New Zealand top 50 albums of 2005 explained

This is the list of the top 50 albums of 2005 in New Zealand.

Chart

Key

- Album of New Zealand origin

Rank	Artist	Title
1	Back to Bedlam	James Blunt
2	Green Day	American Idiot
3	Coldplay	X&Y
4	Jack Johnson	In Between Dreams
5	The Black Eyed Peas	Monkey Business
6	Foo Fighters	In Your Honor
7	Eminem
8	Hayley Westenra	Odyssey
9	Kelly Clarkson	Breakaway
10	Crazy Frog	Crazy Hits
11	Gorillaz	Demon Days
12	Fat Freddy's Drop	Based On A True Story
13	Maroon 5	Songs About Jane
14	Gwen Stefani	Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
15	Akon	Trouble
16	The Feelers	Playground Battle
17	50 Cent	The Massacre
18	Il Divo	Il Divo
19	Il Divo	Ancora
20	Bic Runga	Birds
21	The Killers	Hot Fuss
22	System of a Down	Mezmerize
23	Breaks Co-Op	The Sound Inside
24	Goldenhorse	Out of the Moon
25	Donavon Frankenreiter	Donavon Frankenreiter
26	Dave Dobbyn	Available Light
27	The Game	The Documentary
28	Nickelback	All the Right Reasons
29	John Fogerty	The Long Road Home
30	Live
31	INXS	Definitive INXS
32	The Offspring	Greatest Hits
33	Eminem	Encore
34	Various artists	She Will Have Her Way
35	Destiny's Child	1's
36	INXS	Switch
37	The Exponents	Sex and Agriculture
38	System of a Down	Hypnotize
39	Audioslave	Out of Exile
40	Amici Forever	Defined
41	Russell Watson	Amore Musica
42	Mariah Carey	The Emancipation of Mimi
43	David Gray	Life in Slow Motion
44	Robbie Williams	Intensive Care
45	Green Day	Bullet in a Bible
46	Jeff Wayne	The War of the Worlds
47	Shihad	Love Is the New Hate
48	Enya	Amarantine
49	The Black Seeds	On the Sun
50	Simple Plan	Still Not Getting Any...