A huge week for the UK top 40 in 2005, as the 1000th number one single is announced. Everyone from Madonna to Mr. Blobby have reached that top spot, and now one song is going to get the chart's biggest milestone yet. But which one of the following 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago will it go to:

Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It’s Christmas

Client - Pornography

Dana Rayne - Object of My Desire

Darius - Live Twice

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

Elvis Presley - One Night/I Got Stung

Erasure - Breathe

Eric Prydz - Call On Me

Girls Aloud - I’ll Stand By You

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

Ice Cube feat. Mack 10 and Ms Toi - You Can Do it

Interpol - Evil

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Jamie Scott - Searching

Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Numb/Encore

Kasabian - Cutt Off

The Killers - Somebody Told Me

Kings of Leon - Four Kicks

Kylie Minogue - I Believe in You

Lemar - If There’s Any Justice

Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Forward)

Longview - Coming Down/When You Sleep

Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls

The Music - Breakin’

Narcotic Thrust - When the Dawn Breaks

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Nelly and Christina Aguilera - Tilt Ya Head Back

Pink Grease - Strip

Pop! - Serious

Ronan Keating and Yusuf - Father and Son

Roni Size feat. Beverley Knight - No More

Rooster - Staring at the Sun

Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous

Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It’s Hot

Soul Central feat. Kathy Brown - Strings of Life (Stronger on My Own)

Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds

Thirteen Senses - Thru the Glass

Uniting Nations - Out of Touch

Usher - Confessions Part II/My Boo

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