So, for those who don't know the score with this glacially progressing project...
A number of years ago, when the BBC4 Top of the Pops repeats reached 1984 (they are currently on 1994) I realised that, if you took the best forty songs which made the Top 40 in that year, you would get an amazing playlist. Which you did. The challenge was then to create such a list for each year of the charts. To gnash in fury when favourite songs only made it to forty-two in the charts, and were thus ineligible. To try and get forty good songs out of a year dominated by Jive Bunny.
This is the 2005 edition of this project. 2005 was not a brilliant year for charting music in the UK. There are songs which qualified for this list which wouldn't make the Near Misses list in better years. Why did I pick 2005 then?
