4 | Twista | The Day After | | Atlantic | |
| October 5 | t.A.T.u. | Dangerous and Moving | Pop rock, dance-pop, alternative rock | Interscope | |
| October 7 | Alicia Keys | Unplugged | R&B | J | |
| October 10 | Akercocke | Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone | Blackened death metal, progressive metal | Earache | |
| October 10 | Danger Doom | The Mouse and the Mask | Underground hip hop | Epitaph, Lex | |
| October 10 | Ricky Martin | Life | Crunk, hip hop, pop | Columbia | |
| October 10 | Sugababes | Taller in More Ways | Pop, electropop, R&B | Island | |
| October 11 | Allister | Before the Blackout | Pop-punk, punk rock, alternative rock | Drive-Thru | |
| October 11 | Deerhoof | The Runners Four | Pop rock, art pop | Kill Rock Stars, ATP, 5 Rue Christine | |
| October 11 | Default | One Thing Remains | Hard rock, post-grunge, alternative rock | TVT | |
| October 11 | Dolly Parton | Those Were the Days | Country folk, bluegrass | Sugar Hill, Blue Eye Records | |
| October 11 | Gary Allan | Tough All Over | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| October 11 | Jackson Browne | Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 | Folk rock, American folk | Inside | |
| October 11 | The Long Winters | Ultimatum | Indie rock | Barsuk | |
| October 11 | Matt Pond PA | Several Arrows Later | Indie rock | | |
| October 11 | Paul Weller | As Is Now | Rock | Yep Roc | |
| October 11 | Roadrunner United | The All-Star Sessions | Heavy metal | Roadrunner | |
| October 11 | Sevendust | Next | Alternative metal, nu metal | Winedark | |
| October 11 | Story of the Year | In the Wake of Determination | Post-hardcore, alternative rock, alternative metal | Maverick | |
| October 11 | Susan Tedeschi | Hope and Desire | Blues | Verve Forecast | |
| October 11 | Warren G | In the Mid-Nite Hour | Hip hop | Hawino Records | |
| October 13 | Anda Adam | Confidențial | Pop, hip hop, R&B | Roton | |
| October 13 | Depeche Mode | Playing the Angel | Electronic rock, synth-pop | Mute | |
| October 14 | The Cardigans | Super Extra Gravity | Rock, country rock, pop rock | Stockholm | |
| October 14 | Old Man's Child | Vermin | Symphonic black metal | Century Media | |
| October 15 | Bomb the Music Industry! | To Leave or Die in Long Island | Ska punk | Quote Unquote, Asbestos | |
| October 15 | Primal Fear | Seven Seals | Heavy metal, power metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 17 | Boards of Canada | The Campfire Headphase | Electronic, downtempo, folktronica | Warp, music70 | |
| October 17 | Rachel Stevens | Come and Get It | Pop | 19, Polydor | |
| October 17 | Simply Red | Simplified | Soul, rock | Simplyred.com, Universal | |
| October 17 | Sunn O))) | Black One | Ambient, avant-garde, black metal | Southern Lord | |
| October 17 | The Veronicas | The Secret Life of... | Pop rock, pop-punk | Sire, London | |
| October 18 | Animal Collective | Feels | Indie rock | FatCat | |
| October 18 | Ashlee Simpson | I Am Me | Pop rock, pop punk, alternative rock | Geffen | |
| October 18 | Billy Currington | Doin' Somethin' Right | Country | Mercury Nashville | |
| October 18 | Black Rob | The Black Rob Report | East Coast hip hop | Bad Boy, Atlantic | |
| October 18 | Blockhead | Downtown Science | Instrumental hip hop | Ninja Tune | |
| October 18 | Brian Wilson | What I Really Want for Christmas | Christmas | Arista | |
| October 18 | Bun B | Trill | Southern hip hop | Rap-A-Lot, Asylum, Atlantic | |
| October 18 | Burnside Project | The Finest Example Is You | | Bar/None | |
| October 18 | Cryptopsy | Once Was Not | Technical death metal | Century Media | |
| October 18 | Fireball Ministry | Their Rock Is Not Our Rock | Stoner metal, biker metal | Liquor and Poker | |
| October 18 | Martina McBride | Timeless | Country | RCA | |
| October 18 | Mest | Photographs | Pop-punk, alternative rock | Maverick | |
| October 18 | Propagandhi | Potemkin City Limits | | G7 Welcoming Committee, Fat Wreck Chords | |
| October 18 | Rev. Run | Distortion | Hip hop, rap rock | Russell Simmons Music Group, Island Def Jam | |
| October 18 | Rod Stewart | Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV | Traditional pop, jazz | J | |
| October 18 | Silver Jews | Tanglewood Numbers | Indie rock | Drag City | |
| October 18 | Thrice | Vheissu | Post-hardcore, experimental | Island | |
| October 21 | Miho Hatori | Ecdysis | Avant-garde, indie rock, world music | Speedstar International, Rykodisc | |
| October 24 | Dark Funeral | Attera Totus Sanctus | Black metal | Regain, Candlelight | |
| October 24 | Deep Purple | Rapture of the Deep | Hard rock, progressive rock | Edel Music | |
| October 24 | The Fiery Furnaces | Rehearsing My Choir | Indie rock, spoken word | Rough Trade | |
| October 24 | Robbie Williams | Intensive Care | Pop rock | Chrysalis, EMI | |
| October 25 | Aerosmith | Rockin' the Joint | Hard rock, blues rock | Columbia | |
| October 25 | Buckethead & Friends | Enter the Chicken | Avant-garde metal, experimental rock, alternative metal | Serjical Strike | |
| October 25 | Demon Hunter | The Triptych | Metalcore, groove metal, Christian metal | Solid State | |
| October 25 | DJ Muggs vs. GZA | Grandmasters | Hip hop | Angeles Records | |
| October 25 | Joe Nichols | III | Country | Universal South | |
| October 25 | Through the Eyes of the Dead | Bloodlust | Deathcore, melodic death metal | Prosthetic | |
| October 25 | Valencia | This Could Be a Possibility | Pop-punk | I Surrender | |
| October 25 | Various artists | This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul | | Razor & Tie | |
| October 26 | Diana Krall | Christmas Songs | Jazz, Christmas | Verve | |
| October 28 | Maritime | We, the Vehicles | Indie pop | Flameshovel | |
| October 28 | Xavier Rudd | Food in the Belly | Folk, blues, indie folk | Salt X, Universal Music Australia | |
| October 31 | Helloween | Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy | Progressive metal | Steamhammer | |
| October 31 | Santana | All That I Am | Latin rock | Arista | |
| October 31 | Wolfmother | Wolfmother | Hard rock, stoner rock, heavy metal | Modular | |

### November

List of albums released in November 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| November 1 | Burt Bacharach | At This Time | Pop, rock | Columbia | |
| November 1 | Lagwagon | Resolve | Pop-punk, skate punk | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| November 1 | Ozzy Osbourne | Under Cover | Rock | Epic | |
| November 1 | Slipknot | 9.0: Live | Nu metal | Roadrunner | |
| November 1 | Sun Kil Moon | Tiny Cities | Folk rock | Caldo Verde | |
| November 1 | Terri Clark | Life Goes On | Country | Mercury Nashville | |
| November 1 | Third Day | Wherever You Are | Southern rock, Christian rock | Essential | |
| November 1 | Trey Anastasio | Shine | Alternative rock, power pop, neo-psychedelia | Columbia | |
| November 4 | A-ha | Analogue | | Polydor | |
| November 6 | Johnny Hallyday | Ma vérité | Rock | Mercury, Universal Music | |
| November 7 | Delirious? | The Mission Bell | Rock, Christian rock | Sparrow, Furious? Records | |
| November 7 | Kate Bush | Aerial | Art rock, progressive pop | EMI, Columbia | |
| November 8 | Annihilator | Schizo Deluxe | Thrash metal | AFM | |
| November 8 | August Burns Red | Thrill Seeker | Metalcore | Solid State | |
| November 8 | Cyndi Lauper | The Body Acoustic | Pop rock | Epic, Daylight | |
| November 8 | Elfonía | This Sonic Landscape | | The Note Garden Records | |
| November 8 | Floetry | Flo'Ology | | Geffen | |
| November 8 | Kenny Chesney | The Road and the Radio | Country | BNA | |
| November 8 | Neil Diamond | 12 Songs | Rock, country | American/Columbia | |
| November 8 | Relient K | Apathetic EP | Christian rock, pop punk | Gotee, Capitol | |
| November 8 | Sepultura | Live in São Paulo | Groove metal, thrash metal, death metal | Steamhammer | |
| November 8 | Sheek Louch | After Taxes | Hip hop | D-Block Records, Koch | |
| November 8 | TNT | All the Way to the Sun | Hard rock | MTM | |
| November 8 | Various artists | Get Rich or Die Tryin': Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture | Hip hop | Interscope, G-Unit | |
| November 9 | Madonna | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Dance-pop, nu-disco, EDM | Warner Bros. | |
| November 11 | Bolt Thrower | Those Once Loyal | Death metal, heavy metal | Metal Blade | |
| November 11 | Roine Stolt | Wallstreet Voodoo | Progressive blues | Inside Out Music | |
| November 12 | Tally Hall | Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum | Alternative rock, indie rock, power pop | Quack! Media, Atlantic, Needlejuice | |
| November 14 | Szymon Wydra & Carpe Diem | Bezczas | | Universal Music Poland | |
| November 15 | Big & Rich | Comin' to Your City | Country | Warner Bros. Nashville | |
| November 15 | Carrie Underwood | Some Hearts | Country, country pop | Arista Nashville, 19 | |
| November 15 | Ginuwine | Back II da Basics | R&B | Epic | |
| November 15 | Green Day | Bullet in a Bible | Punk rock | Reprise, Warner Reprise | |
| November 15 | Kardinal Offishall | Fire and Glory | Canadian hip hop | EMI, Virgin, Black Jays | |
| November 15 | Lady Sovereign | Vertically Challenged | Hip hop, grime, UK garage | Chocolate Industries | |
| November 15 | P.O.D. | The Warriors EP, Volume 2 | Alternative metal | Atlantic | |
| November 15 | Pitbull | Money Is Still a Major Issue | Hip hop, ragga hip hop, reggaeton | TVT | |
| November 15 | Various artists | Walk the Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Rock and roll, rockabilly, country | Wind-Up, Fox Music, Sony BMG | |
| November 15 | Wilco | Kicking Television: Live in Chicago | Rock | Nonesuch | |
| November 17 | Sean Watkins | Blinders On | Indie folk, acoustic | Sugar Hill | |
| November 21 | Enya | Amarantine | New-age | Warner Bros., Reprise | |
| November 22 | The Bouncing Souls | Live | | Chunksaah | |
| November 22 | Britney Spears | B in the Mix: The Remixes | Electronic, dance-pop, house | Jive | |
| November 22 | Chamillionaire | The Sound of Revenge | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Chamilitary, Universal | |
| November 22 | Fort Minor | The Rising Tied | Alternative hip hop, rap rock | Machine Shop, Warner Bros. | |
| November 22 | Juelz Santana | What the Game's Been Missing! | Hip hop | Diplomat, Def Jam | |
| November 22 | Queens of the Stone Age | Over the Years and Through the Woods | Hard rock | Interscope | |
| November 22 | Scott Stapp | The Great Divide | Post-grunge, hard rock, alternative metal | Wind-up | |
| November 22 | System of a Down | Hypnotize | Heavy metal, nu metal, alternative metal | Columbia, American | |
| November 22 | Various artists | Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now | Rock, pop, country | Universal | |
| November 23 | Per Gessle | Son of a Plumber | Pop | Elevator Entertainment, Capitol | |
| November 28 | The Darkness | One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back | Hard rock, glam rock | Atlantic | |
| November 28 | The Ocean | Aeolian | Sludge metal, progressive metal, extreme metal | Metal Blade | |
| November 28 | Sacrificium | Escaping the Stupor | | Black Lotus | |
| November 28 | Shakira | Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 | Pop rock | Epic | |
| November 29 | Chris Brown | Chris Brown | R&B | Jive, CBE | |
| November 29 | Dave Matthews Band | Weekend on the Rocks | Rock | RCA | |
| November 29 | INXS | Switch | Funk rock | Epic | |
| November 30 | Lindsay Lohan | A Little More Personal (Raw) | Pop rock | Casablanca | |

### December

List of albums released in December 2005 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| December 5 | Super Junior | Twins | K-pop, bubblegum pop, dance | SM, Avex Taiwan | |
| December 6 | Job for a Cowboy | Doom | Deathcore | King of the Monsters, Metal Blade | |
| December 6 | Korn | See You on the Other Side | Nu metal, alternative metal, industrial rock | EMI, Virgin | |
| December 6 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter II | Hip hop, hardcore hip hop, R&B | Cash Money, Young Money, Universal | |
| December 6 | T-Pain | Rappa Ternt Sanga | R&B, hip hop | Konvict, Jive, Zomba | |
| December 6 | The White Stripes | Walking with a Ghost | | V2 | |
| December 13 | Anthony Hamilton | Ain't Nobody Worryin' | R&B, soul, neo soul | So So Def, Zomba | |
| December 13 | Beck | Guerolito | Alternative rock | Geffen | |
| December 13 | Bo Bice | The Real Thing | Alternative rock | RCA, 19 | |
| December 13 | Daddy Yankee | Barrio Fino en Directo | Reggaeton, hip hop | Interscope, El Cartel | |
| December 13 | Lamb of God | Killadelphia | Groove metal, metalcore | Epic | |
| December 13 | YoungBloodZ | Ev'rybody Know Me | Southern hip hop, crunk | LaFace, Zomba | |
| December 15 | Christian Bautista | Completely | Pop | Warner | |
| December 19 | The Notorious B.I.G. | Duets: The Final Chapter | Hip hop | Bad Boy, Atlantic | |
| December 19 | Ryan Adams | 29 | Alternative country, folk rock | Lost Highway | |
| December 20 | Jamie Foxx | Unpredictable | R&B, hip hop, pop | J | |
| December 20 | Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough | R&B | Geffen | |
| December 27 | Trick Trick | The People vs. | Hip hop, gangsta rap | Motown | |
| December 28 | DragonForce | Inhuman Rampage | Power metal | Noise, Sanctuary, Roadrunner | |
| December 30 | The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | Indie rock, garage rock revival, post-punk revival | RCA, Rough Trade | |